Warner Bros. is getting its geese in a row earlier than it presents its upcoming slate to theater homeowners at this yr’s CinemaCon, which will get underway March 31 in Las Vegas.
Wednesday night, the studio introduced a variety of high-profile adjustments to its launch calendar, led by information that director Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s Frankenstein pic The Bride is relocating from Sept. 26, 2025, to March 6, 2026. The movie stars Christian Bale reverse Jessie Buckley. The Bride has had a difficult post-production interval, in accordance with sources.
The studio says the film is the type of occasion movie that may profit from hitting theaters timed to the start of spring holidays and college breaks. Nor does it preclude the movie from being an awards contender regardless of such an early launch date.
In one other notable transfer, the discharge of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After One other — starring Leonardo DiCaprio — is being pushed from Aug. 8 of this yr to The Bride‘s outdated date of Sept. 16, 2025. This may enable the film to have a worldwide launch in Imax theaters, in addition to give the studio time to put in projections techniques that may enable the pic to be seen in VISTA VISION.
Sources say this probably implies that the director’s new movie gained’t make its world premiere on the Cannes Movie Pageant, however the late September launch date is well-timed to the autumn movie festivals.
Sporting a finances north of $130 million, the movie is Anderson’s most costly up to now and comes as Warners’ movie studio faces scrutiny following a string of field workplace disappointments. The film is claimed to be a riff on Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, and the Leonardo DiCaprio-led forged contains Sean Penn, Regina Corridor, Alana Haim, Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro and others.
Followers of filmmaker Barbarian filmmaker Zach Cregger might be completely happy to know that his movie Weapons is shifting up its launch from Jan. 11, 2026, to Aug. 8, 2025. The multi-story horror epic stars Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Amy Madigan, Benedict Wong and Cary Christopher.
The opposite two massive adjustments introduced Wednesday: Warner Bros. Footage Animation’s The Cat within the Hat is shifting up its launch date from March 6, 2026 to February 27, 2026, whereas David Robert Mitchell’s Flowervale Road is being pushed from March 13, 2026, to Aug. 14, 2026
Flowervale Road‘s high-profile forged contains Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, Christian Convery, Jordan Alexa Davis and P.J. Byrne
Extra to come back.