Sony Pictures announced on Wednesday that the release date of Ghostbusters: Afterlife has been postponed from March to June 11, 2021. This is the same weekend that the first Ghostbusters movie was released in 1984. It will be the latest tentpole shift in the cinema calendar given the ongoing restrictions on cinemas amid the pandemic.
Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, McKenna Grace, Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson and Paul Rudd star in the new episode of the franchise, which is directed by Jason Reitman and produced by Ivan Reitman. Gil Kenan and Reitman wrote the script, which is about a single mother and her two children who arrive in a small town and begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and their grandfather’s secret legacy.
The picture from Columbia Pictures originally had a release date of July 10, 2020 before being postponed last March when the coronavirus shut everything on its path.
Also today Sony dated Screen Gems’ sequel to its horror hit Don’t Breathe for August 13, 2021. Rodo Sayagues co-wrote the screenplay with the director of the original film, Fede Álvarez, and is making his directorial debut. Stephen Lang will return as The Blind Man.
The first image, released the same weekend in 2016, was a surprise hit, grossing $ 157.8 million at the global box office.
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