Re: "Star Trek" movie pushed back to May '09

In article <G82dnaHUvqwQrCnanZ2dnUVZ_rGhnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "David" <dimlan17@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:cg77r355cl6f7ie66nf56rl9tf603ctiq7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > from variety
> >
> > 'Star Trek' pushed back to 2009
> > Paramount shuffles major releases
> > By PAMELA MCCLINTOCK
> >
> > Paramount is pu****ng back the release of "Star Trek" from Dec. 15 to
> > May 8, 2009.
> >
> > Move was part of a major reshuffling to the studio's release calendar,
> > as well as DreamWorks' release calendar.
> >
> > Studio insiders said "Star Trek" has the potential to gross more in
> > May than in December.
> 
> Then why did TPTB schedule it for December in the first place? Sorry 
> insiders, gotta do better than that.

Because that's how Paramount does things.  They look at the schedule, 
say 'we need a movie there' and tell somebody that their movie is 
greenlit and that's their release date, not caring at all if the date is 
reasonable in any way.
> 
> > All the majors are likely to revisit their 2008 and 2009 release skeds
> > in the wake of the writer's strike now being over. There's an
> > abundance of films slated for release this year, and particularly
> > comedies. It's likely that Par won't be the only studio pu****ng back
> > films to 2009.
> >
> > "Star Trek" has no competition in its new slot--at least not so far.
> > One week earlier, 20th Century Fox bows "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."
> >
> > Paramount also announced that Martin Scorsese's Leonardo
> > DiCaprio-starrer "Shutter Island" will be released Oct. 2, 2008.
> 
> -- Ken from Chicago

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