Welcome To Yesterday, a Michael Bay-produced found-footage style time travel movie with teens, has not only been given a new title, but another release date. The movie, which was at one point supposed to be released in February, will now not be released until early 2015.
TheWrap reports that the movie was supposed to be released on Feb. 28. However, Paramount said it was being delayed so Bay could spend time on Transformers 4: The Age of Extinction, which is due out on June 24.
According to FirstShowing.net, Paramount said at CinemaCon that the movie will be called Project Almanac instead. The Hollywood Reporter’s Borys Kit tweeted that it will be released in January 2015.
Paramount must not have had much faith in the film to delay it by nearly a year. It’s also curious that they would say that Bay would need to work on it. The film was directed by Dean Israelite and produced by Bay’s Platinum Dunes, so clearly, even though he was only a producer, Bay didn’t want his name attached to sub-par content.
Bay is also producing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot and the studio just picked up another potential project for the director.
Project Almanac was also produced with MTV Films and the promotional push was all set, with trailers already released to theaters. Here’s one of them: