if WB believes the DS movie to be a Christmas release date then we have to wait almost two years to see the movie.
Christmas might have been a great time to release it. But this year
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part One will still be very much in play - and next year
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part Two will still be in play (it's being released on November 12, 2012), so I'm not seeing the Depp/DS film then either.
It's going to be an interesting call by WB to make regarding the DS movie especially if they want it to be a franchise series.
A very interesting call! To me the Depp/DS film seems likes it should be a fall release, and since TTS:BD-P2 already has from November 12th onward of 2012 sewn up, I suspect Warner Bros. *may* be looking toward a September/October release date. Though if they're not thinking fall, another time when studios release their prestige/tent pole films is Late-March/April/May. I don't see it as a summer film at all. However, there is such a thing as counter strategy, meaning releasing the type of film that wouldn't ordinarily be released in the summer to try to attract the audience that wouldn't necessarily go to summer films. But that often backfires - so I really wouldn't want to see Warner Bros. do that. But, of course, it's not up to me.
The one thing that is certain is that Summit has really been smart in picking the release dates for their two
Breaking Dawn films because they no doubt have the other studios scrambling to decide when they want to release their films that otherwise might have come out in November of 2011 and 2012.
Sleepy Hollow was released in November, and November also feels like it could have been the perfect time to release the Depp/DS film. But alas...