Disney Currently Has No Plans To Delay BLACK WIDOW Release Amid Coronavirus Concerns

Disney Currently Has No Plans To Delay BLACK WIDOW Release Amid Coronavirus Concerns

Despite widespread speculation that Disney/Marvel Studios may push back the release of Black Widow after MGM was forced to delay No Time To Die, the Mouse House reportedly has no plans to do so...

By MarkCassidy - Mar 04, 2020 08:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Black Widow
It doesn't look like Disney/Marvel will be delaying the release of Black Widow. Or at least, there are no plans to do so currently.

Earlier today, it was announced that MGM and Universal had pushed back No Time To Die by over 7 months amid concerns that the new James Bond movie would suffer in overseas markets because of the coronavirus outbreak. There was a lot of speculation that Marvel would follow-suit with Black Widow, but Deadline reckons the studio is "adamant" that it won't be budging on the scheduled May 1 release date.

Despite this, several insiders have heard rumors that Widow might shift to Eternals' Nov. 6 release date, moving that film to 2021. For now, all we have to go on are the trade reports, and it sounds like Black Widow will be staying put.

Likewise, Universal will be leaving F9 where it is, and Warner Bros. plans to stick with the set release dates for summer tentpoles Scoob! and Wonder Woman 1984.

The situation could well change if the outbreak worsens, of course, so we'll have to wait see how the rest of March goes.
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KWilly
KWilly - 3/4/2020, 8:03 PM
Thank God. Can't live in fear.
dracula
dracula - 3/4/2020, 8:06 PM
Last time people were afraid to go to the movies
tmp3
tmp3 - 3/4/2020, 8:10 PM
@dracula - Yeah, but that was based on nothing, this is based on foreign markets like Italy and China closing down cinemas and self-isolation leading to lower ticket sales. I guess fears of contamination in public places too, but that would be pretty low on the totem pole for a studio executive I think
SpideyPuffsMJ
SpideyPuffsMJ - 3/4/2020, 8:36 PM
@tmp3 - Cannot be overstated how much Joker fears were based on nothing. News articles with nothing to justify their worries.
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 3/4/2020, 9:05 PM
@dracula - I mean, this is the forces of nature we're dealing with. It's a little more possible to assume someone might unwillingly spread germs around as opposed to someone going on a a psychotic breakdown and murdering people.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 3/4/2020, 8:19 PM
It’s just not feasible for every movie to move, there’s just not that many weeks in a year, you can’t push everything back, plus if every thing moved then some of theaters wouldn’t be around anymore once the big movies come back.
Beartastic25
Beartastic25 - 3/4/2020, 8:20 PM
*stares into their souls* YOU BETTER NOT !
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