Disney Releases First Photo From Live Action 'Snow White' While Delaying It And 'Elio'
Disney Releases First Photo From Live Action 'Snow White' While Delaying It And 'Elio'
Both films have been pushed to 2025, while 'Magazine Dreams' is off the schedule
We still don’t know where Deadpool 3 is moving to, as its move still hasn’t officially been announced. However, we do know what can be considered its traveling companions. what was supposed to be Pixar’s next animated film, Elio, and the live action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs have both been delayed.
Elio, starring Yonas Kibreab, America Ferrera, Jameela Jamil, and Brad Garrett, was originally set for release on March 1, 2024. Now, it’s being delayed for over a year, to the already-reserved June 13, 2025. That means it now releases a year’s worth of Fridays after what is now Pixar’s next film, Inside Out 2, which releases June 14, 2024. June releases became incredibly common for Pixar, officially starting with Cars in 2006 (though Finding Nemo’s May 30, 2003 opening weekend crosses). A majority of Pixar films since then have June releases, to the point that most that don’t were released in a year with a June Pixar release. Even Soul originally had a June 19, 2020 release date before COVID delays struck and had its Christmas Day straight-to-Disney+ release. However, this makes another case of bad luck for March and Pixar, following the early-pandemic hobbling of Onward in 2020, and the overly cautious move of Turning Red to Disney+ in 2022.
The official synopsis for the film tells that Elio, described as “an underdog with an active imagination”, “finds himself inadvertently beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies far and wide. Mistakenly identified as Earth’s ambassador to the rest of the universe, and completely unprepared for that kind of pressure, Elio must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, survive a series of formidable trials and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.” It is currently set to open against a Universal film that hasn’t been revealed yet.
The live-action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs starring Rachel Zegler was set to open just three weeks after Elio on March 22, 2024. It now opens on the equivalent Friday a year later, March 21, 2025. Also previously reserved, it does not yet have any wide competition. This version is directed by The Amazing Spider-Man series director Marc Webb and stars Rachel Zegler of West Side Story and Shazam! Fury of the Gods as Snow and recent liar and humanity loser Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen. Suddenly it’s become very fitting. Andrew Burnap portrays a new male lead character. Oscar-winning La La Land duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul wrote the film’s original songs.
In addition, the Searchlight film Magazine Dreams will no longer be opening on December 8, completely removed from the schedule. Its star, Jonathan Majors is at the center of a domestic violence case from a March 25 altercation with his now ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari in and around his Chelsea apartment. Although Majors called 911, the NYPD officers who got there found several injuries on Jabbari. Earlier this week, a New York judge tossed Majors’ request to have the to dismiss the case. This was followed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office announcing they weren’t prosecuting accuser Jabbari, closing and sealing the case because it lacks prosecutorial merit.
The Bikeriders was another film from its planned theatrical launch, originally set for December 1 because the AMPTP wouldn’t accept the improved conditions the actors, this cast including Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, and Jodie Comer would promote the film under. The amount of movies that have been delayed because the studios won’t pay their talent is numerous, but this is a smaller round thus far than the one in June. While Universal has managed to not delay anything yet, Paramount, Sony, and Warner Bros., with their latest being Alto Knights have all pulled the trigger at least once.
Since I hadn’t gotten around to writing a dedicated article to the teaser trailer’s release, you can watch it below. Because it’s probably going to be a while until the next trailer comes around.
Source: Deadline