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Star Trek movie, Transformers sequel, and Ms. Marvel all delayed

By Dan Selcke

ESCONDIDO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 30: Cosplayers Keston Denhalter as Optimus Prime (L) and Justin Wu as Bumblebee from "Transformers" attend Fandom Invasion at California Center for the Arts, Escondido on October 30, 2021 in Escondido, California. Fandom Invasion is a new pop culture convention presented by the Science Fiction Coalition, celebrating all science fiction and pop culture fandoms. (Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images)
ESCONDIDO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 30: Cosplayers Keston Denhalter as Optimus Prime (L) and Justin Wu as Bumblebee from "Transformers" attend Fandom Invasion at California Center for the Arts, Escondido on October 30, 2021 in Escondido, California. Fandom Invasion is a new pop culture convention presented by the Science Fiction Coalition, celebrating all science fiction and pop culture fandoms. (Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images) /
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Delays are everything. Deadline reports that Paramount is pushing back two of its big upcoming releases: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts — a sequel to 2018’s Bumblebee — has been pushed back a whole year from June 24, 2022 to June 9, 2023. Meanwhile, the new Star Trek movie that is finally getting rolling after a while in development hell is being pushed from June 9, 2023 to December 22, 2023.

And Paramount isn’t the only one pushing things back. Ms. Marvel, a Disney+ series about the titular Muslim superhero that was originally going to come out this year, was pushed into 2022. On a recent earnings call, CFO Christine McCarthy revealed more details, saying that Ms. Marvel will be out in the fourth quarter of 2022, so sometime between October of December of next year. The studio’s upcoming live-action remake of Pinocchio will also come out in that window, as will the Star Wars spinoff series Andor, which sees Diego Luna return to the role he debuted in Rogue One.

So that’s Andor, Ms. Marvel and the Pinocchio remake all coming out within the span of a few months. That’s a good amount of content, which Disney could use, because…

Disney+ subscriber growth is slowing

According to The A.V. Club, Disney CEO Bob Chapek broke the news during that earnings call that Disney+, the company’s streaming service, had only added about 2.1 million subscribers over the past three months, about a fifth of what Wall Street analysts were expecting. He put this down to COVID content delays and expected a bouncback.

Chapek also trotted out some vague claims about new technologies, even dropping the ominous words “Disney metaverse.”

"The Walt Disney Company has a long track record as an early adopter in the use of technology to enhance the entertainment experience. Our efforts to date are merely a prologue to a time when we’ll be able to connect the physical and digital worlds even more closely, allowing for storytelling without boundaries in our own Disney metaverse, and we look forward to creating unparalleled opportunities for consumers to experience everything Disney has to offer across our products and platforms, wherever the consumer may be."

Disney’s stock has dropped four percent since the earnings call.

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