Here's a running, updated list of every movie that's been delayed or rescheduled due to coronavirus
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.
Antebellum
Directed by: Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz
Original release date: April 24, 2020
Current release date: TBD
Antlers
Directed by: Scott Cooper
Original release date: April 17, 2020
Current release date: TBD
The Batman
Directed by: Matt Reeves
Original release date: June 2021
Current release date: October 1, 2021
Black Widow
Directed by: Cate Shortland
Original release date: May 1, 2020
Current release date: November 6, 2020
Blithe Spirit
Directed by: Edward Hall
Original release date: May 1, 2020
Current release date: September 4, 2020
Blue Story
Directed by: Rapman
Original release date: March 20, 2020
Current release date: TBD
Bob’s Burgers: The Movie
Directed by: Loren Bouchard
Original release date: July 17, 2020
Current release date: April 9, 2021
Candyman
Directed by: Nia DaCosta
Original release date: June 12, 2020
Current release date: September 25, 2020
The Climb
Directed by: Michael Angelo Covino
Original release date: March 27, 2020
Current release date: July 17, 2020
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness
Directed by: TBD
Original release date: May 7, 2021
Current release date: November 5, 2021
Dream Horse
Directed by: Euros Lyn
Original release date: April 17, 2020
Current release date: September 4, 2020
The Eternals
Directed by: Chloé Zhao
Original release date: November 6, 2020
Current release date: February 12, 2021
F9
Directed by: Justin Lin
Original release date: May 22, 2020
Current release date: April 2, 2021
The Flash
Directed by: Andy Muschietti
Original release date: August 1, 2022
Current release date: June 2, 2022 (!)
Free Guy
Directed by: Shawn Levy
Original release date: July 3, 2020
Current release date: December 11, 2020
The French Dispatch
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Original release date: July 24, 2020
Current release date: October 16, 2020
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Directed by: Jason Reitman
Original release date: July 10, 2020
Current release date: March 5, 2021
Greyhound
Directed by: Aaron Schneider
Original release date: June 12, 2020
Current release date: TBD
Indiana Jones 5
Directed by: TBD
Original release date: July 9, 2021
Current release date: July 29, 2022
In The Heights
Directed by: Jon M. Chu
Original release date: June 26, 2020
Current release date: June 18, 2021
Jungle Cruise
Directed by: Jaume Collett-Serra
Original release date: July 24, 2020
Current release date: July 30, 2021
Malignant
Directed by: James Wan
Original release date: August 14, 2020
Current release date: TBD
The Many Saints Of Newark
Directed by: David Chase
Original release date: September 25, 2020
Current release date: March 21, 2021
Minions: The Rise Of Gru
Directed by: Kyle Balda
Original release date: July 3, 2020
Current release date: July 2, 2021
Morbius
Directed by: Daniel Espinosa
Original release date: July 31, 2020
Current release date: March 19, 2021
Mulan
Directed by: Niki Caro
Original release date: March 27, 2020
Current release date: July 24, 2020
My Spy
Directed by: Peter Segal
Original release date: March 13, 2020
Current release date: April 17, 2020
The New Mutants
Directed by: Josh Boone
Original release date: April 3, 2020
Current release date: TBD
No Time To Die
Directed by: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Original release date: April 2, 2020
Current release date: November 25, 2020
The Personal History Of David Copperfield
Directed by: Armando Iannucci
Original release date: May 8, 2020
Current release date: TBD
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
Directed by: Will Gluck
Original release date: April 3, 2020
Current release date: January 15, 2021
Promising Young Woman
Directed by: Emerald Fennell
Original release date: April 17, 2020
Current release date: TBD
A Quiet Place Part II
Directed by: John Krasinski
Original release date: March 20, 2020
Current release date: September 4, 2020
Scoob!
Directed by: Tony Cervone
Original release date: May 15, 2020
Current release date: May 15, 2020 (Straight to VOD, no theatrical release)
The Secret Garden
Directed by: Marc Munden
Original release date: April 3, 2020
Current release date: August 14, 2020
Shazam 2
Directed by: David F. Sandberg
Original release date: April 2022
Current release date: November 4, 2022
Sing 2
Directed by: Garth Jennings
Original release date: July 2, 2021
Current release date: December 22, 2021
Spiral
Directed by: Darren Lynn Bouman
Original release date: May 15, 2020
Current release date: TBD
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run
Directed by: Tim Hill
Original release date: May 22, 2020
Current release date: July 31, 2020
Thor: Love And Thunder
Directed by: Taika Waititi
Original release date: November 5, 2021
Current release date: February 18, 2022
The Tomorrow War
Directed by: Chris McKay
Original release date: December 25, 2020
Current release date: TBD
Top Gun: Maverick
Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
Original release date: June 26, 2020
Current release date: December 23, 2020
Uncharted
Directed by: Ruben Fleischer
Original release date: March 5, 2021
Current release date: October 8, 2021
The Woman In The Window
Directed by: Joe Wright
Original release date: May 15, 2020
Current release date: TBD
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Directed by: Andy Serkis
Original release date: October 2, 2020
Current release date: June 25, 2021
Wonder Woman 1984
Directed by: Patty Jenkins
Original release date: June 5, 2020
Current release date: August 14, 2020