Paramount has delayed Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible 7.
Top Gun: Maverick, a sequel to the 1986 film, has been pushed back to May 27, 2022, instead of November 19, 2021. Mission: Impossible 7, a film in the spy series, will debut on September 30, 2022, instead of May 27, 2022.
Each has been delayed several times over the last year and half because of low movie theater attendance levels. The latest delay comes from the country’s surge in COVID-19 cases. This has made it difficult for big-budget films like Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible 7 to profit theatrically.
Moments after Paramount took Top Gun: Maverick off of the November 19, 2021 date, Sony pushed Ghostbusters: Afterlife from its November 11, 2021 spot to that date.
While this is a huge blow to cinemas, other studios have big movies scheduled this year including Universal’s Dear Evan Hansen, MGM’s No Time to Die, Sony’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Disney and Marvel’s Eternals, 20th Century Studios’ West Side Story, and Warner Bros. The Matrix 4.
