In disclosing the day’s second snooze-worthy announcement about The Master (i.e., that it’ll turn up at the Toronto Film Festival following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, which was announced earlier today), TheWrap‘s Steve Pond suggested that the breakup of TomKat may have been a factor in Harvey Weinstein‘s decision to open Paul Thomas Anderson‘s film in mid September rather than mid-October. Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays a sort of L. Ron Hubbard-type guy in the film, y’see.
When Pond asked his source “whether the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes divorce had an impact on moving up the release date,” he was told “well, it sure as hell helps.” In other words, not really but it sorta goosed things along.
