Paramount’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Moves to March 2013 Release

………………………………………………………………..”Wait..whaaaaaa?”

Avengers after effects will be like that in the next years.
Everyone want to make huge numbers now, doing all kind of stupid things like this one.
 

“to convert to 3D” actually means “to avoid Spider-Man and Batman this summer”

So the movie is that bad, huh? How sad.

I’m about as interested in 3D as I am of herpes

I hate 3-D. I hope this fad ends soon. I didn’t see Titanic in 3-D, ‘cos I’d already seen it. I don’t see films in 3-D because of the extra expense. Plus it’s a gimmick. Very few films need to be in 3-D.

So.
Fewer people will see it in 2D next March, and fewer still in 3D/IMAX.
And it will total to the same number (or fewer) who would have seen it this July.

No confidence.
Not even General Joe (Bruce Willis) could save this strokefest.

http://tinyurl.com/8x5y8hfOstensibly this is to prepare the movie for 3-D conversion as well as doing more of a unified global push for marketing purposes.

I can’t help but to think that the modest U.S. box office so far for Battleship had something to do with this.  I have already seen an article about studio execs hitting the panic button in the aftermath of this and John Carter.

I haven’t seen Battleship yet but I plan to.  I was also planning to go see Retaliation when it came out in June.  Does 3-D conversion really take that long?

This will be nearly a year-long delay from its original release.  Presumably, the film is/was already at the tail-end of final editing.  I know that plenty of movies do reshoots before a final cut, but storywise, I’m not sure what all could be done at this point except to shoot an entirely new film’s worth of footage.  Also, timing-wise, late March puts the film into the same, uh, lane as John Carter was this year.  Not quite the dead of winter, but definitely not summer, kids are still in school.
 
The producers should take a cue from The Avengers: I hope that they will add some new characters:  [Joes] Alpine, Quick Kick, Stalker, Zap, Doc, Cover Girl.. [Cobra] Crimson Twins, Firefly, Dreadnoks.

If the film can be extended to 2.5 hours—have more character development moments, more international locations for the plot—and the climax leads directly into a part 3, that could be a way to take advantage of the extended wait time.

And they were unaware of this “process” until.. just now? Sorry but this is the worst excuse I’ve ever seen given for pushing back a dog.

I’ve seen exactly two movies with well-done 3D: Transformers 3 (horrible movie, but very well done 3D), and U23D, which had AMAZINGLY well done 3D. It was so good I thought the people in the crowd in the movie were actually other audience members in the theater a few times. Other than that, it’s just a crap move to make bootlegging harder. 

couldn’t care less*

That may very well be one of the most ignorantly xenophobic comments I’ve seen on Spinoff.  Wow.