Warner Bros. plays musical chairs with upcoming releases, including Aquaman, Wonka, The Flash, and more
Not even a Mother Box can keep Warner Bros.’ release schedule straight
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On the heels of their biggest box office weekend in years, Warner Bros. is shaking things up. The release dates for upcoming tentpole releases, including several DC superhero movies, are now in flux, delayed, and/or moved.
Per Deadline, the delays, which affects The Flash, DC League Of Super-Pets, Aquaman And The Lost City, Shazam! Fury Of The Gods, Wonka, and Meg 2: The Trench, are due to a “logjam” of post-production work on effects-heavy releases. Now, before all the Meg-heads take arms, break onto the Warner Bros.’ lot, chanting “Meg, Meg, Meg” in unison as they knock over the water tower, this stuff is still going to theaters.
First up, the studio moved DC League Of Super-Pets (a.k.a. the movie in which Keanu Reeves plays Batman and Jim Halpert plays Superman) from May 20 to July 29. We know our readers were looking forward to seeing the adventures of Batman and Superman’s dogs, but any younger Bat-fans, who may not be old enough for the Se7en-inspired riddles of The Batman, will have a Caped Crusader to call their own this summer.
Perhaps, the hardest change to swallow is The Flash, which will now catch its breath in theaters on June 23, 2023. We know. Batman fans are, no doubt, excited to see Michael Keaton in the costume again. It would appear as though Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance didn’t satisfy their hunger for Keaton in rubber. The unexpected virtue of ignorance? We think not!
Other members of The Justice League Of America are also renting the proverbial U-Haul. Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom swims from December 16, 2022 to March 17, 2023—perhaps to avoid the water-focused Avatar 2, which is supposedly coming up for air this year. Instead, Shazam! Fury Of The Gods will square off with Jake Sully in the waters of Na’vi, moving from June 2, 2023, to December 16, 2022.
Warner Bros. isn’t just focused on DC, though. The studio also moved Timothée Chalamet’s much-anticipated Willy Wonka origin story, Wonka. The candy man will debut on December 15, 2023. We know this one’s by Paddington director Paul King, so we remain cautiously optimistic, but it bears repeating the question: Jesus, what are we even doing anymore?
Finally, fans can dig into Meg 2: The Trench on August 4, 2023, so please, for the love of God, stop rioting over Meg 2's release date.
Warner, we’re sure, thanks you for your patience.
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The shark in MEG 2 better be loads bigger than the first one, and there also better be an equally ginormous squid or something it can fight/team up with.MEG! MEG! MEG!
Not even a Mother Box can keep Warner Bros.’ release schedule straight
Just whose mother are we talking about here?
Just show up at the theater on the pre-announced dates & be surprised at which film they roll.
The Flash movie was announced before even season one of The Flash TV show aired! Did The AV Club lose recaps of that too?https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com/2022/03/10/the-xs-ively-verbose-seventh-blogiversary/
They don’t recap tv shows around here anymore. Or do much of anything. It’s very empty and weird and dying.
Asked this in other threads, but is there another all-in-one entertainment news/review site that is good or at least not terrible?
And has comments.
If there is I don’t know about it. Cause my dumb ass is still hanging around here.
Black Adam was also moved from July to October. It’s not in Deadline’s bulleted list but mentioned in a sentence just below it.
I’m not sure how smart it is to put Shazam 2 up against Avatar 2.
While I don’t think Avatar 2 will get ANYWHERE near the first movie’s gross, Shazam 1 didn’t exactly light up the box office either (granted, it came out right in the middle of Avengers: Endgame hype) and is generally seen as “separate” from the “real” DC movies like Batman or Wonder Woman, as stupid as that is. I also wonder how much legs it will have since Shazam is more family-friendly, but the Illumination Mario Bros. film is scheduled to drop the week after.
Don’t get me wrong, I would LOVE for Shazam 2 to crush Avatar 2, I just don’t think that will happen.
Please point out the 6 people to whom Wonka is “much anticipated”.
I don’t think this Flash movie will ever come out.
It already came out… in the original timeline. But someone had to make sure Trump didn’t get that fourth term, so here we are.