The Latest Date Changes 2: The New Batch

[Shrykespeare]

A shitload of new dates and changes. (LR = limited release; WR = wide release)

New dates:

The Kings of Summer - 6/14/13 (LR from CBS films; teen comedy)
Fruitvale - 10/18/13 (LR drama)
August: Osage County - 11/8/13 (LR comedy/drama starring Ewan McGregor from director John Wells)
The Wolf of Wall Street - 11/15/13 (WR drama from Martin Scorsese starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Matthew McConaughey)
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom - 11/29/13 (LR biopic starring Idris Elba as Mandela)
Grace of Monaco - 12/27/13 (LR biopic starring Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly)
Transcendence - 4/25/14 (WR sci-fi drama starring Johnny Depp)
Annie - 12/25/14 (WR - Will Gluck adaptation of the comic strip/play starring Quvenzhane Wallis)


Changes:

Kick-Ass 2 - 8/16/13 (from 6/28/13)
2 Guns - 8/2/13 (from 8/16/13) (Baltasar Kormakur crime drama starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg)
Insidious Chapter 2 - 9/20/13 (from 8/30/13) (meh)
(Teenage Mutant) Ninja Turtles - 6/6/14 (from 5/16/14) (Megan Fox as April O'Neil... nuff said)
Hercules: The Thracian Wars - 7/25/14 (from 8/8/14) (Brett Ratner-led actioner starring Dwayne Johnson)
The Hobbit: There and Back Again - 12/17/14 (from 7/18/14) (trilogy capper)

[Buscemi]

Remember a Julianne Moore film called Shelter that was set to open two years ago but was pulled from the schedule days before opening? No? Well, it's now titled 6 Souls and will open in limited release on April 5th. But you can already get it on demand or import the DVD from Canada (under its original title) if you want to save the hours of driving.

[Chienfantome]

I just read on Comingsoon that Universal is cancelling the April 12th IMAX only launch of Oblivion, and will instead release the film directly on April 19 (including IMAX)...

[W]

I just read on Comingsoon that Universal is cancelling the April 12th IMAX only launch of Oblivion, and will instead release the film directly on April 19 (including IMAX)...

Damn. Those probable 5 PTA points pushed me over the edge. I may reconsider some lineups.

[Buscemi]

Sounds like Universal read my thoughts on platforming it. That or Jurassic Park 3-D really is going to break the trend of reissues flopping.

[undeadmonkey]

that sucks, i was really thinking those extra 5 pta points made it an enticing pick

[empire13]

Dammit! That extra PTA potential was really appealing. Still has a favorable release date, but would have liked the extra incentive.

[Buscemi]

After a whopping seven years on the shelf (due to legal troubles), Jonathan Levine's first film is finally getting a US release. The Weinstein Company has picked up (again, after picking the film up in 2007 and later selling it to the now-defunct Senator Entertainment) All the Boys Love Mandy Lane and will release the film sometime this summer through their Radius label. Though the entire target audience has probably seen it through importing the DVD, it will be fun to see how young Amber Heard and Anson Mount looked then.

[Shrykespeare]

Newest dates and changes:


New Dates

Populaire 5/17/13
The Butler 10/18/13 (drama about a White House butler who served eight presidents... see below)
Black Nativity 11/27/13
David O. Russell Untitled 12/13/13
Interstellar 11/7/14 (Chris Nolan's next project)


Changes

Now You See Me 5/31/13 (from 6/7/13)
Red 2 7/19/13 (from 8/2/13)
Fruitvale 7/26/13 (from 10/18/13)


Interesting choices for the presidents in The Butler:

John Cusack is Richard Nixon
Robin Williams is Dwight Eisenhower (Melissa Leo is Mamie Eisenhower)
James Marsden is John F. Kennedy
Alan Rickman is Ronald Reagan (Jane Fonda is Nancy Reagan)
Liev Schreiber is Lyndon Johnson

[Buscemi]

They should call the David O. Russell movie Unlikeable Jackasses That Somehow Win Oscars and Gross Over $100 Million.

[Geezer]

AKA the Buscemi Story (minus the Oscars and 100 million dollars, that is)

[Buscemi]

In every David O. Russell movie, his characters are downright unlikeable (even his best film, Three Kings, has one-dimensional characters who only care about money) but he tries to get us to like them for superficial reasons. It's hard to like characters when you aren't given a reason to care for them (and matters are only made worse when the guy making the film has a history of being tyrannical towards his actors to the point where actors have sworn to never work with again, such as his fistfight with George Clooney or his awful treatment of Lily Tomlin).

If any filmmaker was undeserving of a second chance, it's this guy.

[undeadmonkey]

yea thats why christian bale, mark whalberg, jennifer lawrence and bradly cooper have now all worked with him more than once now. they like being overlorded and yelled at, not because he is a great director and has gotten each of them an oscar nom or more.

[silversurfer19]

Wasn't the guy generally regarded as one of, if not the greatest directors of all time, tyrannical? I don't think that affected his films in a negative sense. And I'm certain most were happy for him to keep making more movies...

[Buscemi]

But Kubrick didn't get into fistfights with his actors and make people hate his guts (there also the case of Nailed, of which he walked off the project when it was 95% complete and refuses to finish it). If anything, Hollywood is protecting Russell because of his last two films when he should have been blackballed for the events that happened before then, most of which was all his fault.