Last Sunday the Daily Mail reported that the troubled date for the UK release of
ROMEO
AND JULIET - July 26th - has been
postponed yet again without an announcement about a new
release date. The September 6th release date in the states has
been nixed and now we're looking at a limited release on October 11th.
As Will Shakespeare might put it, there's something rotten in
the state of Denmark! But production house, Relativity Media has denied any
problems stating, "Release dates for our movies move around all the time - it's
about finding the best place for them in the calendar where we feel that they
will do best." Does anybody want to give any credence to this statement? There
were high expectations with "Downton Abbey" writer, Julian Fellowes adapting the
play to the screen, but the success of the film ultimately falls on the director
and leads to pull it off. In this case, it's Italian director Carlos Carlei with
stars Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth. Stellan should bring some interest to
the age-old tale playing the Prince of Verona.