Wow, only 7 weeks from release.
Did they see the final movie, realize it sucked, and decide to retool it for a February “dumping ground” release?
Can’t say I was thrilled by what I saw in the trailers. But then, I’m getting increasingly cynical as I age.
I was planning on seeing this for no other reason than Channing Tatum in pointy elf ears. 
Maybe they watched the final cut and just then realized that Mila Kunis was in it. Gonna take months to CGI her out of the footage.
From Wikipedia: “Caine is a defective genetic splice, half-albino and with both wolf and human DNA.”
That’s pure gold!
They’re saying it’s because they need more time to complete the special effects. It could be a legitimate issue. This is obviously a movie with some serious effects going on. The original July release date was set a year ago and may have been unrealistic.
Plus, Warner Brothers released The Lego Movie in February and that did great. Maybe they figure February releases are an untapped field.
On the other hand, there’s The Cloud Atlas and Speed Racer.
Nobody is that bad at scheduling they leave it this late to realise they need another 8 months of VFX work. Plus, if it was still hoped to be a big hit, they’d move it to Xmas, not Feb.
Sfx is called the Pluto Nash excuse.
Perhaps some scenes with Mila Kunis need reshooting and that can’t do that until she has her baby?
The Wachowski siblings are great at making effects laden movies. Too bad for them that the cost of effects has dropped off a cliff so any teenager can now make effects laden movies. We are back to a point were good stories are needed to make good movies. If The Wachowskis have an achilles heel, it is good stories.
The first Matrix, Cloud Atlas and V for Vendetta were all pretty good, I thought, despite the latter two’s departure from the books.
But I agree this doesn’t bode well for Jupiter Ascending.
Probably. But The Lego Movie showed that a successful mid-winter release is possible. So the studio may have thought, “Okay, we don’t have a top tier movie here. But we have a solid second-tier movie. If we release it in the summer or the holidays, it’ll have to compete against top tier movies and it’ll fail. But if we release it in February, there won’t be any serious competition so it’ll be the best movie released that week and will do decent business. We’ll make more money by being the top-ranked release in a slow week then we’d get from being the third-ranked release in a big week.”
I was looking forward to this primarily because unlike virtually every other SFX movie this summer, it’s not based on a comic book or is a sequel.
I for one wouldn’t mind seeing the industry moving away from the practice of releasing every worthwhile movie within about eight weeks of annual windows.
I understand every bit of how the marketing and attendance figures work, but I also know the industry is more conservative than the Amish and loses more sleep over lost pennies than several kinds of rancid joke stereotypes. A full year of major releases has so many possibilities.
Oh, and I kinda sorta liked Pluto Nash, although it’s hard to see where 80% of the budget went…
The SFX excuse is pure bull. This close to roll out almost all, if not all, of the film is done. Any tweaking that might need to be done would only take a few weeks.
The key thing is the Feb. 6, 2015 slot. That’s the center of the traditional turkey dumping season.
Audience previews revealed a dud. The studio wants to use the summer ad budget for movies that have a better chance of making money. They are giving up on this one.
I want to support it because, as far as I know, this is one of the few movies coming out not based on an existing property but this does not bode well. The delay is less troubling than the new release date being February. February is where you dump films so they just go away.
Well, it’s a Cinderella princess story, so it’s not *that *original. It needs an interesting hook or twist or something to make it stand out.
Reviving this now that the release date is finally here. And the reviews haven’t been too kind. “It’s ‘Star Wars’ for idiots.” “This movie is worse than bad. Let’s try ‘epically awful’ on for size. ‘Insanely bloated’; that works.”
But most annoying is the steaming pile Lana Wachowski laid out as the reason for the delay. You think critics weren’t clamoring for something original in summer?
I was hoping for something along the lines of The Fifth Element since it looked like that’s what it wanted to be (and Larry(Lana)'s sudden facination with trying to look like Leeloo).
But it looks like it’s not in the same ballpark review wise.
Let me guess: Sean Bean’s character dies. Again. 