ROTTEN TOMATOES: Monsters vs. Aliens Flees Cameron's Avatar Release Date

Monsters vs. Aliens Flees Cameron's Avatar Release Date

CGI toon to bow in March, not May, of 2009.

by Jeff Giles | September 20, 2007

Looks like yesterday's report about some major release-date shuffling by the studios was just the tip of the iceberg.

According to Variety, DreamWorks -- in an effort to avoid a direct showdown with James Cameron's Avatar -- has moved its computer-animated Monsters vs. Aliens from May 15 up to March 27, 2009. Though Avatar (which opens May 22) is a sci-fi action movie and Monsters vs. Aliens is a family-friendly cartoon, both movies will be shown in 3D, and with only so many screens to go around, DreamWorks understandably wanted to avoid splitting the market.

The article goes on to discuss the schedule shifts we talked about yesterday, chalking up the date change for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader to "challenging schedules" for the cast; it also sheds a little more light on the Jerry Bruckheimer production G-Force. In our original report, as you might recall, we were all dumbfounded by (and a little afraid of) the description of the film as "a live-action/CGI family feature...which follows a group of intelligent animal commandos working for a government agency trying to prevent an evil billionaire from taking over the world."

Well, now you can add "a comedy adventure about guinea pigs as secret agents" to the list of synopses.

Also on the release schedule? A Sony-produced animated adaptation of the classic children's book Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. To read more about all these scheduling shenanigans, click on through to the link below and...wait, guinea pigs as secret agents? Really?

Source: Variety

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ZiGyStRdUsT writes:
on Sep 20 2007 06:41 AM

I still have no idea what this Avatar movie as about...is there a plot synopsis somewhere?

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Jeff Giles writes:
on Sep 20 2007 06:59 AM

In reply to this comment (#1136128)
January's press release describes it as "the story of a wounded ex-marine, thrust unwillingly into an effort to settle and exploit an exotic planet rich in bio-diversity, who eventually crosses over to lead the indigenous race in a battle for survival."

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hippie803 writes:
on Sep 20 2007 08:17 AM

Please just don't have Celine Dion sing on the soudtrack.

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H Tht Hs N Vwls writes:
on Sep 20 2007 08:18 AM

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs?! I used to love that book but am very afraid of a movie adaptation.

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Ashron writes:
on Sep 20 2007 09:37 AM

In reply to this comment (#1136161)
Yeah, that's a huge fear, since she's had a song in everyone of Cameron's films up to this point.

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PrecentorEpsilonXVI writes:
on Sep 20 2007 10:38 AM

In reply to this comment (#1136264)
She had a song in Aliens? Was that what was going on when the Alien Queen was making that aweful racket?

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wiggins writes:
on Sep 20 2007 12:01 PM

cloudy with a chance of meatballs is a beast.

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Canuck666 writes:
on Sep 20 2007 12:58 PM

In reply to this comment (#1136128)
The plot is about a soldier who is used to exploit the natives on another planet, becomes "one of them" and leads them only to find out the soldier was a plant who was sent to find and weed out the rebellious ones.

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pgriffin writes:
on Sep 20 2007 02:33 PM

It's about a bunch of youths getting together and dancing to save a community center. Oh wait. That's Breakin 2: Electric Bugaloo

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screwhead100 writes:
on Sep 20 2007 05:04 PM

^^^^LOL

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Dr. Evol writes:
on Sep 20 2007 05:49 PM

In reply to this comment (#1136128)
I think Jeff Giles is right about the synopsis, I read somewhere that it�s like dances with wolves meets contact. I have a feeling that it�s going to be one of the best films ever made, Cameron�s a solid filmmaker, I doubt celine will be on the sountrack ;-P

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Floor Man writes:
on Sep 20 2007 06:40 PM

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs? That's one of those books I grew up with, and was one of my favorites (just like the first Shrek, which was a good movie, but pissed me off because they did what they did to it). It's still special to me...don't ruin it! Gah! Hollywood. *Sigh*....

I...am...stoked. For Avatar.

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smi1ey writes:
on Sep 20 2007 11:25 PM

OMG. a cloudy with a chance of meatballs MOVIE!? this was one of my fav books growing up! what a crazy idea!

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Daniel Aaron writes:
on Sep 20 2007 11:38 PM

breakin 2 ..a great film :) but back to Avatar i bet it will be a great film it seems like Cameron is realy into this one and it sounds groundbreaking which he is use to I.E the Abyss T2 the water effect wich later became the new terminator Titanic even though people dont think of it that way his use of water on on that grand of a scale set many bars the sound stages the titanic mock up ect. needless to say i bet this one will be grand becuase he hasnt shot in awhile and he is a very sound director and story teller...but then again so was Lucas until the last half of Jedi when he introduced us all to the "lovable" ewoks that took out stormtroopers with pebbles but i will still take the battle of endor slash vader luke slash deathstar attack over the 17 years later to what he calls episode's 1,2,and 3 but i call, why. or at least nbody cares about the stupid trade federation or love story give a Vadr give him to us now I want to see the empire crushing the galaxy and the birth of the rebellion not have what we know show up in the last ten minutes of the third film..duh that should have been the begin of the second or end of the first we know he was a kid we know he was trained by Obi and kill hiim in a new hope lets get to x wings a tie fighters i need to stop anyhoot i dont see cameron taking that dive i hope not

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Pedropiedrolar writes:
on Sep 24 2007 01:02 AM

Hello boys. I have found a new web. It has new images of Avtar of a desinger of Weta digital;

http://www.avatar-novedades.blogspot.com/

I hope that the new movie of Zemekis ...

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