While the United States underwent a major political shift after the inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and the swearing in of a brand new government, the time was right for another kind of giant overhaul: On Thursday night, Universal, Sony, and Fox Searchlight rocked the release calendar of theatrical films again in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The 25th James Bond movie, No time to die, leaving behind the biggest crater of the spring 2021 season, pushing back five months to October 8, 2021. In the position of Daniel Craig’s last outing as 007, Universal and MGM have released the film for release in April 2020, before experiencing a series of delays due to coronavirus-related shutdowns. Universal has also moved the release of two smaller movies: the upcoming sci-fi movie directed by Tom Hanks Bios, directed by Miguel Sapochnik (Game of Thrones), which now opens on August 13, 2021 and Edgar Wright’s psychological horror film Last night in Soho, which delayed the studio until October 22, 2021.
Some news – my new movie @lastnightinsoho will now appear later in the year. I know some of you may be disappointed, but I hope more of you will be able to experience it as we intended; in the dark, on a big screen, with an audience. See you at the movies … 22/10/21 pic.twitter.com/9DH4alnEyv
– edgarwright (@edgarwright) 22 January 2021
After selling Chris Miller and Phil Lord’s upcoming animated comedy Linked (subtitled The Mitchells vs The Machines) to Netflix to expedite the release, Sony Pictures has done its own calendar reorg. The direct sequel to Jason Reitman on the original Ghostbusters movie, Ghostbusters: The Hereafter, will delay the debut of Muncher, The Blue Ghost, from summer to November 11, 2021. The long, long, long, long-winded live-action Uncharted film starring Tom Holland also swings from the summer season, but all the way to February 11, 2022. Sony is also showing two films on the verge of debut: Peter Rabbit 2, which closes on June 11, 2021 and Kay Cannon’s Cinderella, which moves from February to 16 July 2021.
To the great remorse of Spider verse fans, Sony also stomped Morbius, with Jared Leto as the vampire Dr. Morbius, until January 21, 2022. Venom 2: Let there be carnage continues strong on June 25, 2021 – for now.
Fox Searchlight also did the release day tango on Wednesday by concluding dates for some major genre films and Oscar-winning ones. The films contain the horror film by David Bruckner The night house (July 16, 2021), Michael Showalter and Jessica Chastain’s movie The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Scott Cooper’s Cattle Function Antlers (October 29, 2021) and Guillermo del Toro’s star-studded stars Nightmare Alley (December 3, 2021).
Despite the intention to provoke vaccinations and codify the plans to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, President Biden warned again this week that the United States is still facing a ‘dark winter’ with regard to infections. and mortality rates. The pandemic is not over, and Hollywood is responding to its release strategy to provide an abnormal life for at least another six months.
Unlike Warner Bros. Pictures, which will radically reconsider the distribution in 2021 with a simultaneous theatrical and HBO Max rollout of its entire film album, many studios still hope to bring in the box office of a traditional rollout, prioritizing delays rather than directly after streaming . landfills. As many insiders have signed up, there are likely to be more delays on the horizon, though studios are likely to wait to see what Walt Disney Pictures and Marvel Studios do with May’s. Black widow before accepting a real outing from the summer movie. Disney has shifted a number of editions to Disney Plus “Premier Access”, but during an investor call in December, executives made it clear their intention to stick with the theater for giant releases. Do not worry: World Cups Godzilla teen Kong is definitely coming out on March 26th, so you can look forward to it.