Live By Night gets new release date

Ben Affleck's prohibition era crime thriller “Live by Night” was originally slated for a prime, awards-friendly October 20, 2017 release date, but Warner Bros. has bumped the film up nine months to January 13th, 2017.

It's an interesting move considering the original release date screamed awards contention, mirroring that of his last Oscar-winning film “Argo”, which landed on October 12, 2012, and leaving room for fall festival debuts and a significant campaign period. 

Affleck wrote, produced, directed and stars in the adaptation of Dennis Lehane's 2012 crime novel of the same name. The film also stars Sienna Miller, Zoe Saldana, Elle Fanning, and Brendan Gleeson and follows the rise of one man from petty thief to the Gulf Coast's most successful rum runner in 1920s Boston.

Elsewhere, Warner Bros. also shuffled up the release dates for a number of other films, delaying “The Lego Movie Sequel” from May 18, 2018 to February 8, 2019 and bumping back Dean Devlin's Gerard Butler-led sci-fi “Geostorm” to Oct. 20, 2017.

Source: Collider