No Time To Die News Stories Coronavirus No Time to Die and Ghostbusters: Afterlife Vacate Q2 for Fall Theatrical Debuts, Among Other Key Release Date Shifts • Jan 22nd As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the world and vaccine distributions remain nascent, Hollywood studios have delivered another round of major release delays this week. Coronavirus Long Range Box Office Forecast: The Impact and Implications of Disney and Warner Bros.’ 2021 Strategies • Dec 18th Recently, two major studios capped their year with crucial announcements that will factor significantly into exhibition's goals toward box office recovery in 2021. While there are no concrete answers to be found yet, and the speculative work of forecasting has... Coronavirus Long Range Box Office Forecast: The Implications of Wonder Woman 1984‘s Day-and-Date Christmas Release • Nov 20th After weeks of seeming inevitability, we now know the fate of Wonder Woman 1984 is that of a hybrid December 25 release. What does it really mean? Coronavirus Long Range Box Office Forecast: What the Latest Delay of Ghostbusters: Afterlife Means for Theatrical Recovery • Oct 23rd arlier this week, Sony dropped the news that Ghostbusters: Afterlife would be delayed an additional three months from March 5 to June 11, 2021. While this doesn't seem as drastic as other recent delays (the recent six-month push of No... Coronavirus Long Range Box Office Forecast: How the Absence of Dune, No Time to Die, & Soul Affect Q4 Projections • Oct 9th The past week has seen more significant gaps created on the remaining 2020 release calendar as the industry continues to wait on theatrical re-opening plans from New York and, to a somewhat lesser extent, California. Exhibition News One-Quarter of U.K.’s Odeon Cinemas to Cut Back to Weekend-Only Schedule Rebecca Pahle • Oct 5th A representative from Odeon has confirmed that the chain will be dialing back to a weekend-only (Friday-Sunday) opening schedule for approximately one-quarter of its U.K. locations. The news was communicated to members of Limitless, Odeon’s subscription service, over the weekend.... Coronavirus No Time to Die Delayed from November to April 2, 2021; F9 Rescheduled to May 28, 2021 • Oct 2nd In the latest blow to exhibitors who have re-opened their doors over the last month-plus, MGM announced this afternoon that Daniel Craig's final James Bond film, No Time to Die, will be delayed from next month's planned November 20 release... Coronavirus Long Range Box Office Forecast: Black Widow‘s Delay, Lessons from Tenet, and What to Expect from the Next 8 Weeks • Sep 25th Earlier this week, Disney made the latest seismic moves to its -- and exhibition's -- release calendar with the delay of Marvel Studios' Black Widow from November 6 to May 7, 2021. While the move is widely lauded as another... Coronavirus Warner Bros. Pushes Wonder Woman 1984 to Christmas Release, Giving Tenet a Two-Month Runway • Sep 11th Warner Bros. announced this morning that the studio will push Wonder Woman 1984 from October 2 to December 25 on this year's release calendar. Coronavirus Long Range Box Office Forecast: Christopher Nolan’s Tenet • Aug 28th The last time this column was published, we had the unfortunate distinction of reporting on delayed release dates for major films in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a much happier turn of events for the industry and movie lovers... Coronavirus Long Range Box Office Forecast: Proposed Changes and Strategies for the 2020 Release Calendar • May 1st If you've been keeping up with our previous updates, you're already very aware of numerous rescheduling moves from studios in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. This week, I'm diving into a few of the remaining question marks and... Coronavirus Long Range Box Office Tracking (April 16 Update): Disney Shuffles Pixar’s Soul to Holiday 2020 Season; Nolan’s Tenet Now De Facto Summer Opener in July • Apr 16th Thursday, April 16 Update: Although the news of release delays and new dates are beginning to slow down with the bulk of the 2020 calendar through summer having been addressed recently, this week still hasn't been without a few significant... Load more stories
Coronavirus No Time to Die and Ghostbusters: Afterlife Vacate Q2 for Fall Theatrical Debuts, Among Other Key Release Date Shifts • Jan 22nd As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the world and vaccine distributions remain nascent, Hollywood studios have delivered another round of major release delays this week.
Coronavirus Long Range Box Office Forecast: The Impact and Implications of Disney and Warner Bros.’ 2021 Strategies • Dec 18th Recently, two major studios capped their year with crucial announcements that will factor significantly into exhibition's goals toward box office recovery in 2021. While there are no concrete answers to be found yet, and the speculative work of forecasting has...
Coronavirus Long Range Box Office Forecast: The Implications of Wonder Woman 1984‘s Day-and-Date Christmas Release • Nov 20th After weeks of seeming inevitability, we now know the fate of Wonder Woman 1984 is that of a hybrid December 25 release. What does it really mean?
Coronavirus Long Range Box Office Forecast: What the Latest Delay of Ghostbusters: Afterlife Means for Theatrical Recovery • Oct 23rd arlier this week, Sony dropped the news that Ghostbusters: Afterlife would be delayed an additional three months from March 5 to June 11, 2021. While this doesn't seem as drastic as other recent delays (the recent six-month push of No...
Coronavirus Long Range Box Office Forecast: How the Absence of Dune, No Time to Die, & Soul Affect Q4 Projections • Oct 9th The past week has seen more significant gaps created on the remaining 2020 release calendar as the industry continues to wait on theatrical re-opening plans from New York and, to a somewhat lesser extent, California.
Exhibition News One-Quarter of U.K.’s Odeon Cinemas to Cut Back to Weekend-Only Schedule Rebecca Pahle • Oct 5th A representative from Odeon has confirmed that the chain will be dialing back to a weekend-only (Friday-Sunday) opening schedule for approximately one-quarter of its U.K. locations. The news was communicated to members of Limitless, Odeon’s subscription service, over the weekend....
Coronavirus No Time to Die Delayed from November to April 2, 2021; F9 Rescheduled to May 28, 2021 • Oct 2nd In the latest blow to exhibitors who have re-opened their doors over the last month-plus, MGM announced this afternoon that Daniel Craig's final James Bond film, No Time to Die, will be delayed from next month's planned November 20 release...
Coronavirus Long Range Box Office Forecast: Black Widow‘s Delay, Lessons from Tenet, and What to Expect from the Next 8 Weeks • Sep 25th Earlier this week, Disney made the latest seismic moves to its -- and exhibition's -- release calendar with the delay of Marvel Studios' Black Widow from November 6 to May 7, 2021. While the move is widely lauded as another...
Coronavirus Warner Bros. Pushes Wonder Woman 1984 to Christmas Release, Giving Tenet a Two-Month Runway • Sep 11th Warner Bros. announced this morning that the studio will push Wonder Woman 1984 from October 2 to December 25 on this year's release calendar.
Coronavirus Long Range Box Office Forecast: Christopher Nolan’s Tenet • Aug 28th The last time this column was published, we had the unfortunate distinction of reporting on delayed release dates for major films in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a much happier turn of events for the industry and movie lovers...
Coronavirus Long Range Box Office Forecast: Proposed Changes and Strategies for the 2020 Release Calendar • May 1st If you've been keeping up with our previous updates, you're already very aware of numerous rescheduling moves from studios in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. This week, I'm diving into a few of the remaining question marks and...
Coronavirus Long Range Box Office Tracking (April 16 Update): Disney Shuffles Pixar’s Soul to Holiday 2020 Season; Nolan’s Tenet Now De Facto Summer Opener in July • Apr 16th Thursday, April 16 Update: Although the news of release delays and new dates are beginning to slow down with the bulk of the 2020 calendar through summer having been addressed recently, this week still hasn't been without a few significant...