It’s official, at least for now: Disney said on Friday that it’s moving Niki Caro Mulan release date July 25 to August 21, the weekend after BeginningThe five-day opening from August 12 to 16.
We were hearing noise about this earlier this week, as we told you, with COVID-19 cases popping up across the country and theaters reopening in New York, Los Angeles, and China on the air. Although California has provided guidelines for movie theaters to reopen, Los Angeles County has yet to give the go-ahead.
The good news here for the exhibition is that Disney has a plan to open Mulan in the near future near Beginning and not during the holidays or 2021 (or even Disney +, for that matter). MulanThe moola will be highly appreciated.
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“While the pandemic has changed our launch plans to Mulan and we will continue to be flexible as conditions require, our belief in the power of this film and its message of hope and perseverance have not changed, “said Alan Horn, co-president and creative director, and Alan Bergman, co-president of The Walt Disney Studios. “Director Niki Caro and our cast and crew have created a beautiful, epic and heartwarming film that is everything the film experience should be, and that’s where we think it belongs: on the world stage and on the big screen for that audiences around the world enjoy together. “
What happens now is that we will probably see theaters, like AMC, change their reopening hours. What happened on July 10 for the reopening of Circuit No. 1 will likely become July 31, with staggered reopens occurring on August 7 and 12. I heard that Cinemark will reopen 75 theaters next weekend and will naturally depend on the product in the catalog; that’s from a source, not one of the chain. For the most part, most of the nation’s exhibitors will be close to a 4 1/2 month shutdown on July 31 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We’ll develop a revised summer launch schedule (which is now turning into fall) after seeing where Solstice Studios is located Deranged, Sony puts Broken Hearts Gallery, and where does STX Greenland. MGM just moved Bill and Ted face the music from August 14 to August 28 after Beginning fallen on its release date.
