It’s true: I haven’t watched (or even really thought about) Piranha 3D since the blast of a time I had watching it a midnight show last year. With it’s cheap 3D gimmicks, gratuitous nudity, silly exposition, and piled on gore it shouldn’t have really been my bag, but Aja managed to balance his relatively sophisticated handle on horror filmmaking with an absolutely shameless instinct for spectacle. While the sequel doesn’t sport his assured hand behind the camera, I was quite ready to give Feast-director John Gulager a chance to create a similar amount of fun with the added likes of Gary Busey and David Koechner to a cast that already boasted Hasselhoff, Ving Rhames and a borderline insane Chistopher Lloyd.
Alas, that fun night at the movies is not to be, at least not for some time.
Dread Central is reporting that Dimension has removed the film from its November slate to a nebulous “2012” TBD slot (along with The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes, which I’d not even heard existed till now), with no sign of a concrete date. Unless the producers have figured out they’ve got some kind of grand crossover hit on their hands, I would expect to see it dumped in very early April perhaps. Regardless, next year is already packed so counter-programming against some bigger blockbuster is really the only option they’re gonna have.
It’s rarely clear exactly why this happens to a film, but it often reads as a sign that the studio is hedging their bets on a stinker. Who knows when we’ll know!
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I didn’t even know this existed until now.
i saw that coming. 1 month to go and no trailer. i’m guessing this will go straight to DVD. Along with the other one.
Dammit, dammit, dammit. I was wondering why a movie that was set for November didn’t even have a poster out, but still, I wasn’t really expecting this…
Much suckage here, I was really looking forward to it. Guess I’ll just have to rewatch the first one a few times, let that hold me over.
One (possibly two) posters have been released for it already, but nothing else beyond that and a few production stills.
I don’t think Bob & Harvey will dump this on DVD for the simple fact that they don’t really have any franchises to rely on right now. I think they will, however, chuck it out in theaters to fend for itself just like they did with the first one.
A poster’s out? I really had no idea, but searching for one does seem to bring in a result (I’m assuming it’s the one with the water slides; sorta hard to tell what’s real and what’s fanmade these days).
I just hope it gets some sort of theatrical release. The fact that the first one was released as it was still amazes me somewhat, though I guess it’s too much to ask that they put a little more effort behind the release of the sequel (especially now).
Keep in mind that the studio had no confidence in the first one as well, which is why it was essentially dumped with little to no marketing. The Weinstein Company is where movies go to die.
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