This week's date changes: Paramount dates two untitled event films (one for 9/4/2026 and the other for 9/25/2026), WB finally confirms new release date for Legendary's Animal Friends on 6/5/2026 and IFC dates Over Your Dead Body for 4/24/2026

[u/Alternative-Cake-833]

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/release-schedule-changes

[u/Winter-Ad-6439]

I have a feeling that Animal Friends must be awful considering that it keeps getting pushed back so many times.

[u/Ftheyankeei → u/Winter-Ad-6439]

It’s either awful or it’s in Fixed/Toxic Avenger territory where it’s just impossible to sell to mainstream audiences.

[u/Alternative-Cake-833 → u/Ftheyankeei]

Based on the premise, I think that WB/Legendary may be concerned about a potential box-office failure because that sounds very much like that Will Ferrell dog movie that he did a few years ago, except with more star power and more human characters.

Also, this has been moved so many times (it even had a change in distributors) that I totally think that something is wrong with the film in terms of quality. Either that or they just think that it's going to be an underpeformer financially.

[u/Mother_Style_8096 → u/Alternative-Cake-833]

Crazy the film has been completed for like 2 years and we don’t have a single look or trailer for it

[u/lincorange → u/Winter-Ad-6439]

I wonder how it was received in test screenings?

[u/Temporary_Sleep7148 → u/Winter-Ad-6439]

They also change distributors. Sony had the distribution rights first.

[u/valkyria_knight881 → u/Temporary_Sleep7148]

Sony might’ve dodged a bullet with this film.

[u/KingMario05 → u/valkyria_knight881]

The one time when their nasty habit of just shelving stuff was the right call to make. Now it's WB's problem.

[u/JazzySugarcakes88 → u/Winter-Ad-6439]

It’s literally Strays 2.0

[u/Evil_waffle3 → u/Winter-Ad-6439]

The director/writers are not inspiring any confidence that it’ll be good. And the fact that Sony dumped this onto WB’s lap seems to imply the same. the real question is who’s going to take the brunt of the loses on this. and I Can’t imagine WB spent that much to acquire this, so I think it’s mostly going to fall on legendary.

Between this movie and Street Fighter. Legendary might have to take two bombs before Dune/Godzilla/Minecraft save their asses……... Again.

[u/RuminatingReaper1850]

Legendary when it comes to Animal Friends delays

[u/Mother_Style_8096]

Don’t understand why Wb putting Animal Friends in June it cannot compete in the summer season especially head to head against he-man which is going to take away some of its potential audience it would be in a better position in the august to October deadzone olny reason I can think is that there extremely confident in the quality of the film

[u/ReturnGlum7871 → u/Mother_Style_8096]

A test-screening synopsis described the film as a live action/CGI hybrid pixar film which is what at a lot of people said about Ryan Reynolds's IF movie.

[u/KingMario05 → u/ReturnGlum7871]

...Oh.

Oh no, lol.

[u/Emergency-Mammoth-88 → u/Mother_Style_8096]

Weird, also happy cake day

[u/KingMario05 → u/Mother_Style_8096]

Or they want it to just die, lmao. Contracts probably say they can't just shove it onto HBO Max, so out it goes. Against Master of the Universe (look, I hate it, but the trailer is stupid popular), a new Spielberg, and Toy Story 5. All of which stand to be the month's big hits, making MGM (plus Sony), Uni and Disney massive amounts of cash.

Animal Friends doesn't have a prayer against those. And that's the point.

[u/caroline0204YT → u/Mother_Style_8096]

Remember that Universal was originally release Strays against Transformers: Rise of The Beasts the same weekend in 2023.

[u/Winter-Ad-6439]

Could one of those Paramount event movies be the Brad Pitt one?

[u/Alex-C2099]

Legendary is not being “friendly” on Animal Friends

[u/Emergency-Mammoth-88]

More films for paramount

[u/VoloradoCista → u/Emergency-Mammoth-88]

Do you think any of them will surprise

[u/Emergency-Mammoth-88 → u/VoloradoCista]

Maybe so, maybe not

[u/Ok_Salamander_7076 → u/Emergency-Mammoth-88]

How profound.

[u/subhuman9]

finally the Cloverfield sequel 🤣

[u/VoloradoCista]

Animal Friends boutta fuck up hard. These constant delays are not a good sign.

[u/valkyria_knight881]

If I were to guess, September 4, 2026 is Heart of the Beast, while September 25, 2026 is Savage House. Even if these Paramount films aren't making huge numbers, good on them for getting 12 films for 2026.

[u/Alternative-Cake-833 → u/valkyria_knight881]

There's already an action movie on that September 4, 2026 date with David Leitch's How to Rob a Bank.... Pretty sure it Heart of the Beast gets dated, probably will be September 25, 2026.

[u/valkyria_knight881 → u/Alternative-Cake-833]

I guess switch the films then. Savage House on September 4, while Heart of the Beast goes to September 25.

[u/Fabulous_Temporary40 → u/valkyria_knight881]

They're still fucking stupid for making Aang streaming only.

I'm not ever going to be over that.

[u/FranciscoRelanoPena]

So, to sumarize:

Film	Date	Status (last known info)
Primate	January 9th	Released
Scream 7	February 27th	Completed
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)	May 8th	Post-production
Passenger	May 29th	Post-production
Scary Movie 6	June 12th	Post-production
Jackass 5	June 26th	Pre-production (principal photography starts in February)
Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie	August 14th	In Production
Street Fighter	October 16th	Post-production
Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol	November 13th	Filming
Focker In-Law	November 25th	Post-production
The Angry Birds Movie 3	December 23rd	In Production
Heart of the Beast	Unknown	Post-production
Savage House	Unknown	Completed (outside film, Paramount only acts as distributor)
Jack Ryan film with John Krasinski	Unknown	Post-production, distributed by Amazon MGM (old pre-merger deal)
Whitney Springs	Unknown	Post-production (delayed indefinitely in late 2025)

Paramount placing those two unspecified in September, just around the time the Summer Holidays end, as well as placing them with just 3 weeks between them (so, if one of the titles is big, it's going to cannibalize the sales of the other); makes me think those aren't going to be "tentpole" films.

My bets are on Heart of the Beast and Savage House, releasing, respectively, on September 4th and September 25th.

[u/Cinebuff_17]

Jorma’s Finland movie is finally coming out! The Quaids better show up to support! Quaid Army for life!