Movie Release Dates & 9/11

Cafe Society
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Something rather pointless occurred to me the other day: Next year 9/11 will fall on a Friday (I think…I don’t have a calendar handy). How will movie studios handle the advertising of movies opening on that date? I mean, won’t it be just a little jarring to hear that big, movie voice booming at the end of a movie preview, “This film opens Friday, September eleventh! Be there!”?

Or is it just me?

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It will be on a Saturday next year. The next time September 11 is on a Friday is 2009. Perhaps it won’t be quite as jarring in 6 years…

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Or they may just open on Thursday or Wednesday, big films do that occasionally.

~J

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Of course, they could also just open a week earlier or later. There’s no law that says that every Friday must see new movies released.