A Slight Delay

One more non-surprise.

... "The Good Dinosaur," which was to have hit theaters May 30, 2014, will now arrive Nov. 25, 2015, on the date "Finding Dory" was set to open. That movie, Andrew Stanton's "Finding Nemo" sequel, will now arrive in the summer of 2016.

"Nobody ever remembers the fact that you slipped a film, but they will remember a bad film," said Pixar's president, Ed Catmull. "Our conclusion was that we were going to give the [dinosaur] film some more time." ...

After Peterson [the original director] left "The Good Dinosaur," a team of people including Pixar Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter, "Toy Story 3" director Lee Unkrich, "Brave" director Mark Andrews and the film's original co-director, Peter Sohn, began overseeing various sections of the movie. ...

If one director has a problem," [Andrew Stanton said], "everybody’s connected to the same bed sheet. You pull one end and it makes wrinkles in the other one. It’s a new problem."

Apparently when the director's replaced on a movie close to the movie's scheduled release, the scheduled release gets moved. Who would have thought?

Bloomberg (the news service, not the New York mayor) pointed out:

... The delays add to recent turbulence in the film operation. This month, Disney pulled the fifth installment of Jerry Bruckheimer’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” series from its schedule. That followed the August announcement that the company will lose as much as $190 million this quarter on “The Lone Ranger,” another Bruckheimer film.

“The most important thing is not to have any more big losses, like ‘John Carter’ and ‘The Lone Ranger,’” said Barton Crockett, an analyst at Lazard Capital Markets who recommends buying Disney stock. The delay in “The Good Dinosaur” shows they are “taking the time to get the movie right.” ...

Here's hoping they do.