This article lists films which have had their theatrical releases cancelled, resulting in an alternative method of release, as well as films with delayed releases due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
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Theatrical releases
Simultaneous theatrical and
video on demand
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North American theatrical releases
International theatrical releases
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Cancelled
Productions
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Atrangi Re''
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Avatar: Fire and Ash''
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Avatar: The Way of Water''
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The Batman''
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The Card Counter''
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Cinderella
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The Collected''
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Copshop''
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Coyote vs. Acme'' (initially cancelled, then revived)
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Don't Worry Darling
''Don't Worry Darling'' is a 2022 American psychological thriller film directed by Olivia Wilde from a screenplay by Katie Silberman, based on a spec script by Silberman, Carey Van Dyke, and Shane Van Dyke. Starring Florence Pugh, Harry Styles ...
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Elvis
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Emancipation
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The Fire Inside''
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The Forgiven''
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Four's a Crowd
''Four's a Crowd'' is a 1938 American screwball comedy, screwball comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell and Patric Knowles. The picture was written by Casey Robinson and Sig Herzig fr ...
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga''
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Godmothered''
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Good Girl Jane
''Good Girl Jane'' is a 2022 American drama film written and directed by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz and starring Rain Spencer and Andie MacDowell. It is based on Mintz's 2017 short film of the same name. It won the 2022 US Narrative Competition at Trib ...
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Habit
A habit (or wont, as a humorous and formal term) is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously.
A 1903 paper in the '' American Journal of Psychology'' defined a "habit, from the standpoint of psychology, ...
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The Harder They Fall The Harder They Fall may refer to:
* ''The Harder They Fall'' (1956 film), an American boxing film noir directed by Mark Robson
* ''The Harder They Fall'' (2021 film), an American Western film directed by Jeymes Samuel
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He's All That''
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Home Sweet Home Alone
''Home Sweet Home Alone'' is a 2021 American List of Christmas films, Christmas comedy film directed by Dan Mazer and written by Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell. A standalone sequel to ''Home Alone: The Holiday Heist'' (2012), it is the sixth ins ...
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Jurassic World Dominion
''Jurassic World Dominion'' is a 2022 American Science fiction film, science fiction action film directed by Colin Trevorrow, who co-wrote the screenplay with Emily Carmichael (filmmaker), Emily Carmichael from a story by Derek Connolly and Tre ...
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King Richard King Richard normally refers to the three English monarchs.
English monarchs
*Richard I of England or Richard the Lionheart (1157–1199)
*Richard II of England (1367–1400)
*Richard III of England (1452–1485)
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The Last Duel''
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Lou Lou may refer to:
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* Lou (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
*Lou (German singer)
*Lou (French singer)
* Lou (surname 娄), the 229th most common surname in China
* Lou (surname 楼), the 269th most common ...
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Master
Master, master's or masters may refer to:
Ranks or titles
In education:
*Master (college), head of a college
*Master's degree, a postgraduate or sometimes undergraduate degree in the specified discipline
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The Matrix Resurrections
''The Matrix Resurrections'' is a 2021 American science fiction action film co-produced, co-written, and directed by Lana Wachowski, and the first in the ''Matrix'' franchise to be directed solely by Lana. It is the sequel to '' The Matrix Re ...
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Midnight in the Switchgrass''
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One''
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning''
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The Mother''
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Night Teeth
''Night Teeth'' is a 2021 American vampire thriller film directed by Adam Randall and written by Brent Dillon. The film stars Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Debby Ryan, Lucy Fry, Raul Castillo, Sydney Sweeney, Megan Fox, and Alfie Allen.
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Nightmare Alley''
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Nimona
''Nimona'' is a science fantasy graphic novel by American cartoonist ND Stevenson. The story follows the title character, a shapeshifter who joins the disgraced knight Ballister Blackheart in his plans to destroy the over-controlling Institut ...
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The Noel Diary''
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Official Competition''
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The Power of the Dog''
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Prey
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The Prom''
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Rebel Ridge
''Rebel Ridge'' is a 2024 American action thriller film written, produced, directed and edited by Jeremy Saulnier. The film stars Aaron Pierre as Terry Richmond, a former Marine, who has the funds needed to post bail for his cousin unjustly sei ...
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Red Notice
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Robot Dreams''
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Samaritan
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'' is a 2021 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Shang-Chi. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is List of Marvel ...
