Marvel Is Delaying ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ and ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’

The Avengers won’t be on summer vacation again anytime soon. Both Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars were scheduled to start their respective summer-movie seasons in May 2026 and May 2027 but each has now been pushed back several months. Doomsday has moved from May 1, 2026 to December 18, 2026, and Secret Wars is going from May 7, 2027 to December 17, 2027. io9 reached out to Marvel Studios about the dates and it confirmed that the shift is largely to give the filmmakers more time. These are massive movies, after all, and with directors Joe and Anthony Russo helming both films, and Doomsday already in production, you couldn’t move one without moving the other. Marvel also mentioned the December time frame is the same one Spider-Man: No Way Home opened up in 2021, and that became one of the biggest superhero films of all time. Of course, the previous two Avengers movies opened in May and had even bigger success, but a holiday opening is still considered a good one. Finally, ... Read full article.