Caffeinated Clint
Y’all know there’s dueling ‘Snow White’ movies due out next year, right?
“Snow White and the Huntsman”, by Rupert Sanders, stars Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth in the title roles (and Charlize Theron, above, as the evil Queen); the other, simply titled “Snow White”, directed by Tarsem Singh, stars Lily Collins as the airbushed whisperer.
Originally, the latter was due to open after “Huntsman” – which, as of recently, chose a June 1 release date – on June 29. Now, Relativity has moved their “Snow White” movie up even further – March 16. Seems big Ryan thinks it smarter to open first (despite the competition he’ll now face) but that does mean financially-speaking, his movie will be the ‘fairest of them all’?
The move could’ve been a smart one for Ryan Kavanagh and his Relativity shingle, being that he’ll be first out of the gate with a “Snow White” movie (it worked for volcano pic “Dante’s Peak” when it was released before the similiar-themed “Volcano”) but he’ll face some pretty fierce competition there in March – namely, “The Hunger Games” which is shaping up to be Twi-big. More so, June 29 is a good summer release date, particuarly with the 4th of July weekend being such a weighty time for cinema attendance so they’ve abandoned a really great slot for.. a really risky one. I don’t think it’s a good move and I think – it’s just my two-cents – the film, like everything else released in March of ’12, is going to be gobbled hole by “The Hunger Games”. Sure, it’s got Julia Roberts in it, but Julia hasn’t got the ferocious fanbase of Kristen Stewart, not these days anyway.
The two films couldn’t be any more different – Singh’s film is a campy, fun adventure film; “Huntsman” is a more serious rom-thriller – but it remains to be seen whether audiences have the appetite for two Snow White films, let alone one.
