Sony has moved the release dates for numerous titles, including ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’, ‘Cinderella’ by Camila Cabello, ‘Uncharted’ with Tom Holland and ‘Morbius’ by Sony / Marvel starring Jared Leto.
“Cinderella” will be released in theaters on July 16 instead of February 5. This delays the adaptation of the video game “Uncharted”, which was originally set for mid-July on February 11, 2022. The Runaway ”moved back two months from April 2 to June 11. In turn, the sequel “Ghostbusters” has been postponed until November 11th.
Sony’s latest calendar shift came minutes after MGM delayed ‘No Time to Die’, James Bond’s latest installment, from April to October 8. With ‘No Time to Die’ would open on the same day as another Sony title ‘Morbius’, “the film officially moved to January 21, 2022. Earlier this month, the studio released the Jared Leto-led comic book thriller from March to the current moved early October date.
Many expected ‘Cinderella’ to drop its February release date because the studio did not release a grain of marketing or promotional material for Kay Cannon’s Fairy Dale adaptation. With ‘Cinderella’s vacancy, Disney and 20th Century’s’ The King’s Man’ (March 12) is the only major title still on the shelves for the first quarter of 2021.
Although most major films offered in the first few months of the year have already fled after mid-summer or later, traditional Hollywood studios may continue to postpone tent poles as coronavirus cases continue to increase. In the US, movie traffic was slowly returning, as evidenced by the faint box. Last weekend, Liam Neeson’s action thriller “The Marksman” won the weekend with only $ 3 million. The ticket sales are certainly not an inspiration for the big studios to take a chance on their most beautiful films.