‘Brothers Bloom’ Getting Pushed Back

‘Brother’s Bloom’, Rian Johnson’s follow-up to his debut, ‘Brick’, is getting pushed back a few months, according to his own message board.   The film, originally slated to be released on October 10th, is now getting a limited release on December 19th.   The film will open in New York and Los Angeles at that time and get a wider release on January 16th.

It was up against ‘Body of Lies’, Ridley Scott’s spy thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, in it’s original slot.   It now opens wide against a number of films including ‘I Love You Man’ and ‘Ninja Assassin’.

Says Johnson in a message board post:

“There were a few reasons for the move: October and November are crowded as hell, it’s a tough tough market, especially for a smart unique film like ours, and we’d have a week or two at the most to sink or swim. Whereas concentrating on a couple markets for awards consideration in December, then pushing the wide in the more open January slot just seemed like a better use of resources.

Mostly though, what convinced me it was a good idea was that it gives us more time to get more awareness of the movie out there. There are alot of films competing for attention, the more time I have to travel around to film festivals, do interviews, show and talk about the film, the better.”