Coronavirus Outbreak: Warner Bros postpones summer releases Wonder Woman 1984, Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights

Warner Bros. on Tuesday delayed the summer release of _Wonder Woman 1984_  and removed the adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights from its schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic. Click here to follow LIVE updates on coronavirus outbreak With much of Hollywood’s spring release calendar already vacated due to the virus, major summer movies are also increasingly reshuffling. Wonder Woman 1984, the sequel to 2017′s Wonder Woman, will now hit theaters on 14 August instead of 5 June. [caption id=“attachment_8187111” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”]  The releases of Wonder Woman 1984 (left) and In the Heights have also been hit by the coronavirus outbreak | AP[/caption] In the Heights, directed by Crazy Rich Asians filmmaker Jon M Chu, had been slated for 26 June but now isn’t dated for release. Miranda, in a recent live stream interview with Rosie O’Donnell, said the score was being recorded when post-production work slowed due to the outbreak. “There’s a lot that remains to be done on that movie,” said Miranda. “We were finishing the score and the mixing and just getting the music exactly right.” The studio also took several other films off its release schedule including the Scooby-Doo movie Scoob, previously planned for 15 May, and the James Wan thriller Malignant, previously set for 14 August. Several likely spring and summer blockbusters have already been delayed, including Marvel’s Black Widow (previously 1 May, now unscheduled); the Fast and Furious movie F9, (now slated for 2021); the Bond movie No Time to Die (moved to November); and A Quiet Place Part II (not currently dated). While some recent releases have moved to streaming platforms or on-demand with theaters closed, Hollywood’s top productions have opted to wait until they can play in cinemas. “We made Wonder Woman 1984 for the big screen and I believe in the power of cinema,” director Patty Jenkins said on Twitter. “In these terrible times, when theater owners are struggling as so many are, we are excited to re-date our film to August 14th, 2020, in a theater near you, and pray for better times for all by then.”