Weinsteins Push Back Everything you Want to Watch
Posted by Rodneyon 27. 10. 2008in News Chat
2008 is a myth. There is no 2008. Just so you are aware of it.
It seems that the pushbacks in Hollywood are mostly revolving around the gaps left in the studio schedules due to the Writers Strike (again..we pay for their sacrifice) to have studios throwing their current projects over the fence so that they have SOMETHING to release next year. This also leaves a window for shitty films to go back and fix them while feeding the PR guy the writers strike excuse.
Weinsteins are taking all their movies (save for Zack and Miri, The Reader, and perhaps the inevitably brilliant Extreme Movie) and bumping them back to next year. That includes some oft-delayed titles like Killshot and Fanboys, as well as higher-profile stuff like Crossing Over (with Harrison Ford and Sean Penn) and Shanghai (with John Cusack). Ah yes, and the highly-anticipated adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cormac McCarthy novel The Road.
My biggest hurt here is Fanboys.
Clearly I take any reason to post that picture of Kristen Bell in that outfit. Sue me.
But more that I really wanted to love that film. It was going to be roadtrip adventure with a heartfelt story of young fans going against all logic to pull off a pointless heist so their dying friend can see Star Wars Episode One before he passes. I anticipated this (and Bell) because it returns you to those days before it was trendy to hate on Star Wars. The glory days of scifi geekery.
Then some jackass decided to delay the film while they rip out the heart of the film reducing it to a pile of losers pulling off the pointless heist because they are too loserific NOT to. Dumb. Well thankfully they kept the heart of the film, and its been returned to its original edit. Yay.
It just isn’t coming out yet.
People are going to start thinking they actually MADE this film at the time that its story presents at this rate. This has been in the can for what? 2 years now? Longer?
I lost track. Just give us the movies.
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I have been wanting to see Fanboys for a long time now. Ironic that a movie about getting a terminally ill kid to see a movie before it is released has been pushed back so long that a terminally ill kid who wanted to see Fanboys might have died waiting fir its release.
@ObiWan… that will be the plot of the sequel.
Fanboys 2. The Quest to see Fanboys.
I’ve been waiting for Fanboys for almost a year and a half. What the hell.
The Weinsteins delaying another film? Seems par for the course with them, its really no surprise what they do. It seems they need a good kick in the junk to straighten them out, as they really piss off a lot of people.
They wouldn’t be junking Fanboys around like this unless the movie was shit. They’ve moved it yet again to January 2009. NOTHING good is EVER released in January. January is where bad films go to die swift deaths. If the studio had any faith in Fanboys, they would have timed the release with that Clone Wars shit that came out a few weeks ago to build off what little Star Wars hype there still is.
and I have been waiting for Killshot w/ Tom Jane, Diane Lane and Mickey Rourke for aboutthe same time everyone else was waiting for Fanboys.
Not that it is a total shock. These ARE the Wienstiens we are talking about. Back when they ran Miramax and Dimension, they would postpone release dates at the drop of a hat, even if the film(s) weren’t crap!
But even so–there has been a lot of interest in both Killshot and especially Fanboys…the latter of which would appear to have an even bigger audience.
I don’t get it.
damn it…….
will this movie ever be released?????
Does anybody give a shit about this film anymore?
It didn’t get good word of mouth at Fantastic Fest.
Nothing related to Star Wars is spoken of kindly. I tend to take any negative criticisms about Star Wars with a grain of salt. Its very trendy to bash Star Wars.
I want to love this film, however it is getting harder with all the setbacks and talk.
The word of mouth had nothing to do with Star Wars but the film itself.
Something tells me that this flick will end up as a DVD release rather than a theatrical.
@Obi-wan kubrick
That might be a good idea for a promo short (I won’t call it a viral video) that they could put up online to promote the movie.
Still stoked for Fanboy but come on already.
The Clone Wars cartoon has surpassed my expectations thus renewing my faith in Star Wars. Kinda “kiddie” but good TV IMO
Hopefully the live action willbe the real deal.
Chinese Democracy is coming out so they can delay all the movies they want.