We’re halfway through both the actual calendar, and the Summer blockbuster season (which started in May). Even though it feels like a Friday night at the video store circa 1990, there have been some amazing movies released so far. Dinosaurs are battling robots for box office supremacy, and Pixar is once again at the front of Best Animated Feature Oscar speculation with “Inside Out”.
Here’s the latest movie schedule, culled from various sources… Not much to update, except for the Smurfs getting an actual title. There will probably be more after San Diego and D23.
NOTE: My colleagues have noted the confusion over Warner Brothers’ superhero schedule.
To be clear: past Suicide Squad, Warners Brothers/DC Entertainment has not matched announced movies with opening dates.
So, you will see a listing like:
Unknown 2018 Flash and
3/23/2018 Untitled DC
That does not mean that there are two movies scheduled, only that DCE is planning movies, and has claimed dates. Other news sites have linked titles to dates. This has not been officially announced or confirmed by Warner Brothers, and until I see official confirmation, will continue to list the names and dates separately. When do I expect to see that confirmation? Either at a shareholder’s meeting, or sometime in July or August, just like last year. Like last year, I expect Marvel, via D23, to make a bigger splash than DC, although DC could try to win Comic-Con this year, given Marvel Studio’s suspected absence.
Updates are in bold. I have included links back to Box Office Mojo, which is the source of this data.
| Date | Title | Studio |
| 7/10/2015 | Minions | Universal |
| 7/17/2015 | Ant-Man | Marvel |
| 7/24/2015 | Pixels | Sony/Columbia |
| 8/7/2015 | Fantastic Four | Fox |
| 8/14/2015 | Underdogs (2014) (Metegol) | Weinstein |
| 10/23/2015 | Jem and the Holograms | Universal |
| 11/6/2015 | The Peanuts Movie | Fox |
| 11/25/2015 | The Good Dinosaur | Pixar |
| 12/18/2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Disney |
| 2/12/2016 | Deadpool | Fox |
| 3/4/2016 | Zootopia | Disney |
| 3/25/2016 | Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice | DCE |
| 5/6/2016 | Captain America: Civil War | Marvel |
| 5/27/2016 | X-Men: Apocalypse | Fox |
| 6/3/2016 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 | Paramount |
| 6/17/2016 | Finding Dory | Pixar |
| 7/8/2016 | ??? (Was Doctor Strange) | Marvel |
| 7/8/2016 | Star Trek 3 | Paramount |
| 8/5/2016 | Suicide Squad | DCE |
| 8/19/2016 | Kubo and the Two Strings | Focus/Laika |
| 9/23/2016 | Storks | Warners |
| 10/7/2016 | Gambit | Fox |
| 10/7/2016 | Monster High | Universal |
| 11/4/2016 | Doctor Strange | Marvel |
| 11/18/2016 | Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them | Warners |
| 11/23/2016 | Moana | Disney |
| 12/16/2016 | Rogue One | Disney |
| 12/25/2016 | Nation Awakes | Aamir Sajjad Ventures |
| 1/13/2017 | Power Rangers | Lionsgate |
| 2/10/2017 | Untitled LEGO Batman Film | Warners |
| 3/3/2017 | Untitled Wolverine | Fox |
| 3/10/2017 | Captain Underpants | Dreamworks |
| 3/31/2017 | Get Smurfy in 3D | Sony |
| 3/31/2017 | Ghost in the Shell | Disney |
| 5/5/2017 | Guardians of the Galaxy 2 | Marvel |
| 5/26/2017 | Untitled LEGO Movie ? | Warners |
| 5/26/2017 | Star Wars: Episode VIII | Disney |
| 6/9/2017 | The Fantastic Four 2 | Fox |
| 6/16/2017 | Toy Story 4 | Pixar |
| 6/23/2017 | Untitled DC | DCE |
| 6/30/2017 | Despicable Me 3 | Universal |
| 7/7/2017 | Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | Disney |
| 7/28/2017 | Unititled Spider-Man | Sony/Marvel |
| 9/22/2017 | Ninjago | Warners |
| 11/3/2017 | Thor: Ragnarok | Marvel |
| 11/17/2017 | Untitled DC | DCE |
| 11/22/2017 | Untitled Pixar Animation | Pixar |
| 2/9/2018 | Untitled Warner Animation Group Project | Warners |
| 3/9/2018 | Untitled Disney Animation | Disney |
| 3/23/2018 | Untitled DC | DCE |
| 5/4/2018 | Avengers: Infinity War, Part 1 | Marvel |
| 5/18/2018 | The LEGO Movie Sequel | Warners |
| 6/15/2018 | Untitled Pixar Animation | Pixar |
| 7/6/2018 | Black Panther | Marvel |
| 7/13/2018 | Untitled Fox / Marvel | Fox / Marvel |
| 7/20/2018 | Spider-Man (animated film) | Sony |
| 7/27/2018 | Untitled DC | DCE |
| 11/2/2018 | Captain Marvel | Marvel |
| 11/16/2018 | Untitled WB Event Film | Warners |
