'Deadpool 3' Set To Move Off May Release Date Due To Studio Greed
'Deadpool 3' Set To Move Off May Release Date Due To Studio Greed
The studios refusing to give their actors their fair deal is starting to affect the 2024 slate again
Deadpool 3 will not be making its May 3, 2024 release date, it was reported Thursday. This is as the actors continue to strike against the AMPTP for the fair deal they’ve been looking for while the latter outright abandons the negotiating table.
Even if the strike ends in the next few weeks, the Marvel Studios film is only half-done and would have no way to make it. Reassembling the cast and crew takes a lot too. Being the film that moved up in the last shuffle did stick out a bit. The Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman-starring pic was situated for November 8 when Disney’s original mid-strike shuffle occurred when it was just the Writers Guild of America and about a month before SAG-AFTRA. They had continued to film in the early days of the WGA strike but finally shut down when the actors’ strike began.
However, that first week in May is the start of the box office summer, Disney’s not going to want to let go of that date as it’s so highly coveted, and they don’t let go of it unless COVID…or they’re Infinity War and Endgame and start a week sooner and still dominate when that May slot becomes week 2. Because the move off hasn’t been officially announced, what’s moving in is currently unknown. Sources give a long shot chance that Captain America: Brave New World, which originally had the May 3 date, pushed to July 26 in the June shuffle, actually moves back. It’s actually in a better position than Deadpool 3, because it finished production.
The other options, if the studios won’t give the actors a fair deal? They could go back to November 8, or go the week before to November 1, as both Thor: Ragnarok (released November 3, 2017) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (released November 11, 2022) were cited as moneymakers in that period. Disney has also used these weeks for Doctor Strange and Eternals, and where The Marvels will be releasing in just three weeks on November 10. Even the Inhumans movie was put for November 2, 2018 but after it was canceled, the spot went to the Mulan remake and eventually Nutcracker and the Four Realms. It could also take Thunderbolts’s December 20 slot, which due in part to Avatar and Star Wars on the Disney side the MCU has only had Spider-Man: No Way Home in that week,.
While there have been exceptions, distributors believe that the fact that the actors haven’t received a fair contract that once agreed to would allow them to go on the press tours to promote their films has impacted ticket sales. Once again, instead of paying, the studios are punting, hoping that once the actors are worn down they can be exploited with little negative impact to their own profit pockets and said actors be sent on press tours worse off. Deadpool 3 is promised to be the first in a new wave of moves. The studios foolishly believe they’ll recoup whatever they lost in the strike in however long they punted the movies to.
Source: Deadline