Snow White wars

Hollywood's Snow White rivalry is heating up. Movie studio Relativity Media pushed back the release of its lighthearted fairytale starring Julia Roberts, Mirror Mirror, by two weeks to March 30. That cuts the time between it and Universal Picture's action movie, Snow White and the Huntsman, to nine weeks instead of 11. Relativity insists its PG-rated version of the Brothers Grimm story is a family comedy while Comcast Corp's Universal is marketing Huntsman as a medieval thriller featuring an armour-clad Kristen Stewart and axe-wielding Chris Hemsworth. Both studios are betting that the audiences won't overlap. After Relativity cut the gap, Universal did not immediately change its planned June 1 release.