Uwe Boll vs. J.J. Abrams
If you know the names, you know this is no contest. Uwe Boll is famous for making crap while J.J. Abrams has built his name with shows like Felicity, Alias, Lost and with films like Mission Impossible:3 (which I didn't love but it was much better than anything Boll has done). The suits at Fox 2000, however, seem to like their chances against J.J. more than Uwe.
The Fox romantic-comedy "27 Dresses (starring Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, and Judy Greer) was slated to open on January 11th against Boll's new film as well as the Veggietales' "Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" and Ice Cube's "First Sunday". The film has been testing well so the studio decided that the wise move was to move it back a week so they could take advantage of the long weekend for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On its own that makes sense but what makes the move curious is that the much-hyped "Cloverfield" opens that same day, as does "Mad Money", the crime caper starring Queen Latifah, Diane Keaton, and an actually attractive looking Katie Holmes. While I know that Hollywood focuses on the opening weekend, I can't help but think that, if the film is as good as the studio thinks, it would make more sense to come out on the 11th and help build word-of-mouth. We shall see.
