Sony has announced they are delaying the releases of all their summer 2020 movies until 2021. This decision includes such high profile releases as Morbius and Ghostbusters: Afterlife. The move comes on the heels of industry-wide delays related to the shutdown of movie theaters during the coronavirus pandemic.
The impact of the pandemic stemming from the coronavirus, COVID-19, is being felt the world over, and the entertainment industry is just one many businesses that's trying to adapt. To help slow the spread of the virus, world governments are ordering non-essential businesses closed (like movie theaters) and encouraging their citizens to keep their distance from one another. The longer these shutdowns go on, though, the less likely it appears movie theaters will open until mid-summer, forcing many studios to reshuffle the release dates for their upcoming movies. Some films, like Universal's F9, have been pushed back a whole year, while others, like Warner Bros.' Wonder Woman 1984, are optimistically only holding off until August.
Sony Pictures has now joined in by delaying their upcoming slate significantly, reports Variety. Of their upcoming summer 2020 movies, Morbius has been delayed from July 31 to March 19, 2021; Ghostbusters: Afterlife has been delayed from July 10 to March 5, 2021; and Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway has been delayed from August 7 to January 15, 2021. Additionally, an Untitled Sony/Marvel movie has been delayed from October 8 to an unannounced future date.
This release date shuffle on Sony's part is even having an impact beyond 2020, because along with their summer slate being pushed to 2021, movies releasing next year are also being moved. The most notable victim of this rescheduling is Tom Holland's Uncharted, a production that has been struggling to get off the ground and was recently halted indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemic. Having finally settled on a March 5, 2021 release date, Uncharted has now been delayed to October 8. Now, Ghostbusters: Afterlife is taking Uncharted's spot, while the long-awaited video game adaptation takes to date previously held by that Untitled Sony/Marvel project.
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Source: Variety
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