Dates for many high-profile projects have been changed, including ‘Deadpool 3’ bumping up by six months, ‘Avatar 3’ delaying a full year, and ‘Avatar 4’ and ‘Avatar 5’ pushing back three years.
Get ready for some major changes to Disney’s high profile theatrical release calendar. In anticipation of new additions to the slate, Avatar 3 has been pushed back a year from December 2024 to December 2025, followed by Avatar 4 in December 2029 and Avatar 5 in December 2031, a full three-year delay for both films.
For Marvel Studios, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty has been pushed one year to May 1, 2026, while follow-up film Avengers: Secret Wars has also been pushed a year to May 7, 2027. On the 20th Century side, an untitled Alien franchise project led by Fede Alvarez and starring Cailee Spaeny has been given an August 16, 2024 release.
While changes also occurred with Lucasfilm projects, the details of the films are more ambiguous. An untitled film has been pushed from December 2025 to May 22, 2026, followed by the addition of another untitled film on December 18, 2026. No word yet on which one will be the previously announced Daisy Ridley-led film, the epic from James Mangold, or a project from The Mandalorian’s Dave Filoni.
In better news, the Moana live-action remake starring Dwayne Johnson will now premiere June 27, 2025, while the highly anticipated Deadpool 3 will now open six months earlier on May 3, 2024, instead of November 8, 2024.
Check out Disney’s majorly updated theatrical release calendar below:
- Captain America: Brave New World – from 5/3/24 to 7/26/24
- Thunderbolts - from 7/26/24 to 12/20/24
- Untitled Alien Event Movie - 8/16/24
- Blade - from 9/6/24 to 2/14/25
- Deadpool 3 - from 11/8/24 to 5/3/24
- The Amateur (20th) - 11/8/24
- Avatar 3 (20th) - from 12/20/24 to 12/19/25
- Fantastic Four - from 2/14/25 to 5/2/25
- Avengers: The Kang Dynasty – from 5/2/25 to 5/1/26
- Moana - 6/27/25
- Untitled Star Wars – from 12/19/25 to 5/22/26
- Avengers: Secret Wars - from 5/1/26 to 5/7/27
- Untitled Star Wars - 12/18/26
- Avatar 4 (20th) - from 12/18/26 to 12/21/29
- Avatar 5 (20th) – from 12/22/28 to 12/19/31
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