| 11/21/2018 | Untitled Disney Animation | Disney |
| 4/5/2019 | Untitled DC | DCE |
| 5/3/2019 | Avengers: Infinity War, Part 2 | Marvel |
| 5/24/2019 | Untitled Warner Animated Film | Warners |
| 6/14/2019 | Untitled DC | DCE |
| 7/12/2019 | Inhumans | Marvel |
| 4/3/2020 | Untitled DC | DCE |
| 6/19/2020 | Untitled DC | DCE |
| 11/20/2020 | Untitled WB Event Film | Warners |
| Unknown 2016 | Popeye | Sony |
| Unknown 2016 | Untitled Lego Movie | Warners |
| Unknown 2017 | Wonder Woman | DCE |
| Unknown 2017 | Justice League, Part One | DCE |
| Unknown 2017 | Lego Batman | Warners |
| Unknown 2018 | Flash | DCE |
| Unknown 2018 | Aquaman | DCE |
| Unknown 2018 | Lego Movie 2 | Warners |
| Unknown 2018 | HP: Fantastic Beasts | Warners |
| Unknown 2019 | Shazam | DCE |
| Unknown 2019 | Justice League Part Two | DCE |
| Unknown 2020 | Cyborg | DCE |
| Unknown 2020 | Green Lantern | DCE |
| Unknown 2020 | HP: Fantastic Beasts | Warners |
| UNKNOWN | The Amazing Spider-Man 3 | Sony |
| UNKNOWN | The Amazing Spider-Man 4 | Sony |
| UNKNOWN | Untitled Frozen sequel | Disney |
| UNKNOWN | Incredibles 2 | Disney |
| UNKNOWN | Cars 3 | Disney |
| UNKNOWN | Sinister Six | Sony |
Also: The Diary of a Teenage Girl on August 7, 2015.
As smart as he is, Torsten still does not understand the meaning of the word “tentative.”
Those schedules feel like they are are getting over crowded with comic property saturation. With so many films tentatively only allowing three weeks or so between other large releases I think there will be three outcomes. Those films are going to have to hit big and accumulate fast so it makes the money back it needs, hope the other film is a dud and cruise through it’s opening to continue it’s gains, or films will start cannibalizing their audiences by either genre burn out or audience market and a majority start doing lower than needed numbers for the share holders.
If people don’t have superhero fatigue now, they sure will a year from now. And even more so in two years. Looks like the Death of Cinema to me.
All these “Untitled DC” entries suggest that a release date is now more important than having a script, a director, a cast or a concept. They’ll worry about such trivial things later.
is there some rule that says one has to see every last movie on that list. just watch the ones that interest you. i’m planning on only seeing the marvel based movies (with the exception of the f.f., get it right or get out of the theaters), so that’s what, about three movies a year. little chance of superhero fatigue when going to the movies. it’s like saying too many companies make too many comic books, again just read the ones you like, disregard the rest. same thing with the movies. and as far as hollywood saturating the market, this is what they do. decades ago putting out tons of westerns, spy flicks, war flicks, musicals, biker movies, space movies, monster movies, etc,, while the genre is hot and when the genre cools down, they still make those types of movies, just much less of them. right now the novelty of seeing characters from the comic books on the big screen (especially cross-overs) is very popular (putting it mildly) , but in about six to ten years, who knows. always with the talk of the death of superhero movies, how about enjoying the ride while it lasts.
“decades ago putting out tons of westerns, spy flicks, war flicks, musicals, biker movies, space movies, monster movies, etc,,”
The difference is that most of those were low-budget B movies. A lot of them played at Saturday matinees for children. Even adjusted for inflation, they didn’t cost $200M (or more), as a lot of superhero movies do now.
The genre/franchise movies of the past didn’t eat up all of a studio’s resources. Fox could have made a lot of Westerns (and other kinds of movies) with the money it spent to make and market the last X-Men movie.
In the past, studios would use the profits from the Charlie Chan or Andy Hardy series to make The Wizard of Oz or The Grapes of Wrath. The profits from superhero movies are just being used to make more superhero movies (and similar sci-fi/fantasy franchise films). If people don’t like originality and only want rehashes of what they’re already seen, I guess this is a golden age.
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