Escape Room 2 Release Date Moves Up Six Months
With movie studios continuing to play musical chairs with all of their releases,
Escape Room 2 has once again gotten a new release date, this time moving forward by six months from its scheduled January 7, 2022 release to July 16th of this year. Even before the coronavirus pandemic began taking a toll not only on movie productions, but also on theaters themselves, the sequel to the 2019 horror film earned delays, leaving audiences to wonder how many of those delays were related to bringing the film to life, possibly including creative changes. Despite its new release date being less than three months away, we can t rule out
Escape Room 2 Moves Up Release to July
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“Escape Room 2” has moved up its release to July.
The sequel to the 2019 psychological thriller will now debut on July 16, 2021, nearly six months earlier than its planned release date of Jan. 7, 2022.
With the box office beginning to revive after the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s possible that “Escape Room 2” moved up in the schedule to compete within the summer blockbuster timeframe. The first “Escape Room” was a hit at the box office, earning $155 million. “Godzilla vs. Kong” recently raked in the largest box office gross during the pandemic with $31 million, and this past weekend featured a fierce box office battle between “Mortal Kombat” and “Demon Slayer,” signaling to the industry that moviegoers are certainly eager to return to theaters.
Sony has moved the release date of Escape Room 2 to July 16, where it will face off against another Sony release, Cinderella. Both will open opposite Warner Bros. duel release of Space Jam: A New Legacy, which comes out in theaters and HBO Max that day.
Escape Room 2 Gets Another New Release Date
A sequel to
Escape Room was announced back in 2019, with the film going on to earn a number of release date delays and shifts, while the studio has since given the sequel a January 7, 2022 release date. When the sequel was first announced, it came with an April 2020 release date, only to be adjusted for a variety of unknown reasons, though it was only one of countless release date shifts that were announced by a number of studios in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The most recent update about the film came last October, which claimed it would be released sometime in 2021.
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