Posts Tagged ‘Release Dates’
We know very little about Terrence Malick’s new film Tree of Life, said to be a generational family drama. We know it stars Brad Pitt as part of the film’s elder generation, and Sean Penn as the adult version of Pitt’s son. Beyond that, plot details are sketchy as Malick’s team has been very good about scrubbing them from the web. Not so sketchy that you can’t find them if you really want, but I’d rather leave all that as a mystery. Feel like I know too much already.
Various theoretical release dates have been batted around since the film was pushed back from a late 2009 release. We’ve figured it would premiere at Cannes, and while that debut isn’t yet confirmed, it seems almost a lock now. Apparition’s Bob Berney has been talking up the film, and confirming that an early November release is currently planned for North America. There’s not much here, but for those dying for this movie (like me), is is something.
Peter Hammond is reporting a few small details about the film that come by way of Berney, i.e. the guy releasing the film. So take them with a certain informed caution, since the guy has a vested interest. These details are small and verging on hearsay, but bear with me. It’s a slowish news day, and this is a movie about which I know a lot of people are keen to know more.
Berney said at the Independent Spirit awards that Tree of Life would see release in the beginning of November, and is “very likely to show up in Cannes.” (Emphasis on ‘very’ is Hammond, not me.) He’d previously given that November date to Anne Thompson as well.
Hammond reports that Berney says Tree of Life is “like a dream and Malick fans are going to be extremely happy.” Berney compares Brad Pitt to Robert De Niro in This Boy’s Life, which is not really what I expected to hear. He also highlights Jessica Chastain, who plays Pitt’s wife, as a performer to watch out for.
Like I said, scant new details. Is there any trailer I want to see more than this one? Nope. Not even Scott Pilgrim.
A bunch of new release dates were announced overnight, including the Ryan Reynolds one-man thriller Buried, the computer animated/live-action hybrid 3D film Smurfs, Jonah Hill’s big screen adaptation of the television series 21 Jump Street, and Crash writer/director Paul Haggis‘ new film The Next Three Days. Details after the jump.
Buried
Lionsgate announced a release date for the Ryan Reynolds one-man thriller Buried, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to critical and audience acclaim, sparking a multi-studio bidding war. The film will be released in theaters on September 24th 2010, head to head with Zack Snyder’s computer animated fantasy film Legends of the Guardians, Oliver Stone’s sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and the Kristen Bell comedy You Again.
For those of you who haven’t been following the project, the film tells the story of a private contractor who is kidnapped in Iraq and buried alive. He has 90 minutes of air left until he dies, and has access to only a phone and a lighter. The entire movie takes place in the coffin, with Reynolds providing the only on screen performance. I attended the film’s premiere at Sundance and was blown away (you can read my review here). The film played so well to the midnight crowd that it sparked a bidding war overnight, which Lionsgate won.
Smurfs
Columbia Pictures’ has changed the release date of the big screen adaptation of The Smurfs. The film, which is a CGI/live action hybrid, helmed by Raja Gosnell (Scooby Doo and Beverly Hills Chihuahua) was originally set to hit theaters on July 29th 1011, but will not hit theaters a few days later on August 3rd 2011. The movie was to go head to head with Jon Favreau’s big screen adaptation of the comic book Cowboys & Aliens and a week following The First Avenger: Captain America. The new date is wide open.
The film stars Neil Patrick Harris as a live-action character, and a voice cast which includes Jonathan Winters as Papa Smurf, George Lopez as Grouchy Smurf, Katy Perry as Smurfette and Alan Cumming as Gutsy Smurf. Smurfs: The Movie shoots in April.
21 Jump Street
Last month, Columbia Pictures gave the Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s Jonah Hill-ified 21 Jump Street movie a August 5th 2011 release date. Looks like the begining of production might have been pushed back as Sony has updated the release to a TBA slot more than a year later - Winter 2012. Hill, who wrote the screenplay and will star, has described the film as “a comedy with really cool action” … a “John Hughes movie with ‘Bad Boys’ style action” about “a group of people that go back to high school to deal with a drug problem.”
