Since the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke, the names of Matt Damon and George Clooney have been in the headlines, but not because of Damon’s cutesy faux feud with Jimmy Kimmel, Clooney’s new twins with Amal Clooney, or any excitement over their new dark comedy “Suburbicon.”

The two once reliably charming A-listers have seen their names attached to the Weinstein scandal because their careers are synonymous with Weinstein’s early support for them becoming movie stars.

That means their reputations as good guy movie idols have been challenged by questions over the degree to which either has been complicit in a male-dominated Hollywood culture that silences women and has allowed alleged serial sexual predators such as Weinstein to flourish.

As it turns out, their Weinstein association may have also meant that “Suburbicon,” directed by Clooney and starring Damon, faced serious rejection by movie-goers when it was released Friday.

“Suburbicon,” an attempt at stylishly skewering 1950s suburban America, earned a dismal $3 million over the weekend, despite opening in more than 2,000 theaters, the Hollywood Reporter said.

“Suburbicon” came in far behind the horror film “Jigsaw” or Tyler Perry’s latest Madea movie and marked the worst nationwide launch of a film directed by Clooney. It was also the second worst showing of Damon’s career.

Both Damon and Clooney seemed to expect — or hope for — better results during last week’s final P.R. push for “Suburbicon.” Or, they at least seemed to think they could use their star power to quickly dispense with the peskiest of questions about the once powerful indie movie mogul, who was alleged in bombshell New York Times and New Yorker stories to have harassed and assaulted multiple women.

For their charm offensive, Damon and Clooney agreed to sit down last Monday to a friendly interview with another dude, “Good Morning America’s” Michael Strahan.

With Strahan’s non-challenging presence, they both got to repeat their claims that they didn’t know that Weinstein’s womanizing allegedly included rape, though Damon let it slip that, yeah, he did know the producer sexually harassed his friend and sometime co-star Gwyneth Paltrow.

During an appearance on Kimmel’s show that night, there were no Weinstein questions. Instead, Damon got to revive his feud shtick with the late-night host, with Clooney joining in Damon’s joke about being a male nanny to Clooney’s twins. Somehow though, the whole effort seemed strained with everyone avoiding the Weinstein elephant in the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” studio.

Even without the Weinstein scandal, “Suburbicon” was carrying some heavy baggage.

To its studio, the film no doubt looked like awards-season gold, with a script based on an old Coen brothers story about a madcap insurance scam.

A look at the dark side of American suburban life already seemed tired when “American Beauty” came along in 1999.

And then Clooney, whose politics can become sanctimonious at times, decided to also address racial divisiveness hanging over America following the 2016 presidential election, so he threw in a historically-based side story about a black family facing hostility after they move into Damon’s neighborhood.

The reviews were not kind after the film’s premiere at the Venice Film Festival, with critics generally saying that the two different story lines didn’t hang together as a whole. Some reviewers were also critical of the way a sober tale of racial prejudice took a supporting role in the Damon-centered story about white people’s antics.

In the film’s final promotional stretch last week, the reviews turned especially harsh, with the Atlantic calling “Suburbicon” a “bizarre, misguided trainwreck,” the Minneapolis Star Tribune calling it “strikingly bad,” and the Los Angeles Times calling it “dreadful.”

The film sank to a 29-percent critical rating rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the Washington Post saying “it’s time to stop getting so excited about George Clooney movies.”

It’s fair to wonder how much of the most recent critical hostility stemmed from pent-up annoyance over Damon and Clooney’s association with Weinstein, or over the stars’ hopes to evade hard questions about their one-time collaborator.

After Weinstein’s alleged offenses were first reported in the New York Times on Oct. 5, both Clooney and Damon took nearly a week to issue statements. Weinstein continues to maintain that all his encounters with women were consensual.

Damon, in fact, only decided to issue a comment after he was accused by a former New York Times writer of helping to derail a 2004 Times report on Weinstein’s mistreatment of women. In an interview with Deadline, Damon vehemently denied helping to kill the story.

