Update: Paramount has further delayed A Quiet Place Part II to April 23, 2021. Original article is as follows:
Paramount has rescheduled pull its entire slate from June to August, in anticipation of business being slow even after theaters reopen in the coming months (maybe).
John Krasinski's sequel to A Quiet Place was one of the first movies to see its release date indefinitely delayed when things took a turn for the worse about a week into March. Now, as part of a larger update to their 2020 release slate, Paramount has gone and settled on a new date for A Quiet Place 2 this year, rather than delaying it to 2021.
The studio has announced A Quiet Place 2 will now open in U.S. theaters on September 4, 2020. It's also reshuffled the animated sequel, postponed Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick from June to December.
Its new release date means A Quiet Place 2 will go head to head with the theaters would reopen sometime in June, but even that's looking shaky right now. For that reason, Paramount is smart to give A Quiet Place 2 some extra distance between then and its new date.
While something like A Quiet Place 2 would normally make more sense as a mid-summer release, it's clear by now the 2020 summer movie season simply isn't going to happen. Even if theaters reopen for business in two months, studies indicate many The Conjuring 3 and the Kingsmen prequel, in addition to Monster Hunter. None of those titles are as big as Krasinski's sequel, which puts the latter in a good position to thrive there.
Source: Paramount
