The Batman franchise won’t be released anytime soon after a new release date is announced.The sequel to Matt Reeves’ movie starring Robert Pattinson as the winged DC superhero was announced at CinemaCon in April 2022, with Mattson Tomlin to co-write with Reeves. It was then announced in January 2023 that the movie was set to be released October 3 2024.However, delays reportedly caused by last year’s SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes have meant that the movie won’t be hitting screens until October 2 2026, pushing its release back a whole year.The first movie in Reeves’ iteration of Gotham’s superhero was a success, receiving generally positive reviews and making more than £601million ($770million) at the box office, becoming the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2022.With an ensemble cast including Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano and Jeffrey Wright, it was nominated for three Academy Awards, including for Best Visual Effects.In a four-star-review of The Batman, NME wrote: “Director Matt Reeves has mixed up gritty mob drama with film-noir detective thriller – and thanks to Dano’s ultra-creepy villain, some psychological horror too.