NEW YORK (AP) – There is a disturbance in the force
The premiere of “Star Wars: Episode VIII”. Has been postponed from May 2017 to December 15 of that year, the Wednesday Walt Disney Co.
Will the following blockbuster “The Force Awakens” episode.
Although “Star Wars” used to be synonymous with summer blockbuster, the change of date means that the series will dominate again box office holiday parties. It proved most profitable for “The Force Awakens”, which achieved record revenue of $ 861 million in the US and 1,880 million worldwide in the five weeks since its release.
Disney not He disclosed the reason for the delay, but rumors that the writer-director Rian Johnson (“Looper”), which happen to JJ Abrams, is rewriting the script. The start of production is scheduled for next month in London.
Meanwhile, the premiere of “Rogue One”, a derivative of “Star Wars” directed by Gareth Edwards, is scheduled for December 16 this year.
Now that the studies disclosed the release dates of its main series years in advance, the change had an immediate impact.
The new date results a possible but unlikely rivalry between “Star Wars” and “Avatar2″. The premiere of this film by James Cameron was scheduled for Christmas 2017, but few believe that 20th Century Fox hit that date with the long-delayed sequel to “Avatar”. A Fox spokesman did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the matter.
A premiere that will be affected is decidedly “Ready Player One”, a film by Steven Spielberg science fiction for Warner Bros., scheduled for the same weekend of December 15, 2017.
Disney moved another of his multimillion series, “Pirates of the Caribbean”, to 26 May 2017. The new title of the series starring Johnny Depp’s “Dead Men Tell No Tales” (The dead do not speak).
At the same time, Sony Pictures moved two of his major films by mid 2017. The next “Spider-Man” starring Tom Holland and directed by Jon Watts, was delayed three weeks to 28 July 2017. The new version of “Jumanji” directed by Jake Kasdan, scheduled for Christmas 2016, will hit screens on 28 July 2017.
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