Mar
23
Last month we learned that the upcoming prequel film Rise of the Apes, which tells the story leading up to the 1968 film Planet of the Apes, will be released this coming November ? but today we learn that the film has been pushed up for a late Summer release. Rise of the Apes stars James Franco and it turns out that you won?t have quite so long to wait to see him in action. Instead of a Thanksgiving release, Apes will hit theaters in early August!
Earlier this year, 20th Century Fox decided to move their prequel Rise of the Apes back to Thanksgiving weekend for a number of undisclosed reasons, but they?ve now changed their mind and the Rupert (The Escapist) Wyatt-directed movie starring James Franco, Freida Pinto and Andy Serkis will now get a summer release after all on August 5, 2011. That will put the movie up against Sony?s The Smurfs (opening that Wednesday), the Universal body-changing comedy The Change-Up starring Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman, and the 3D sci-fi thriller The Darkest Hour from Summit.
This sounds like great news to me. Rise of the Apes feels more like a Summer film (Read more...)
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