Collateral Damage theatrical release dates at the movie studios – Deadline

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Editor’s note: One of a series of stories marking 100 days since the WGA strike.

Since the WGA strike is up to 100 days; Simply put – motion picture studios have always been preparing for it.

Unlike the current SAG-AFTRA strike which has forced the global shutdown of Hollywood films incl Gladiator 2 And Deadpool 3The WGA strike, though largely considered a TV and streaming battle, left its mark on the motion picture side—mostly despite initially changing the theatrical release schedule.

Franchise flagship Disney was the first studio to overhaul its calendar by moving 21 films from 2025 through 2031. Chief among them was the delay of James Cameron’s feature film In Action Avatar 3 from Christmas 2024 to 2025, and retconned several Marvel projects including the Phase 6 finale The Avengers: Kang Dynasty From the beginning of May 2025 to 2026, and Avengers: Secret Wars Moving from May 2026 to May 2027. Avatar 5 Alone, it jumped three years from December 22, 2028, to December 19, 2031.

However, given Marvel’s softer box office record since emerging from the pandemic, the studio thought it best not to rush into producing unrevealed pictures, rather than wait for the hits. Marvel was the only studio that attempted to finish pre-production in the future Lightning And code before eventually discontinuing pre-production indefinitely, which eventually brought physical production to a halt; Both of those pictures are now respectively pushed back to December 20, 2024, and February 14, 2025.

In general, the consensus around town is that a prolonged strike by actors and writers through November will leave the latter half of the 2024 theatrical release calendar blank. The actors’ strike had an immediate and aggravating effect on the year’s theatrical release calendar since the performers were not allowed to promote; Zendaya pic challengers, Sony Ghostbusters sequel And Craven the hunter And focus on the features Push away the dolls I already left in 2024. More changes may be made to the pillars of support for this year. Legendary Entertainment / Warner Bros. ‘ Dune: Part Twostars Zendaya, Timothee Chalamet, Florence Pugh, and Austin Butler and is currently scheduled for November 3 but is scheduled to move to 2024. Sony recently delayed several big titles due to the actors’ strike, including Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Man to a later specified date, however, bad boys 4 Looking forward to opening June 14 next year.

Unlike the 2007-08 strike, which saw the complete cancellation of big films like George Miller Justice League at Warner Bros. with Adam Brody as The Flash and Armie Hammer as Batman; and Oliver Stone’s Vietnam War title dub Bruce Willis pinkville, Studios have continued shooting films without writers on set, many of them heading overseas to avoid the protesters who have forced the closure of three notable independent films: Wayfarer Studios’ Blake Lively; ends us, Aziz Ansari movie directed by Liongate good fortune With Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen, and Jennifer Lopez from Artists Equity on fire.

Between the writers’ strike on May 2 until July 14 when the actors’ strike began, nearly 20 feature films from around the world managed to finish shooting in some way, whether it was for ten days or to start full production. . Some of these titles included Focus Features’ NosferatuWarner Bros. beetle 2 in the UK, bad boys 4 In Georgia, Disney/Marvel Studios’ Captain America: New World Order, New Twentieth Century Studios alien Pic, Will Ferrell-Reese Witherspoon Amazon Studios movie You are warmly invited And gorge Starring Miles Teller.

However, the qualitative effects of a lens without a writer are yet to be seen in the long term. Know that clerks staying on set is even mattered; Martin Scorsese told the CinemaCon crowd that he kept rewriting Moonflower Killers Until the last day of shooting. The former writers’ strike of 2007-2008 resulted in a slew of critically and commercially flopped films including Rob Marshall’s musical nine ($54 million, $80 million cost) and Will Ferrell’s remake of the 1970s TV series Land of the lost (US$68.8 million, cost of US$100 million). Although there was no strike in 2001, the studios’ anticipation of one led to undercooked films such as The Truth About Charlie, Reign of Fire And Dark blue.

regarding fate Good luck ends with us And unstoppable, We hear these movies are not in jeopardy and will even resume filming as soon as the two strikes stop. The question remains whether the templates will remain intact; Actors’ schedules are subject to change once the performers are fully back to work.

Although studios have paused pre-production on projects without completed scripts, there have been scripts that have been delivered in time to allow executives to hire directors and build actors for the 2024 sessions. One such project was James Gunn’s DC Studios Superman: Legacy, Which included talent meeting and screen-testing the roles of Superman and Lois Lane during the WGA/pre-SAG-AFTRA strike with David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan finalized as Clark Kent and Lois Lane.

One factor that we weren’t seeing early on in the WGA strike, but are currently seeing a lot during SAG-AFTRA is how films are being promoted, especially at premieres and film festivals. Although the talent lost access to the late-night talk show market once the WGA strike began, studios still found ways to promote films whether it was using morning talk shows as a platform or even podcasts like Rewatchable An episode that Jennifer Lawrence has done before No hard feelings went out.

At Cannes, writers and directors like Martin Scorsese, James Mangold and Wes Anderson appeared at world premieres and press conferences for Moonflower Killers, Indiana Jones, and Dial Destiny And Asteroid City under their contracts as directors. However, the screenwriters like Asteroid CityRoman Coppola evaded the press in solidarity with the book. While Greta Gerwig appeared on stage at the world premiere of a movie Barbie As director in early July, her partner and co-writer Noah Baumbach stayed home. Given the DGA’s renewed contract with AMPTP, expect the filmmakers to definitely be showing up at the fall film festivals. However, SAG-AFTRA only allows independent film actors with temporary guild agreements to promote in TIFF, Venice, and Telluride.

However, once the strikes end, the 2024 theatrical release schedule could see another dry spell much like the one we experienced last August and September, caused by several films being delayed due to a crisis in the post-production pipeline caused by Covid. for movies like Deadpool 3 And Gladiator 2For example, It could take up to three weeks before the crews are assembled and returned to filming, which puts pressure on those titles to meet their May 3, 2024 and November 22, 2024 release dates.

“Once these strikes are over, there will be extreme rush, demand, and ultimate unavailability of workers below the line,” one studio executive told Deadline.