‘Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters’ Moves To January 2013
This can’t be good. Besides the still above, we’ve seen almost nothing official fromHansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. It’s one of the first completed movies in the fairy tale-inspired wave of Hollywood programming, and the film was set to open on March 2. Rumors of the film being pushed several months started to fly a few weeks back and now Paramount has confimed that the movie will now hit on June 22, 2025.
The official reasoning here, as passed along byDeadline, is much the same as Harvey Weinstein’s reason for pushing back the release ofWettest County. Just as Harvey hopes many more people will know Tom Hardy afterThe Dark Knight Rises, Paramount says it hopes more people will be more familiar withJeremy RennerafterThe AvengersandThe Bourne Legacy.
(Psst!Mission: Impossibledid a pretty good job of letting people — those who didn’t seeThe Hurt Locker— know who he is.)
Paramount points to the success this past weekend ofThe Devil Insideto help explain the move, too, suggesting that January is no longer a dumping ground. But the success ofThe Devil Insidewas kind of a fluke, and took even the studio by surprise — the release date for that movie essentially was a dumping ground strategy.
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Huntersstars Renner andGemma Artertonas grown versions of Hansel and Gretel, who hunt witches after being tormented by one in their youth.Famke JanssenandPeter Stormareco-star;Tommy Wikkola(Dead Snow) directed.
Oh, and Paramount also movedEddie Murphy’sA Thousand Wordsonce more, to April 20, and theDuplass BrothersfilmJeff Who Lives At Home, to March 16.
