Lionsgate's POWER RANGERS Reboot Shifts Release To 2017
With a number of juggernauts on the horizon for 2016, it was easy to forget about Power Rangers reboot, & well it looks like the studio felt the same way as they've delayed the film a bit. Check it out!
Lionsgate has announced that their upcoming Mighty Morphin Power Rangers film reboot has been delayed from its original release date of July 22, 2016 to the much less-crowded date of January 13, 2017.
This is not necessarily a surprising move, especially considering that its original release date had the film competing with Matt Damon's Bourne return, the fifth Ice Age, Sony's female Ghostbusters, and WB's Suicide Squad. However, even though it may be a smart move on the studio's part, possibly securing the film a better box office return, a move to January, a month traditionally reserved for awards bait, adult-oriented films, and/or more often than not lesser quality commercial films, doesn't really exhume confidence.
The Rangers reboot will now open a week after Tom Cruise's drug smuggling drama Mena, which reunites the superstar with his Edge Of Tomorrow director Doug Liman for what may be an Academy Award-worthy project.
The long-running Power Rangers franchise, which recently launched its twenty-second season, originally kicked off back in 1993 with the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, a series that quickly became a worldwide phenomenon and starred Austin St. John, Walter Jones, David Yost, Amy Jo Johnson, and Thuy Trang as the superpowered teenagers.
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