I am running out of analogies about how unreliable release dates are. That is how common this has become. Even I, the master wordsmith that I am have NOTHING left to poke fun at studios with witty pop culture references for their loose grasp of a release schedule. Perhaps they forgot to set their clocks forward at daylight savings day and everything has been a mess since. Much like that reference was just a mess.
Paramount is said to be juggling around their holiday season releases with little logic or explaination.
Paramount Pictures is fiddling with its holiday release plans at the eleventh hour, delaying the wide release of true-life drama “The Soloist,” starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx, and the Daniel Craig-toplined Nazi escape film “Defiance” until the first quarter.
I do not understand why they would move the Soloist. There is a LOT of Oscar Buzz about this film, and releasing it for the holiday season is perfect.
I am so looking forward to this movie. Downey is already hot this year, and for him to step up to a solid dramatic piece while everyone is still paying attention to him puts him in a perfect place for an Oscar nod. We all know he is capable.
Unlike other delay concerns that make me worry about the quality of a film, these movies appear to already be in the can. Done. Advertised to be released in a month or two. Now Defiance is still going to sneak in under the finish line for 2008, but the Soloist is clearly pushed another 3 months into oh9.
I just shake my head and wonder why. WHY Paramount… why?
