The curse of the Total Film cover?
With the Covid-19 pandemic wreaking havoc on the 2020 release schedule, we started to wonder if it was something we did? Total Film assesses the damage…
✗ BLACK WIDOW
ON SALE 3 APR 17 DAYS EARLIER Release postponed from 1 May to November.
From ‘between the events of Civil War and Infinity War’ to who knows when?
✓ BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC
ON SALE 24 JUL 25 DAYS LATER Release date is postponed from 21 August to September. *High fives future self*
✗ A QUIET PLACE PART II
ON SALE 17 JAN 55 DAYS LATER Release postponed from 19 March to September. Later postponed again to April 2021.
The silence was deafening.
✗ FREE GUY
ON SALE 1 MAY 26 DAYS EARLIER Release postponed from 3 July to December 2020. Later removed from the schedule entirely. Guy is currently a free agent, with no fixed release date.
✗ BLACK WIDOW (TAKE TWO)
ON SALE 18 SEP
5 DAYS LATER The release date is postponed to May 2021. Even more red in our ledger.
✗ FAST & FURIOUS 9
ON SALE 7 FEB 34 DAYS LATER Release postponed from 22 May to April 2021, then to May 2021. Nothing speedy about F9’s journey to cinemas.
✓ TENET
ON SALE 29 MAY 14 DAYS LATER Release postponed, before eventually hitting cinemas in August. Did we perform a temporal pincer movement to ensure a cover film actually came out?
✗ NO TIME TO DIE (TAKE TWO)
ON SALE 16 OCT 14 DAYS EARLIER Postponed again to April 2021. That title is just mocking us at this point.
✗ NO TIME TO DIE
ON SALE 6 MAR 2 DAYS EARLIER Release postponed from 2 April to November.
No time to do pretty much anything…
✗ WONDER WOMAN 1984
ON SALE 26 JUN 13 DAYS EARLIER Release date postponed from 14 August to October. At time of press WW84 is scheduled to open in UK cinemas on 16 December. All the world is waiting for you.
✓ MANK
ON SALE 13 NOV 13 DAYS EARLIER Cinema release cancelled due to restrictions, but December Netflix debut holds. 2020 would’ve been even harder were it not for streaming movies.