Lionsgate explains the decision to move the movie to January: http://www.thewrap.com/lionsgate-exe...re-of-odyssey/

This article also officially confirms Dean Isrealite as the director.

Well it's glad to finally see confirmation that Dean Israelite is the director. Fingers crossed he does a great job!

Well at least they're being honest about finding a time their movie can "win". No way it can stand up to next year's Summer line-up. And they're right, good movies don't only happen during one specific time of the year. Let's hope things get done properly from here on out.

It's a big budget movie coming out in January, I don't see this movie doing that great now. My hopes drop after they move the movie to January. At least a March or April release day may have worked.

I understand the movie. I wouldn't want to come out during the summer either, you'd have to go against every Marvel movie coming out.

That's why a Spring 2017 release date would work better. Besides Cloverfield, Rambo 4 and The Green Hornet, what blockbusters come out in January? January is the worst spot for movies to be released on.

id hardly call green hornet a blockbuster...

Even Forbes doesn't think the PR movie will be a huge hit due to their January release dates. http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmen...00m-in-24-days (Ctrl F Power Rangers. Or read the whole article if you'd like)

Depending on what you call a blockbuster since the movie did had a big budget and they where trying to make that movie into a big hit. The movie fell short on what Sony hoped for and a sequel never got a made.

January is a "dump month" for movies. It's period when studios usually release films that they know aren't going to be very successfully from a critical or commercial standpoint. January/February and August/September are basically the gulfs between summer blockbuster season and end-of-year awards bait season when studios just throw out whatever crap they have lying around that they don't want to waste time on during the busy season. It is very much a bad sign that the PR movie is already scheduled for one of these time frames. It pretty much implies that the studio has very little faith in this movie.