BREAKING: 'Nine' Has Been Moved to December
Clears up that Thanksgiving weekend a little doesn't it
I just got word that The Weinstein Co. has officially moved Rob Marshall's musical Oscar contender Nine from its currently scheduled release date of November 29 to a limited release on December 18 in New York and Los Angeles and will then go wide on December 25.
The move only makes sense considering Weinstein/Dimension already had The Road hitting theaters on the 25th along with several other releases that have recently crowded the Thanksgiving holiday weekend schedule. Now it will serve as alternative programming on the 18th with Avatar before facing Sherlock Holmes on the 25th.
On top of this news A Single Man has been set for release on December 11 in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco and will also expand on Christmas Day.
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Moving away from the really crowded Thanksgiving weekend to the supposedly lighter Christmas Day weekend? Are you kidding? If anything, Dec. 25 is worse…
- Sherlock Holmes
- It’s Complicated
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel
plus the wide releases (after 2-3 weeks of limited) of:
- The Lovely Bones
- Up in the Air
It sounds like it's going to be a bloodbath. I'd bet it's going to go the "Chicago" route and only go slightly wider this weekend, and expand throughout January.
even though i was saddened by this (i want to see it NOW), but if it came out on NOV. 25 like it was supposed to, it wuld have been domiinnated by NEW MOON which will be number one for a couple weeks. But now that i think about, this moviie is not going to have a uge box office pull, itss mostly for the Oscars, which is fine but i still hope it does well
@Rob:
But the thing about Christmas weekend is that it can handle more wide releases than Thanksgiving weekend. See last Christmas: It had six movies going wide. "Marley and Me," "Benjamin Button," "Bedtime Stories," and "Valkyrie" all managed to do above $20 million on the 3-day weekend, and "Slumdog Millionaire" had a soft opening that would ultimately grow throughout Oscar season. Only "The Spirit" failed, and only slightly so.
This change will make my moviegoing schedule easier to manage, as I will be more able to watch movies over Christmas break than Thanksgiving break.