'London Has Fallen' pushed to early 2016

Actor Gerard Butler starrer "London Has Fallen" is no longer slated to hit the big screen this year.

Gramercy Pictures, who is co-distributing the film, announced on Friday that the movie originally set to be released in the US on October 2 would now arrive on January 22, 2016, reports aceshowbiz.com.

It is reported that the film wants to avoid competition with 20th Century Fox's "The Martian", which was recently moved up from November 25, and Sony's "The Walk". It's now pitted against Ariel Vromen's thriller "Criminal", the faith-based mystery "Risen" and the horror flick "The Boy".

"London Has Fallen" comes as a follow-up to 2013's "Olympus Has Fallen".

Directed by Babak Najafi from a script by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt, Christian Gudegast, it starts after the British Prime Minister passes away and his funeral then becomes a target of a terrorist organization to destroy some of the world's most powerful leaders.

Butler is back as Secret Service agent Mike Banning in the sequel.

The movie also features Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman and Charlotte Riley.

--Indo-Asian News Srvice

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