How Many Superhero Movies Are Releasing in 2019?

Despite cries to the contrary, the superhero genre isn’t going anywhere. 2016 offered seven films, a number matched by this year (counting Marvel, DC, X-Men and outliers like Power Rangers and TMNT) and 2018 has a solid five (with room for at least a couple more) But if you really want proof comic book adaptations are here to stay, you need to go to 2019.

It’s obviously a couple of years out, but this is shaping up to be the biggest year yet for both Marvel and DC, while the likes of Fox and Sony are also speeding up. If all of the announced, speculated and otherwise rumored projects come to pass, we could be looking at a double-digits number of releases. Here’s what they are.

A note on release dates: they can change. Studios like to stake out a claim for a certain weekend years in advance (2019 and beyond is full of untitled studio projects) so they can guarantee a vague release window, but everything is open to fluctuation. Some dates are part of a long game trying to fake-out rivals, others a preliminary statement of intent for a fast-tracked production – there’s always the possibility of delays, while sometimes a studio will grow afraid of competition and shift. Normally this is a matter of months, but it can be on a bigger scale; Batman v Superman was originally intended to be released in 2015, but was moved to Summer 2016, then again due to competition with Captain America: Civil War. As such, all of the dates discussed here are open to fluctuation and movies may pushed back – either from 2018 into 2019 or from it into 2020.

Starting in 2017, Marvel has moved up from two movies a year (a practice it’s been following since 2013) to three: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Thor: Ragnarok. This is set to continue through the rest of their slate into 2018 (Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War and Ant-Man and the Wasp) and 2019, when we’re set to see Captain Marvel, Avengers 4 and a Spider-Man: Homecoming sequel with releases in March 8th, May 3rd and July 5th respectively.

Because the Marvel machine is so well-oiled at this point, having been running at an accelerated rate for almost a decade, it’d be very strange to expect any of these to change. The only variation would be a further movie being added: as Spidey is technically a Sony release (just part of the MCU), and the trio of films all come out in the first seven months of the year, they may want to up the ante with a fourth film in the Fall slot previously taken by the likes of Thors 2 and 3 and Doctor Strange. Of course, what that may be depends entirely on where the Infinity War mega-event leaves the heroes.

source: screenrant.com