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Muscial Chairs for Holiday Films

August 22nd, 2008 in Action, Adventure, Movie News, The Movie Biz -

Musical chairs is what comes to mind because movies are rescheduling as a common practice. Now, Quantum of Solace is set to open a week later than originally scheduled. Sony and MGM jumped on the chance to bow its Bond movie November 14 instead of Nov. 7 because Harry is taking the holidays off.

Bond titles have traditionally opened the weekend before Thanksgiving, but Sony didn’t want to open too close to Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, so it originally settled on Nov. 7 according to Variety.

Warner Bros. announced it was pushing back Half-Blood Prince from Nov. 21 to July.  The competition is gone, so Bond’s schedule changed.

As you probably know Summit Entertainment was the first to respond to Harry’s rescheduling by moving vampire movie Twilight to Nov. 21.

Within hours of the Bond movie move to Nov. 14, Universal come to a decision to move R-rated comedy Role Models off of that date and open it instead on Nov. 7.

As it looks now, schedules could change; Solace goes up against epic Australia, Nothing Like the Holidays and Soul Men.

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