Sony and Disney have been watching too many Tarantino movies. Why else would they deliberately throw themselves into a Mexican standoff to see which studio is going to budge off the December 17, 2010 release date first? It was recently announced that Seth Rogen's action comedy, The Green Hornet, had been pushed back five months to allow more prep and marketing time. But Disney had been eyeing that date for weeks for it's much anticipated Tron Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 classic. Both films will be competing with James Cameron's big budget juggernaut, Avatar, that very same weekend.
So what we have here is a situation where three films are basically going to be competing for the same audience. Y'know what else comes out that weekend? The Smurfs movie. What the hell? This is shaping up to be the biggest box office weekend in history as it stands right now. I'm betting that somebody, probably Sony and Green Hornet, will eventually back down. It'll be done quietly, on a Friday, and production issues will be the given reason, but bank on Green Hornet getting push backed a week or two at some point.
