Box Office Calendar in Chaos: "Next Year Is Becoming a Cage Match"
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hollywoodreporter.comOn March 4, MGM's James Bond film No Time to Die became the first Hollywood tentpole in the COVID-19 era to delay its theatrical release.
The 25th installment in the storied spy franchise moved from early April to Thanksgiving. At the time, the decision seemed drastic — theaters were still open in the U.S.
and the World Health Organization hadn't declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic — but it proved to be a bellwether of the coming chaos.
Theaters in the U.S. soon shuttered (cinemas in China, where the pandemic began, had gone dark in late January). Studios rushed to rearrange their slates in what has been the biggest disruption to the release calendar in Hollywood history.
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