Timing is everything.

2008-08-28 19:00:00

Mike Scott at New Orleans' Times-Picayune notes the impeccable taste Lionsgate is showing in releasing "Disaster Movie" on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, August 29th: Around these Katrina-scarred parts, Aug. 29 is still -- and will be for some time -- a black-armband kind of day. For Lionsgate studios, however, Aug. 29 isn't quite as sacred. For them, the third anniversary of the day the levees were breached and New Orleans slipped under is something on the order of perfect timing: a ripped-from-the-headlines release date for the big-screen, low-concept spoof "Disaster Movie." Oops. [Hat tip to Nikki Finke] Also in honor of the occasion, Slate's rerunning Josh Levin's unsparing piece on "Disaster Movie"'s spoof-specializing director-writer team Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer from earlier in the year, when "Meet the Spartans" graced theaters with its presence: Isn't it massive consumer fraud to charge $10.50 for a barely hour-long movie? Perhaps,...

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