There is a release date shuffle happening with two major releases. It has just been announced that Lionsgate‘s John Wick spinoff Ballerina starring Ana de Armas will be delayed a year from June 7, 2024, to June 6, 2025. Debuting in its place will be Rupert Sanders’ reboot of The Crow.
Per Deadline, the reason for the Ballerina move comes down to Chad Stahelski inking a new deal with Lionsgate to oversee the John Wick franchise. He’s currently working with Ballerina director Len Wiseman on additional action sequences for the movie to amp up the spinoff a bit more.
The upside to the move is that the Ballerina is currently opening alone on the new date, which bodes well since advanced tracking for the film was already seeing major gains ahead of of its June 2024 release.
The Crow reboot sees Bill Skarsgård taking on the iconic role once played by the late Brandon Lee in the 1994 hit film of the same name. Per the film’s synopsis, “Soulmates Eric Draven (Skarsgård) and Shelly Webster (FKA twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.”
Based on the graphic novel by James O’Barr, the film also stars Danny Huston, Laura Birn, Sami Bouajila, and Jordan Bolger.
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