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Breaking: Sony Pushes ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ and ‘Morbius’ to March 2021
Sony Pictures is getting ahead of what looks to be a prolonged storm by shifting several of their films out of their summer and fall slots all the way to next year.
Two affected are Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Marvel’s Morbius, both of which were slated for release this coming July.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife will now open in theaters on March 5, 2021, while Morbius, starring Jared Leto as “The Living Vampire, will now bite into audiences on March 19, 2021.
Another major shift is the video game adaptation of Uncharted, which got bumped from March all the way to October 8, 2021, while the Untilted Sony Marvel project has been completely pulled from the release schedule.
This is a very bad sign as it’s signaling that the belief by top studio execs is that the effects of the coronavirus will be felt in cinemas through, at the very least, this fall.
It’s important to note that there’s been speculation that, even when the coronavirus is under control, “social distancing” will remain in effect throughout the rest of the year. If true, this would mean limiting theater capacity, which would have an aggressive impact on box office numbers. Would a studio spend tens to hundreds of millions of dollars promoting a film when only 25%-50% of seats can be filled – not to mention the lingering fear by audiences to go into a theater for the unforeseen future?
While Sony is getting ahead of the problem and grabbing 2021 dates, other studios are playing a dangerous game by attempting to weather the storm. This is only the beginning and we’ll just have to wait to see how everything in life continues to unfold…
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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