Over the last several weeks, WarnerMedia upset quite a few people with a decision to adopt a hybrid distribution model for its upcoming movie releases. The first of them – Wonder woman 1984 – has already come out on Christmas Day. Now, Slashfilm reports the studio just announced global theatrical release dates for several of its 2023 movies: Mad Max: Fury Road prequel Furiosa, The Color Purple musical, and the live-action/CGI-animated film Coyote vs. Acme. There’s still no clear information whether or not these movies, too, will be released simultaneously in cinemas and on streaming.
Furiosa is coming out on June 23, 2023. George Miller will direct, with Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit) portraying the young Furiosa, played in the previous film by Charlize Theron. Other stars will include Chris Hemsworth (Thor: Ragnarok) and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (HBO’s Watchmen). Then there’s Coyote vs. Acme, a film inspired by the classic Road Runner cartoons as well as by a humorous New Yorker article about the hypothetical lawsuit between Will. E. Coyote and his frequent supplier, ACME. Finally, The Color Purple will come out on December 20, 2023. The movie will adapt an award-winning Broadway musical that was, itself based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker. Steven Spielberg, who previously adapted the novel in 1985, will produce this adaptation, along with Oprah Winfrey, who performed one of the roles in the film.
