Ongoing Movie Franchises Skipping 2022
Some important ongoing movie franchises are skipping 2022 and others are returning in various forms in 2023 and beyond. As the movie theater business tries to get back to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic put the entire industry in check, studios continue to rearrange the releases dates for their upcoming titles. Whether it is for delays, an already scheduled sequel, or a planned installment with no release date locked, 2022 will be missing some big movie franchises.
That considered, 2022 has seen and will continue to see plenty of Hollywood's major franchise entries. Now streaming on HBO Max, The Batman was released in theaters in March 2022 and was yet another proof that the moviegoing experience is far from over. As always, the MCU is also going strong in 2022 with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor: Love and Thunder, and Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever as its theatrical releases. 2022 will also see the release of the long-awaited Avatar sequel, Avatar 2.
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Even with all those big titles arriving in 2022, there are important Hollywood movie sagas saving their next installments for 2023 or beyond. That includes superhero, sci-fi, action, and horror franchises. Here is a roundup of every ongoing movie franchise skipping 2022.
The highly awaited Indiana Jones 5 is currently set to come out on June 29, 2023, after successive delays. Logan director James Mangold is helming the production, and filming has already wrapped. Harrison Ford returns as Indy and will be joined by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, and Antonio Banderas.
The Transformers movie franchise is going through a time of change. In 2017, Michael Bay released what, to date,
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