by Nathaniel R
Remember when reporting on movie news and release dates used to have meaning? It's a distant foggy memory but there was, in fact, a time when release dates felt, if not certain, than likely... something to get giddy about while you waited for the next "Must See". The Bond and Fast and Furious producers who pushed their films No Time to Die and F9, respectively, several months away when people first started to learn the word "coronavirus" are looking very smart in hindsight. They got the hell out of there before anyone was sick! Disney with Mulan and WB with Tenet chose to play the "let's just wait one more month" game and keep playing it. Both movies have recently pushed back to August.
Here's the schedule of the big(gish) movies for the rest of the year though obviously you should read it with not a grain of salt but the whole Great Salt Lake from Utah...
August
12 Tenet (Chris Nolan's sci-fi actioner with John David Washington & Robert Pattinson)
21 Antebellum (Horror with Janelle Monae)
21 Mulan (Disney's live action remake with a cavalcade of Asian stars)
28 Bill & Ted Face the Music (sequel with Keanu Reeves reprising his first franchise role)
28 The New Mutants (teen angst superheroes, long delayed)
28 A Quiet Place Part 2 (monster movie sequel with Emily Blunt)
September
11 The Conjuring 3 (Horror with Patrick Wilson & Vera Farmiga)
18 The King's Man (Actioner with Harris Dickinson & Ralph Fiennes & Liam Neeson)
25 Candyman (Horror remake)
October
2 Wonder Woman 1984 (superhero sequel)
2 Without Remorse (Actioner with Michael B Jordan)
9 Death on the Nile (Kenneth Branagh does a second all star mystery )
16 The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson's latest)
16 Halloween Kills (Horror sequel)
November
6 Black Widow (superhero aka Scarlett Johansson's final Marvel outing)
20 Soul (Pixar's latest)
25 No Time to Die (James Bond returns - Daniel Craig's last go at the hero)
December
11 Free Guy (Action comedy with Ryan Reynolds)
18 Dune (sci-fi adaptation)
18 West Side Story (musical remake)
23 Top Gun Maverick (Tom Cruise sequel)
Latest to Opt Out of a Theatrical Release Altogether
Spongebob: Sponge on the Run... weirdly they're saving it for 2021 even though its not going to theaters. Why wait if you're just dumping it on streaming?
Waiting for 2021
F9, The Forever Purge, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, The Green Knight, In the Heights, Jungle Cruise, Morbius, Peter Rabbit 2, Respect, The Woman in the Window