After Sony’s decision to let George Clooney have a little more time to tinker with his World War II drama The Monuments Men, moving it off the 2013 calendar, we’ve now got a confirmed date, as well as the ripple effects for other titles in the studio. As promised, Clooney’s ensemble film will now land in February, specifically on the 7th, where it’ll face off against The Lego Movie.
This will cause RoboCop, originally in the slot, to move five days ahead, where it will be released on February 12th. That particularly week is packed, with About Last Night, Endless Love, Three Days to Kill, Vampire Academy and Winter’s Tale all opening wide, so expect something else to budge.
Back to this year, Sony will still release David O. Russell‘s American Hustle in limited release on December 13th. But the studio will now give it a nationwide bow five days later, on December 18th, instead of Christmas Day, in the slot Monuments Men used to occupy.
Yet another insanely back holiday, it’ll be surrounded by a variation of wide and limited releases for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Saving Mr. Banks, Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas, Her, Anchorman: The Legend Continues, Walking with Dinosaurs, 47 Ronin, August: Osage County, the Bieber doc Believe, Grudge Match, Labor Day, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Lone Survivor and (possibly) Jack Ryan, but more likely The Wolf of Wall Street.
Do you think Monuments Men will find success in its new early year slot?