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"Alfie" Delayed for the Ladies
Jude Law's biggest competition at the box office is, apparently, Jude Law.
Paramount Pictures, sensing a split of female moviegoers later this month, is moving the release date of its upcoming Law flick, Alfie, back two weeks, from Oct. 22 to Nov. 5. The shift prevents Alfie from facing off against a number of films on Oct. 22 geared to the estrogen set, including another Law vehicle, I Heart Huckabees, which opens in wide release that same weekend.
Warner Bros.' Alexander was expected to dominate the Nov. 5 weekend, but the Oliver Stone-helmed, Colin Farrell-starring saga was delayed three weeks to fine-tune the film's marketing campaign. "We're going to take advantage of this opportunity," Rob Freidman, vice-chair of the Paramount's motion picture group and the studio's COO, told Variety Monday.
Now, females simply dying to see the dashing Law on screen will not have to choose between Huckabees and Alfie at the megaplex this month.
Law, whose late-summer sci-fi action vehicle, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, is still in theaters, is appearing in four more films this fall at the U.S. box office. Two of those films--Closer and Alfie--are generating serious Oscar buzz for the British A-lister.
The 32-year-old earned a Best Supporting Oscar nomination in 2000 as the glamorous murder victim in The Talented Mr. Ripley and may be best known to American audiences for his roles as the sexy robot from A.I. and as the homesick soldier in Cold Mountain, which earned him a Best Actor Oscar nod last year.
Alfie, a remake of the 1966 Michael Caine classic, features Law as an irresistible playboy let loose on the streets on New York. The film also stars Susan Sarandon and Omar Epps. The film's posters are already popping up with a "coming in October" tag line.
The quirky David O. Russell comedy I Heart Huckabees, in which Law plays a ladder-climbing corporate exec with a seemingly perfect life, has been doing excellent business in just four theaters, prompting Fox Searchlight to set the Oct. 22 date for its nationwide release.
The other films opening on Oct. 22 include DreamWorks' Surviving Christmas, with Ben Affleck and James Gandolfini, the Alexander Payne comedy Sideways and Sony's horror flick The Grudge, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar.
While the Alfie shuffle prevented the actor from a showdown with himself this month, a December Law overload is still looming. Closer, a relationship drama directed by Mike Nichols and starring Law, Julie Roberts and Natalie Portman, opens Dec. 3, and then on Dec. 17 two more Law flicks are coming out: the twisted kiddie fantasy Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, in which he gives voice to the title character; and Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, in which Law appears as Hollywood hunk Errol Flynn.
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