Sunday, July 5, 2026

Disney Blinks, Moves $200 Million “Mulan” Again Hoping the Pandemic Will Go Away

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I feel bad for the marketing and distribution people at the studios. What can they do? If the pandemic is raging with new cases and the theaters can’t open, the studios can’t release their movies.

But why won’t the studios just concede this right now instead of playing games?

Now Disney has moved its $200 million “Mulan” yet again, to August 24th. This comes after Warner’s moved “Tenet” to August 12th, last night. July is now devoid of big movies as the powers that be cross fingers COVID-19 will calm down by mid August. I sure hope so, but it doesn’t sound like it.

We have not had movies, theater, live music or any quality entertainment since March 12th. Amazing. But is it worth dying for? I feel very lucky I didn’t get sick at that Allman Brothers Reunion concert at Madison Square Garden that week. I would hate to have signed in, in heaven, with that as my last activity. Whew!

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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