'Phone Booth' Gets Release Date

[James Harvey]

The critically acclaimed, and delayed, thriller Phone Booth, starring Colin Farell and Keifer Sutherland has finally been given a release date. The movie, originally set to premiere Nov. 15th, will now be released March 14th.

[Lonestarr]

Hallelujah!

I saw the trailer in September and, since then, I've been excited about seeing the film.

[Evil Dr. Reef]

Sweet! I'm glad that it's getting released at all. The one trailer I ever saw for it looked really good.

[The Penguin]

Same here on the views after seeing the trailer once. This should be a good one.

[Outlander00]

Ugh... Just AFTER this years Oscr race (there was some premature buzz about it). Ah well... At least we will get to see it finally

[TimTwoFace]

I've been following this movie since I first heard about the possibility of Jim Carrey in the lead role like 3 years ago. I can't wait to see it. Why didn't they air it during the holiday season, if it was believed to be an Oscar contender? I know it was originally pulled cuz of the DC Sniper, but that was like 2 months ago.

Oh well, at least we'll finally see it. Besides, Oscars mean nothing any more.

-Tim

[Enrique]

Well, my guess is that although there was some "buzz" earlier before, initial reviews from a test screening painted "Phone Booth" as a mediocre movie. Reviewers claimed they didn't know whether to laugh or be horrified at certain scenes. The movie was pushed a few more weeks while Joel Schumacher re-edited the movie, but that was still before the sniper shootings.