Kathryn Morris UK

Back in October of last year Kathryn herself told us that the movie Moneyball was due out in September 2011.  Subsequently, various sites gave us a more definitive date of the 23rd of the month.  But that, it seems, was just for the US market.

The biggest film releases are often done nearly simultaneously across the world to maximise the publicity and minimise the effects of piracy.  It doesn’t look like Moneyball is being considered in terms of a blockbuster summer movie for territories outside of America though.  Film Distributors’ Association Ltd. (FDA), via their Launching Films website, and IMDb are now reporting that the UK theatrical release is set for the 4th of November.

FDA is a trade body representing companies that release movies for the cinema in the UK.  Their members include Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures and as such cover the vast majority of theatrical releases in the country.

Baseball is not a major sport outside of the northern United States, so the thinking may be that putting the film out in a quieter period after all the big action flicks have been and gone may give it a better chance of success.

Moneyball stars Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A’s baseball team, with Kathryn taking the role as his second wife.  Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright also co-star in the film adaptation of Michael Lewis’ book of the same name.

According to Kathryn in an interview she did at the Environmental Media Association Awards, the movie Moneyball is due for release in September 2011.

That seems like a long way off for such a movie, one that doesn’t require huge amounts of post-production.  I’ve seen it suggested that a good time to release the movie would be just before the beginning of the next baseball season.  I don’t know when that is exactly, but I’d assume some time in the spring.

The video was added to the earlier EMAA post and can be found in the Gallery here.  It’s the 2nd interview video.