Universal Pictures is swapping two big tentpoles on the calendar, and it’s only because one is in more of a position to go then the other.
The Radio Silence-directed revival of The Mummy with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz reprising their roles as Rick and Evie O’Connell will now go on October 15, 2027 instead of May 19, 2028. The only other title on that date is an untitled Paramount movie.
Previously, the October 15 date was being occupied by an untitled Blumhouse movie, which now shifts to October 8, 2027.
Meanwhile, the Joseph Kosinski-directed Miami Vice ’85, starring Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler as detectives Ricardo Tubbs and Sonny Crockett, respectively, will go later, moving from August 6, 2027 to May 19, 2028. No other major motion picture studio titles are scheduled on that date so far.
Note that the new Miami Vice date falls on the weekend before Memorial Day weekend (May 26-29) in 2028.
For now, Universal is reserving the August 6, 2027 date for an untitled event movie. Uni has had great fortune with that first weekend in August, opening such pics as Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw there in 2019 when it opened to $60 million.