All the movies still scheduled to release in 2020 – Part 1

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It’s Friday at 12 PM! Were this actually a normal year and not the flaming dumpster fire that 2020 has turned into, we would now be telling you which movies were releasing this weekend. Unfortunately, thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown forcing cinemas, both here in South Africa and around the world, to close their doors and studios to delay their films to the end of 2020 or beyond, the current release schedule for the next few months looks like a bit of a wasteland in places. But believe it or not, there are actually some films still set to release locally. A lot of them, in fact. So we’ve divided them up into two articles, with this first part covering June to September.

June has just one release in Judd Apatow’s The King of Staten Island, but the following month has some relatively big releases in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet on 17 July and Disney’s live-action Mulan on 24 July. There’s a big “maybe” hanging over both though, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see them pushed back. If Tenet is delayed by Warner Bros, it will probably take the place of Wonder Woman 1984 on 14 August. Where the DC Comics superhero sequel would end up after that is anybody’s guess. August does still have Antebellum, Trolls World Tour and The New Mutants though. Trolls World Tour already shook things up massively in the rest of the world with its digital release, so SA is just playing catch-up here, and I’ll believe that long-delayed The New Mutants is actually getting a release only when I’m watching it.

September would normally be the start of the quiet period before the holiday rush, but we actually get a few high profile options among the smaller releases. These include Monster Hunter, A Quiet Place Part II, The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do it, The King’s Man, and Candyman.

Here’s the full release calendar for June to September broken down by month, with trailers and synopses where possible.

June

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