X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX Delayed Until 2019 As THE NEW MUTANTS Gets Pushed Back AGAIN

X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX Delayed Until 2019 As THE NEW MUTANTS Gets Pushed Back AGAIN

Fox waited until nearly midnight to drop this bombshell but there's no way they can avoid backlash for this decision! X-Men: Dark Phoenix and New Mutants have been delayed and you can find out more here.

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By JoshWilding - Mar 27, 2018 01:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Dark Phoenix
Disney's acquisition of Fox is expected to be completed by mid-2019 at the latest and based on the newly announced release dates for X-Men: Dark Phoenix and The New Mutants, there's a very good chance that deal will have gone through by the time they reach theaters. Originally set for release on November 2nd, 2018, Simon Kinberg's X-Men: Dark Phoenix is now slated for February 14th, 2019. 

That's a pretty significant delay and could be down to the fact that the movie reportedly makes use of a great deal of VFX. There could be any number of reasons for this release date change, including issues with the finished product or Fox being more confident with a February debut for the Marvel movie. 

As for The New Mutants, that's already been moved from April 13th, 2018 to February 22nd, 2019 to accommodate reshoots adding more horror elements and another character but now isn't being released until August 2nd, 2019. Disney will probably own Fox by then so don't be surprised if it never actually reaches theaters or heads straight to Blu-ray/TV. For now, though, we'll have to wait and see!

How do you feel about these delays? Be sure to let us know your thoughts in the comments section.
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Saga
Saga - 3/27/2018, 1:12 AM
Wow
incredibleTalk
incredibleTalk - 3/27/2018, 2:25 AM
@Saga - ...give the rights back to Marvel...


...oh wait...
PBIRD
PBIRD - 3/27/2018, 6:06 AM
Great! Now I have to go from not watching it in Nov. To not watching it in February?

I think we can officially call the gambit movie deader than Brendan Fraiser's career as well.
DirkLargepeck
DirkLargepeck - 3/27/2018, 7:46 AM
@PBIRD -
PBIRD
PBIRD - 3/27/2018, 7:53 AM
@DirkLargepeck - hahahaha
Forthas
Forthas - 3/27/2018, 1:14 AM


Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 3/27/2018, 1:17 AM
This is really off-putting but...i get it for Dark Phoenix, it's a smart move tbh, cause 2018 is packed around November/December.
I dunno, i think Aquaman should do the same.

They didn't released any trailers, so that's good.
Shiieeeet can't believe i'm actually more worried about New Mutants now! D:
WarnerBrother
WarnerBrother - 3/27/2018, 1:24 AM
@Doomsday8888 -

With Dark Phoenix gone,November/December 2018 will be less packed and its likely
Aquaman or Bumblebee is going to move up to claim that spot. It would be a missed
opportunity for WB if they didn't take advantage of a holiday season without Marvel
Star Wars or (with the Disney/FOX merger) Avatar, in theaters sucking up the oxygen.
Odin
Odin - 3/27/2018, 1:19 AM
uuh...okay. Kinda of funny that we actually have already first trailer for new mutants.
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 3/27/2018, 9:03 AM
@Odin - Yeah I was thinking the same thing... I bet that film looks completely different once they release another trailer in a few months. Seems like they're changing a lot.
Odin
Odin - 3/27/2018, 11:00 AM
@L0RDbuckethead - I still hold on to the theory that reshoots are going to cut ties to Fox universe and tie it to MCU instead. This could be very interesting and different kind of introduction of mutants. Would also make sense with postponed release date.
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 3/27/2018, 12:34 PM
@Odin - I could see it. FOX is definitely doing some behind the scenes shuffling for a reason. The Disney/FOX acquisition could be why.
WarnerBrother
WarnerBrother - 3/27/2018, 1:19 AM
Works better for WB's Aquaman which doesn't have a major superhero film coming out near it.

WB should move Aquaman forward to November 2018 to get away from Bumblebee and kick
off the holiday movie season the way Thor did last November and Wonder Woman 2 is slated
to do in 2019.

FOX could also be looking at Black Panther as evidence that releasing a major tent pole
in February could work to their advantage by thriving with weak competition around it.
Luminus
Luminus - 3/27/2018, 1:21 AM
@WarnerBrother - If that's their thinking, no wonder they're CBM failures.
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