Warner Bros decided to wake up a sleepy day with some release-date changes. The first, James Wan’s Aquaman & The Lost Kingdom, is going five days earlier on Wednesday, December 20 this year instead of Christmas Day.
The DC pic will open against Sony’s Ghostbusters sequel on Wednesday and will face off against Illumination/Universal’s Migration on Friday.
Blitz Bazawule’s feature take of the Broadway musical The Color Purple swaps with Aquaman 2; Instead of going on December 20, the movie produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones will go on Christmas Day.
Meanwhile, the first movie greenlit under the Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy administration, The Wise Guys from Barry Levinson, will open on February 2, 2024. Pic stars Robert De Niro, Debra Messing and Kathrine Narducci. Irwin Winkler produces. The mobster film pushes Warner Bros’ animated Toto off that date, and for the moment that Wizard of Oz feature is undated.
The long-gestating Minecraft movie from Jared Hess, with Jason Momoa, gets an April 4, 2025 release date. Warner Bros already had the date reserved for an untitled film.
The studio also booked December 19, 2025 for a movie to be named in the future.
Meanwhile, that September 22 slot the studio was holding for an untitled DC movie this year has been scrubbed from the schedule.