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.
