I'm surprised this hasn't been posted here yet. From DarkHorizons:

Variety reports that the Civil War epic originally scheduled for debut during the whole Christmas rush madness has been pushed back to Apri 2004 - a delay of four months which would push the film out of Oscar contention for this year. The immediate reasoning that springs to mind is that the expensive war epic would've been lost amidst the Xmas crush of films including the bigger and flashier war-themed final "Lord of the Rings" movie. "Alamo" might have a bigger star cast including the likes of Billy Bob Thornton, Dennis Quaid, Jason Patric and others but lacks the FX and scale of 'Rings' which would've been its main competition. However, Disney revealed on Tuesday that the postponement was rather due to additional post-production work required on the $80 million near 3-hour film. Disney's boss Dick Cook says "The decision ... was made at the request of filmmakers, who felt they needed additional time to complete this great movie. Too often in Hollywood these days, release dates are set before a film has even completed shooting, and it forces the director into a situation that compromises their work". Director John Lee Hancock says "Post-production on an epic ensemble piece takes time, and no deadline, no prestige release date, no awards season is worth more to me than the movie being fantastic. I owe that to myself as well as the film". Expect a more precise April date to be announced sometime in the New Year.

This is the first I've heard of this. Christmas is crowded as it is, so I can buy that reason to push it back. But one can only help but wonder what the real reason is for pushing it back 4 months?

I have heard nothing but negative things from the preview screenings thus far. I would assume they pushed it back because it would not do well against every thing else opening this holiday season that has potential to be good.

Hopefully they reshoot it so we win! That's the American way!

"Civil War epic"?

Yeah right! Like a studio ever moved the release date to allow the artists to complete post production to their heart's desire. This thing must suck hard and they don't want to be this years version of what happened to that Star Trek film last year.

maye they're re-shooting the basement scenes

That sucks, I thought this looked decent from the trailer, guess not though.

Disney re-writing history again kind of like "The Doolittle Raid" aka "Pearl Harbor".

Maybe they're adding a scene with Ozzy urinating on the Alamo.

phew.... thank god.


Movie looked good enough to give LOTR-ROTK a run for the OSCAR.

I thought it looked really good. But since Di$ney is making it I guess theres no chance of that.

I had a chance to see a couple weeks ago, but I had to work...

Gee, I wonder what the Oscar campaign (if there will still be one) will say to the voters who will have forgotten the movie by the end of next year...

Oscar Campaign? You really think there will be one?

Not surprised that this would be moved. Return of the King is going to dominate all of December and will trample anything that gets in its way.

I would have seen the Alamo.

I'm still interested in seeing the Alamo, and I'm actually kind of glad that it got pushed back. There are probably about 10 or 15 movies in December alone that I want to see, and I know that I'm not gonna get to see all of them, so pushing the Alamo back to next spring ensures that I'll get to see it in theatres.

I'm also glad they pushed it back, for the crowded market reason, and the artistic reason. Wasn't Titanic endlessly delayed and plagued with rumors of bad screenings, and strife? I though pretty highly of the trailer, so I'm holding out hope. Blame Pearl Harbor on Bay and Affleck

Just read the following posted in the Studio Briefing section over at IMDb.com:

Report: 'Alamo' Was Delayed Because It Discredited Crockett Legend

Last week's announced decision to delay the opening of Disney's The Alamo came after test audiences reacted angrily to the depiction of Davy Crockett as a coward begging for his life in front of General Santa Ana, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times has reported. It said that preview audiences told researchers that the film's producers were going overboard to make the film "politically correct" in order to appeal to Mexican-Americans and other U.S. Hispanics. The newspaper commented: "Any Texan worth his lizard skin boots and Willie Nelson albums knows better than to smear the legend of Davy Crockett."

I hope they do not change according to what the preview audiences think. Sometimes history needs to be changed so feelings dont get hurt.

You really believe that?

Give me an s, give me an a, give me an r, give me a c, give.....

damn, i thought i killed this thread

sarco........ hmmmmm deals with muscle..

Isn't there a great deal of debate as to how Davey Crockett died at the Alamo? (Also remember a few rumors that he escaped alive and lived out the rest of his life in seclusion.)

There are records that Crockett cried like Santa Ana's bitch after they got their asses kicked, so it's not like this was just pulled out of thin air.

It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that the "accepted" version of Crockett's demise was bullshit, as the whole Alamo battle has taken on a mythic life of its own.