Warner Bros. Pictures announced theatrical release dates for three major events tonight – and their intention is that they will go straight to the big screen, not HBO Max and the theaters. Those three are George Miller Max Max prequela Angry on June 23, 2023, Dave Green’s animated hybrid Coyote vs. Acme on July 21, 2023 and The purple color musical resource on December 20, 2023. The announcement was made today by Toby Emmerich, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Group, and the intention is to launch the trio as global theatrical releases (not timed with a simultaneous drop in HBO; which is the intention of its release in theaters in 2021).
It is a nuanced ad from the Warner Bros. film side (without quotes from executives) to indicate that they are not trying to destroy the exhibition that emerged from the pandemic. Since Warners announced its radical theatrical and streaming strategy for 2021 earlier this month, zoom calls at rival studios among executives have debated whether Warners will go back on the intended plan as soon as it realizes it’s not working. in the middle of the year, or literally turned entirely into a Netflix-like studio with HBO Max taking over. Warners said his intentions for Max’s theatrical release strategy are only for next year.
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Furious stars The Queen’s Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy in the title role, alongside Chris Hemsworth and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Miller wrote the script and produces alongside his longtime partner, Oscar nominated producer Doug Mitchell (Mad Max: Fury Road, baby)
Coyote vs. Acme presents the age-old rivalry between the Roadrunner enemy and its preferred direct mail provider. The script is by James Gunn, Jeremy Slater, Jon Silberman and Josh Silberman and Samy Burch, based on the character Wile E. Coyote and the fictional Acme corporation in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon series, and the fictional New Yorker magazine article entitled “Coyote v. Acme ”, written by Ian Frazier. Former head of DreamWorks Animation and Tom Jerry producer Chris DeFaria and Gunn are producing, the latter under their production banner Two Monkeys, A Goat and Another, Dead, Monkey.
The purple color The musical feature is based on the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, and the film, as Deadline told you, will be directed by Blitz Bazawule (Black is King, Kojo’s Burial, Value the day), and produced by Oprah Winfrey under his Harpo Films production track, Steven Spielberg under his Amblin Entertainment production track, Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones. The EPs are Alice Walker, Rebecca Walker, Mara Jacobs, Carla Gardini, Kristie Macosko Krieger and Adam Fell. The screenplay is by Marcus Gardley (Chi), with a soundtrack including music and lyrics from the stage musical by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray. Both the new film itself and Gardley’s script are based on the Alice Walker book, the Warner Bros. film. 1985 Pictures and the stage musical.