As the SAG-AFTRA strike continues in to its second 100 days, the big Hollywood studios are having to face up to the reality that the landscape of 2024 is going to look very different. Overnight another of the big hitters, Paramount Pictures, has announced some changes to its release schedule.
The studio is moving A Quiet Place: Day One, a prequel to the two hit sci-fi horrors from John Krasinski, shifts from March 8, 2024 to June 28. Meanwhile, an untitled animated SpongeBob SquarePants movie has been postponed from May 23, 2025 to December 19. But it isn’t all bad news, another Krasinski film, IF, a fantasy-comedy starring Ryan Reynolds, Krasinski, Alan Kim and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, has moved up from May 24, 2024 to May 17, 2024.
But the biggest news comes from the Mission: Impossible franchise. Following the $567 million grossing Dead Reckoning Part One, the seventh film in the franchise, it has now been confirmed that the next film is moving from June 28, 2024 to May 23, 2025. The move comes with a guarantee of a three-week exclusive run in IMAX. Dead Reckoning Part One was only able to spend a week on large-format screens before Universal Pictures’ Oppenheimer took over with its own exclusive deal with ran for much of summer 2023.
In other news, it’s also been confirmed that Mission: Impossible 8 is now in search of a new title. The studio has decided to drop the originally planned Dead Reckoning Part Two and will instead opt for a new, yet-to-be-confirmed, title.
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