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The global release of the James Bond movie No Time to Die was postponed to October from April, its producers said, another setback for movie theatres trying to rebuild a business crushed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The movie’s new debut date is October 8, according to an announcement on the James Bond website and Twitter feed.
No Time to Die, from MGM and Comcast Corp’s Universal Pictures, had originally been set to hit the big screen in April 2020 but was postponed to November and then to April 2021.
The film, which cost an estimated $200m to produce, marks actor Daniel Craig’s last outing as agent 007.
Movie theatre operators, after a year of dismal ticket sales during the pandemic, are hoping a line-up of superheroes, fighter pilots and cinema’s most famous spy will help them stage a comeback in 2021.
Roughly two-thirds of theatres remain shut in the United States and Canada, normally the world’s largest film market. Box office receipts in 2020 plunged 80 per cent from a year earlier.
But theatre owners and industry analysts see reason for optimism as COVID-19 vaccines roll out and James Bond, Black Widow and other heroes star in new blockbusters set to begin lighting up screens in the spring.