Fans of “A Quiet Place” will see the sequel in theaters sooner than expected.
Paramount Pictures postponed the release date of “A Quiet Place Part II” by several months, changing the film from September 17 to May 28. He took the place previously occupied by Mark Wahlberg’s action thriller “Infinite”, which was moved to September 24th.
Paramount filled the Memorial Day weekend slot after Universal, early Thursday, postponed “F9” from late May to June 25th.
“A Quiet Place Part II”, directed by John Krasinski and starring Emily Blunt, has changed several times amid the coronavirus pandemic. The film was originally scheduled to be released last March, but those plans were canceled at the last minute when COVID-19 began to spread in the United States. Paramount even made a red carpet debut for “A Quiet Place Part II” in New York City on March 8, days before the country was almost completely closed.
“They always say good things come to those who wait,” wrote Krasinski on Thursday night on Twitter. “Well … I think we’ve waited long enough.”
They always say that good things come to those who wait. Well … I think we’ve waited long enough.
A QUIET PLACE PART II
MEMORIAL DAY pic.twitter.com/hqkE0YcUj8– John Krasinski (@johnkrasinski) March 5, 2021
The schedule change comes a week after Paramount announced its intention to shorten the cinema window, with plans to place “A Quiet Place Part II”, “Mission: Impossible 7” and other future titles on the nascent streaming service Paramount Plus after 45 days on the big screen. Before the pandemic, cinema operators demanded that studios keep their films exclusively in theaters for 90 days. But closing cinemas for a year has changed traditional ways of doing business, and several Hollywood companies have used this as an opportunity to get their films online earlier than usual.
Paramount was inspired to accelerate plans to release “A Quiet Place Part II” for several reasons. On the one hand, the move allows the studio and its parent company, ViacomCBS, to begin marketing the film as a busy offering for its newly revamped streaming platform, launched on March 4. With the 45-day window, the sequel to “A Quiet Place” is set to debut at Paramount Plus in July.
The studio was also optimistic because the Biden government recently announced that the United States is on track to have enough doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for “all adult Americans” by the end of May. And this weekend, cinemas in New York have been approved to reopen with limited capacity.
In “A Quiet Place Part II”, the surviving members of the Abbott family – Evelyn (Blunt) and their children, Regan (Millicent Simmonds), Marcus (Noah Jupe) and a newborn baby – continue to live in silence to hide from creatures that sound like hunting, this time while facing the terrors of the outside world.
“Infinite”, directed by Antoine Fuqua, focuses on Wahlberg as a man whose schizophrenic hallucinations are revealed as memories of past lives.