Many industries have been disrupted with the on-going coronavirus pandemic. Amid this, Sony has now rescheduled its movie lineup and the schedule moves are the most sweeping by a major studio as most movie theaters are now closed in North America.
Sony Pictures has confirmed that it has pushed back several of its major releases, including ‘Morbius’, ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’, ‘Uncharted’, and ‘Peter Rabbit 2’ to next year.
The ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ has been moved from July 10, 2020, to March 5, 2021 while ‘Morbis’ has been pushed back from July 31, 2020, to March 19, 2021. The video game adaptation of ‘Uncharted’ will now release on October 8, 2021 instead of March 5, 2021. Further, the ‘Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway’ has also been moved from August 7, 2020, to January 15, 2021.
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The company has also announced that an untitled Sony/Marvel movie has also been delayed from its original release date of 8th October 2021 but the studio has not revealed the new date for this.
However, amid this major changes, the upcoming third Marvel Cinematic Universe Spider-Man movie appears to be unaffected. The sequel to the ‘Spider-Man: Far from Home’ is already set to release on July 16, 2021.
The move from Sony Pictures indicate that it is not expecting theaters to be open again until mid-summer. Apart from Sony, Warner Bros. has also postponed ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ to August 14 instead of June 5. Also, Disney’s ‘Mulan’ has been indefinitely delayed, while the new James Bond movie ‘No Time to Die’ is now set for November release.
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