The Next Three Days
And lastly, Lionsgate has announced a release date for Crash helmer Paul Haggis‘ The Next Three Days: November 19th 2010. The action thriller will go head to head with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part I, and The Rock’s action film Faster. The movie is a remake of a French film, about a husband (Russell Crowe) looking to break his wrongly imprisoned wife (Elizabeth Banks) out of jail. At least, she says she’s wrongly imprisoned. The film also stars Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde, Jonathan Tucker, Brian Dennehy, and RZA.
via: BOM
20th Century Fox has announced that a third film in the live-action/cg hybrid Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise will hit theaters in 2011. Titled Alvin and the Chipmunks 3D, the film will hit theaters on December 16, 2011. The film will be up against Steven Spielberg’s The Adventure’s of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, which opens one week later on December 23rd.
Lets just be glas they aren’t trying to find another play on the words Squeak and Threequel or Squeak and Three-D. The first two films grossed over $791 million worldwide. No other information has been released at this time. Do they have a script? Do they need a script? Is a director attached? Do they need a director? I’m kidding… kind of. I would expect that most of the cast will return (can you say payday?), including the Chipettes.
via: comingsoon
Fox have decided to hold back release on Oliver Stone’s Wall Street sequel, subtitled Money Never Sleeps, until September 24th. This will put it up against Kevin McDonald’s Eagle of the Ninth, Zack Snyder’s Legend of the Guardians and Andy Fickman’s You Again with Kristen Bell and Sigourney Weaver.
I was surprised to enjoy the trailer for this Wall Street 2 so much because, frankly, I haven’t reall liked an Oliver Stone picture in a very long time. There were a good few laughs in this promo though, and I was looking forward to an interesting cast biting into Allan Loeb’s apparently snappy screenplay. I guess that my looking will just have to extend even further forward now.
Disney has announced a release date for the Robert Zemeckis’ produced adaptation of Berkley Breathed’s children’s book Mars Needs Moms! and Paramount Pictures has confirmed the release o fthe Steven Spielberg-directed 3D performance capture adaptation The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. Details after the jump.
Mars Needs Moms! will hit theaters on March 11th 2011 in Digital Disney 3D and likely in IMAX 3D as well (considering Disney’s deal with the IMAX company). The performance capture film is being directed by The Prince of Egypt/The Time Machine helmer Simon Wells and stars Seth Green, Joan Cusack and Dan Fogler. Here is the book description for Mars Needs Moms!:
Milo doesn’t get it: What’s the big deal about moms? They’re just slavedriving broccoli bullies. Yet they are worshipped the world over! Perhaps even the galaxy over-because here come Martians and they’re after one thing only: moms. Milo’s mom in particular. Who better to drive them to soccer practice and to pizza parties? That’s quite a long way to come for a mom-could it be that Milo has been overlooking something special?
From Pulitzer Prize–winning comic strip creator of Bloom County and bestselling author Berkeley Breathed comes a funny, poignant book about how the unique love that binds our families can be overlooked in the rush and tumble of everyday lives . . . especially those of disgruntled little boys.
Paramount Pictures has confirmed that the Steven Spielberg-directed 3D performance capture adaptation The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn will hit theaters on December 23rd 2011. Official Plot Synopsis follows:
Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Jamie Bell (”Billy Elliot,” “Defiance”) as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig (”Quantum of Solace,” “Defiance”) as the nefarious Red Rackham. Bell and Craig are joined by an international cast that includes Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook.”The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn,” from a screenplay by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, is produced by Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy, is the first in the series of 3D motion capture films based on the iconic character created by Georges Remi, better known to the world by his pen name “Herge” and is due for release in 2011. Executive producers are Nick Rodwell, Stephane Sperry and Ken Kamins. Paramount Pictures will release domestically and in all English speaking territories and Asia, excluding India. Sony Pictures Releasing International will distribute the film in Continental Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, India and the remainder of the world.
sources: EW, Box Office Mojo
The new Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz action comedy Knight and Day was originally scheduled to be released on Friday, July 2, 2010, putting it up as counterprogramming against The Last Airbender and to some degree, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (which drops the following Wednesday). Variety now has word that the film will now be released on June 25, 2010. This gives it some more room to breathe before Nolan’s Inception hits on July 16, and Phillip Noyce’s spy thriller Salt, starring Angelina Jolie, hits on July 23.
The move also means that Knight and Day will face off against the new Chris Rock/Adam Sandler comedy Grown Ups. I have heard that the latter film is atrocious so I foresee fewer problems for Cruise and Diaz on this new date.
