'G.I. JOE' YANKED OFF SUMMER 2012 MOVIE SCHEDULE, WILL BOW IN 2013

AP ^ | May 24, 2012 | Staff

[C19fan]

G.I. Joe won't be going into action on the big-screen this summer, after all.

The Hollywood Reporter says Paramount Pictures yanked its sequel "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" from its June 29 release date and rescheduled the movie for March 29 next year.

[C19fan]

I never heard of a Summer Blockbuster being moved like this. Wonder how much money Paramount blew already on marketing?

[Responsibility2nd]

It must really suck. What’s next? Release straight to DVD?

[Hodar]

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?

[Roccus]

Didn’t see the first one, but my cynical mind keeps hinting that a certain upcoming election might have something to do with this.

[xkaydet65]

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.

[longtermmemmory]

GI Job might inflame those pro america types.

and/or

It may have a clearer field later.

and/or

it is good and they want to promote it more (and make toys for sale) OR it really stinks so they need less competition.

With battleship on screens it may be too much.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bingo! That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking.

[who knows what evil?]

Didn’t see the first one, but my cynical mind keeps hinting that a certain upcoming election might have something to do with this.

Watch the latest trailer...look at the storyline. I think you are dead right. Otherwise; this makes NO sense.

[tanknetter]

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.

[PeterPrinciple]

Do you know what the plotline was? A man is in the Oval Office who is not an American citizen. He is a manchurian candidate who turns over the security of the USA to Cobra. GI Joe team is betrayed and many are killed. The survivors look to a legendary leader and the original joe Bruce Willis to lead them against this president and his Cobra goons.

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[who knows what evil?]

The ‘excuse’ they are using is that they need the ‘additional time’ for 3D enhancements. That’s bullsh*t, of course.

[GraceG]

[ Watch the latest trailer...look at the storyline. I think you are dead right. Otherwise; this makes NO sense. ]

I saw the trailer and it looked like someone had replaced the president with a Corba person and they were running the country like Obama....

[dfwgator]

After reading #10, I think we have our reason.

[dfwgator]

They want to make way for Leni Reifenstahl’s (I mean Katherine Bigelow’s) movie portrayal of the Bin Laden killing.

[Roccus]

Just read the comments at Breitbart. My cynicism seems to have been well founded.

[Buckeye McFrog]

must be it provides an uncomfortable reminder of “cut and run” in Iraq and Afghanistan...

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Supposedly they’re going to go back and make it into a 3-D movie. It hasn’t been tracking well and they’re hoping that making it 3-D will help.

[who knows what evil?]

After reading #10, I think we have our reason.

The scene with the COBRA banners unfurling in the front of the White House are pretty creepy.

[Mr. Blonde]

Prometheus was scheduled to come out two weeks before and Spiderman a week after. That would also leach a lot of money away.

[OB1kNOb]

What is COBRA in the movie?

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

That’s scheduled for December 19, 2012.

[Sirius Lee]

Corba person and they were running the country like Obama....

I'm going to start calling him Cobrama - but instead of a tough guy, he's more like the unstable queer hitler guy from "The Fifth Element".

[who knows what evil?]

The bad guys. :-)

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

It certainly was.

[PapaBear3625]

Do you know what the plotline was? A man is in the Oval Office who is not an American citizen. He is a manchurian candidate who turns over the security of the USA to Cobra. GI Joe team is betrayed and many are killed. The survivors look to a legendary leader and the original joe Bruce Willis to lead them against this president and his Cobra goons.

I think you got it. Look at the Trailer for GI Joe, and the plotline and ask yourself if the Dems want people's heads going in that direction.

[Liberty Valance]

bttt

[OB1kNOb]

Coalition Of Brothers Ruining America? ;-)

[PapaBear3625]

I would add that the plotline, that the US government had fallen under the control of a terrorist organization, requiring that the betrayed elite military unit seek to “start the ‘Second American Revolution’ by waging black operations against the Cobra that have taken control of the U.S government” might appeal just a BIT TOO MUCH to certain people to be allowed just before the election.

[LS]

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.

[who knows what evil?]

Do you have a link to the INTERNATIONAL trailer? That one is quite a bit different than the American one, and probably even more unnerving...

[longtermmemmory]

Obama as COBRA commander?

oh boy, all those cartoons will leave a mark.

[PapaBear3625]

International trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l_4ohsuY-0

[MikeSteelBe]

“BIT TOO MUCH”

Perhaps it has a TEA party militia retaking DC, and trials held in Philly where the NBP and AG are punished like the Nazis at Nuremburg. George Zimmerman gets to pull the lever.

One can only fantasize about justice in America today.

[discostu]

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.

[who knows what evil?]

Not the one I saw...there is another I viewed at the ‘Dark Horizons’ that runs about 2 and half minutes...I’ll see if I can dig it up.

[discostu]

This is based on the almost modern “international team of counter terrorists” GI Joe, nothing pro any country about it.

It will have a clearer field, it’s in the dead zone.

Battleship won’t still be there, it’s tanking, it might be in the cheap seats that week but that’s it. Which could have a lot to do with them pulling GI Joe.

[PapaBear3625]

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?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

This one?

http://www.darkhorizons.com/films/1181/G-I-Joe-2

[AndrewB]

Yanked off, or jerked off?

[longtermmemmory]

So if Obama is the president and the president has been replaced in the movie...

[longfellow]

this plot is nothing like real life. the GI JOE unit would be killed in a helicopter accident. then the pres would take all the kudos of the men who took out the terrorist leader.

think about it, obooba is not bragging, he IS the only one still alive after that operation. So he has to blow his own horn. and the last person to do that was larry sinclaire.

[who knows what evil?]

I found it at the link...it is the Australian version...it is the ‘International’ one on the right hand side that runs 2:24. It’s a bit different, and worth watching.

[BigSkyFreeper]

What is COBRA in the movie?

The nemesis of GI Joe.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Thanks! Just watched it.

“Redistribution of power.”

Yikes!

[BigSkyFreeper]

I see “The Rock” is part of the GI Joe team. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is a big time Republican.

[BigSkyFreeper]

And “The Rock” is a huge supporter of the military.

[Tanniker Smith]

Seriously? Not even a Christmas release? Did it suck that badly that it got pulled at this late date? That's a lot of retooling time. It's one thing if they were just worried about the competition.

Maybe they were worried about how high the bar got set by "Battleship".

[who knows what evil?]

“Redistribution of power.”

You noticed. :-)

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep!

[who knows what evil?]

Isn’t Bruce Willis a Republican, although more of a RINO stripe...