Candyman Heads To 2021

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by James White |
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Even as cinemas slowly re-open and the box office around the world begins to wheeze slowly back into life, movies are still being delayed. Wonder Woman 1984 just moved to the Christmas season, and now Candyman is shifting from its planned October release to next year.

Nia DaCosta's film is described as a "spiritual sequel" to the 1992 original, the new movie finds Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as artist Anthony McCoy, who heads to the now-gentrified Cabrini-Green projects in Chicago where the legend of the hook-handed horror began to investigate the mythos. He discovers that it's all too real...

Universal and MGM have decided, watching how Tenet performs, that the next month or so is perhaps not the best time to release a big title as movies continue to find smaller takings (and according to Deadline, despite Universal's recent history with the practice, set to be released strictly in cinemas at first). Now we wait to see whether No Time To Die follows suit, of if Bond holds on given its planned November date.

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