Brad Pitt WWII drama 'Fury' moves to October

Sony Pictures has jerked David Ayer's World War II drama "Fury," starring Brad Pitt, from an original Nov. 14 release date to Oct. 17.
That's a date currently occupied by the limited bow of Alejandro González Iñárritu's "Birdman," which shares a producer with "Fury" in John Lesher, but it puts the film right in the mid-month corridor that has worked out for awards season players like "Argo," "Gravity" and "12 Years a Slave" in recent years.
The question, though, is whether we might see it pop up in a festival context. This new date takes AFI Fest off the table (which would have been more of a big La premiere just ahead of the earlier date than anything else), and Telluride and Toronto were never in the cards.