Clooney likewise had to issue a denial of his own after a former “E.R” actress claimed on Twitter that he helped to blacklist her from the hit TV medical drama after she voiced concerns about sexual harassment on the set.

In their efforts to rise above the Weinstein scandal, it hasn’t helped that both Clooney and Damon have professional relationships with Ben and Casey Affleck, whose own alleged histories of sexual harassment and groping women have become a focus of post-Weinstein headlines.

After Ben Affleck said he was “saddened and angry” to learn about Weinstein’s offenses, actress Rose McGowan called him a liar, saying he knew that Weinstein had allegedly assaulted her. At least two more women also claimed Affleck groped them on different occasions, going back to 2003. Affleck apologized for one of those incidents, involving former “One Tree Hill” actress Hilarie Burton.

Clooney produced Ben Affleck’s 2012 film “Argo,” and heavily campaigned for Affleck’s Iran hostage drama to win an Oscar for best picture and for Affleck to win best director. At the time, Clooney called Affleck an “incredible talent” and expressed disappointment that Affleck didn’t receive a best director nomination, though “Argo” won best picture.

More recently, Damon produced Casey Affleck’s Oscar-winning vehicle “Manchester by the Sea.” As Damon successfully campaigned for Casey Affleck to win best actor, he also vouched for his childhood friend’s character, even as the younger Affleck was dogged by reports that he had settled a 2010 lawsuit for sexual harassment brought by two female crew members.

In Damon and Clooney’s appearances last week on “Good Morning America” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live,“ there was something entitled in the way both seemed to presume they should enjoy friendly, non-confrontational interviews. Both appearances felt like bald attempts to alter the discussion, even though Weinstein’s downfall has made it clear that distraction and evasions aren’t the way to go.

Sure, Strahan asked them to comment on the Weinstein situation, which gave each another opportunity to restate their main talking points about not knowing about Weinstein’s alleged crimes. They also got to do a bit of mansplaining — denouncing a culture that allows women to be victimized and saying they would work to fight sexual harassment and assault in their industry.

But they also were probably fine with Strahan not pressing them with questions about Damon’s role in the 2004 New York Times story or Damon’s support of Casey Affleck.

Still, the interview wasn’t a total breeze for Clooney and Damon. Damon, perhaps hoping to win props for honesty, changed his earlier story about never knowing about Weinstein sexually mistreating women. He admitted that he knew that Weinstein had harassed Gwyneth Paltrow when she was still a relatively unknown 22-year-old actress. He said Ben Affleck, Paltrow’s one-time boyfriend, told him.

Meanwhile, Clooney called for sweeping changes to be made in Hollywood, for everyone at all levels of the “chain” to know that sexual harassment and assault will no longer be tolerated.

“There has to be a comeuppance for all of this,” he said. “We have to make it safe for people to feel that they can talk about this. And in doing that, I think that’ll scare away that kind of behavior.”

Those are laudable sentiments, but perhaps they have come too late from Clooney or Damon. And it turns out that perhaps movie-goers were giving him and Damon a comeuppance by not showing up for their movie.

It’s hard to say for sure, but perhaps coincidentally both actors failed to show up for major events they were supposed to headline Friday night — the day their movie opened to a disastrous critical and box office reception.

Clooney was MIA at a big Hollywood party he and his friend and business partner Rande Gerber were supposed to co-host Los Angeles. Entertainment Tonight reported that in Clooney’s absence, which wasn’t explained, Gerber escorted both his wife Cindy Crawford and Clooney’s wife Amal to the ’70s-themed costume event, which was packed with A-listers like Jon Hamm and Kim Kardashian.

Meanwhile, Damon at the last minute bowed out of being present at a fancy BAFTA Los Angeles event Friday.

He was due to accept the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence. He apologized to the organization and gave a reason: He had to fly to Boston for a family emergency, reportedly involving his father, the Daily News said.