Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer and fellow executives shared their plans and optimism Friday morning for the company’s coming film slate, which financially underwhelmed in its most-recent quarter due primarily to Johnny Depp‘s “Mortdecai” flopping.
Pushing the upcoming rebooted “Power Rangers” from July to January isn’t exactly a move suggesting confidence. Executives warned reporters and analysts not to look too far into that move from summer to winter.
“We’re very excited and with Dean’s [Israelite] vision; we felt very comfortable looking for opportunistic dating,” Lionsgate Motion Pictures Group Co-Chairman Rob Friedman explained the move on the conference call. “We really believe that great movies deliver no matter what date they’re on.”