Even though Venom is still currently teed up as one of the fall’s biggest titles, there was no Carnage to be seen.Īccording to multiple inside sources, that’s because Sony is planning to delay the release of Venom: Let There Be Carnage until Januthe date currently occupied by the Jared Leto vampire-superhero thriller Morbius - but the studio is waiting to make the announcement until after CinemaCon, the annual extravaganza at which movie-theater-chain executives and owners come to be dazzled by sneak peeks at Hollywood’s impending blockbusters. Inside the Caesars Palace Colosseum, Sony debuted a dazzling new trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home (set for a December 17 release) and a sizzle reel for the Brad Pitt–Sandra Bullock–Bad Bunny ensemble shoot-’em-up Bullet Train (April 2022) and presented a surprise screening of its long-gestating franchise reboot Ghostbusters: Afterlife (November 11). But new footage from the sequel to the 2018 sci-fi symbiote thriller Venom (which grossed a surprisingly strong $856 million worldwide) was notably absent from Las Vegas’s CinemaCon on Monday. On the face of it, not a big deal: a delay of less than a month during which theatrical moviegoing could theoretically return to something closer to normality as vaccination rates continue to rise after hitting their fastest pace in months. And in what was interpreted as the clearest indicator of Hollywood’s fear surrounding the Delta variant’s blockbuster-killing power, Sony also pushed the release of Venom: Let There Be Carnage from September 24 to October 15. Sony sold global streaming rights for Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, the fourth and final installment of Sony Pictures Animation’s $1.3 billion–grossing Hotel Transylvania franchise, to Amazon Studios for $100 million. With comfort levels among audience members plummeting (from a pandemic-high 81 percent of respondents stating they felt “very” or “somewhat” okay about buying a movie ticket in July to 66 percent earlier this month, according to polling by the National Research Group), Paramount yanked the September 17 release of Clifford the Big Red Dog, canceling its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and indefinitely delaying distribution of the CG-and-live-action adaptation. and Canada over its opening three days, falling short of even the most pessimistic prerelease “tracking” estimates. Plopped into theaters and onto HBO Max on August 6, the $185 million action comedy collected a mere $26.5 million in the U.S. Then, two weeks later, as surges in the Delta variant continued to stretch emergency rooms to their breaking point across the continent, Warner Bros.’ R-rated supervillain romp The Suicide Squad drew similarly underwhelming crowds. From July 23 to 25, Jungle Cruise, the Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt embodiment of an old-timey Disneyland amusement-park ride, premiered to a “soft” $34.2 million in North American theaters (with another $30 million coming from concurrent Disney premium video rentals) - lackluster returns for a brassy kids’ flick that cost more than $200 million to produce and at least another $100 million to market. It was the fourth weekend in July when Hollywood began to grasp the terrible extent of 2021’s Not-So-Hot Vaxx Summer of weak ticket sales. Photo: Courtesy Sony Pictures Entertainment/\ We are likely getting less Carnage than we thought in 2021.
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