Warner Bros. is making some changes to its movie debut schedule for 2025 and beyond.
The studio announced Friday that Matt Reeves’ sequel to The Batman starring Robert Pattinson and Zoë Kravitz will not come to theaters until 2027. Originally, the film was supposed to come to theaters Oct. 2, 2026. But now, it will be released a year later, Oct. 1, 2027.
The other scheduling changes involve Ryan Coogler’s highly-buzzed-about film Sinners and Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17.
Sinners, starring Michael B. Jordan in dual roles, will now come to theaters on April 18, 2025, with Mickey 17, also starring Pattinson and starring Naomi Ackie, coming on March 7, 2025. According to Variety, the premiere dates for Mickey 17 and Sinners have been flip-flopped in order to allow Mickey 17 to have a longer time playing in IMAX.
The premiere shifts seem to revolve around Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Tom Cruise’s upcoming action thriller to come to theaters in 2026. The Batman sequel shift allows for Iñárritu and Cruise’s film to come to theaters on Oct. 2, 2026, in time for the 2026 awards season. According to Variety, the currently untitled film follows Cruise as “the most powerful man in the world” who is embarking “on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.”
The Batman sequel will continue the story Reeves started with a grittier and younger Bruce Wayne becoming Batman. Kravitz will reprise her role as Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman. Jeffrey Wright also reprises his role as Commissioner Gordon. Sinners, meanwhile, stars Jordan as twins in a period piece vampire action film. The film is another collaboration between Jordan and Coogler, who sold the film after launching major studios into an intense bidding war for the film’s distribution rights.