Last week Paramount and Fox announced major post-writers strike schedule shuffles. I speculated that because of ‘the rule of threes’, that one more studio would announce a reshuffled calendar by Friday. And here we are on Wednesday, with a bunch of new dates from Disney. Let’s take a look at the new Disney schedule:
The big screen adaptation of the popular video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, has been moved forward from mid-June to July 10th 2009. Michael Bay’s Transformers 2 hits theaters two weeks earlier on June 26th. Disney believes they will make more at the box office with the head start.
The sci-fi adventure comedy sequel/remake Race to Witch Mountain starring The Rock will hit theaters on March 13th 2009, up against Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lovely Bones.
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland 3-D will hit theaters a week later on March 19th 2010.
The Jonathan Mostow Sci-fi action adaptation The Surrogates starring Bruce Willis has been given a holiday release: November 20th 2009. The film with counter DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon. Set in a future world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robot avatars, a cop (Willis) is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate a murder mystery.
The Wild Hogs sequel titled Old Dogs starring John Travolta, Robin Williams and Seth Green, has been pushed back from a 2008 TBA to April 10th 2009. The original film was released in March, so it’s likely that Disney didn’t want to deviate from the marketing formula. Dogs will go up against Paramount’s Renée Zellweger horror/thriller Case 39.
The Hannah Montana Movie will now counter Fox’s comic book prequel X-Men Origins: Wolverine on May 1st 2009. This means that Disney’s animated 3D movie G-Force had to be moved to July 24th. Not a great date considering that it will now go head to head with New Line’s animated Planet 51 and The Weinstein Co’s horror remake Piranha 3D.
The big screen adaptation of Confessions of a Shopaholic starring Isla Fisher has been bumped from it’s October 9th 2008 date to a prime 2009 Valentine’s Day release. In effect, the Sandra Bullock/Ryan Reynolds romantic comedy The Proposal will now get a September 25th release.
source: Variety
February 20th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Let’s hope for some new film announcements by Disney within the next month.
I am still waiting for that new drawn cartoon by them introducing the new african american princess.
Hopefully a Don Quixote adaptation as well.
February 20th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
For this Alice in Wonderland coming out relatively “soon” I feel like I’ve heard nothing about it.
February 20th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
I.I: Here is some more info on Burton’s Alice 3D:
http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/11/16/tim-burton-in-a-3d-wonderland/
February 20th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Am I reading that right? Transformers 2 is out in June??!
February 20th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
June 26th 2009
February 20th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
I am really not excited for Transformers 2 at all…I am not a big fan of Mr. Bay, it’s not his work…its his ethics.
February 20th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
heh, I knew I read through all this too fast…
February 20th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Nope sorry guys. Alice in Wonderland is still set for 2010 - just a typo/error - the month and date is right though.
-Jim Dorey
http://www.MarketSaw.com
3D Movies and Technology
February 20th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
oops, typo corrected
February 20th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Seems like the first Transformers just came out, time flies…
February 21st, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Old Dogs is not a sequel to Wild Hogs just because it has John Travolta and the same director. This is a movie about two old guys who have to take care of kids. Probably more Three Men and a Baby and less Wild Hogs.