Vincenzo Natali’s film Splice, which was a hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, will be coming to a theater near you this Summer. Joel Silver’s Dark House Entertainment and Warner Bros will be releasing this odd “gene-warping creature feature” on June 4th 2010.
Thanks to Box Office Mojo (via: Collider) for the date confirmation.
Here is more info on the movie from Russ’s previous posting about the initial deal:
I’ve been interested in this film since the first images were released almost a year ago (this is one early look) and Deadline Hollywood reports that Joel Silver is really interested in it. According to DHD, he and Dark Castle are in the end stages of a deal to give Splice a 3000-screen summer release, with a P&A (print and advertising) commitment of at least $25m and perhaps as high as $40m. That’s a lot of money for a movie like this. Will this be distributed via Warner Bros., with which Dark Castle is affiliated?
Here’s how David Chen summarized the plot’s early stages when he covered and reviewed the film from Sundance:
Elsa (Sarah Polley) and Clive (Adrien Brody) are a brilliant couple, biochemists who have figured out how to successfully combine different forms of animal DNA into a single creature. Their breakthroughs have many implications for the fields of science and health, but they have yet to crack the final frontier: an animal-human hybrid. When their superiors threaten to shut down their engineering project and put a stop to any further innovations, Elsa and Ed decide to take matters into their own hands.
He went on to say “I was expecting a standard-issue monster horror film. What I can state confidently is that Splice is definitely not that...Splice is less a horror film and more a quasi-serious exploration into the implications of playing God.
Last week Warner Bros moved Sylvain White’s comic book adaptation The Losers from its previously announced release date of April 9th to June 4th 2010 in order to give Warner Bros’ other release Clash of the Titans more breathing room. Clash had been recently pushed back to an April 2nd release due to a last-minute decision to do a post-production 3D conversion. But the new release date put the film in theaters just one week before Fox’s big screen adaptation of The A-Team, a very comparible film on every level.
Well it turns out that Warner Bros has second thoughts, and has now moved The Losers up for an April 23rd 2010 release. The film will now go head to head with Saturday Night Live’s feature comedy MacGruber and the Oliver Stone sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
via: Comingsoon
Some small progress on Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s Jonah Hill-ified 21 Jump Street movie, as Columbia Pictures have formally tagged Friday August 5th 2011 for it’s Stateside release. That leaves quite a healthy window, so production won’t necessarily be starting too soon, but it’s a commitment. Well, at least as much of a commitment as when they announced Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 4 for May 5th 2011.
Meanwhile, Lionsgate have announced that Dominic Sena’s Season of the Witch won’t be making it’s March 19th appointment. This could be because that weekend is rather busy - The Bounty Hunter, The Runaways, Repo Men and Diary of a Wimpy Kid - or it could be because Lionsgate don’t want to pee in the Nic Cage pool with another off-putting movie from the star ahead of Kick-Ass.
Via Dread Central and Sony’s Twitter
Box Office is reporting that Warner Bros has decided to bump Sylvain White’s comic book adaptation The Losers from its previously announced release date of April 9th to June 4th 2010. It is assumed that the new Summer release was to give Warner Bros’ other release Clash of the Titans more breathing room. Clash had been recently pushed back to an April 2nd release due to a last-minute decision to do a post-production 3D conversion. So now The Losers will hit theaters just one week before Fox’s big screen adaptation of The A-Team. The two films have been compared in almost every write-up on the internet, and now they are set to go head to head in the Summer box office wars.’
The Losers recently test screened a rough cut of the movie in Los Angeles, and a LR reader posted his thoughts:
The movie was ok. Still needs a lot of work, at least storywise as some parts ultimately don’t make sense, especially the ending. They can cut down on the back and forth guy talk which although I understand they used for comedic effect, it oftentimes came up flat. I wasn’t feeling the jokes. Chris Evans was annoying. Zoe was super hot in it, Jeffrey Dean was good and Idris Elba as Roque was also good. There is a really cool fight in the beginning between Aisha and Clay. The Latin guy who played bad ass sniper Cougar in my opinion stole the show. … Overall, the movie felt like the A-team but with different flavoring. C+
Read the full review on LatinoReview.
via: Comingsoon
