The Weinstein Company has apparently bumped the release date of Grace is Gone from October to December, and our favorite hyper-reactionary conservative film blog, taking a cue from the New York Post, says it’s a victory in the War on Terror.

In this post on his NYP movie blog, Lou Lumenick speculates first that the move might have something to do with the fact that the film was rejected from the New York Film Festival, which would have ostensibly given TWC a medium-profile platform from which to roll out the film in October. Lumenick (who is enough of a fan of Grace that his endorsement appears at the top of the film’s poster) then tosses out the possibility that Harvey Weinstein may have bumped Grace in reaction to “the soft opening numbers” of Paul Haggis’ In the Valley of Elah. It’s that suggestion that engenders this quip from Libertas: “Wouldn’t it be nice to think that every studio holding some vanity pro-Al Queda movie is right-now-as-I-write-this trembling at the inevitability of the red ink coming?”

Maybe that would be “nice,” but the thing is, Grace is about as far from a “vanity pro-Al Queda movie” as you can get.

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