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01 Sep

Top Gun: Maverick Delay Raises New Fears of Mass Exodus for Fall Movies

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Paramount Pictures’ Top Gun: Maverick is not the first major fall movie to exit the 2021 release calendar. That honor belongs to another Paramount film, Clifford the Big Red Dog. Nevertheless, this latest pushback for the Tom Cruise sequel suggests that another round of mass Hollywood delays may be imminent as COVID-19 infection rates continue to rise. Top Gun: Maverick, which follows up on one of Cruise’s signature hits from the 1980s, was originally intended to release in summer 2020 until our first brush with the COVID-19 pandemic caused the spectacle to be delayed first to Christmas of that year…

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23 Jan

Morbius Delay Should Not Affect Spider-Man 3’s Spider-Verse Story

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Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been weaving a web of sequels and spinoff projects to increasingly intricate effect. Compounding that, the apparent plot connectivity of the untitled Spider-Man 3 and Marvel Studios’ subsequent sequel, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse, seems destined to shift the shared continuity on a dimensional level. Thus questions have been raised by Sony’s latest shift for the Jared Leto-starring spinoff, Morbius, which is now on schedule for January 2022. This places the vampire film one month after the Spider-Man threequel’s December 2021 release. The Morbius migration—the second such shift in just…

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27 Oct

Cyberpunk 2077’s Delay Raises Questions About Development Crunch and Cut Content

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We should be used to Cyberpunk 2077 delays by now, but the recent news that Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed until December 10 seems to have hit fans especially hard. While some of those fan frustrations can be attributed to their “But I want it now!” outlook, the disappointment, confusion, and even anger over this recent delay certainly seems to have something to do with recent updates regarding Cyberpunk 2077‘s development which complicate how fans are dealing with this information. For example, you may recall that CD Projekt Red recently confirmed reports that they’ve asked their employees to begin working…

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05 Oct

Cineworld Confirms Closure of U.S., UK Locations After No Time to Die Delay

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Making good on rumors swirling all weekend, Cineworld confirmed Monday morning that the biggest movie chain in the UK, and second biggest in the U.S., will be closing its doors for an indefinite amount of time in lieu of the news Friday that No Time to Die was leaving November in favor of next April. Cineworld announced it would be closing all 127 locations in the UK, and 536 Regal Cinemas, beginning on Thursday. Additionally, the company released an update that said 45,000 employees will be affected by this “temporary suspension” of theatrical exhibition services. The news is not entirely…

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15 Sep

Black Widow Release Date Delay Imminent?

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Is 2020 at all salvageable for major studio blockbusters? It’s appearing less likely after the recent disappointments surrounding Warner Brothers’ Tenet and Disney’s Mulan. And according to at least several anonymous sources talking to Deadline, it’s about to result in Marvel Studios’ hotly anticipated Black Widow being delayed yet again. The report, which was filed Tuesday afternoon, states Disney executives are currently pondering a move of Black Widow off its current Nov. 6 release date, even though the studio has yet to settle on a new date. According to the trade, Black Widow could theoretically be moved to as soon…

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09 Sep

Wonder Woman 1984 Release Date Delay Expected (Report)

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Wonder Woman 1984 is slated to open in theaters on October 2, less than four weeks from now, but according to a new report from Deadline, it’s looking very likely that the Princess of Themyscira will fly to a new arrival date. With theaters in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco still not opening yet, the report suggests that the second standalone Wonder Woman movie will shift from its early October berth to a weekend in either November or possibly late December. A late December arrival almost certainly means that Dune, which like Wonder Woman 1984 is distributed by…

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13 Aug

Halo Infinite Was Almost Released in Multiple Parts to Avoid Delay

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During an appearance on Animal Talking (an Animal Crossing talk show that airs on Twitch) Xbox boss Phil Spencer revealed that he and members of Halo Infinite developer 343 Studios briefly discussed releasing the game in separate parts. According to Spencer, the idea was to split Halo Infinite into separate releases that would be shipped out on different dates over a longer period of time. Spencer doesn’t dive into the specifics, but it sounds like the idea was to release the first part of the game by the end of the year as previously planned. However, after about a day’s…

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10 Aug

Fargo Season 4 Release Date Revealed by FX After Delay

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It may have taken a while after a COVID-caused production shutdown, but Fargo‘s intriguing, Chris Rock-fronted fourth season has finally procured a premiere, with FX having officially set a September release date. Fargo Season 4 will premiere on FX on Sunday, September 27 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, on which the first two episodes will air. Subsequent episodes will premiere on the same Sunday timeslot individually on a weekly basis. Streamers will be interested to know that each new episode will hit Hulu the day after their FX premieres. The release date announcement occurs after the Chicago production of Fargo was…

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13 Jul

Tenet Delay Imminent as Coronavirus Spreads, Analyst Predicts

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Like a magician’s best illusion, the hopes predicated on Christopher Nolan’s Tenet resuscitating the moviegoing experience are vanishing all around us. And adding suspense to this grim trick is a new report from Eric Handler, a leading exhibition industry analyst with MKM Partners. According to Handler, there is a “low likelihood” that Tenet keeps its scheduled Aug. 12 release date, particularly in the wake of rising rates of infection in states across the U.S., including Florida, Texas, California, and Arizona. “The near-term outlook for exhibition related stocks remains extremely clouded,” Handler wrote. “It would be surprising to see theaters able…

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16 Mar

Will Disney Delay Black Widow Release Over Coronavirus Fears?

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On May 1, Disney and Marvel Studios intend to release Black Widow, the 24th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the first in the MCU in nearly 10 months (the last was July’s Spider-Man: Far from Home). The film stars Scarlett Johansson as the eponymous Russian superspy and Avengers charter member, who she’s played since 2010’s Iron Man 2. The picture is also a first for the Marvel film franchise—it’s a prequel. Set between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, the film is finally going to explore Nat’s backstory and is expected to truly kickoff Marvel’s “Phase…

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