Just six weeks before release and Summit Entertainment have yanked away
The Beaver's March 23rd U.S. opening, pushing the Mel Gibson-led dramedy back to May 6th, before going wide on the 20th. The reason cited is director & co-star
Jodie Foster's acting schedule which relents somewhat by May will now allow her to promote the movie and I suppose we can buy it as the SXSW premiere is still in tact and if they were worried about the reaction, they would have pulled it from there too. The move puts The Beaver in direct competition with Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and on it's wide expansion, Thor. Originally it was set to open against Sucker Punch, so I guess Foster couldn't really hide away from the ever churning blockbuster machine. A mystery still surrounds it's U.K. date as
IMDB still lists this Friday as it's release bow, clearly inaccurate.