Two weeks back CBS Films was forced to move their “Beauty and the Beast” tale Beastly to avoid opening against Universal’s Charlie St. Cloud. Uni’s film stars Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron, and hits the exact same audience as Beastly. CBS has announced a new date today, and boy is it a delay. March 18, 2011. I saw “test screening” passes go out two weekends ago – maybe things didn’t go as planned? Directed by Daniel Barnz, and starring Vanessa Hudgens, Alex Pettyfer, Mary-Kate Olsen, Neil Patrick Harris, and Peter Krause, when a spell is cast on a handsome egocentric young man (Pettyfer) that physically transforms him into everything he despises, he has one year to find a young woman (Hudgens) who will love him despite his hideous form or the spell will last forever.
