antilia — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 07:12 AM)

"Avengers: Doomsday" is moving from May 1, 2026 to December 18, 2026, and Secret Wars is moving from May 7, 2027 to December 17, 2027.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/05/23/why-avengers-doomsday-and-secret-wars-were-delayed-per-report/
Why did this happen? There are two main reasons via an insider report at Deadline:
“Insiders noted that these two films are among the biggest ever made, and the delays simply allow more time to execute on a gargantuan vision. Disney/Marvel elected for December dates, given the success they’ve had in the holiday corridor with titles like Spider-Man: No Way Home. Avengers: Doomsday is in production now.”
“Executing” the vision may mean script issues and shooting, but it overwhelmingly likely means time to work on VFX, something Marvel has been accused of rushing and skimping on in many of its last few projects. Movies like Thor: Love and Thunder and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania have come under fire for this, as has She-Hulk, notoriously rushed to get the VFX done for its lead character.
The second reason is at least somewhat amusing, the fact that Marvel remembered that many of their movies do the best with a December release date, except uh, the last two Avengers movies, Endgame and Infinity War, both came out in April. Their last megahit, Deadpool and Wolverine, was out in July. So I’m not sure how much this tracks.