Bryan Singer's next movie VALKYRIE has once again gone through a release date change and will now open on October 3rd 2008. United Artists decided to push back the feature once it learned that Universal had strategically moved WANTED from it's March opening to June 27th, the same weekend as VALKYRIE and Pixar's WALL-E.
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Not wanting to be part of a three way battle against two bid budgeted movies, the film will now open against Guy Ritchie's gangster movie RocknRolla (by then, 8 years since Ritchie's last commercial success) and the Sony comedy NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST, starring SUPERBAD's Michael Cera. Personally, I didn't think they needed to worry too much about WANTED but certainly WALL-E was a worry for them. This October release would now seem to make more sense not only because of its competition but also because of the climate of films during that period. This is more of a serious drama/thriller, and opening at this point should see it win over a certain type of crowd that it wouldn't in the Summer entertainment season.