As the coronavirus continues to spread in the U.S. at reduced but still concerning levels, Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) pushed back the release dates of a laundry list of upcoming movies today, according to reports by USA Today and others. While the media titan is pushing back most releases by a few weeks, in two prominent cases -- the superhero film Black Widow and the Steven Spielberg flick West Side Story -- the movies are being delayed by six months and a year, respectively.
Black Widow , in which actress Scarlett Johansson plays a super-powered spy, assassin, and martial artist, was originally slated to start showing at cinemas on Nov. 6. However, the date for the superhero blockbuster's advent has been shunted to May 7, 2021. Disney is moving the Agatha Christie murder mystery film Death on the Nile , directed by Kenneth Branagh, about two months forward on the calendar, from Oct. 23 to Dec. 18, Variety reports.
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Disney Pushes Back Its Black Widow Blockbuster to Mid-2021