Warner Bros Shuffles Fall Release Deck With ‘Dune’, ‘Cry Macho’ & ‘The Many Saints Of Newark’
Anthony D'Alessandro
June 25, 2021 10:45AM PDT
With the fall and early winter corridor looking fiercely competitive, Warner Bros. is changing a trio of release dates in order to best position its movies. All of them will still go day-and-date on HBO Max (for the first 31 days) with theatrical.
With MGM/United Artists Releasing’s 007 movie
No Time to Die on Oct. 8, Warners will not play Legendary’s
Dune in its wake, rather go on Oct. 22 with the all-star ensemble sci-fi pic based on the Frank Herbert novel.
Dune will also be released in 3D and Imax.
Dune is making its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and it will be hitting TIFF.
Instead on Oct. 1, Warners will release the Alan Taylor directed, David Chase produced and co-written
Sopranos New Line feature prequel
The Many Saints of Newark. Pic was most recently scheduled for Sept. 24.
Many Saints is the only adult choice on Oct. 1-3 in what has recently shaped up to be a knife war between MGM/United Artists Releasing’s
The Addams Family 2 and Sony’s
Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania. Sony plopped its fourthquel on
Addams Family 2 date last week, and the two films are apt to cannibalize their target family audiences.
Clint Eastwood’s
Cry Macho starring the legendary filmmaker star, Eduardo Minett and Dwight Yoakam will move up from Oct. 22 to Sept. 17. On its new date,
Cry Macho will be up against Paramount’s
Clifford the Big Red Dog and Open Road’s Gerard Butler-Frank Grillo movie
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