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Studio 666
''Studio 666'' is a 2022 American comedy horror film directed by B. J. McDonnell from a screenplay by Jeff Buhler and Rebecca Hughes, based on a story by Dave Grohl, who stars, alongside his Foo Fighters bandmates Nate Mendel in his film debut, ...
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Terrifier 2''
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Tick, Tick... Boom!''
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Tokyo Revengers
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Wakui. It was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from March 2017 to November 2022, with its chapters collected in 31 volumes.
The story ...
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The Tragedy of Macbeth''
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Triangle of Sadness
''Triangle of Sadness'' is a 2022 satirical black comedy film written and directed by Ruben Östlund in his English-language feature debut. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean (in her final film role), Dolly ...
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Trigger Point
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True Things''
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Uncharted
''Uncharted'' is an action-adventure video game series and media franchise published by Sony Interactive Entertainment and developed by Naughty Dog. Created by Amy Hennig, the ''Uncharted'' franchise follows a group of treasure hunters who trav ...
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The Unforgivable
''The Unforgivable'' is a 2021 drama film directed by Nora Fingscheidt and written by Peter Craig, Hillary Seitz, and Courtenay Miles, based on the 2009 British miniseries ''Unforgiven'' written by Sally Wainwright. The film stars Sandra Bullo ...
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The Unholy''
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Vacation Friends
''Vacation Friends'' is a 2021 American buddy comedy film directed by Clay Tarver, and co-written by Tom Mullen, Tim Mullen, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. The film stars John Cena, Lil Rel Howery, Yvonne Orji, Meredith Hagner, ...
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Vengeance
Vengeance may refer to:
*Vengeance (concept) or revenge, a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance
Film
* ''Vengeance'' (1930 film), action adventure film directed by Archie Mayo
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White Paradise''
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The Woman King
''The Woman King'' is a 2022 American historical action-adventure film about the Agojie, the all-female warrior regiment that protected the West African Kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th to 19th centuries. Set in the 1820s, the film stars Vi ...
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Young. Wild. Free.''
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365 Days: This Day''
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Amsterdam
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania''
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Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom''
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As They Made Us''
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Avatar 4
''Avatar 4'' is an upcoming American epic science fiction film co-written, co-edited, co-produced and directed by James Cameron. Distributed by 20th Century Studios, it will be the sequel to '' Avatar: Fire and Ash'' (2025) and the fourth instal ...
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Avatar 5''
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Babylon
Babylon ( ) was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about south of modern-day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-s ...
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The Beast''
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F''
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Black Adam
Black Adam (Teth-Adam) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He was created by Otto Binder and C. C. Beck, and first appeared in the debut issue of Fawcett Comics' '' The Marvel Family'' comic book ...
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever''
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Blonde
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Borderlands A borderland or borderlands are the geographical space or zone around a territorial border.
Borderland or borderlands may refer to:
Places
* Borderland, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia
* Borderland (elec ...
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Borrego''
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The Brutalist
''The Brutalist'' is a 2024 Epic film, epic Historical drama, period drama film directed and produced by Brady Corbet, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mona Fastvold. It stars Adrien Brody as a History of the Jews in Hungary, Jewish-Hungarian ...
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Cobra
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
''Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness'' is a 2022 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Doctor Strange. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel ...
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Don't Breathe 2''
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Don't Look Up
''Don't Look Up'' is a 2021 American political satire black comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by Adam McKay from a story he co-wrote with David Sirota. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, R ...
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The Exorcism
''The Exorcism'' is a 2024 American supernatural horror film starring Russell Crowe as Anthony Miller, an actor whose deteriorating mental state on a horror movie set causes his daughter ( Ryan Simpkins) to suspect either his former addictions ...
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Expend4bles
''Expend4bles'' (also known as ''The Expendables 4'') is a 2023 American action film and the fourth installment in ''The Expendables'' film series. The film stars an ensemble cast, including Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, Curtis "50 Cent" ...
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The Fallout''
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore''
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Fast X
''Fast X'' is a 2023 American action film directed by Louis Leterrier from a screenplay written by Dan Mazeau and Justin Lin, both of whom also co-wrote the story with Zach Dean. It is the sequel to ''F9 (film), F9'' (2021), the tenth main ins ...
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Final Destination Bloodlines
''Final Destination Bloodlines'' is a 2025 American supernatural horror film directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein from a screenplay by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor, based on a story by Jon Watts, Busick, and Evans Taylor. It is the si ...
