by Nathaniel R
With MULAN moving there are no wide-releases left for March due to the spread of the coronavirus
As you've undoubtedly heard the coronavirus pandemic has many governments as well as companies shutting down or postponing various services, products, and events, particularly where crowds are involved, and leaving lots and lots of people without income and given the sorry state of the US without universal healthcare we suspect things will be getting much worse. (It's also kept your host here interminably busy / depressed at his other job outside of TFE which is a matter for the therapist couch rather than this blog). But, as ever, we exist to discuss the movies here.
Though Cannes in France is still trying to keep their own May dream alive, here in NYC, the Tribeca Film Festival, which was scheduled to begin on April 15th has been indefinitely postponed, while Broadway theaters have all been shuttered through April 12th. So far movie theaters in the US are still open (though thousands are closed in China) but what movies will there be left to show?
A lot of films have begun indefinitely delaying their release dates...
Here's the list so far:
- Antlers (postponed from April 17th - no new date announced)
- The Artist's Wife (postponed from April - no new date announced)
- Fast and Furious 9 (pushed back a full year to April 2021)
- The Lovebirds (postponed from April 3rd - no new date announced)
- Mulan (postponed from March 27th- no new date announced)
- The New Mutant (postponed from April 3rd - no new date announced)
- No Time to Die (now scheduled for Thanksgiving)
- Peter Rabbit 2 (now scheduled for August)
- A Quiet Place Part 2 (postponed from - no new date announced)
- The Truth (postponed from March 20th - no new date announced)
The New Mutants which has been delayed numerous times is rather cursed isn't it? We don't understand for even a second why Disney doesn't just put this on Disney+ and give up (this is, what, it's fifth postponement?) since it's not part of the MCU and they have lots of unannounced plans involving the X-Men and their many spin-off mutant characters so why muddy the water theatrically?
The coronavirus pandemic has also halted or delayed production on a number of movies that were set to film right about now or next month.