Two movies I’m really looking forward to, The Time Traveller’s Wife and Choke, have finally received their release dates, I just found out over at Obsessed With Film, the latter because it was picked up by Fox Searchlight for $5 million this past week at Sundance.
The Time Traveller’s Wife will be the first one to hit theatres, opening up on June 6th, taking a slight risk and putting it up against Adam Sandler’s You Don’t Mess With the Zohan. If it is anything like Sandler’s other recent comedies, like Click or The Longest Yard, it will be insultingly bad, but will pull in an unbelievable amount of cash. This will be a good alternative for those tired of Sandler’s shtick.
Sadly with Choke, we’re going to have to wait a while longer to see what Sam Rockwell can do with some Chuck Palahniuk material, but I’m confident it will be worth the wait, as Fox Searchlight is going to release it on August 1st, pitting it up against the third movie in The Mummy franchise, another movie that will probably undeservedly make an unbelievable amount of cash.
So now you can mark your calendars.
