2020 movie releases: Another blockbuster delayed by coronavirus

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The latest big 2020 movie to lose its original release date, Black Widow, now has a new appointment — which has tons of ramifications for Marvel's box function calendar. And while the year's already had some gems like Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey and Portrait of a Lady on Fire, nosotros're already seeing big postponements related to coronavirus concerns, including Fast & Furious ix.

2020 Movies delayed by coronavirus

Antlers (release TBA)
Black Widow (November. vi)
Blue Story (release TBA)
Fast 9 (moved to April 2021)
The Lovebirds (release TBA)
Mulan (release TBA)
The New Mutants (release TBA)
No Time To Die (moved to Nov. 2020)
Peter Rabbit ii (moved to Aug. 2020)
A Quiet Identify Part 2 (release TBA)
Wonder Woman 1984 (Aug. 14, 2020)

Nosotros're already seeing some announcements that NBCUniversal will release some films on video on demand at the same date they were supposed to get to theaters — and they include 1 of our beneath picks.

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For the time being, though, some multiplexes are staying open (while many others shut) and some movies, like Black Widow and Bond 25: No Fourth dimension to Die (which, itself, was moved from Apr to November), are notwithstanding planned to come out this year.

And, since anything tin can modify these days, we're also including movies that have been postponed to later in the year, to 2021, as well as those whose release dates were moved from 2020 to … well, TBA.

Promising Young Woman (April 17)

Update: Promising Young Woman is from Focus Features, and is one of the movies that may release on VOD at the same date information technology was supposed to hit theaters.

A seriously intriguing revenge tale, Promising Immature Woman jumped out of nowhere to capture our attending, as a mere trailer in front of another flick. Its premise is surprisingly novel: Cassie (Carey Mulligan) is out for revenge confronting bad men everywhere, going to confined, feigning existence blackout drunk and allowing men (it's always men) to take her back to their identify. And before they can take advantage of her? Well, Cassie reveals she'southward not actually that far-gone, and things don't stop well for the men.

Mulligan is supported by a stacked cast, including Alison Brie (Glow), Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights), Adam Brody (The O.C.), Jennifer Coolidge (Best in Bear witness), Laverne Cox (Orange Is the New Black), Max Greenfield (New Girl) and Molly Shannon (Sabbatum Night Live). Simply in just the trailer alone, Mulligan stands out and teases a performance that might make Promising Young Woman one of the all-time 2020 movies, even if its discipline affair is likely off putting for some. -- Henry T. Casey

Black Widow (postponed to November. 6)

Update: Black Widow is now coming on Nov 6 (formerly when The Eternals was going to come out), and that decision has a ripple effect on the MCU Phase 4 movies. The Eternals is at present releasing on Feb 12, 2021, Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings moves to May 7, 2021, Doctor Foreign and the Multiverse of Madness, which formerly had that slot moves to Thor: Love and Thunder, which will be ii weeks after Valentine'due south Twenty-four hour period, February 28, 2022

Curiosity is finally making upwards for its lack of female-led superhero movies. Last year, the studio released Captain Marvel to rave reviews and $ane.1 billion at the box role. At present, Marvel is giving Avengers team member Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) her own spinoff. As we saw in Avengers: Endgame (spoilers ahead), Black Widow aka Natasha Romanoff died sacrificing herself to get the Soul Stone. She'southward not getting resurrected, though; her standalone movie is a prequel, set merely after the events of Captain America: Civil War.

If you recall, the events of that motion-picture show tore apart the Avengers, and so Natasha finds herself lone and friendless as she faces a dark conspiracy from her past. She is forced to confront her history as a spy and deal with the broken family she left behind, including sister-effigy Yelena Belova aka Black Warrior (Florence Pugh), father effigy Alexei Shostakov aka Scarlet Guardian (David Harbour) and mother figure Melina Vostokoff aka Blackness Widow (Rachel Weisz). —Kelly Woo

Scoob! (May 15)

For all of the Scooby-Doo adventures I've seen, I'm amazed I've never heard the tale of how Scoob and Shaggy became the bestest of friends. This pic seeks to finally fill in that bare, and the trailer gives us a sample of this interaction, with a funny incident on the beach. Before we know it, Shag and Scoob meet Fred, Daphne and Velma, and we're on the road in the Mystery Machine.

Except, information technology turns out, that route is less of a paved path and more of a trajectory into space. We're not sure how this motion picture ends (though someone better exist getting unmasked), merely at least two of our favorite mystery solvers end up in outer space. Yes, this won't reinvent movie theater equally we know it, but Scoob definitely looks like a picture show that younger parents can share with their kids, without worrying almost information technology being terribly boring and empty, like most of the neon stuff in Netflix's kids section. -- Henry T. Casey

Wonder Woman 1984 (postponed to Aug. 14)

UPDATE: The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Wonder Woman's also getting pushed back due to coronavirus concerns. It's now slated to drop near the stop of Summer 2020, on August xiv .

Over 6 decades have passed between the showtime blockbuster Wonder Adult female film and the sequel, but of course, Diana Prince (Gal Gado) hasn't aged a mean solar day. But it'due south been a lone life, with all the people she knew and loved expressionless and gone — including her love Steve Rogers (Chris Pine). Diana works quietly at the Natural History Museum in Washington D.C. simply is chosen back into action every bit Wonder Woman to face new foes, Barbara Ann Minerve aka The Cheetah (Kristen Wiig) and shady businessman Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal).

