The canceled summer movie season is all, but official now. I mean, what else can you seriously expect when the two remaining blockbuster movies, after delaying upon delaying, are now set for release in mid-August…
Disney’s live-action “Mulan” remake has been moved from July 14th to August 21st. Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” is set to be released on August 12th. This is Disney basically saying, “your move, Nolan.” I can sense this is going be a staring contest between both movies until one takes the hit and delays by a few months or a year.
This is indeed a very strange time to be alive, movies seem to not be the primary concern for most people right now, this can only end with most of the best and most important movies of the year either being relegated to digital or being delayed until next year (or whenever a vaccine surfaces). That’s the sad reality that plenty of people don’t want to admit to themselves. Right now, there is absolutely no hunger for mainstream audiences to go back to movie theaters, they are too scared, too freaked out by the 24/7 news cycle telling them it’s too dangerous out there.