Lionsgate has delayed the release of Chris Rock‘s new Saw movie Spiral, as well as the Janelle Monáe thriller Antebellum...
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Antebellum was set for release on April 24, while Run was set for May 8, and Spiral: From the Book of Saw was set for May 15. The studio will announce new dates and release strategies once there is more clarity on when movie theaters will fully — and safely — resume operations.
Antebellum’s first trailer made it obvious that Janelle Monáe’s Veronica Henley was destined to become mixed up in all types of wildly dangerous situations over the course of the film. What wasn’t clear was whether the racist dangers she was facing were from the present day or whether, somehow, Veronica was literally dealing with people from the past.The movie’s new trailer doesn’t exactly spell things out explicitly, but it leans into the idea that when Veronica ends up being captured and enslaved in the past, she’s still aware of her life in the present day, which is what makes her that much more determined to escape from and destroy her captors.
Lionsgate’s decision follows that of many other major studios, including Disney, which finally took Marvel’s Black Widow off the release calendar. The studio had already delayed Mulan indefinitely, though it also made Frozen 2 available three months early to Disney+ subscribers.Meanwhile, across town, Universal decided to delay its tentpole F9 a full year, though the studio is making new releases such as The Invisible Man, The Hunt and Emma available on VOD this weekend in an effort to entertain the quarantined masses.
