Its like every film is changing their release dates

Awesome. Smart move.

Thor should come out next summer, but this is good news.

Swing his hammer...lol

Lone Ranger could come out on the 3rd of never as far as I'm concerned. :D

keep pushing that Lone Ranger movie back further. It will be silly until it becomes Deppless

They should push OFF lone ranger I could give 2 [frick]s about that movie

Once again WB is caught sleeping when they failed to move Man of Steel into a prime
forth of July release window to take advantage of FOX's move.

They should at least switch it with Pacific Rim from June 14th to July 12th 2013.

The only CBM's WB is willing to release in July seem to be ones with Batman
(TDK and TDKR) while releasing the rest ( Batman Begins,Superman Returns,Jonah Hex,Green Lantern and Man of Steel) in June, sandwiched between so many other releases.

Maybe Warner Bros. will get some sense and move The Hangover 3 to that date instead of having it open the same weekend as Fast & Furious 6.

With other studios getting the jump on prime release dates for 2014,it yet again appears that WB will be stuck releasing it's single CBM (seems like it will be LOBO) in June so it will be smothered.

At least Superman or Batman (when Batman Begins came out) are big enough characters to be noticed,but the rest just get lost in June.

They are just giving them both room to breathe at the box office. So they don't steal each others ticket sales.

Excellent.

I posted the following on April 7th (in a "Hunger Games" article). I for one am quite glad.


I was looking at the list of next year's films, and THOR 2 comes out one week before CATCHING FIRE. For those of you who aren't familiar with that title, that's the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy.

THOR 2 is going to be crushed by CATCHING FIRE in its second week. In looking at September and October releases, there's almost nothing of note.

Thus, it's in my professional opinion (i.e., my completely subjective take on things) that THOR 2 must have its release date changed.

My point is that THOR would have much more of an impact if it was the only big budget genre movie opening at a particular time (with no major "genre" competition opening on either side of its release date for at least a couple of weeks). With CATCHING FIRE opening one week after THOR 2, THOR 2 will most likely be utterly trounced and forgotten after only one week at the box office.

I wouldn't put much faith in a built in audience, to be honest. THOR didn't do that great in the States.

If September and October are blockbuster free (not sure if they are), then why NOT move THOR 2 to one of those months? Or move it two weeks earlier than its current release date, so that it has three weeks before it gets absolutely crushed by CATCHING FIRE.

Nice! A week after my b-day I get to enjoy Thor? Couldn't ask for a better present!

Give a chainsaw?...
Anywho, this sounds good to me. I like that Zmarvel's testing the waters to try and release awesome superhero flicks outside of summer. If you build it, we will come (no sex jokes, please).

@Stormbreaker Thor 2 isn't exactly the Avengers. Nobody will give a damn past week 2 for Thor, so the release date is fine.

"Thor 2 isn't exactly the Avengers. Nobody will give a damn past week 2 for Thor, so the release date is fine."

@Silmane,

Maybe so, but having two weeks instead of only one week before "Catching Fire" opens is in all likelihood better for THOR 2's box office.

Thanks Disney, you cut down the torture of wait one week.

The only negative about the first Thor is the same problem i had with Iron Man 2 and that's that the big battle scenes ended way to quickly. Seeing as Thor BETTER have his powers the whole time this time he better kick some serious ass.