Heath Ledger Twentieth Century Fox have pulled back the released of Brian Helgelands "Sin Eater" due to visual f/x not being up to the studios standard, reports Variety.
"Sin Eater" was to open on Jan. 17 but after the filmmaker and studio brass concurred that the special visual f/x needed work.
The effects, originally handled by Mill Film in London, are now being done by Santa Monica-based Asylum. A Fox spokeswoman said the studio and Helgeland are now much happier with the progress of the f/x at the Asylum.
Movie's title has also been changed: The pic is now called "The Order," and while no release date has been set, a late-summer date is a possibility.
The title refers to an ancient order of rogue priests who would eat food off a corpse, taking unforgiven sins upon themselves and absolving the deceased. In the Heath Ledger starrer, a sin eater resurfaces in modern-day Rome, and begins to allow great evil to go unpunished.
In the pic, sins are shown flying out of the human body. Post-production insiders who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the problem was that Mill's "Sin Eater" effects were funny rather than terrifying. One insider described the exiting sins as "looking like calamari."