Entertainment
Marvel remakes release calendar; moves ‘Mulan’ to late July
The Walt Disney Co. on Friday overhauled its release schedule by moving the dates of half a dozen Marvel movies, announcing a new one for the live-action adaption of “Mulan” and pushing one movie, “Artemis Fowl,” to Disney Plus, in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
“Black Widow,” the Marvel entry starring Scarlett Johansson, had been set to kick off the summer movie season.
Instead, Disney said it will now open Nov. 6. Such delays have unique ramifications for Marvel movies because of their interconnection.
With “Black Widow” on the move, that meant a domino effect, pushing most all upcoming Marvel releases back at least three months.
“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” shifts from next May to Nov. 5, 2021. And “Thor: Love and Thunder” is pushed three months, to Feb. 18, 2022.
Disney isn’t abandoning the summer completely. “Mulan,” which has been scheduled for March and already had its red carpet premiere, will now open July 24.
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The company also didn’t move the Pixar release “Soul” from its June 19 release date. Those plans, of course, are subject to movie theatres being reopened by then and the pandemic subsiding.
While Disney shifted nearly all of its big-budget movies, it’s going to send one to its streaming service.
The Kenneth Branagh-directed science fiction adventure adaptation “Artemis Fowl” will go to Disney Plus instead of opening in theatres.
The movie had originally been slated for release last August but had been rescheduled for May of this year.
With the exception of Universal’s “Trolls World Tour,” the major studios have chosen to delay their top releases rather than push them to digital release and sacrifice box-office revenue.
“Jungle Cruise,” with Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, is being pushed back a full year to July 30, 2021.
The release of the fifth “Indiana Jones” movie, which Steven Spielberg last month departed as a director with James Mangold replacing him, is also being delayed a full year, to July 2022.
Harrison Ford will be 80 years old by then.
Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” is also postponed from July to Oct. 16.
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