It's been noticeable in the last year that the studios have been doing a lot more last minute moving around of release dates. The latest to get bumped only a few weeks before it was schedules to come out is Oliver Stone's, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. The film was due out on April 23rd, but 20th Century Fox has now announced it's holding the film back until September 24th.
Although this sort of move can't help but get you to wonder whether the reason is because it's not very good and so the studio is trying to dump it, this time it could be the other way around. Variety is reporting that the move was made because the producers think they've got an excellent shot of getting an invite to the Cannes Film Festival in May, although Fox itself wouldn't make any comment on why they've done it.
It also gives the film a better shot at picking up a few Oscar nominations. Of course, Oliver Stone's 1987 original won Michael Douglas the Best Actor Oscar for playing the duplicitous Gordon Gekkon.
However there's still the feeling that Money Never Sleeps may be getting dumped, as Sept 24th already has plenty of competition in the US, in the form of Zach Snyder's Legend Of The Guardians, the comedy You Again and the historical action flick, The Eagle Of The Ninth. While none of these film are similar to Wall Street 2, by putting it up against so many other new films, it does suggest Fox isn't expecting a big hit.