Another day, another movie makes a shocking exit from awards season: As first reported by the Los Angeles Times, George Clooney's "The Monuments Men" won't be ready for its Dec. 18 release date because the film's visual effects have proved more complicated than expected. "The Monuments Men" will now arrive in the first quarter of 2014, though no date has been specified just yet. (Clooney, who probably knows a little bit about what's going, told Times reporter John Horn that "Monuments Men" would debut sometime in February.)
By leaving Oscar season, "The Monuments Men" -- which Clooney co-wrote, directed and stars in, alongside Bill Murray, Matt Damon, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin and Cate Blanchett -- joins an ever-expanding list of presumed awards contenders that have vacated to 2014. In September, Sony Pictures Classics moved Bennett Miller's "Foxcatcher" to next year, while that same month saw The Weinstein Company shift "Grace of Monaco," with Nicole Kidman in the lead role as Grace Kelly, to March 14, 2014. It was rumored that Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" would push to 2014 as well, but it appears the studio has decided to delay the film's release a mere six weeks, from Nov. 15 to Dec. 25.
"This is the most competitive [Oscar] season I've ever seen," TWC head Harvey Weinstein said at the Zurich International Film Festival in September. "And if you aren't ready, don't get in it."
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