Disney Announces New Star Wars Movies, Delays Avatar 2 Release Date

Walt Disney Studios has once again pushed the release date of the much-awaited movie Avatar 2. According to latest reports, first of James Cameron’s four Avatar sequel will now release on 17 December 2021 rather than its previous release date 18 December 2020. Notably, owing to this, the subsequent titles have also been postponed, with the new release dates for Avatar 3, 4 and 5 pegged for 2023, 2025 and 2027.

Apart from this, there are there more Star Wars films are in pipeline, which will follow the December 20 release Star Wars. The first of these movies are slated to release to on December 16, 2022, while the other two are planned for December 20, 2024, and December 18, 2026. “The company is changing the debuts of various films it inherited after buying the bulk of 21st Century Fox’s film and television assets in a $71.3 billion mega-merger,” Variety reported.

“We’re excited to put in place a robust and diverse slate that lays the foundation of our long-term strategy, bringing together a breadth of films from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Fox, Fox Searchlight, and Blue Sky Studios to create an extraordinary collection of cinematic experiences for audiences around the world,” Cathleen Taff, the studio’s president of theatrical distribution, was quoted as saying.

Steven Spielberg’s update on West Side Story will be released on December 18, 2020, while the Emma Stone-starrer Cruella will be out on December 23, 2020.

Ad Astra, starring Brad Pitt as an astronaut, will hit the theatres on September 20, 2019. Artemis Fowel, based on the bestselling books, has been pushed by a year to May 29, 2020.

Here are full updates to the Star Wars Movies release schedule below:

• The Art Of Racing In The Rain (FOX) previously dated on 9/27/19 moves to 8/9/19
• Ready Or Not (FSL) is now dated on 8/23/19
• Ad Astra (FOX) previously dated on 5/24/19 moves to 9/20/19
• Ford v. Ferrari (FOX) is the updated title of previous UNTITLED JAMES MANGOLD PROJECT dated on 11/15/19
• STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (DIS) is the updated title of previous STAR WARS: EPISODE IX dated on 12/20/19
• SPIES IN DISGUISE (FOX) previously dated on 9/13/19 moves to 12/25/19
• UNDERWATER (FOX) is now dated on 1/10/20
• CALL OF THE WILD (FOX) previously dated on 12/25/19 moves to 2/21/20
• THE NEW MUTANTS (FOX) previously dated on 8/2/19 moves to 4/3/20
• ARTEMIS FOWL (DIS) previously dated on 8/9/19 moves to 5/29/20
• THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN (DIS) is the updated title of previous UNTITLED DISNEY LIVE ACTION dated on 2/14/20, and moves to 8/14/20
• DEATH ON THE NILE (FOX) previously dated on 10/2/20 moves to 10/9/20
• WEST SIDE STORY (FOX) is now dated on 12/18/20
• CRUELLA (DIS) is the updated title of previous UNTITLED DISNEY LIVE ACTION dated on 12/23/20
• NIMONA (FOX) previously dated on 2/14/20 moves to 3/5/21
• AVATAR 2 (FOX) previously dated on 12/18/20 moves to 12/17/21
• UNTITLED STAR WARS (DIS) is the updated title of previous UNTITLED DISNEY LIVE ACTION dated on 12/16/22
• AVATAR 3 (FOX) previously dated on 12/17/21 moves to 12/22/23
• UNTITLED STAR WARS (DIS) is now dated on 12/20/24
• AVATAR 4 (FOX) previously dated on 12/20/24 is now dated on 12/19/25
• UNTITLED STAR WARS (DIS) is now dated on 12/18/26
• AVATAR 5 (FOX) previously dated on 12/19/25 moves to 12/17/27
• GAMBIT (FOX) previously dated on 3/13/20 is removed from the schedule
• UNTITLED FOX MARVEL (FOX) previously dated on 6/26/20 is removed from the schedule
• UNTITLED FOX MARVEL (FOX) previously dated on 10/2/20 is removed from the schedule
• UNTITLED DISNEY LIVE ACTION (DIS) previously dated on 10/9/20 is removed from the schedule
• UNTITLED FOX MARVEL (FOX) previously dated on 3/5/21 is removed from schedule
• FOSTER (FOX) previously dated on 3/5/21 is removed from schedule
• UNTITLED DISNEY LIVE ACTION (DIS) previously dated on 12/22/21 is removed from the schedule