VIDEO. Biopic on Aretha Franklin is pushed back by seven months

Actress Jennifer Hudson in "Respect" -

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, the biopic dedicated to Aretha Franklin, will not be released on January 15, 2021 as planned but on August 13 of the same year as announced by MGM / United Artists Releasing.

The film was initially intended to be released in streaming for Christmas 2020, recalls Deadline, before it was decided in July to offer it a theatrical release for mid-January, the same week as Martin Luther King Jr. Day. .

But we will have to wait many more months before discovering the biopic directed by Liesl Tommy with Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson in the skin of the queen of soul.

Faced with uncertainty

In addition, MGM also announced the postponement of the sequel to

with Alicia Vikander whose new release date has not yet been set.

Initially, The New Adventures of Lara Croft should have hit theaters in mid-March.

In a context of total uncertainty in the face of the pandemic, the reports continue to multiply as the studios try to save the furniture, in particular by increasingly favoring releases on streaming platforms.

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