Here's a look at some new release date changes:

  • The Weinstein Company and Dimension Film family feature Paddington will now open on Christmas Day instead of its original December 12, 2014 release.
  • TWC's The Coup,  John Erick Dowdle’s action thriller starring Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnan, will open March 6, 2015.
  • TWC's Underdogs, Phillip Rhee's family action film in which he stars alongside Beau Bridges, Tom Arnold, and Mirelly Taylor, moves from August 27, 2014 to January 16, 2015.
  • Relativity has moved Hector and the Search for Happiness up a week from September 26th to September 19th.  Simon Pegg stars as a psychiatrist who sets out on a global quest to find out if happiness exists.
  • Relativity's Desert Dancer, the biopic of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian starring Reece Ritchie and Freida Pinto, moves from August 15th to March 20, 2015

Hit the jump for more on each film.

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The biggest bit of news in this change to the calendar is the move to Christmas Day for Paddington.  Starring Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, and Nicole Kidman, with Colin Firth voicing the title bear, the Paul King-directed film will open against The Weinstein Company's own Tim Burton-directed film Big EyesSteve Pink's Hot Tub Time Machine 2Rob Marshall's live-action Disney film Into the WoodsAngelina Jolie's Unbroken, and Cameron Crowe's as-of-yet untitled project.  Lots of competition there, but perhaps the family-focused feature will win out.

Also starring Lake BellThe Coup follows an American family living in Southeast Asia who get caught in the middle of a violent revolution. They must flee to safety while being hunted by a murderous rebel leader.  Production is scheduled to start in Thailand on October 31st.

Here's the official synopsis for Hector and the Search for Happiness:

Simon Pegg plays Hector, an eccentric yet irresistible London psychiatrist in crisis: his patients are just not getting any happier!  He’s going nowhere.  Then one day, armed with buckets of courage and an almost child-like curiosity, Hector breaks out of his sheltered vacuum of a life into a global quest to find out if happiness exists.  More importantly, if it exists for Hector.  And so begins a colorful, exotic, dangerous and hysterical journey.

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