January? January is one of the deadest months for any type of media to be release at. January and February is the month slot where studios dump their movies if they feel like they have no hope for the movie or have no where to release it during the summer. Besides Cloverfield, Rambo 4, Star Wars: Special Editions and The Green Hornet, movies in January are never blockbusters. I thought Lionsgate wanted this movie to be a big movie franchise similar to the likes of Marvel, Transformers, Star Trek and Ninja Turtles?

BAD sign.

January is usually considered "dumping grounds" for properties the studios dont' really care about.

I saw this coming. 2016 is coming up to fast & there still working out to many things. I hope this is a new team of MMPR Rangers & Not a Reboot.

Yeah, this is good news. I'd rather wait a little longer, than get a rushed movie.

No reason why a April release date couldn't work since nothing big comes out in April 2017 besides F&F8. A week after Ghost in the Shell would have worked.

Choosing January is odd, but I like the delay. The summer of 2016 is crowded with competing blockbuster movies like Batman V Superman, Suicide Squad, Captain America 3 & TMNT 2. The weaker year of 2017 will give them a better chance at box office success.

Every year is "weak" when you release your movie in january.

The Summer of 2017 is equally as crowded as next year. You got Transformers 5, Pirates of the Caribbean 5, Toy Story 4, Spider-Man and Pacific Rim 2.

I'll roll with it. I already don't have high hopes for the movie as is. Guess the producers agree with me~

I'm still not convinced this movie will even be made.

Same here. I keep seeing people saying this is a good thing, that the delay means the parties involved are thinking this through and taking their time. I just don't see the delay of a movie as anything other than bad. A movie that's barely got a director, with no cast, no script that we know of, and no other relevant information revealed thus far, has just overshot the "big reveal" release ate attached to it by half a year. Pushing it back further just shows me that they really have no idea how to handle this project. And I'm not one bit surprised by that.