Why has the new Star Trek movie release date been pushed back?!
Question: On the trailer it says Christmas 2008, now I have seen a release date of May 8, 2009 according to Yahoo movies. Why is this?
Answers: On the trailer it says Christmas 2008, now I have seen a release date of May 8, 2009 according to Yahoo movies. Why is this?
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The first teaser trailer and posters for this film showed it's original release date, December 25th, 2008. On February 13th, 2008 Paramount Pictures pushed the film to May 8th, 2009 so it would have less competition and be a summer blockbuster contender. The teaser trailer has now been amended to show Summer 2009.
Aw, I was looking forward to 2008 too. Not sure why they pushed it back, maybe they are making it better.
I just hope the movie is not by the same people who did enterprise. The first time I saw enterprise I wrote the company who made it and said that it's gonna fail. The music was wrong, the actors were wrong, the stories were wrong, the captain was wrong. Guess what, it was that bad it was canceled and ended any hope of new star treks on tv.
Wikipedia has a pretty good explanation (with the references available in case you are one of those people that don't trust anything that is said on there):
In February 2008, Paramount announced they would move Star Trek from its December 25, 2008 release date to May 8, 2009. The move was not due to the end of the WGA strike, but to the studio feeling that more audiences would go see the film during summer than winter. The film will still be practically finished by the end of 2008. They chose May 8 because it avoided competition with X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Angels & Demons, out in the same month. Paramount's decision came about after visiting the set and watching dailies, as they realized the film could appeal to a much broader audience. While the filmmakers had been comfortable with the Christmas release date, Damon Lindelof acknowledged it would allow more time to perfect the visual effects.