Earlier this year Fox announced that Marvel’s Dark Phoenix movie would be delayed where instead of a release in 2018, it had been pushed to February 2019. The other day a trailer for the movie was released which seemed like everything was on track, or so we thought, but unfortunately that is no longer the case.
In a report from Deadline, it appears that Fox has decided to delay the Dark Phoenix movie again. Instead of being released in February, Fox has reportedly pushed the release to the 7th of June, 2019, making it a summer blockbuster release. Why the delay, you ask? Apparently because a summer release is a “better date”, plus it also gives the film a better chance at doing well in China.
It seems that the trailer for the movie managed to clock 44 million views over in China in the first 24 hours, indicating that the Chinese market is pretty excited for its release. It is unfortunate that the movie has been delayed again, and safe to say that the delays are building up a lot of hype which hopefully the movie will be able to deliver.
Dark Phoenix is expected to be the last Marvel movie by Fox following Disney’s acquisition of them, which will also see the return of several Marvel franchises back to Marvel. It was also previously reported that Marvel will be folding the X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Deadpool in the MCU, which presumably could come in the form of a reboot of the franchises.
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