(New throughout, adds details on rest of schedule)
LOS ANGELES, April 9 (Reuters) - Paramount Pictures has
pushed the release Tom Cruise movie "Top Gun: Maverick" to
November from July, the studio said on Friday, a move that
deprives theaters of what was expected to be one of the biggest
releases of the summer blockbuster season.
The sequel to 1986 hit "Top Gun" will now debut in theaters
on Nov. 19, the day Paramount had planned to release Cruise's
seventh "Mission: Impossible" movie. That film was moved to May
2022, according to Paramount, a unit of ViacomCBS Inc.
Movie theater operators including AMC Entertainment,
Cineworld Group Plc and Cinemark Holdings Inc
hope for a summer rebound after a year of closures due to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
The ninth installment of the "Fast & Furious" franchise,
from Comcast Corp's Universal Pictures, currently
remains scheduled to hit cinemas on June 25.
Walt Disney Co's Marvel film "Black Widow" is set to
be released in theaters, and for a fee on the Disney+ streaming
service, on July 9.
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine, Editing by Franklin Paul and David
Gregorio)
