Disney Schedule Updated: Star Wars: Episode VIII and Pirates: Episode V - Dead Men Tell No Tales
Disney has learned a great deal about releasing an epic film during the December / Christmas season. Star Wars movies have always been released in May, to the point that it really did start the trend of releasing huge summer blockbusters in May. Disney now fully occupies that space with Marvel Studios movies, and while they were originally going to move Star Wars back to May, leaving us with only 6 months between Rogue One and Episode VIII, they now have decided that with the record breaking success of The Force Awakens, now the highest grossing movie domestically with $861 million, over $100 million more than Avatar, and sitting currently
at third at the all time international gross, with $1.886 billion, only behind Titanic and Avatar.
With little to no competition in December and into January, especially for large IMAX sized screens, Episode VII will move from May 26, 2017 to December 15, 2017. Pirates of Caribbean: Episode V - Dead Men Tell No Tales will now move from July 7th to the May 26, 2017 slot.
Disney and Sony’s joint custody child, the Jon Watt’s reboot of Spider-Man (three-boot, since it’s the 3rd Spider-Man reboot) to July 7, 2017. Here’s the article for Sony 2016 shuffle.
Here's the UPDATED list of Disney's upcoming films:
Disney:
The Finest Hours - January 29, 2016
The Jungle Book - April 15, 2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass - May 27, 2016
The BFG - July 1, 2016
Pete's Dragon - August 12, 2016
Beauty and the Beast - March 17, 2017
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - May 26, 2017
Untitled Disney live-action fairy tale film - December 22, 2017
Untitled Disney live-action fairy tale film - November 2, 2018
Untitled Disney live-action fairy tale film - March 29, 2019
Untitled DisneyToon Studios film - April 12, 2019
Untitled Disney live-action fairy tale film - November 8, 2019
Disney Animation Studios / Pixar Animation Studios:
Zootopia - March 4, 2016
Finding Dory - June 17, 2016
Moana - November 23, 2016
Cars 3 - June 16, 2017
Coco November 22, 2017
Gigantic - March 9, 2018
Toy Story 4 - June 15, 2018
The Incredibles 2 - June 21, 2019
Untitled Pixar film - March 13, 2020
Untitled Pixar film - June 19, 2020
Untitled Disney Animation film - November 25, 2020
LucasFilm:
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - December 16, 2016
Star Wars: Episode VIII - December 15, 2017
Untitled Han Solo Anthology Story - 2018
Star Wars: Episode IX - May 24, 2019
Untitled Boba Fett Anthology Story - 2020
Marvel Studios:
Captain America: Civil War - May 6, 2016
Doctor Strange - November 4, 2016
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - May 5, 2017
Marvel’s Spider-Man Threeboot - July 28, 2017
Thor: Ragnarok - November 3, 2017
Black Panther - February 16, 2018
Avengers: Infinity War – Part 1 - May 4, 2018
Ant-Man and the Wasp - July 6, 2018
Captain Marvel - March 8, 2019
Avengers: Infinity War – Part 2 - May 3, 2019
Inhumans - July 12, 2019
