Sorcerer's Apprentice Gets a Release Date

Posted on March 23, 2009

Disney has set a release date for the family film, The Sorcerer's Apprentice. The film will be released on July 16, 2010. Jerry Bruckheimer is producing.

Also on Thursday, Warner Bros. made additions and changes to its 2009 calendar. Studio will open James McTeigue's "Ninja Assassin," instead of horror pic "The Box," on Nov. 25, with "The Box" now bowing Oct. 30. Studio originally intended to open "Ninja" in 2010. Dating of "Sorcerer's Apprentice" gives the Mouse House three event pics in summer 2010. The other two are "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" (May 28) and "Toy Story 3" (July 18).

Jon Turteltaub is directing the live-action pic, based on the famed "Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment in Disney's "Fantasia." Modern-day update stars Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel. Lensing begins this month.

They say it's based on the Sorcerer's Apprentice section of Fantasia (which is based on the Goethe poem about the apprentice who gets in over his head with magic). So how does Jerry Bruckheimer approach this kind of source material? We're thinking there will be lots of exploding brooms and perhaps some exciting chase scenes around sorcerer's workshop.

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