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"Top Gun: Maverick," starring Tom Cruise, was
originally scheduled to open in movie theaters worldwide on June
24 more than 30 years after the original movie launched his
career as a global action star.
The delay to Dec. 23 was the latest in a series of blockbuster
movies that have been delayed, including the new James Bond film
"Never Say Die" and Disney's "Mulan," because of the coronavirus
that has closed movie theaters in the United States and much of
Europe and Asia.
"Top Gun: Maverick," picks up decades after the 1986 box-office
hit and features actor Miles Teller as the son of Anthony
Edwards' pilot Goose, who is killed during a training exercise
in the first movie.
Most of the big movies that make up the lucrative summer season
in North America have been postponed. But Hollywood studios are
hopeful theaters will reopen and crowds will return in late
summer.
Paramount said on Thursday that the animated "The SpongeBob
Movie: Sponge on the Run", previously scheduled for a May
release, would now open on July 31.
"Wonder Woman 1984" from Warner Bros has also been rescheduled
from June to Aug. 14.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant and Lisa Richwine, Editing by
Franklin Paul and David Gregorio)
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