Sony Pictures has announced date shuffles for its 2024 theatrical release calendar, with many of the affected titles being knocked back by the SAG-AFTRA strike. Unfortunately for fans of Sony Pictures Animation’s stunning Spider-Verse films, the third pic Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse has been pushed from its Easter weekend release date, due to a number of voiceovers that need to be recorded. Beyond the Spider-Verse is now undated.
The news comes a month after Vulture reported that animators on this summer’s smash-hit Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (which has grossed $376.9 million domestically since its June 2 release, $677M worldwide) claimed they were made to work under stressful, unstable conditions. One source said production on Beyond the Spider-Verse had made made very little progress and that there was “no way” the film would make its March ’24 date, since the production on Across the Spider-Verse wrapped up “barely crossing the finish line.”
The sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife is taking Spidey’s March 29 release date, bumped back from December of this year. Additional date changes and announcements for 2023/2024 include:
- Gran Turismo — August 25, 2023
- Madame Web (Sony/Marvel) — February 14, 2024
- Bad Boys 4 — June 14
- Venom 3 — July 12
- Kraven the Hunter (Sony/Marvel) — August 30
- The Karate Kid — December 13
- They Listen (Blumhouse) — Undated
[Source: Deadline]
