Jessica Chastain’s ‘The 355’ Gets Pushed Back To 2022
The 355will have to wait another 365 days to hit theaters. Universal’s spy thrillerThe 355, which starsJessica Chastain,Lupita Nyong’o,Penelope Cruz, andDiane Kruger, has been pushed back a year, setting its new release date in January 2022.The 355is the latest film to vacate the winter release calendar amid surging coronavirus (COVID-19) cases.Varietyreports that Universal has delayedThe 355release date by a year, pushing back the female-led heist thriller from its initial June 27, 2025 date toJanuary 14, 2022.The 355’s release date change follows a string of reschedulings and delays from Hollywood’s biggest studios, as they contend with shutteringmovie theaters andrecord-high coronavirus casesin the U.S. Warner Bros. recently set a day-and-date release for its former December tentpoleWonder Woman 1984, and essentially vacated the winter theatrical release calendar, while Disney has pushed back andunscheduledall of its winter films.
Universal has been at the forefront of these delays, moving itsFast and FurioussequelF9to mid-2021, and postponingJurassic World: Dominionto June 2022. While a groundbreaking deal with major movie theater chains like AMC and Regal has allowed the studio to be one of the few studios releasing films theatrically in recent months, like the Thanksgiving animated sequelThe Croods: A New Age, and the Tom Hanks-led WesternNews of the Worldon Christmas Day, it appears that even Universal is pulling back from theatrical for the time being.
The 355is a splashy heist thriller directed by Simon Kinberg from a script he wrote with Theresa Rebeck, which Universal nabbed for a reported $20 million after it premiered at Cannes in 2018. The film stars Chastain, Nyong’o, Cruz, Kruger, and Fan Bingbing as a team of international spies who team up to stop a world-threatening event — named the 355in a nod to historic female spies.Sebastian Stan(Avengers: Endgame) andEdgar Ramirez(Zero Dark Thirty) also star inThe 355. Jessica Chastain is also producing withKelly Carmichaelthrough their Freckle Films banner, and Kinberg is producing through genre films withRichard Hewitt(Bohemian Rhapsody) serving as executive producer.
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