Disney shuffles film releases such as ‘Mulan’ due to coronavirus

REUTERS: Walt Disney Co will launch the live-action epic Mulan in movie theatres in July and Marvel’s Black Widow in November, the corporate mentioned on Friday because it reshuffled a schedule disrupted by the worldwide coronavirus outbreak.

Amongst different adjustments, Disney postponed the discharge of a brand new Indiana Jones movie by one yr to July 2022, the corporate mentioned in an announcement.

Theatres around the globe have been closed and movie manufacturing has been placed on maintain to assist forestall the unfold of the novel coronavirus.

Hollywood studios are optimistic that theatres can be again in enterprise by late July. Disney set the debut of Mulan, which was supposed to succeed in theatres final month, for July 24.

ViacomCBS Inc’s Paramount Footage moved a brand new animated SpongeBob movie to July 31, and AT&T Inc’s Warner Bros mentioned it deliberate to launch Wonder Woman 1984 on August 14.

Black Widow, starring Scarlett Johansson, had been scheduled to kick off the summer season blockbuster season, historically Hollywood’s most profitable interval at theatres, on May 1.

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It’s going to now debut November 6, a date that had been reserved for Marvel’s The Eternals. Disney moved Eternals to February 12, 2021, and postponed a number of different Marvel movies by just a few months.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was rescheduled for Could 21, 2021, adopted by Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness on November 5, 2021, and Thor: Love and Thunder on February 18, 2022.

The debut of Jungle Cruise, a live-action journey starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, was delayed from this summer season to July 30, 2021.

Disney additionally mentioned it might scrap a deliberate theatrical launch of Mulan household movie Artemis Fowl and as an alternative distribute it on the Disney+ streaming service at an unspecified date.

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