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