Netflix delays Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ movie for big theatrical push in 2027

Audiences volition person to hold a fewer months longer to spot “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew,” with the merchandise day pushed backmost from Thanksgiving to February 12, 2027.

In summation to relaunching “Narnia” connected large screens and serving arsenic writer-director Greta Gerwig’s archetypal movie since “Barbie,” “The Magician’s Nephew” besides looks similar the adjacent measurement successful Netflix’s narration with movie theaters — and it’s becoming an adjacent bigger measurement with the delay.

The institution had antecedently said “The Magician’s Nephew” would play exclusively connected Imax screens for astatine slightest 2 weeks earlier a streaming merchandise for Christmas. That would beryllium an ambitious theatrical merchandise by Netflix’s standards, but comparatively constricted compared to galore different Hollywood blockbusters.

Now, Netflix says “The Magician’s Nephew” volition statesman exclusive Imax previews connected February 10, 2027, followed by a wide planetary merchandise successful theaters connected February 12. (In Netflix’s words, it volition beryllium a “global eventized release.”) The movie won’t commencement streaming until April 2.

The company’s announcement doesn’t get much circumstantial astir which theaters volition beryllium showing “The Magician’s Nephew,” but Imax released a statement noting that the hold volition let the movie to person “a afloat theatrical window,” truthful the large theatre chains are improbable to complain

In fact, AMC Theatres precocious highlighted the occurrence of  its“Stranger Things” finale screenings and said it has plans for much collaborations with Netflix. At the aforesaid time, the streamer’s constricted enactment for theatrical releases and its absorption to exclusive theatrical windows was reportedly a “dealbreaker” successful negotiations with the creators of “Stranger Things,” who yet signed an exclusive woody with Paramount.

With a formed that includes Daniel Craig and Meryl Streep, “The Magician’s Nephew” adapts 1 of the aboriginal books successful C.S. Lewis’ classical phantasy bid —  a prequel that lays retired the origins of Narnia.

In Netflix’s announcement, Gerwig said she archetypal work the publication arsenic a child, erstwhile she “fell successful emotion with the gorgeously improbable but wholly superb conception of a cosmic lion singing the satellite of Narnia to life.”