Why is gi joe retaliation delayed

But Tatum has already had a couple of big films in The Vow and 21 Jump Street , so killing him off in Retaliation would be a bad strategic move for the franchise. Do I care whether I see more of the charisma vacuum that is Channing Tatum? Not really. The studio better hope that my blood lust holds steady for the next 10 months.

The 3D is truly the larger financial consideration. While we scoffed at the notion of how much 3D could potentially boost box office relative to the cost of reshoots and re-marketing the film, we forgot about the international market.

Stateside, a 3D post-conversion is no longer a guarantee of a box office bump, but the new technology is proving to be a boon overseas. New 3D theaters are popping up in Russia and China every week, and they'll have plenty more by the time March rolls around.

The benefit of international box office could be much larger than the potential return the movie would get in 2D this summer. March may be a slower month at the box office than June do not point to The Hunger Games as a counter-argument; G. Joe 2 is not The Hunger Games , but Paramount believes the film will still deliver overseas as long as the flick is in 3D. As one source tells Deadline:. That was just a wake-up call that said to us we need to offer the best version of the film irrespective of summer market share to ensure the best possible performance.

And even more so at the start of the film. Joe was released. But since then his back-to-back successes in The Vow and 21 Jump Street have made him into a draw. And it turned out that the only bright spot for audiences as a result of the G. Not with those abs. Here is how Paramount insiders explain to me what happened. Then in the spring there were 2 big events. We went back and shot another week with Channing to develop more of his story with The Rock, which made the film play much better.

That was just a wake-up call that said to us we need to offer the best version of the film irrespective of summer market share to ensure the best possible performance. And not being in 3D will cost us a ton of business internationally.

The action sequel was shifted from its June 29, launch to March 29, because the studio wanted to 'spend extra time converting the film into 3D'. The reason given for the 3D conversion was that the lucrative ticket price could maximise foreign box office revenue and make the film more profitable.

It seemed odd that a studio would pull such a big film just five weeks before it was set to open, and then wait another nine months before it hit screens. Joe: Retaliation 's delay. Not by a long shot. Scroll down for the real story.