Lionsgate has shifted a number of release dates for its upcoming film slate, including pushing back The Crow reboot from June 7 of this year to August 23 and Saw XI from September 27, 2024, to September 26, 2025.
The news was first reported by Deadline, which IGN has confirmed with Lionsgate. The changes come a day before Lionsgate's CinemaCon presentation and put clearer into view what fans can expect from the studio over the next year or so. To help offset these shifts, Lionsgate is slotting the Halle Berry-led Never Let Go to Saw XI's previous release date of September 27, 2024.
Never Let Go looks to be a horror tale where an Evil is taking over the world and a mother and her two sons find their house and their bond is the only thing protecting them. That bond is quite literal as they need to stay tethered to one another - even by rope - to be safe. However, everything becomes threatened when one of the boys starts to question if the Evil is even real.
While nothing will replace the gap left by The Crow, the studio will be shifting The Best Christmas Pageant from November 15 to November 8. That film, starring Judy Greer, Pete Holmes, Elizabeth Tabish, and Lauren Graham, is in the spirit of A Christmas Story and follows the "worst kids in the history of the world" who might end up teaching their community about the true meaning of Christmas.
When The Crow reboot does arrive, it will be a reimagining of the graphic novel by James O'Barr that stars Bill Skarsgård as Eric Draven, aka The Crow. We recently got a look at the film's first trailer and it shows Draven's powers awakening after the love of his life is "brutally murdered."
“Soulmates Eric Draven (Skarsgård) and Shelly Webster (FKA twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right," the official description reads.
As for Saw XI, we don't know much about the eleventh entry of the the horror franchise, but we do know that Saw X earned an impressive $107 million globally on a budget that was reportedly just at $13 million.
For more, check out the problem we already have with The Crow remake and our explainer of the ending of Saw X.
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