Release dates for some of the year's biggest movies could be getting a massive rejig.
With the back-to-back-to-back release of
Barbie,
Oppenheimer and the new
Mission Impossible, you'd be forgiven for thinking that 2023's biggest movies have now officially come and gone.
But the rest of the year still has plenty of big releases up its sleeve, including The Marvels, Napoleon, The Exorcist: Believer, Wonka, Blue Beetle, The Meg 2, Haunted Mansion, Gran Turismo, and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds to name but a few.
Three more of 2023's biggest movies were also on the schedule, but according to a new report by
Variety, all three could be pushed back to new 2024 release dates. The reason for this is down reportedly down to the one-two punch of the
Writer's Strike and the
Actor's Strike, causing pretty much every major Hollywood production to be put on hold.
With all work on big projects like Gladiator 2, Deadpool 3 and Beetlejuice 2 completely stopped, it is
reported that the cost of holding on to soundstages packed with sets and costumes is coming in at around $600,000 per week per movie.
And so with less new projects to fill in upcoming release slots, Warner Bros. have apparently started to look ahead to their already-completed movies and start spacing out their launch dates.
They include
Dune: Part Two (scheduled to arrive 3 Nov),
The Color Purple (due on 25 Dec) and
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (due on 29 Dec). All three of those releases would be launched alongside major star-studded publicity campaigns for box office and/or awards assistance, and with the actors unable to promote their work, WB are planning a potential course of action that will see the movies arrive in cinemas once their stars are able to talk to journalists about them.
While none of this has been set in stone yet, if the duo of strikes does continue, you can expect pretty much every major Hollywood movie, TV and streaming service start to rejig their release schedules in the not-too-distant future.
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