George Clooney’s The Monuments Men has been pushed to 2014, The Hollywood Reporter confirms.
The World War II drama from Sony Pictures was slated to open Dec. 18, but will instead hit theaters during the first quarter of next year. The Los Angeles Times first reported the news.
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Clooney told The Times he and producing partner Grant Heslov asked Sony and 20th Century Fox (which partnered with Sony on the drama) to push the film, partly because more time was needed to complete the hundreds of visual effects. The year-end holidays are especially crowded this year and could become even more so if Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street is done in time for a Christmas release.
Monuments Men was considered an awards contender, but the move will make it ineligible for the upcoming Oscars. It follows Sony Pictures Classics' Foxcatcher and The Weinstein Co.'s Grace of Monaco as awards contenders moved to 2014 and out of contention. Sony still has David O. Russell's American Hustle and Tom Hanks-starrer Captain Phillips in play for the upcoming awards season.
The film centers on a group of art historians and museum curators charged with rescuing art treasures taken by the Nazis. Clooney, who directs and stars in the film, is joined by castmembers Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray and John Goodman. Clooney and Heslov adapted the screenplay from Robert Edsel's nonfiction work The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History.
Sony is handling the film's domestic release, while Fox will release it internationally.
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