Youth In Revolt Moves To January 2010

Youth In Revolt Moves To January 2010

By Russ Fischer/Sept. 17, 2009 11:20 am EST

But now, according to an email blast from PR firm Allied, The Weinstein Company is moving Youth from October 30 of this year to January 15, 2010. What’s the story?

The Weinstein Company has been the object of great speculation over the last few weeks. While Inglourious Basterds did much better than expected, the party line is that the outfit doesn’t have much money to throw around. There were rumors that Rob Marshall’s Nine was being pushed to next year (denied by TWC) and Harvey’s notable buy of Tom Ford’s A Single Man. That deal reportedly came with an Oscar promise to Ford. This is after a significant delay for The Road, which was finally set to release in October, but was then moved to a Thanksgiving date: November 25.

And the January date might not be a terrible one. There’s nothing like Youth in Revolt hitting then. The film will now compete with genre films Daybreakers, which opens the week before, and The Book of Eli, also opening Jan 15. TWC also has Hoodwinked 2 slated for the same date, but that’s no competition for Youth.