Like every other 2020 blockbuster, Wonder Woman 1984 was delayed earlier this year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. With Tenet and The New Mutants now playing, the hope was that the DC Comics sequel would meet its planned October 2nd release date even with many theaters still closed.

Yesterday, we first heard rumblings that Warner Bros. was considering a delay, and The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that the studio, “is postponing the release of its Wonder Woman sequel, according to a person familiar with the matter.” They add that the plan is to move Patty Jenkins’ movie “to a date later in the year,” but that’s obviously vague and could well end up changing. 

Tenet has underperformed in North America, while The New Mutants flopped (which was to be expected). Regardless, the performance of both movies shows that it’s not realistic to expect moviegoers to flock to theaters in the midst of a pandemic, especially with experts saying it’s still unsafe to do so. It also indicates that so many multiplexes being closed really is bad for business. 

If the situation doesn’t improve, it’s possible we won’t end up seeing Wonder Woman 1984 this side of Christmas, and Warner Bros. doesn’t appear to be willing to consider a PVOD release just yet. 

It was also yesterday that we learned Sony Pictures isn’t willing to release any major blockbuster until the pandemic is over, so the future is definitely looking uncertain for that big screen experience. We can only hope things will improve…or studios will be forced to embrace Digital platforms. 

UPDATE: Well, that didn’t take long; Warner Bros. has now confirmed that Wonder Woman 1984 will open on December 25th! This will not impact Dune, which is still scheduled for release on December 18th, but we’ll now have to wait and see whether the studio sticks to these planned dates…

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Hulu has released the first trailer for Monsterland; an upcoming horror/fantasy anthology series which is based on a collection of stories from Nathan Ballingrud.

The teaser gives us a look at most of the main cast members, including Kaitlyn Dever, Taylor Schilling, Mike Colter and Kelly Marie Tran, as they attempt to deal with some pretty damn terrifying looking situations.

The series is set in a world that involves encounters with fantasy creatures like mermaids and fallen angels, and follows broken people driven to desperate acts in an attempt to repair their lives. Tran will star in an episode titled “Iron River, MI,” playing a woman named Lauren who returns to her small Michigan hometown to be married. She had managed to build a new life for herself after her best friend, Elena, went missing when they were 16.

Check out the trailer below along with a new poster, and let us know what you think.

Monsterland was created, written and executive produced by Mary Laws and executive produced by Babak Anvari, Lucan Toh, Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle. Ali Krug will serve as co-ep. The show is set to premiere on Hulu on November 2nd.

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Reports that Fox was working on a prequel to The Omen did the rounds quite some time ago, but with no updates since and Disney’s recent acquisition of the studio’s assets, we had assumed it must be destined to languish in development hell (no pun). However, it looks like the project may still be on track.

During a new interview, writers Chad and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2) indicated that the prequel may still have a pulse.

“We did the prequel to The Omen, which is also sitting over at Fox, that, rumor has it, that it is going into production,” Chad told ComicBook.com. “So we’ll see what happens.” Carey added, “We get to tell you where Damien came from. It was really fun. That was great.”

As anyone who’s seen Richard Donner 1976 original will know, Damian – the Antichrist – was adopted by diplomat Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) as a baby and only began to manifest demonic abilities at the age of 5. His father was Satan and his real mother was a jackal, so any kind of origin story for the character should certainly be… interesting.

Antonio Campos (Christine) was said to be in line to direct the prequel back in 2016, but even if the project does find a new lease of life at 20th Century Studios, it’s unlikely hed still be attached.

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Neither The Falcon and The Winter Soldier nor WandaVision have finished shooting, hence why the former missed its planned August premiere on Disney+. The latter, meanwhile, remains on track for a December debut, though we have no idea whether that can happen depending on where it sits in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s timeline. 

Right now, the hope is that we’ll see at least one of these Marvel Studios TV shows this year, and some compelling evidence has surfaced suggesting that work on them both has resumed.

The Direct has shared some screenshots from WandaVision camera department member Torey Lenart’s Instagram Stories revealing that she’s back at work. With that the only project she’s working on right now and nothing else on her IMDb page stalled due to COVID-19, this has to be the Elizabeth Olsen/Paul Bettany-led series. The photo was tagged as being in the Sequoia National Park which lines up with reports the show will be finished off in Los Angeles.

As for The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Murphy’s Multiverse has shared a series of (unrevealing) set videos confirming that shooting was taking place as recently as yesterday.

Needless to say, this is great news for the MCU’s future. It’s unlikely that there’s much work left to do on either show, so if these finishing touches can be wrapped up quite quickly, there’s still hope that they’ll arrive on the streaming service before this disastrous year reaches its end.

We’ll keep you updated.

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Mulan was supposed to be released in theaters back in March, but the COVID-19 pandemic made that impossible and it was later moved to July. With things not improving, that too changed, and Disney ended up surprising everyone when they announced a Disney+ debut and a $29.99 price tag.

While we still don’t know whether that was a successful move (it must have earned more money that Tenet‘s dismal $10 million opening weekend), Disney CFO Christine McCarthy has explained that the reaction from consumers about potentially returning to movie theaters in the midst of a pandemic is a big part of what led to the decision to give Mulan a PVOD release. 

“We know what the statistics are on consumer behavior when people are asked, ‘Would you go to a theater?'” she explained in an interview with Deadline. “It’s gone up a bit in the last month, but a lot of that has to do with what demographic you’re in. In general, if you look at that research, you’ll generally see that older people are less likely.”

“Probably younger people — the same people who are doing things we see on the news shows that they probably shouldn’t be doing, and crowding and partying — they’re probably more likely to go to a theater. But would a family with young kids go? Probably not.”

McCarthy later added that Disney has been “very pleased” with the way Mulan performed and believe its release brought in “some additional new subscribers.”

Now, the question is, will Black Widow follow?

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