Now that Universal and Legendary Pictures are a tag team combo (the latter was formerly with Warner Bros.), they have a slew of major projects that are looking for release dates. Some are getting bumped around, and at least one is fleeing for its life from the Star Wars juggernaut.
First up, and the only one I really care about, is Duncan Jones' Warcraft film, which has moved from December 18th 2015 to March 11th 2016. Why? Because opening opposite Star Wars: Episode VII is a fool's errand. Right now we know that Paula Patton and Travis Fimmell are set for two of the leads, with Colin Farrell, Paul Dano, and others possibly joining.
It's rarely a good thing when a film that is only a few weeks from release is suddenly delayed by more than a year, but that's the case with Seventh Son. The YA adaptation directed by Sergei Bodrov and starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore has been moved from January 2014 to February 6th 2015. Potential disaster in the making? The trailer released some time ago didn't exactly make a lot of waves, so maybe the year will be spent retooling.
Michael Mann's long-developing untitled cyber crime thriller with Chris Hemsworth has been set for January 16th 2015. The film co-stars Viola Davis and "follows a furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners as they hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta." The January date is troubling, to say the least, because it means perhaps there isn't a lot of confidence in it being any good.
And finally, that reboot of The Mummy that probably could've stayed buried has been dated for April 22nd 2016. Produced by Star Trek's Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, the film will be directed by Andres Muschietti (Mama) with a script by Jon Spaihts, writer of Prometheus.
