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"Pink Panther's" Stolen Summer
The year's downward-trending box office will have to rebound without whatever bounce The Pink Panther might have provided.
The release date on the Steve Martin and Kevin Kline-led comedy remake has been pushed back from Aug. 5 to Feb. 10. It's the highest profile title to be moved out of summer since the gamer-inspired Doom, once looked at as August material, was penciled in for October.
To BoxOfficeMojo.com number-cruncher Brandon Gray, the Panther move isn't necessarily 2005's loss or 2006's gain. The film, he said Wednesday, "was one of the questionable releases of August."
A movie that had generated little Internet buzz, what the Pink Panther had generated was bad. "How could anything with Kevin Kline and Steve Martin be so unfunny?" read an early-bird review posted on JoBlo.com in March. "A disgrace to Peter Sellers."
Sellers starred as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau in five Pink Panther adventures in life and one, the 1982 clip-job, Trail of the Pink Panther, two years after his death. The franchise was dubbed after the rare diamond, the Pink Panther, which was the object of desire in director Blake Edwards' original 1964 classic. A sophisticated comedy, almost as famous for Henry Mancini's memorable theme as Sellers' performance, the franchise crossed over to the kids' audience thanks to the animated cat, also known as the Pink Panther, who prowled around in the opening credits.
The new Panther finds Martin taking Clouseau's pratfalls. Kline and Beyoncé costar. Martin's Cheaper by the Dozen ringmaster Shawn Levy directs.
Panther or no, Gray doesn't expect August to be all that strong. In fact, he said, this summer's dog days should be "relatively weak," even for what is typically a dumping ground.
The Dukes of Hazzard, starring Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott and Jessica Simpson in the TV-to-movie transformation, is the month's best box-office bet. By moving The Pink Panther to February, the comic caper gets out of the way of Simpson's Daisy Dukes, due Aug. 5.
In February, Panther will go head-to-head with the animated monkey tale Curious George, and Just Friends, a relatively low-wattage romantic comedy with Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart.
The official story from Sony, which is backing Panther's return after inheriting the title in its acquisition of MGM, is that the film is great, and Steve Martin is even better. Studio executive Rory Bruer told the Hollywood trade papers that the release was pushed back to allow Sony more time to properly market the wonderful film that everyone on the lot just loves to pieces. (We paraphrase.)
The Panther's delayed big-screen opening means fans of the animated series inspired by the franchise will have to wait longer to begin their DVD collections.
The five-disc Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection, once set to go on sale July 26, has been pulled from the release schedule, MGM confirmed. No new date has been set.
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