Sony Animation’s Phil Lord & Chris Miller-produced “Connected” has joined the cinematic evacuees from October – ditching its October 23rd release for an unspecified date later in Q4 2020 reports Deadline.
Should “Black Widow” and “Soul” be delayed as expected, that will leave only Kenneth Branagh’s “Death on the Nile” on October 23rd and Cary Fukunaga’s “No Time to Die” on November 20th as the sole major studio releases before the Thanksgiving holiday.
The lack of New York and Los Angeles having cinemas opened has crippled exhibition enough both on the large (“Tenet”) and small (“The Broken Hearts Gallery”) films that titles from “Wonder Woman 1984” to “Candyman” to “Greenland” are fleeing the Fall for either Christmas or 2021 bows.
Brian Schultz, CEO of Studio Movie Grill theater chain told Variety recently: “It feels like distribution has kind of abandoned the movie theaters. I understand the core economics at play here, but without new product, we can’t keep things going. Christopher Nolan put an amazing stake in the ground with ‘Tenet,’ but now other studios need to follow his lead.”
“Connected” is directed by Michael Rianda and co-directed by Jeff Rowe and follows Katie Mitchell (Abbi Jacobson) who is accepted into the film school of her dreams. Her whole family drives Katie to school together when their plans are interrupted by a tech uprising, and the entire family works together to save the world.
Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Eric Andre and Olivia Colman lead the voice cast.
