After the close to $100 million opening of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the Walt Disney Company simply made a significant assertion about the way forward for its movies. First, the entire company’s remaining 2021 releases, together with Eternals and The King’s Man, will play solely in theaters for 45 days. In addition, the corporate simply dated a bunch of future movies all the way in which into 2024.

The largest piece of that latter bit of reports is that the 2024 calendar simply added 4 new Marvel films, scheduled for launch February 16, May 3, July 26, and November 8, 2024. They’ll come after 4 Marvel films throughout 2022 and a whopping 5 in 2023. Beyond that, Guillermo del Toro’s newest, Nightmare Alley, was pushed a couple of weeks from December 3 to December 17; the beforehand undated Bob’s Burgers film will now be out May 27, 2022; and the live-action model of The Little Mermaid will swim into theaters May 26, 2023.

Both strikes are robust indications simply how bullish Disney is on the theatrical expertise. And why shouldn’t it’s? After releasing lots of its large 2021 movies like Black Widow and Jungle Cruise each in theaters and on Disney+, the final two main releases—Free Guy and Shang-Chi—had been solely in theaters and each had been main hits. So the remaining movies this yr being unique to theaters for 45 days (with the notable exception of the animated movie Encanto, which shall be unique for under 30 days) makes excellent sense, for the corporate not less than. It would possibly make much less sense to individuals nonetheless apprehensive concerning the world covid-19 pandemic however with the numbers Shang-Chi put up, Disney appears content material with not less than that potential.

It’s additionally all the time price checking if Disney’s schedule nonetheless has Avatar 2 hitting theaters in December 2022, which it does. Star Wars will nonetheless return to theaters in December 2023 with Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron, adopted by the franchises flipping that month into 2028: Avatar 3 in December 2024, a brand new Star Wars in December 2025, then Avatar, Star Wars, Avatar.

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