The reason I ask is that I saw the movie (in NYC) the minute it was released, at 12:01 AM on Friday 12/21/12, the Sandy Hook shooting was one week before, on Friday morning 12/14/12. So obviously, the movie’s release was not pushed back due to Sandy Hook. (cuz if it had been scheduled to open on 12/14, then it would have opened before the shooting occurred; the fact that it opened on 12/21, the week after the shooting, means that it was not pushed back, but it opened on the date it was scheduled to open, 12/21.

Watching the movie, which features a sniper shooting into a crowd and killing a bunch of random people (no, I didn’t spoil anything; this occurs in the first five minutes of the movie) certainly made me think of Sandy Hook, and I wondered if the studio considered pushing back the release date. It obviously didn’t.

So while I am not sure if the Hollywood premiere was pushed back, I am just about certain that the wide release date was not pushed back.

(btw, this brings to mind Training Day (2001): the studio didn’t want to release a movie about a corrupt cop in the wake of 9/11, when the police were so popular, so it pushed it back a few weeks)