Wow. This is not good. It smells of desperation. The negative review leaks must have been true then.

Forgot to add how disappointed this makes me. I loved the second trailer. It made me a champion of “Berg for Superman!” with it’s superhero action. So the negative reviews and this late panic is a big let down.

Wow, a few hours of re-shoots 2 MONTH’S before a film’s release is “desperate?” A sign of “panic?”
The Will Smith-bashers are sure getting a head start on the hating.

And I guess most Hollywood blockbusters that don’t have a two year lead time between principal photography and release are also the result of panic and depseration because many of them do reshoots, some are still at it as late as a month before release.

Hancock, for the uninformed, started shooting last year. And yet they’ve gotten more done than Abrams’ Star Trek or Singer’s Valkyrie. Clearly the studio notes and perhaps test screenings indicated a plot point or two wasn’t explained clearly enough, that they could strenghten the film with a couple of small tweaks. Tweaking is what a half-day of shooting in Manhattan is. Twelve hours is barely enough time to shoot a full page of dialogue, and certainly not enough time for a major plot change. If the studio was in a panic we’d be seeing them push back the release date, not doing a measely half-day shoot in NYC.
Valkyrie has been postponed twice already and nobody involved with it wants to talk about it. THAT’S what “panic” and “depseration” looks like.
Hancock’s simply fine-tuning. Let’s not start trying to bad mouth Hancock simply because we like the director but hate the star.

I heard the the film was supposed to be an R rated film, but they had to cut things to make it PG-13.