‘Star Wars,’ ‘Avatar’ release dates announced in wake of Disney-Fox merger

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Disney announced that three new, as-yet-untitled “Star Wars” films will be slated for release on the pre-Christmas weekend every other year beginning in 2022.

A scene from James Cameron''s 2009 sci-fi smash"Avatar." Disney will release four sequels to the film beginning in 2021.

The new post-Fox acquisition Disney landscape began to come into focus on Tuesday as the studio staked out release dates for some of the most important franchises in itsWith the current iteration of the Skywalker saga set to come to a conclusion without Dec. 20, While various “Star Wars” projects are reportedly in the works — including a trilogy being developed by “The Last Jedi” director Rian Johnson and a separate series from “Game of Thrones” showrunners David Benioff and D.B.

The studio also set a release date for Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” adaptation, which will hit theaters Dec. 18, 2020, to be followed five days later by “Cruella,” a live-action film centered on Cruella de Vil, the villainess of the 1961 animated film “One Hundred and One Dalmatians.” The studio also shifted several Fox releases previously scheduled for this year — including the Brad Pitt-starring sci-fi film “Ad Astra,” originally set to arrive this month, which now opens Sept. 20; and the horror-inflected X-Men spinoff “New Mutants,” which has been delayed twice and is now set for April 3, 2020.

Disney’s adaptation of the fantasy bestseller “Artemis Fowl,” which was set to open in August, will instead hit theaters May 29, 2020.will occupy release dates already reserved in 2020 and 2021, though projects in various states of production and development include a “Black Widow” solo film and the sequel “Black Panther 2.”, including “Gambit” and “X-Force,” are nowhere to be seen in Disney’s newly announced slate.“Aladdin” — May 24Advertisement“The Woman in the Window” — Oct.

 

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