[custom_adv] The early months of 2020 have seen unprecedented changes in the movie industry as Hollywood continues to figure out how best to respond a global crisis. Part of that response has been to bring movies to the home market earlier than usual, with at least one film, Trolls World Tour, opting to release on home entertainment media on the same day as its scheduled theatrical debut. [custom_adv] 2020 has arrived, and there are already plenty of exciting movies on tap for this year. To help you keep up to date with all the new releases, we’ve put together this release calendar that we’ll be constantly updating as studios announce new titles, shift movies around, and try to stake their claim on various weekends. [custom_adv] Hopefully, you’ll find this to be a helpful tool not just for planning, but also to see what movies are competing on the same weekend and when a big title is coming your way. [custom_adv] This has been a tough year in every sense of the word. And it certainly hasn't helped that the escape of the theater hasn't been an option when the real world is getting too real. Thankfully, movie studios quickly realized that releasing new films directly to consumers for home on demand was a necessary option in an extreme situation like the COVID-19 pandemic. [custom_adv] World Tour broke streaming records as one of our first pandemic-forced direct-to-digital hits—and it has since caused a ripple effect that might change how Hollywood game plans its big releases going forward. Since Trolls: World Tour changed the game, we’ve seen a ton of other studios follow suit, and (praise Queen Poppy), we’ve had the early release of several other films that were originally planned for a theatrical release.
