The Latest Date Changes 2: The New Batch

[Buscemi]

New release date:

Untitled Animated Spider-Man Movie 7/20/2018

Lord and Miller left The Lego Movie 2 to make this for Sony (who retained animated rights while Disney got live-action rights). Sounds like Sony wants their answer to Lego Batman.

Also from Sony...

The Fifth Wave 1/15/2016 (from 1/29/2016)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 2/5/2016 (from 2/19/2016)

Meanwhile, Sony has finally greenlighted The Equalizer 2. Despite the first film making a profit ($192 million worldwide on a $55 million budget plus a healthy post-theatrical gross from home video and VOD), the sequel had been in doubt due to the previous Sony regime not thinking Denzel Washington could sell a film internationally.

[Buscemi]

After six years on the shelf (and several sets of reshoots), Paramount will finally release Area 51 on 5/15/2015 exclusively at Alamo Drafthouse theatres as well as VOD.

Meanwhile, more new dates:
Entourage 6/3/2015 (from 6/5/2015)
Freeheld (Julianne Moore/Ellen Page drama) 10/2/2015
Warcraft 6/10/2016 (from 3/11/2016)
The Best Man Wedding TBA 2016 (from 4/15/2016)
Mena (Tom Cruise arms race drama) 1/6/2017
50 Shades Darker 2/10/2017
The Mummy 3/24/2017 (from 6/24/2016)
Furious 8 4/14/2017
Pacific Rim 2 8/4/2017 (from 4/7/2017)
50 Shades Freed 2/9/2018
Untitled Universal Monster Franchise Film (I believe this is the Tom Cruise as Van Helsing movie) 3/30/2018 (from 4/21/2017)

[Buscemi]

And Relativity has finally scheduled Shaun the Sheep Movie for 8/7/2015. Relativity's likely to do some summer shuffling now (possibly canceling The Bronze's wide run and either placing Masterminds at July 31st or pushing it back a few weeks).

Also, two more dates:
He Called Me Malala (new documentary from Waiting for Superman's director) 10/2/2015
Grimsby 3/4/2016 (from 2/26/2016)

[Buscemi]

New release dates:

American Ultra 8/21/2015
We Are Your Friends (Zac Efron and EDM) 8/28/2015
The 33 11/13/2015 (originally at Fox, Warner Bros. will now release the film)
Criminal 1/22/2016 (from 8/21/2015)
Dirty Grandpa 2/26/2016 (from 8/11/2016)
Gods of Egypt 4/8/2016 (from 2/12/2016)
La La Land 7/15/2016
Ouija 2 10/21/2016
Power Rangers 1/13/2017 (from 7/15/2016)
Ghost in the Shell 3/31/2017 (from 4/21/2017)

Meanwhile, Shaun the Sheep Movie will be now released by Lionsgate instead of Relativity.

Also, IFC is opening The D Train (which was panned at Sundance) wide on May 8th. I don't think this is a wise investment with that Boyhood money.

[empire13]

It seems Paramount has pushed Monster Trucks back to 3/18/16. That sandwiches it between Zootopia and The Jungle Book. At least it's got a couple of weeks (or so) on either side.

[undeadmonkey]

I was about to take it one of the rounds, but i'm so glad I didn't.

[Shrykespeare]

It seems Paramount has pushed Monster Trucks back to 3/18/16. That sandwiches it between Zootopia and The Jungle Book. At least it's got a couple of weeks (or so) on either side.

(tugs at collar nervously...)

[Buscemi]

Meanwhile, Warner Bros. has scheduled Barbershop 3 for 2/19/2016. I expected this would go to at least June.

Also, Paramount has officially removed Beverly Hills Cop 4 from 3/25/2016 to an undetermined date (possibly Summer or Fall 2016). It looks like Eddie Murphy got his wish for more rewrites.

[Buscemi]

New release dates:

Mistress America (Noah Baumbach's latest attempt to get with young people) 8/14/2015
Nine Lives (Kevin Spacey switches bodies with a cat, no seriously) 4/29/2016

[BanksIsDaFuture]

One new date

Miracles from Heaven - 3/18/16 (Christian book adaptation, from producers of Heaven Is For Real)

[Buscemi]

How did they get Jennifer Garner involved with one of those?

Anyway, Fox has scheduled Gore Verbinski's new film, A Cure for Wellness, for 9/23/2016. Looks like he's going small (it's a horror film) after the failure of The Lone Ranger.

[Buscemi]

A new distributor named Atlas Distribution has picked up Werner Herzog's Queen of the Desert and will open wide in late September. I believe this will be the first Herzog film to achieve a wide release.

[numbersix]

And considering the review it's been getting, probably the last.

[Buscemi]

Neophyte distributors are always bizarre about titles to go wide. A24 still surprises me with some of their wide release choices.

[Buscemi]

In other news, Untitled Lance Armstrong Project is now titled The Program and footage was screened to distributors at Cannes. Studiocanal is hoping for a late 2015 release (after being delayed from last year).