Welcome to Gemma Arterton Online, your best and oldest source for the english rose Gemma Arterton. We strive to provide you with news, photos, in-depth information, media, fun stuff and much more on our favorite British star! Gemma is most known for her roles in: St. Trinian's, Quantum of Solace, Prince of Persia and Clash of the Titans. Her upcoming films are Vita & Virginia, My Zoe and Summerland. If you have any questions, concerns or comments, then do not hesitate to get in touch with us. We hope you enjoy the site and come back often!

  Riikka   August 22, 2008

Now that the next Harry Potter installment won’t be opening at Thanksgiving, Sony and MGM have jumped on the chance to bow its Bond pic Quantum of Solace a week later than planned.

Solace will be released on Nov. 14 instead of Nov. 7.

Bond titles have traditionally opened the weekend before Thanksgiving, but Sony didn’t want to open too close to Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, so it originally settled on Nov. 7.

But the landscape changed last week when Warners announced it was pushing back Half-Blood Prince from Nov. 21 to July. (Studio made the move to even out its slate considering the gargantuan success of The Dark Knight.)

Summit Entertainment was the first to respond by moving Catherine Hardwicke’s vampire pic Twilight to Nov. 21.

“We believe Nov. 14 is a great date that allows us to play straight through Thanksgiving and right into Christmas,” said Jeff Blake, Sony chairman of worldwide marketing and distribution. “We believe this decision will give the public a wider opportunity to see the film over the holiday.”

Within hours of the Bond pic’s migration to Nov. 14, Universal decided to move R-rated comedy Role Models off of that date and open it instead on Nov. 7.

As it stands now, Solace goes up against 20th Century Fox’s Nicole Kidman-Hugh Jackman epic Australia, from director Baz Luhrmann, Overture’s dramedy Nothing Like the Holidays and MGM comedy Soul Men.

Source: Variety

← →