The Crow will resurrect a little later than expected

The Crow just flew into CinemaCon, and, boy, are its arms tired.

The hotly anticipated remake of the cult superhero movie about an undead rockstar with a mullet is flying from a June release date to an August one, which probably makes more sense than a Lionsgate remake of The Crow. Per Deadline, the scuttlebutt at CinemaCon is that several of Lionsgate will announce a change for several release dates, including The Crow and Saw XI. Originally expected to bow on June 7, The Crow will now make its nest in theaters on August 23. Should The Crow do the unthinkable and move to August, the June 7 release date frees up Bad Boys: Ride Or Die to make all the jokes about Marcus Burnett’s dead bedroom it wants.

However, an August release does make sense for a movie like The Crow, which prefers to be a little underground (or far aboveground, depending on its mood). The character isn’t what we’d call a mainstream superhero movie for kids, but rather a hard-R revenge thriller about a guy who returns from the grave to avenge his girlfriend’s rape. Obviously, revenge is one of three plot drivers Hollywood leans on hardest, the others being Mike and Dave needing wedding dates and “Squeakquel.” Still, perhaps the fine folks at Lionsgate thought the movie would do better a little later in the season. Then again, Bad Boys II has an entire sequence in which Martin Lawrence and Will Smith dig through hollowed-out corpses for ecstasy, so does the content even matter?

The Crow isn’t the only Lionsgate release making a change, though. Eric Draven’s fellow facepaint enthusiast, Jigsaw, will take another year to prep his latest warehouse of torture and learning. Saw XI will open in theaters on September 26, 2025, presumably giving us enough time to forget about that horrible bonemarrow challenge from Saw X. Instead of Saw XI, Lionsgate is releasing its Alexandre Aja’s Never Let Go, starring Halle Berry. Given Aja’s body of work, we expect this to be plenty gross, too.