Why was Gekko bumped?

Talk about your mega-publicity - Fox had Michael Douglas on the cover of Vanity Fair and Shia LeBoeuf on the cover of GQ. Everything was set for the April 23 opening of "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" and out of the blue the movie is pushed back to September 24. Writer Michael Lewis, who wrote the VF piece, suspects that director Oliver Stone just missed his deadline; Stone says that Fox wanted it shown at Cannes in May. None of which makes much difference to your average moviegoer, but on Wall Street it's a huge letdown. The money boys were already lining up to see the older, wiser Gordon Gekko. NY magazine tracked down Stone at a scoring stage in Santa Monica (he's still tinkering).

"This is the flat-out truth: [Fox] said, 'We'd like this for April.' We'd finished shooting principal photography on December 9. That's a tight squeeze, but I could have made it." But then the possibility of Cannes arose, which Stone thought was a great platform; also contributing to the decision to push was the disturbingly close May 7 opening of the behemoth that will be Iron Man 2, which "gave Fox a bit of a shiver." As for the magazine coverage, Stone said he was upfront at the beginning that the April release was likely, but not definite.