Some of These Film Delays Are Getting Long
It is of no surprise to anybody that movie delays are still being listed off and companies are trying to re-slate their entire line-ups. With an ever-changing situation, there are going to be scenarios like these where movies meant to release in May are now being pushed to November, or in the case of ‘Fast and Furious 9’ Spring of next year. Delays are varying based off of the movies individually, and the studios producing them. Some movies that moved back when all of this just began have spots in line-ups this year, while other movies were forced to take the place of other movies that studios had lined up. The rest of the movies without a time slot are forced to look way into the future.
Movies that aren’t a part of a franchise have had to push back their release dates an entire year in order to premiere like studios were hoping they would. What this means is that films that were meant to play this summer for the summer crowds will have to wait until next year. Many people are wondering if this is really necessary since some believe that this pandemic will not last too much longer. That is where a lot of people just don’t seem to understand what is going on.
It has only been about a month and a half since the pandemic was declared worldwide. While the number of newly infected cases is not rising exponentially, that doesn’t mean that there are no new cases. The virus will not just simply disappear, and people need to understand that we are now stuck like this for the long haul. Some doctors are making strong predictions that we will be dealing with this going into the Fall. Some movie studios saw this coming and will still be able to show their films this year while others will not.
Studios are now scrambling to find good release windows for their films and this is, in turn, making more delays pop up down the line. Luckily, films that haven’t started production yet are much more fluid, but they have still been forced to be pushed back. So now, in order for production companies to maximize profits, they have to push releases incredibly far off into the future. With that in mind, it is probably a good idea to get used to the fact that films we want to see are going to take far longer to release than we originally anticipated.