UPDATE 1-Disney shuffles movie schedule due to virus, 'Mulan' set for July
UPDATE 1-Disney shuffles movie schedule due to virus, 'Mulan' set for July
(Adds details on other Disney movies)
By Lisa Richwine
LOS ANGELES, April 3 (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co will release the live-action epic "Mulan" in movie theaters in July and Marvel's "Black Widow" in November, the company said on Friday as it reshuffled a schedule disrupted by the global coronavirus outbreak.
Among other changes, Disney postponed the release of a new "Indiana Jones" movie by one year to July 2022, the company said in a statement.
Movie theaters around the world have been closed and film production has been put on hold to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Hollywood studios are optimistic that theaters will be back in business by late July. Disney set the debut of "Mulan," which was supposed to reach theaters last month, for July 24. ViacomCBS Inc's Paramount Pictures moved a new animated "SpongeBob" movie to July 31, and AT&T Inc's Warner Bros said it planned to release "Wonder Woman 1984" on Aug. 14.
"Black Widow," starring Scarlett Johansson, had been scheduled to kick off the summer blockbuster season, traditionally Hollywood's most lucrative period at theaters, on May 1. It will now debut Nov. 6, a date that had been reserved for Marvel's "The Eternals."
Disney moved "Eternals" to Feb. 12, 2021, and postponed several other Marvel movies by a few months. "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" was rescheduled for May 21, 2021, followed by "Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness" on Nov. 5, 2021, and "Thor: Love and Thunder" on Feb. 18, 2022.
The debut of "Jungle Cruise," a live-action adventure starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt," was delayed from this summer to July 30, 2021.
Disney also said it would scrap a planned theatrical release of family film "Artemis Fowl" and instead distribute it on the Disney+ streaming service at an unspecified date.
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine
Editing by Leslie Adler and Marguerita Choy)
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(添加其他迪士尼電影的細節)
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路透洛杉磯4月3日電-華特迪士尼公司(Walt Disney Co)週五表示，該公司將於7月在電影院上映真人版Epic《花木蘭》，11月上映漫威的《黑寡婦》。該公司重新安排了因全球冠狀病毒爆發而擾亂的日程。
迪士尼在一份聲明中表示，在其他變化中，迪士尼將一部新的《印第安納·瓊斯》電影的上映日期推遲了一年，至2022年7月。
世界各地的電影院已經關閉，電影製作也被擱置，以幫助防止這種新型冠狀病毒的傳播。
好萊塢製片廠樂觀地認為，影院將在7月下旬恢復營業。迪士尼將原定於上月上映的《花木蘭》首映時間定在7月24日。維亞康姆哥倫比亞廣播公司(ViacomCBS Inc)的派拉蒙影業(Parmon Pictures)將一部新的動畫電影《海綿寶寶》(SpongeBob)推遲到7月31日，美國電話電報公司(AT&T Inc)的華納兄弟公司(Warner Bros)表示，計劃在8月14日上映《神奇女俠1984》。
由斯嘉麗·約翰遜(Scarlett Johansson)主演的“黑寡婦”(Black Widow)原定於5月1日拉開夏季大片季的序幕。夏季大片季傳統上是好萊塢影院利潤最豐厚的時期。該片現在將於11月6日首映，這個日期原本是漫威(Marvel)的“永恆”(The Eternals)。
迪士尼將《永恆》推遲到2021年2月12日，並將其他幾部漫威電影推遲了幾個月。《尚志與十環傳》改檔至2021年5月21日，緊隨其後的是2021年11月5日的《奇異博士與瘋狂的多元宇宙》，以及2022年2月18日的《雷神：愛情與雷霆》。
由德韋恩·約翰遜(Dwayne Johnson)和艾米莉·布朗特(Emily Blunt)主演的真人冒險電影《叢林巡航》(叢林巡航)的首映時間從今年夏天推遲到2021年7月30日。
迪士尼還表示，將取消在影院上映家庭電影《阿特米斯家禽》(Artemis Fowl)的計劃，轉而在迪士尼+流媒體服務上發行，具體日期不詳。
(Lisa Richwin報道)
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