Paramount has shifted the discharge dates of lots of its blockbusters, together with first bumping again Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick” and the seventh and eighth “Mission: Impossible” movies.
“Top Gun: Maverick” will now open November 19, 2021, sliding again from a July Four vacation weekend. And “Maverick,” which is co-produced by Skydance, is taking the spot beforehand held by “Mission: Impossible 7.” The “Mission: Impossible” sequel will now open May 27, 2022. That additionally pushes “MI:8” to July 7, 2023 from November 2022.
Other launch date modifications and bulletins embrace for “Snake Eyes,” “Jackass,” the untitled “Bee Gees” biopic and even a brand new “Star Trek” film.
Next up for Paramount is “Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe – Origins,” which moved up from Oct. 22 to now open on July 23, 2021. That movie stars Henry Golding because the character primarily based on the Hasbro toy line and is directed by Robert Schwentke. Then there’s “Jackass,” the revival of the 2000s stunt and prank present, which can now open in “Snake Eyes’” outdated spot on Oct. 22, 2021. Johnny Knoxville and firm are returning for the movie that’s directed by Jeff Tremaine.
Kenneth Branagh is directing the untitled Bee Gees biopic, which is now set for a launch on Nov. 4, 2022. Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment is producing alongside Graham King and the manufacturing firm Sister, and surviving Bee Gees member Barry Gibb can be govt producing the movie. Ben Elton is writing the script primarily based on the disco band’s profession.
Moving into 2023, Paramount has set “Dungeons & Dragons” for a March 3, 2023 launch (initially May 27, 2022). That movie is directed by “Game Night” administrators Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley and stars a powerful ensemble forged that features Michelle Rodriguez, Chris Pine, Justice Smith, Rege-Jean Page, Hugh Grant and Sophia Lillis.
It shall be adopted by a brand new “Star Trek” film, which is now set for June 9, 2023. “Star Trek: Discovery” author and consulting producer Kalinda Vazquez is writing the nonetheless untitled movie, and J.J. Abrams is producing by way of Bad Robot.
Finally, “The Shrinking of Treehorn,” an animated movie primarily based on the favored youngsters’s e book that Ron Howard was initially hooked up to direct, has been set for Nov. 10, 2023. And a collaboration between Ryan Reynolds and John Krasinski initially reported as “Imaginary Friends,” will open Nov. 17, 2023. Krasinski is writing, directing and producing the comedy that can comply with a person who can see, and speak, to folks’s imaginary pals. However, a few of these pals don’t at all times imply effectively, and Reynolds’ character has to save lots of the world from these pals that flip evil.
Paramount beforehand introduced that “A Quiet Place Part II,” which remains to be set for launch this May, and “Mission: Impossible 7,” can be made out there on Paramount+ after a 45-day theatrical window, which reduce in half the extra conventional 90-day window from earlier than the pandemic.
