Disney Only Has 3 Releases Left For 2020
By George Robbins
It is just not Disney’s year this year as the movie theater industry continues to get turned on its head especially as of recently. That is not to say things would be looking great for Disney anyway because of the trouble being caused by their recent release, ‘Mulan.’ The biggest issues being seen by the movie right now revolve around the controversies we are seeing with the movie due to where it was shot and how it was released. This has kind of ignited a firestorm around the Disney company at the moment and it is shaping up to become even worse in the near future. As of now, the biggest issues seem to be stemming from the fact theaters are failing right now.
Movie theaters have had it pretty rough since the pandemic started back in March early this year. They were forced to almost immediately shut down because of the announcement of the pandemic which pushed back the release dates of many films. Studios have been hoping to try and get their releases out as soon as it was possible for theaters to open to some degree once again. Unfortunately, the recent release of ‘Tenet‘ just goes to show that we are still way off from having films return to theaters. Even though they can be shown again, the issue is that they have to actually be able to make money off of their films.
Disney is most definitely not willing to take any truly massive losses and thus have decided to move almost all of their releases into some time next year. Considering how much of a presence Disney has in the market, we are seeing a lot of movies being moved out of this year’s line-up and into next year’s. Only ‘Soul,’ ‘Death on the Nile,’ and ‘The Empty Man’ are still in the line-up for this year and it is highly likely they will either end up delayed again as well, or they will release straight to Disney+. This just seems to be the way of things nowadays and it doesn’t look like things will be changing any time soon.