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Moving Shutter Island worked for Paramount. Will pushing Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps from April 23rd to September 24th pay off for Fox? The fact that Fox announced this decision after Oliver Stone started showing the film to Fox execs is enough to set off alarm bells. But insiders said that Fox and Oliver Stone really are gambling that the Cannes Film Festival will approve a gala release that would give Stone an opportunity to launch the film a worldwide platform.
Still, why do a publicity lap with Stone, Michael Douglas, Shia La Beouf, Carey Mulligan and Josh Brolin, only to wait for months to release Wall Street 2?
I’m told there is no wiggle room in a summer schedule that is complicated by the World Cup. While that soccer tournament doesn’t mean so much in the U.S., normal life stops around the world when soccer fever takes hold. They don’t go to the movies, and distributors looking for global day and date launches are loading films before and after the tournament. The last weekend in September is a prime spot for Stone’s film. And if he needs to trim his running time a little bit, as I’ve heard, he won’t be rushed.
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This would also allow a screening at TIFF, which is always great publicity.
Well, if they keep pushing it this way, the economical crisis is going to end before the movie gets released.
With Mr Obama as president there isn’t any chance of economic crisis ending.
Obama didn’t cause the crisis.
The great recession began under W’s two-term presidency. The same way the great depression started under the watchful eye of Republican presidents.
True story.
This retrofitting-movies-to-3D craze is just getting out of control now…
I heard they already had one screanning and it was actually pretty good, so maybe its a smart move. April and summer is already too full.
why not just send it straight to cable as the trailer suggests is its true home
Read this about four months ago. The script is a huge dud. Maybe Stone can turn a sow’s ear into the proverbial silk purse, but I don’t know.They needed a dynamic lead to pull this off. They got Shia LaBeouf. Good luck with that.
@jack, I read the script too, and was very good. I am looking foward for this.
Trailer seemed good enough… why hold it back, unless–
word I’ve heard is that this has turned out really good and they want a big debut out of Cannes and maybe TFF to really kick things off.
I think this is a plot by hollywood and Oliver Stone to release the film very close to the midterm elections and help the Democrats.
Exactly Jason @ 7:51pm! That’s just what I’d expect FOX to do. Try to help the Democrats.
They’ll need more help than The tiny ripple of Stone’s throw.
Ha! Best comment I’ve read in quite a while.
Sure, just like Fahrenheit 911 helped to defeat Bush’s re-election.
It’s from Fox – as in Fox news – as in Dumbocrat?
*face palm*
Stone’s and Fox’s excuse for the delay in release sounds like a steaming hot pile of BS. Films are sent to film festivals to drum up publicity because they don’t have stars like Michael Douglas, Shia LaBouf, Susan Sarandon and a chick that was nominated for an Oscar earlier this week attached. A poorly written sequel (the script was dismissed as “shit” by multiple people I know who’ve read it which is why they had so much trouble finding a villain and ended up having to pay everyone top dollar – hardly a labor of love) to a relic of the 1980s is NOT what the Cannes Film Festival is about. They’re going to trash it like they do every big budget American film that barges its way into town and for good reason. The only reason Fox is stalling the release is that they want to “class it up” by slapping the Cannes logo on it but it’s going to backfire because the critics there WILL tear it to shreds. I wouldn’t be surprised if this quietly got a D2DVD release after a savage Cannes reception.
Great point. How good can it be if OS had to steal the personal property scene from ‘The Blues Brothers’ and ‘Trading Places?’ The original worked on so many levels. So many guys went into financial services because they wanted to be ‘Gordon Gecko’ (an unintended consequence of the movie…Stone thought the opposite would happen)…I wanted to be ‘Bud Fox’…before he got corrupted…still am.
In 2008, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Kung Fu Panda had their world premieres at Cannes. Not exactly two films with no stars.
lol not exactly two films that needed to be made or seen by anyone
The point is, Cannes has been used in recent years to launch commercial films, not just small films with no star power.
michael douglas was on the cover of vanity fair for christs sake. in fact, two articles related either directly or indirectly to the movie. seems odd.
This trend of changing release dates to months in the future doesn’t make the getting of publicity easier. Many magazines are on a 4-6 month lead, so there’s a lot of advance work done to get these interviews — and talk about pissing off pubs who already published an actor on their cover for April — that is a major piss off. Sometimes pubs, until a change in staff, won’t talk to you again after something like that.
And, if any of these actors hired their own publicists on top of the studio to get interviews, they can kiss that money spent in advance goodbye! A waste.
The answer always is the obvious.
They have a cover story in Vanity Fair this month. Trailers in rotation.
Then they push it.
It isn’t ready. Maybe they will turn it around.
Are they not aware that stopping the PR cold in the tracks looks bad and pisses people off who were looking forward to seeing this film? (I just had to change the effing dates on all the announcements and pull the trailer from my “hot trailer” corner. Thank you for that, ppl. And thanks for all the other changes we now all will have to make b/c of this totally unnecessary move.)
Come August we’ll have to start from scratch because Cannes takes place in MAY. Not exactly close to end of September, is it? The awareness of Joe Shmo re: Cannes? Does he care? Please enlighten me.
I guess some other reason for the push would not be quite as upsetting.
Does anybody know why Stone teamed up with the original WS screenwriter Stanley Weiser after all those years on W. but not for this? Previous engagements?
Wall Street featured the male equivalent of Shia La Beouf, Daryl Hannah. Ladies and gentlemen, start your Razzies campaign.
I love the negative commenters on this blog. Avatar anyone?
I will be watching this closely to see how the reviews come in – then we’ll have the answer!
Well, that sucks…
Honestly this is a gamble. I enjoyed his first Wall Street. I’ve seen the trailer to this one and it looks interesting; now at Cannes it could go bad or go depending how they market the film at the film festival later this spring. The aspect of the plot I like to this sequel is that Gekko is a protoganist this time. I read in wikipedia that Charlie Sheen is going to make a cameo appearance as Bud Fox. If there is editing and reshoots needed I wonder what other cameos maybe instore.
Actually, it’s not a bad idea if they do piggy back with TIFF.
People in NY do support the festival, especially the star driven material and since it is a quintessential NY tale, they will get a TON of free pub that entire week from ET, Insider, AH, that will place it in the public’s mind. Can totally DeNiro, Scorcese etc showing up for the premier.
I think TIFF is more important to the US campaign than Cannes just for all that free pub that will reach the fly overs and create the pre-awareness for the Shia fans who never saw the original.
If they don’t go TIFF, I don’t see the point of Cannes only, as the Euro critics probably will come with knives drawn.
While this comment string shows lots of naysayers, everyone loves a good Wall St intrigue and this movie will do $125MM-$150MM in the US
A Fall release makes more sense for this film. And with the election stuff going on, it might feel more relevant and with the times.
Gives them ample time to come up with something better that “Money Never Sleeps”. Anything is better than that subtitle.
Darryl Hanna was BRILLIANT in the first one. One of the reasons I watched it. Shia will probably be alright but the GFC has come and gone and i think Oliver Stone left it a little too late, kinda like he did with W. But, hey, Cannes might lift it’s popularity up but they really should have released it by April off the hype of Alice and Avatar. September is too far off.