So it probably has no chance of getting any Oscars now, does it? Unless you come out in the last three months of a year, chances are slim.

Of course, it's not as if moving a film away from minimal competittion into an arena swimming with competittion poses any risks, right?

I know Warners will play the Hobbit as their excuse card. But Sherlock Holmes made plenty of money despite opening alongside Avatar. Go figure.

i still didnt understand, it could have still played in december, django unchained is a pretty cool movie but it probably has a diffrent target market of viewers like hobbit and les miserables. so i dont know if avoiding the competition would do this film a benefit. christmas season is the season in which eventual oscar nominated movies are produced and i heard rumors that this movie is great.