A few release dates have been bumped around. The most notable for us is Wes Anderson’s animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s, “Fantastic Mr. Fox” that has moved from a November 6 released date back a week until November 13 release. Nothing major and nothing worth panicking about if you’re an Anderson acolytes.
That put it up against Roland Emmerich’s “2o12,” but it’s probably safe to say a kids movie and a disaster film have to vastly disparate audiences.
‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ is rumored to feature the voices of Owen Wilson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Adrien Brody, Jarvis Cocker (who’s also doing some music for the film), and Wes and Eric Anderson (his younger brother who does most of his DVD and onset illustrations).
20th Century Fox however has confirmed that the film’s stars are George Clooney and Meryl Streep which means almost certainly that Cate Blanchett is no longer part of the voice cast as was rumored. Maybe that means the other rumors are also correct? We don’t see why not; the stable of actors is from Anderson’s regular pool of people (Dafoe and Gambon were both in ‘Life Aquatic,’ Brody was in ‘Darjeeling’). Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman are also part of the cast. [Box Office Mojo via Cinematical]