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If reminiscence serves accurately, Sony Pictures was one of many first studios to shift their launch date calendar within the wake of the large 2019 COVID-19 pandemic, and now, with one other calamity in entrance of the movie business—the twin WGA (writers) & SAG (actors) strikes—the corporate is once more just about the primary studio to reply and delay their launch calendar in reply.
Announced late on Friday, Sony unveiled an enormous delay in all their upcoming tasks, the most important being “Beyond The Spider-Verse,” the sequel to “Spider-Man: Across The Spiderverse.” Those within the know will know and never be shocked. Originally scheduled for March 2024, it’s been reported and rumored that ‘Beyond The Spider-Verse’ was working behind and would probably not meet its March 2024 date no matter whether or not the strike occurred or not. So sure, you’re probably a 2025 date for ‘Beyond The Spider-Verse,’ regardless and as producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller prefer to push the animation to its limits and past.
However, the movie to be affected first is “Kraven,” a ‘Spider-Man’ spin-off movie starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson because the Spidey supervillain, Kraven The Hunter. Directed by J.C. Chandor (“A Most Violent Year,” “Triple Frontier”), “Kraven” was initially scheduled for a October 6, 2023 launch. Thanks to the SAG-AFTRA battle, Sony is pushing the Marvel outing “Kraven” to an August 30, 2024 launch. That’s labor day and historically a dumping floor season, however lately, Marvel has made good on that slot with “Shang Chi: The Legend Of The Ten Rings,” so possibly something is feasible.
A sequel to Jason Reitman’s “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” the Paul Rudd-starring ‘Ghostbusters’ movie that grossed over $200 million worldwide, was initially scheduled at Christmas (Dec 20) of this yr, however due to the strike, Sony is transferring the image to Easter weekend of subsequent yr on March 29, 2024.
Other shifted dates embody the “Karate Kid” reboot shifted from June 7, 2024, to December 13, 2024, and Blumhouse’s “They Listen,” as soon as deliberate for August 30, 2024, and now undated.
It wasn’t all delays, nonetheless. Sony just lately planted flags for a number of thriller Sony/Marvel movies and revealed the titles behind a number of of them. For one, the Dakota Johnson-starring Spider-Man universe movie, “Madame Web,” is arriving two days early on February 14, 2024 and “Venom 3” has been dated for July 12, 2024. Currently there’s additionally a summer time 2025 Marvel/Sony thriller date open, however what the film is, hasn’t been revealed but, regardless of hypothesis it may very well be a fourth “Spider-Man” film with Tom Holland.
Additionally, “Bad Boys” followers can rejoice as “Bad Boys 4” starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, is now set for a June 14, 2024 launch date. With “Gran Turismo” out of the gate on August 11, Sony determined to only keep the course with the racer movie.
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