Plus, considering that the Hellboy marketing campaign hasn’t started up yet, there was already some suspicion it wouldn’t make its January release.
However, with New York Comic-Con coming up next week, perhaps that’s when we’ll finally get our first trailer and get a taste of what’s coming next April.
Shifting Hellboy to an April release was probably the right move.
So while Hellboy wouldn’t have had any major competition, it was always a weird move to have it placed at the beginning of the year.