The talk of the week at CinemaCon may have been Sony’s bombshell announcement about its four planned movies about The Beatles . Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, Barry Keoghan, and Harris Dickinson are your Fab Four. And how these movies will look, the order they’re meant to be watched in, and most notably, Sony’s ambitious plan to release all four films in the same month, opens up a world of questions.
But there was one other thing that raised an eyebrow: the date — April 2028. More from IndieWire The teasing of movies three years down the road was the longest any studio asked exhibitors to wait to get excited for their product (the movies should be worth it), but they were hardly the only studio playing the long game at this year’s CinemaCon. A number of studios’ heavily touted films opening in 2026 or being announced for 2027 while only showing a smattering of content for this summer or this fall.
Sony had films like “28 Years Later,” “Karate Kid: Legends,” “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” and “ Caught Stealing ” earmarked for this year that all received teases, but it also hyped the next “ Spider-Verse” movie now dated for 2027 (after being pushed back from a release as early as 2024), and the fourth live-action “Spider-Man” film, “Brand New Day,” dated for ’26. “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,” “Anaconda,” and “Resident Evil” were also highlighted as late ’25, early ’26 and beyond entries. Lionsgate after a dismal ’24 .