The first Wonder Adult female movie was a breath of fresh air compared to other DC movies, which tended to be nighttime and somber. Since then, Warner Bros. and DC accept been playing effectually with tone and genre. Shazam was more of a family unit comedy, while Birds of Prey was lauded for its sense of outrageous fun. With the same team backside Wonder Adult female 1984, we're expecting very good things from DC's adjacent outing. —Kelly Woo

In the Heights (June 26)

One of Hamilton maestro and star Lin-Manuel Miranda's first success stories came from working on the music and lyrics for the award-winning musical In the Heights. The film's main graphic symbol, Usnavi, owns a bodega in Washington Heights and is struggling and singing his mode through terrible times. The film, judging past its trailer, is getting political, going into the 2017 and 2018 deportation of those protected past DACA. Miranda is credited for the picture show, and he's also co-starring and producing. -- Henry T. Casey

Tenet (July 17)

Christopher Nolan hasn't fabricated a movie in three years, since 2017'southward Dunkirk, for which he received his first Best Director Oscar nomination. Naturally, his fans are stoked for Tenet. It'south described as an activity epic set in the world of international espionage and was filmed in seven countries. As with virtually of Nolan's projects, not much is known about the plot beyond that. But it sounds in the vein of Inception.

The first teaser trailer indicates information technology may involve time traveling, the afterlife and some calamitous danger that could provoke World War III. Oh, and whatever it is is worse than nuclear holocaust. Yikes! What we practise know is who's in Tenet and information technology'south a star-studded roster: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Clemence Poesy and, of form, Michael Caine. It wouldn't be a Nolan film without him. —Kelly Woo

The French Acceleration (July 24)

Wes Anderson's movies all have similar tropes and casts, and a familiar aesthetic, but The French Dispatch looks like the nearly Wes Anderson-y one however. From its The New Yorker-inspired poster to its all-star ensemble (Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Tilda Swinton and Frances McDormand star among others) to its topic — three stories published in a fictional French paper — this is undoubtedly Anderson. Oh, and Wes finally cast Benicio del Toro for this film, as Moses Rosenthaler, an incarcerated artist. -- Henry T. Casey

Bond 25: No Fourth dimension to Die (Nov. 25)

The start film to feel the wrath of coronavirus pushbacks, Bond 25: No Time to Die is Daniel Craig's concluding ride every bit James Bail flips the grapheme on its head. No longer 007, Bail's brought out of hiding to proceed a rescue mission. His mission doesn't end there, equally he's introduced to Nomi (Lashana Lynch), who's taken his iconic code-number, and then is tracking Safin (Rami Malek). Also, Bail'south love Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux) has some secrets that volition come out, secrets that Safin knows.

I'thou most excited about No Time to Die because of two major names tied to the film. Director Cary Joji Fukunaga (It , Beasts of No Nation) is a forcefulness to be reckoned with, and he worked on the script alongside Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve), one of the biggest upwardly and coming names in Tv and film, who punched upwards the script. -- Henry T. Casey

Eternals (postponed to Feb. 12, 2021)

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Don't worry if you've never heard of The Eternals. They're not even originally known as that name, equally this grouping derived from the Celestials, a cosmos of comic god Jack Kirby, and they're being brought to the big screen by large names such as Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek and Richard Madden. Heck, fifty-fifty Kumail Nanjiani got ripped for this picture, where the Eternals volition face up foes called The Deviants.

And, oh, if you didn't realize it already, this is a Marvel Phase iv motion-picture show, which means it should find ways to necktie into the MCU characters you already know and love ... which also ways, that its release engagement moved back as Blackness Widow landed on its original date. At present, information technology'due south coming out next yr, on February 12, 2021.

Mulan (TBA)

Disney'due south inexorable march toward filming alive-activity remakes of their dear animated classics continues. Mulan follows in the footsteps of Cinderella, Beauty and the Animate being and Aladdin. Just this is not just the 1998 pic with existent human beings. Director Niki Caro puts a fresh spin on the tale, which follows the titular young woman while she heads off to war disguised as a human. Mulan'due south early on reviews are glowing. Critics are calling it Disney's all-time live-activity remake yet. Information technology's telling that Mulan is the beginning of the live-action remakes to get a PG-13 rating. That means there'due south room for Disney films to have a slightly darker, more than mature tone.

In Mulan 2020, Liu Yifei plays the pb role of Hua Mulan. The eldest daughter in her family, she is spirited and quick on her anxiety. To salvage her ailing father from being conscripted into the army, Mulan dresses upward as a homo and takes his place. That sends her on an ballsy journey that tests her forcefulness — physical, mental and emotional. -- Kelly Woo

F9: Fast & Furious nine (April 2021)

Yeah, F9: Fast & Furious 9 was delayed until April 2021, merely it'southward nevertheless close to our hearts. For 9 movies (Hobbs & Shaw counts, trust me), the Fast & Furious movies accept been nearly 1 thing more than than anything else: Family. Which is why we're a bit surprised to finally learn that Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) has been hiding a younger brother — Jakob Toretto (John Cena) — from everyone. And surprise surprise, Jakob's got bad blood with Dom, and he'southward one of the major foes that the crew has to defeat.

Oh, and Jakob's non alone, he's working with i of Dom'southward biggest (living) enemies: Naught (Charlize Theron), who debuted in The Fate of the Furious, where she turned Dom against his team, by holding his ex and their son hostage. This time, we've got all the cars and stunts y'all couldn't have ever imagined, as the trailer fifty-fifty shows one car flying at Dom, who seemingly catches it mid-air? Either way, we're betting Dom survives and makes good with Jakob, so he tin can exist one of the good guys in Fas10 Your Seatbelts. -- Henry T. Casey

Henry is a senior editor at Tom's Guide covering streaming media, laptops and all things Apple, reviewing devices and services for the by six-plus years. Prior to joining Tom's Guide, he reviewed software and hardware for TechRadar Pro, and interviewed artists for Patek Philippe International Magazine. He's besides covered the wild world of professional wrestling for Cageside Seats, interviewing athletes and other industry veterans.