WB's Release Date Shuffle
Filed under: Drama, Horror, Sports, Thrillers, Warner Brothers, Warner Independent Pictures, Distribution, Exhibition, Newsstand
Like everyone else at about this time, the folks in the Warner Bros. release department are doing a bit of re-jiggering of their fall and winter schedule, moving several big-ish films back and picking up a Warner Independent Pictures release for a wide open in early 2007. The details are as follows:- We Are Marshall, the based-on-a-true-story flick about a tragic plane crash and the recovery of a devastated team and community (Nice, huh? I should write tag lines!) has been pushed back a month, from late November to December 22. Mmm ... Christmas audiences.
- Lucky You, which I hope is a whole lot better than the trailer (there it looks like Tilt, except with Eric Bana instead of Michael Madsen), has been moved from September 8 to the end of the November. While that IS closer to Oscar time, I would be stunned if the move was actually to increase the film's profile. That said, though, it was directed by Curtis Hanson, so maybe it's a stunning work being screwed by a terrible trailer. Yeah, you're right -- probably not.
- The best bit of news is that the AWFUL-looking The Reaping (aka lesson #349 that signing an Oscar-winning star does not mean your movie be good) has been pulled from its November 8 release date and ... not rescheduled. I'm guessing someone at WB actually saw the final edit for the first time, and has buried the only print in his back yard.
- The Astronaut Farmer, originally scheduled to be released by the studio's independent arm, has been stolen by Warner's proper because of its star-filled cast (Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen and Bruce Willis), and will be given a wide release on January 12, 2007.
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8-11-2006 @ 12:38PM
Bracken said...
Does anyone know why they named a Poker movie "Tilt"? I thought is was going to be a movie about the high stakes lifestyle of a pinball wizard.
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8-11-2006 @ 12:46PM
Z said...
Because "Tilt" is a poker term. It's when a player has lost their cool to the point that they're making bad decisions.
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8-11-2006 @ 1:03PM
Karina said...
I'm not sure Hilary Swank has *ever* made a decent movie, other than the two she's won Oscars for (and I still can't fully stand behind MDB).
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