Last updated: March 7, 2021
Here's every movie delayed by the coronavirus pandemic so far. The disease's spread around the world has had a significant impact on not just Hollywood, but the larger entertainment industry. Last year's SXSW Film Festival, San Diego Comic-Con, E3, CinemaCon, and ACE Comic Con were all cancelled. Red carpet events were cancelled, awards shows faced substantial changes, and productions were shut down for several months before picking back up with filming.
Obviously, movie theater screenings were also no longer a thing and, for a while, studios just kept delaying a lot of films before sending them straight to streaming and on demand, or pushing back releases until 2021. The delays have shifted the way in which people watch films, with Warner Bros. releasing films simultaneously on HBO Max and in theaters, with Paramount+ primed to do something similar with a debut on the streaming service 45 days after a theatrical release.
There've been a handful of movies delayed so far, ranging from big-budget franchise films to smaller indie titles like Our Ladies. We will keep you updated, but for now, here's every major movie that's officially been pushed back.
MGM was the first studio to react to the coronavirus when it announced it would be moving No Time to Die - which serves as Daniel Craig's fifth and final time playing James Bond - back seven months from its early April release date to late November. The studio is expected to lose $30-50 million, but it's also believed they would have suffered an even bigger loss by sticking with their April date. After the push to November 2020, MGM once more delayed the film, first to April 2021 and now to October 8, 2021.
Six days after No Time to Die was officially postponed, Sony announced it would be doing the same with Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway. Originally scheduled to open in the U.K. and other international territories on March 27 before hitting the U.S. on April 3, Peter Rabbit 2 is now slated to begin its global rollout four months later on August 7. However, that was once again changed. Peter Rabbit 2 is now slated to open on June 11, 2021.
Following speculation the film would be delayed, Paramount and John Krasinski confirmed they're pushing his monster movie sequel, A Quiet Place Part II, back from its previous March 20 release date to an as-yet unspecified month later in 2020. As the studio initially explained in their statement, "We look forward to bringing this film to audiences this year once we have a better understanding of the impact of this pandemic on the global theatrical marketplace." After a few delays, A Quiet Place Part II will now be released in theaters on May 28, 2021 before debuting on Paramount+ 45 days later.
Despite series lead and producer Vin Diesel promising Fast & Furious 9 wouldn't be moved from its May 2020 release date in response to the coronavirus, the unpredictable situation has resulted in exactly that happening. Universal has now officially shifted the film back a year to April 2, 2021 (a date they'd been holding onto for Fast & Furious 10). However, that date has since changed, with Fast & Furious 9 now opening in theaters on June 25, 2021.
Originally scheduled for release on June 25, 2021, Matt Reeves' The Batman was pushed to October 2021 before Warner Bros. settled on a release date of March 4, 2022.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was meant to be the third film in Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But, because of all the delays, it will now be released after Black Widow. Moved from February 2021, Shang-Chi will now open on July 9, 2021.
Speaking of movies owned by Disney - Scott Cooper's horror film Antlers was officially removed from the studio's release slate, about a month before it was due to open in April 2020. Produced by Guillermo del Toro, the Searchlight Pictures project doesn't have as much to lose from a poor commercial performance as other Mouse House tentpoles do, thanks to its mid-budget. However, Antlers was delayed like every other film and is now scheduled for theatrical release on October 29, 2021.
After holding off for as long as they could, Disney and Marvel Studios took the Black Widow solo movie off the calendar before announcing it would be released at a later time. Fortunately, Black Widow is a prequel that takes place prior to the events of Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, so it shouldn't affect the timeline of other Phase Four MCU films and Disney+ TV series. Following the removal of Black Widow from the release calendar, Marvel announced that the film would now be released on May 7, 2021.
Originally scheduled to be released in November 2020, Eternals (formerly called The Eternals) was moved to February 2021 before once again being pushed back until November 5, 2021. This officially makes it the third MCU film to be released in Phase Four after Black Widow and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
The final film produced under the Fox 2000 label before it was disbanded by Disney, The Woman in the Window stars Amy Adams as an agoraphobic child psychologist who comes to believe her neighbor has been murdered. Disney had planned to release the 20th Century Studios movie in theaters in the middle of May 2020, but that didn't happen. This is the second time The Woman in the Window's been delayed, after it was pushed back from its original Fall 2019 release date to undergo reshoots in response to test audiences who found its third act confusing. The film will now be released on Netflix May 14, 2021.
Cruella, a live-action film following the villain from 101 Dalmatians starring Emma Stone, finally got a trailer and a new release date after the pandemic delayed the film's premiere from December 2020 to May 28, 2021.
The sequel to The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2, the film is the eight film in the franchise. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It was shifted from September 2020 and will now be released June 4, 2021.
Another Lionsgate horror movie originally scheduled to open in May, Spiral: From the Book of Saw is the latest addition to the Saw franchise and is based on a story written by Chris Rock (who also stars). The Spiral trailer has gone over pretty well with longtime Saw fans, many of whom are intrigued by the way it channels classic investigation thrillers like Se7en. The film was moved from May 2020 to May 21, 2021. So, unfortunately, those who've been looking forward to watching Rock take on a new Jigsaw-related menace will have to wait a little longer.
After being moved around quite a bit, from November 2020 to May 2021 before execs at Warner Bros. moved the film's release to March 31, 2021. Godzilla vs. Kong will be simultaneously released on HBO Max and in theaters.
Illumination's Minions: The Rise of Gru moved from July 2020 to July 2021. However, the animation has officially been pushed back to July 1, 2022.
Ezra Miller was first announced as Barry Allen/The Flash in 2014 and the road to The Flash movie has been a long one, even without the additional delays due to the pandemic. After landing a July 2022 release date, the film was delayed to November 4, 2022.
