Editorial - Money Never Sleeps, or so we Thought

As by the name of this editorial, I'm going to focus on the recent decision by 20th Century Fox to push back the release of their upcoming sequel to Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps from late April to late September.

Now when a major studio pushes back a film's release, a couple of things can happen:

First, the studio has had a preview of an edit of the film by director Oliver Stone, who also directed the 1987 original and didn't think much of it and began to doubt its chances at the box office, especially with Iron Man 2 due to open in the US in May and storm the box office.

Second, they may have had the opposite reaction and pushed it back long enough so that it can be counted in the Oscar nominations, pointing out that Douglas (quite rightly I might add) won one for his portrayal of Gordon Gekko in the original film.

And lastly, the aforementioned edit by Oliver Stone may have significant problems and require reshoots with the actors, as Peter Jackson did with his Lord of the Rings films when they went into editing and as a result, may ask Fox to push back the film's release to give him the time need to reshoot and recut the film.

Those are of course, only some of the reasons but they're the ones that readily come to mind as something like this is usually a bad sign, as for me well I'll go and see the film as I'm curious as to how good it might be and hey, it's the only way to find out right, right?