So if Obama is the president and the president has been replaced in the movie...
It must really suck. What’s next? Release straight to DVD?
This makes no sense, no-how.
The production money has been spent. The marketing dollars have been spent, the post-production, editing, special effects and soundtrack are all done. This is money that has already been spent.
The release date is just a month away, time to reap some cash from all that expense ... and they are pulling it for a year? What are they thinking?
Didn’t see the first one, but my cynical mind keeps hinting that a certain upcoming election might have something to do with this.
Why is it that everytime I see a story about a GI Joe remake I think some producer is remaking the Robert Mitchum and Burgess Meredith classic. Just hoping I guess.
It’s a risky move, but they’re probably looking at the finite disposable incomes of the Summer action blockbuster having been significantly depleted with The Avengers and about to be totally depleted with Dark Knight Rises.
When I saw the release schedule for this Summer the first word that came to mind was “oversaturation”. There’s only so much entertainment revenue to go around, so a second/third tier, non-niche action flick like this doesn’t stand a chance. Better to delay to a safer release date next Spring.
must be it provides an uncomfortable reminder of “cut and run” in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Yeah, I already saw the trailer. It was merely ok-—I wouldn’t go to a theater to see it, but might get it from Netflix.
It’s kind of a late move, but these moves do happen. Definitely bodes poorly for the test audience results that they moved it from the peak of blockbuster time to the march dead zone. Of course the first movie didn’t do that well, I was kind of shocked they made a sequel at all.
The Chinese have recently bought the AMC movie theater chain. I wonder if part of the decision came from the Chinese owners saying they were going to pass on showing it in any of their AMC theaters?
Yanked off, or jerked off?
Maybe they were worried about how high the bar got set by "Battleship".
What dont they want to compete with around that time frame?
Maybe they make whoever the President is in the movie a complete asshat. Don’t want people thinking it’s real and be dissin’ the preezy like dat.
bfl