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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Apr 7, 2015 11:02 PM UTC  GRACE OF MONACO, Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly, 2013\. ph: David Koskas/©Weinstein Company GRACE OF MONACO, Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly, 2013\. ph: David Koskas/©Weinstein CompanyDavid Koskas —©Weinstein Company  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Apr 7, 2015 11:02 PM UTC _Grace of Monaco_, Nicole Kidman’s film about the life of actress-turned-royal Grace Kelly, played at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival—but even at that point, the film was considered long-delayed. It had been meant to premiere stateside in the [2013 holiday season](http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/10/nicole-kidman-tom-cruise-marriage), and Kidman appeared on the cover of _Vanity Fair_ to promote the film that fall. Nearly a year after its Cannes bow, the film’s journey to a U.S. release came to an anticlimactic end, with the announcement that the film would debut on Lifetime. It will air May 25. This is a major blow for Kidman, whose rare TV work has tended towards the prestigious. To go from an Emmy nomination for HBO’s _Hemingway & Gellhorn_ to a movie premiere on the network that also played host to Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor is a comedown indeed. But she can’t possibly have expected that this journey might be quite so tortured: After all, the film’s director, Olivier Dahan, is best-known for shepherding an unknown Marion Cotillard to Oscar in a biographical film with a similar degree of difficulty, _La Vie en Rose_. But no one involved in the long saga comes off particularly well, least of all producing company the Weinstein Company, who had [purportedly battled with Dahan](http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/29/harvey-weinstein-grace-of-monaco-biopic-row-cannes) over the film’s final cut. That Weinstein couldn’t be brought to release the film is strictly business, of course, but feels punitive to a group of people who’d meant their movie to be seen on the big screen. Even Naomi Watts’s _Diana_ played theaters; _Grace of Monaco_, tepid-to-poor reviews very much in mind, can’t be _that_ bad. Kidman’s power in Hollywood would seem to be at a low ebb, which would simply be the order of things if she weren’t still held up as the gold standard of Hollywood stardom in media coverage of her work and at events like the Oscars, where she’s a perpetual attendee—she’s the sort of icon who doesn’t go out of fashion. Her filmography has been spotty, but until fairly recently it seemed somewhat understood that occasional creative misfires were the cost of doing business in a genre of cinema that relied on originality more than CGI. Kidman is close to the platonic idea of a movie star, in the public imagination. The only star more potent, it’d seem, is someone like Jennifer Lawrence, whose own slow-release bomb _Serena_ managed to get a theatrical run this year after years of delays. But even that barely came together. If Lawrence’s movie just barely happened, as a theatrical release, and Kidman’s isn’t going to, what hope is there for anyone else? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3774832/nicole-kidman-grace-kelly-biopic-lifetime/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3774832/nicole-kidman-grace-kelly-biopic-lifetime/"},"headline":"Why Did Nicole Kidman's Grace Kelly Biopic End Up on Lifetime?","datePublished":"2015-04-07T23:02:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:46:51.801Z","description":"What hope is there for actresses when one of the industry's most prestigious can't get her movie out in theaters?","url":"https://time.com/3774832/nicole-kidman-grace-kelly-biopic-lifetime/","keywords":["movies","Jennifer Lawrence","Nicole Kidman"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltedd3b49f5add3d34/69868f633bc999afa51a3774/grace-of-monaco.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel D'Addario","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltedd3b49f5add3d34/69868f633bc999afa51a3774/grace-of-monaco.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"MCDGROF EC011","caption":"MCDGROF EC011","creditText":"David Koskas —©Weinstein Company","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3774832/nicole-kidman-grace-kelly-biopic-lifetime/","name":"Why Did Nicole Kidman's Grace Kelly Biopic End Up on Lifetime?"}}]}] ```