Conjuring 3 Release May End Up Being Pushed to 2021
By George Robbins
As of now, it is difficult for anyone to know what will happen over the course of the next few months with almost every form of industry. There are still a lot of restrictions in place for a number of different businesses, but we should be expecting more restrictions to be put back into place. With a surge in new coronavirus cases, many places all over the nation have had no choice but to shut down. On top of many businesses having to shut down again so soon after opening back up again, many production companies have pushed back theatrical releases. This has also created ripples throughout the movie theater industry and made it difficult for them to continue business.
Movies have had it rough these past few months and it doesn’t seem like it will be getting better any time soon. Most films that were meant to release from March through the summer have been delayed to either the end of summer or some time late this year. Even films that were meant to release late this year like ‘Godzilla vs Kong’ have been delayed until some time next year. This has become a common theme as time goes on and it seems like it will continue to happen as the next couple of months go on. There may just be no stop to the delays and theaters are suffering because of it.
Movie theaters have mostly been shut down since mid-March with many theaters belonging to chains staying shut the longest. One of the biggest issues is that theaters are national and unless they all open up, they really won’t get any new movies or business in general. Theaters that have been open have had to show older movies in an effort to try and draw in as many people as they can. This is also difficult as they have to restrict the overall number of occupants to maintain the social distancing policy. They have had almost no choice when it comes to delaying their reopenings like AMC, which had to push their reopening by two weeks, so that they can chase new movie releases.
There is no guarantee that movies will keep their release dates in the coming months due to the spike in cases. As stated, even movies with late release dates this year will probably be pushed into next year. Among those movies that could end up pushed to 2021 is ‘The Conjuring 3’ which will follow the same Ed and Lorraine Warren from the previous two movies. This time they will be involved in a murder case with the same motif as the subtitle of the film, “the Devil made me do it.” As of now it is meant to have a September release, but like many of their films right now, Warner is nervous about this release date and could end up significantly delaying it until some time in 2021.