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Godzilla Minus One
is a 2023 Japanese Epic film, epic ''kaiju'' film written, directed, and with visual effects by Takashi Yamazaki. It is the 37th film in the Godzilla (franchise), ''Godzilla'' franchise, Toho's 33rd ''Godzilla'' film, and the fifth installme ...
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The Gray Man
Grey man, The Gray Man or The Grey Man may refer to:
People
* The primary nickname of American serial killer Albert Fish
* A nickname of British Prime Minister John Major, known as the "grey man" of British politics
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Hard Truths''
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame''
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
''Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny'' is a 2023 American action-adventure film directed by James Mangold and written by Mangold, David Koepp, Jez Butterworth, Jez and John-Henry Butterworth. It is the fifth and final installment in Indiana_ ...
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John Wick: Chapter 5''
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Killers of the Flower Moon''
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Legally Blonde 3''
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A Little White Lie''
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The Little Mermaid
"The Little Mermaid" (), sometimes translated in English as "The Little Sea Maid", is a fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Originally published in 1837 as part of a collection of fairy tales for children, the story foll ...
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Madame Web
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The Man from Toronto''
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Matilda the Musical
''Roald Dahl's Matilda'', also known simply as ''Matilda'' and ''Matilda the Musical'', is a musical with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin and a book by Dennis Kelly. It is based on the 1988 novel '' Matilda'' by Roald Dahl. The musical's narr ...
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Moonfall''
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3''
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The Next 365 Days''
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The Nightingale''
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The Northman
''The Northman'' is a 2022 American epic action drama film directed by Robert Eggers, who the screenplay with Sjón. Based on the legend of Amleth from ''Gesta Danorum'' by Saxo Grammaticus, the film follows Amleth, an exiled Viking prince wh ...
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No Sudden Move
''No Sudden Move'' is a 2021 American crime thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh, produced by Casey Silver, and written by Ed Solomon. The film features an ensemble cast including Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, David Harbour, Jon Hamm, ...
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Peter Pan & Wendy
''Peter Pan & Wendy'' is a 2023 American fantasy adventure film directed by David Lowery from a screenplay he co-wrote with Toby Halbrooks. Jim Whitaker served as producer on the Walt Disney Pictures and Whitaker Entertainment production, bas ...
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Reagan''
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City''
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The Road to Galena''
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The Royal Treatment''
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Scream''
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Shazam! Fury of the Gods
''Shazam! Fury of the Gods'' is a 2023 American superhero film based on the DC character Shazam. Produced by New Line Cinema, DC Films, and the Safran Company, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is the sequel to '' Shazam!'' (201 ...
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Sneakerella''
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Snow White
"Snow White" is a German fairy tale, first written down in the early 19th century. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'', numbered as Tale 53. The original title was ''Sneewittch ...
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Spider-Man: No Way Home''
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Star Trek: Section 31'' (originally developed as a television series, later become a film)
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Stream
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Thor: Love and Thunder''
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Three Thousand Years of Longing
''Three Thousand Years of Longing'' is a 2022 romantic fantasy drama film directed and produced by George Miller. Written by Miller and Augusta Gore, it is based on the 1994 short story " The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" by A. S. Byatt and ...
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Till Death''
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Wolf Creek 3''
Cancelled
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Batgirl
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The Expendabelles''
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Fantastic Beasts 4''
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Fantastic Beasts 5''
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Geechee'' (first delayed, later cancelled)
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Masters of the Universe
''Masters of the Universe'' (sometimes referred to as the ''He-Man'' or ''She-Ra'' series) is a sword and planet-themed media franchise created by Mattel. The main premise revolves around the conflict between He-Man (the alter ego of Prince A ...
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The Mothership''
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Scoob! Holiday Haunt''
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Shrunk''
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Tomb Raider: Obsidian''
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Pirates of the Caribbean
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See also
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema
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2020 in film
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2021 in film
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In his article highlighting the best mo ...
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television
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Talking Movies
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed befo ...
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Coronavirus puts film industry in 'turmoil' March 12, 2020
*Shoard, Catherine, ''The Guardian''
'Over one hour everything was cancelled' – how coronavirus devastated the film industry March 20, 2020
*Burke, Kristin M., ''The Guardian''
Reports of the death of the film industry have been greatly exaggerated April 14, 2020
*Crucchiola, Jordan, ''Vulture''
July 24, 2020
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