The current coronavirus epidemic has, obviously, played merry hell with the normal Hollywood film release calendar for the next several months—if not years. Faced with a world in which theaters are no longer in operation (and would suffer seriously reduced box office draws even if they were), studios are forced to ask themselves some hard questions. A few have opted, in a handful of limited cases, to take completed films and move them on to streaming, like Universal is doing with Trolls World Tour, as is Disney by moving the Artemis Fowl movie directly to Disney+. More often than not, though, the call has been to delay—although the lengths of those delays have said a lot about what individual studios think about how long the need for quarantine is going to last, ranging from Paramount moving A Quiet Place Part II back a mere 5 months, to F9 dropping back an entire calendar year.
Because these changes have been coming at us all as fast as a frowning John Cena running to glare down an equally frown-y Vin Diesel, we decided it might be good to have a place to check back and confirm what the current hypothetical release schedule actually looks like. And so we’ve put together this updating alphabetical list of all of the film delays impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, from Wes Anderson quirkfests to Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters revival, complete with trailers and directorial details where available, because, again, most of these films were pretty far along in production before things started moving around. (Looking at you, poor, abandoned-again New Mutants.) We’ll continue to update the list as things continue to move around, so check back in whenever you’re trying to figure out whenever the hell Nia DaCosta’s Candyman sequel is ever expected to actually see the light of day.
