Ten Rings” departs that February date for May
7, 2021. “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of
Madness” shifts from next May to Nov. 5, 2021.
And “Thor: Love and Thunder” is pushed three
months, to Feb. 18, 2022.
Disney isn’t abandoning the summer
completely. “Mulan,” which been scheduled for
March and already had its red carpet premiere,
will now open July 24. The company also didn’t
move the Pixar release “Soul” from its June 19
release date. Those plans, of course, are subject
to movie theaters being reopened by then and
the pandemic subsiding.
While Disney shifted nearly all of its big-budget
movies, it’s going to send one to its streaming
service. The Kenneth Branagh-directed science
fiction adventure adaptation “Artemis Fowl” will
go to Disney Plus instead of opening in theaters.
The movie had originally been slate for release
last August but had been rescheduled for May of
this year. With the exception of Universal’s “Trolls
World Tour,” the major studios have chosen to
delay their top releases rather than push them to
digital release and sacrifice box-office revenue.
“Jungle Cruise,” with Dwayne Johnson and Emily
Blunt, is being pushed back a full year to July 30,
- The release of the fifth “Indiana Jones” movie,
which Steven Spielberg last month departed as
director with James Mangold replacing him, is also
being delayed a full year, to July 2022. Harrison
Ford will be 80 years old by then.
Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” is also
postponed from July to Oct. 16.
The Walt Disney Co. announced they will start
furloughing some workers in two weeks at its
theme parks resorts in Florida and California.