Bad News: The Lego Movie 2 Gets Pushed Back To 2019
Now you have to wait even longer for everything to be awesome again.
Warner Bros have been rearranging their stock, with four projects shifted into new release slots. Ben Affleck's Live By Night - a period crime film - has been moved up nine months to 13th January 2017 (NEVER release in January, guys), with disaster movie Geostorm filling its original spot of 20th October 2017.
Owen Wilson/Ed Helms comedy Bastards has also been shunted into a dreaded January slot from November 2016 - it will debut on the 27th alongside the next Resident Evil and Trainspotting 2. But at least it's not competing directly with Marvel's Doctor Strange, which is always a recipe for disaster.
The biggest switch - or at least the most notable - is the move of The Lego Movie 2 almost a year back from May 2018 to February 2019. That makes it five years since the first Lego Movie and two years after The Lego Batman Movie. Perhaps WB think February release dates work well for Lego movies?
It's frustrating, but for Warners it makes sense. This way it doesn't directly compete with the first part of the Avengers: Infinity War double-header or the Han Solo spin-off, which was set to debut a week after it. The switch to February means they're more likely to take a healthy slice of the box office (with only Spongebob Squarepants 3 so far announced for the same month.
Unfortunately, it's just one of those things: hopefully the film will be more than worth the wait.