The third installment in Kingsman: The Secret Service will star a cast including Ralph Fiennes and Gemma Arterton. It was originally scheduled to be released in November 2019 before being moved to February 2020, then to September 2020, February 2021, and March 2021. Now, the film will be released August 20, 2021.
In addition to forcing studios to delay their films, the coronavirus pandemic has led to several movies shutting down production. That includes the big screen musical In the Heights, which is based on the Broadway sensation created by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes. Miranda has confirmed the film was still record its score when it closed house, but its original June 26, 2020 release date moved to June 18, 2021.
UPDATE: In the Heights has been rescheduled for June 18, 2021, a year after its original release date.
James Wan's upcoming horror film Malignant was also a casualty of the pandemic closures. An original creation from the Saw, Insidious, and The Conjuring director, the movie was originally scheduled to open on August 14, 2020. However, it will now open on September 10, 2021.
The Jared Leto-led Morbius, a Marvel comic book adaptation that serves as the second installment in Sony's Spider-Man villain franchise after Venom. The fact the film takes place in the MCU (or, failing that, adjacent to it) is all the more reason for Sony to move it somewhere safe, long after the ongoing health crisis has (mostly) ended. As such, it will now hit theaters on October 9, 2021.
In addition to Morbius, Sony had originally planned to release the long-awaited sequel to Ivan Reitman's Ghostbusters 1 & 2, his own son Jason Reitman's Afterlife, in theaters summer 2020 prior to the coronavirus pandemic. The film has similarly been postponed from July 2020 to March 2021, then to June 11, 2021. On top of being a much safer date for Afterlife, this also gives the movie enough time to accommodate any COVID-19 related delays and finish post-production without having to rush.
Tom Cruise's Top Gun sequel has already been 34 years in the making, but everyone will have to wait a little longer to watch the A-lister take to the skies again. Rather that moving it out of 2020, though, Paramount initially bumped the movie back to December 23, 2020 before moving it to July 2, 2021.
Though still untitled, The Matrix 4 was originally scheduled for May 2021, but was pushed to December 22, 2021. The fourth in The Matrix franchise, the film will bring back Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss and will be directed by Lana Wachowski. New additions to the film include Jada Pinkett Smith, Priyanka Chopra, Patrick Neil Harris, Jonathan Groff, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
Nia DaCosta's Candyman sequel was delayed to September 25, 2020. However, Universal pushed the film back to October 2020 before settling on an August 27, 2021 release date. That is, unless there are anymore changes.
Had it been any other year, Fox-turned 20th Century Studios' Free Guy (an action-comedy starring Ryan Reynolds as an NPC in an open-world video game) would've been perfectly well-served by its original release date over the 4th of July holiday weekend. Once again though, the uncertainty in the wake of the coronavirus prompted Disney to move the film back by about five months to December 11 instead. However, nothing has remained the same and the film was pushed to May 21, 2021.
You can add the big screen version of the popular animated sitcom Bob's Burgers to the list of July 2020 releases that've moved back. The film has since shifted back to April 9, 2021, which works out well since there was already a spot there claimed for an untitled Fox movie. Unfortunately, Bob's Burgers no longer has a release date as of this writing.
As part of its revised post-coronavirus release slate for the next couple years, Disney has shifted its Jungle Cruise movie back an entire year to July 30, 2021. This is the second major release date change for the Disney theme park ride-turned swashbuckling adventure, after it was previously delayed from its originally-announced spot in October 2019. In both cases, however, it seems like the delays were the result of factors outside of the movie's control and not a reflection of its quality. Similarly, with Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt starring, one imagines Jungle Cruise will ultimately play well at the box office whenever it (finally) comes out.
Yet another film that was originally scheduled to open in July 2020, Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch has since moved back three months to October 16 as part of Disney's release slate overhaul. Even before the COVID-19 outbreak, it was kind of surprising the studio and Searchlight Pictures had decided to release the film in the summer. Anderson's movies are typically awards contenders, so the transition to the fall would've made sense on its own, had it happened long before the ongoing health crisis. That said, while The French Dispatch is no longer on the official release schedule, the film is speculated to be released during the Cannes film festival in July 2021.
Originally scheduled to be released in July 2021, Mission: Impossible 7 is now slated for theatrical release on November 19, 2021.
Paramount has delayed Antoine Fuqua's sci-fi action film Infinite (starring Mark Wahlberg) until September 24, 2021 after initially delaying it from May 2021. The studio sees Infinite as a potential crowd-pleaser, which explains why they've elected to reshuffle it to another release date. Similar to A Quiet Place Part II, Infinite will debut on Paramount+ 45 days after its theatrical release.
Directed by Denis Villeneuve, Dune was originally slated for a December 2020 release before Warner Bros. moved it to October 1, 2021. In addition to be released theatrically, Dune will also get a HBO Max release.
The musical drama directed by Steven Spielberg was another 2020 film to be delayed for the new year. 20th Century Studios shifted the film's original release date from December of last year to December 10, 2021.
Originally slated for October 2020, Death on the Nile, directed by Kenneth Branagh, who stars alongside a large ensemble cast that includes Annette Bening, Gal Gadot, and Game of Thrones' Rose Leslie, moved from December 2020 to September 17, 2021.
Technically, the Venom sequel was never officially dated for 2020. For a long time, Sony held onto an October 2020 spot for an untitled Marvel movie which, as it turns out, everyone correctly assumed was Venom 2. The movie has since been pushed back to June 25, 2021 and received an appropriately silly title in the form of Venom: Let There Be Carnage, adding it to the list of would-be 2020 blockbusters that've moved back a year because of the coronavirus. On the plus side, this means Sony will now release Morbius before the Venom sequel, as they had originally intended to do as part of their build-up to the inevitable (?) Sinister Six spinoff film.
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