Is sci-fi war movie Battle: Los Angeles better than you might have expected? Slashfilm has noticed that the movie has been shifted from a traditionally slow period February release next year to the more promising March 11th 2011, and notes that the move may be a vote of confidence from Sony following positive pre-release buzz. The movie, which has been described as Blackhawk Down meets Independence Day, will now go head-to-head with Disney's Mars Needs Moms, producing one of the more amusing SF counterprogramming pairs in recent memory.