Ben Affleck's LIVE BY NIGHT and More Warner Bros. Films Get Official Release Dates
Ben Affleck's fourth directorial film, Live By Night, was delayed when he was sidelined by other jobs, but since he wrapped production on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, he was able to devote more time to the movie and now Warner Bros. has given it an official release date. The period piece will hit theaters on October 20, 2017. The Prohibition-era story centers on a character named Joe Coughlin, "who rebels against his cop father and becomes a career criminal, eventually joining a mobster. He rises up the ranks as the action moves [from Boston] to Tampa, Fla., then Cuba and features rumrunners, femme fatales, betrayals and good men committing plenty of sin." Count me in.
Next up, WB dated its horror sequel Annabelle 2 for May 19, 2017, putting it head to head with Paramount's Baywatch film. We're still not sure exactly what the story is going to be for this film, other than that it will be based on the possessed doll that was found in the case files of Ed and Lorraine Warren (seen in The Conjuring).
New Line Cinema and Village Roadshow's comedy Fist Fight will hit theaters on February 17, 2017. That film stars Charlie Day, Ice Cube, and Christina Hendricks. Day plays a mild-mannered English teacher who is put to the test when a colleague (Cube) who thinks he is trying to get him fired challenges him to a fist fight after school. Fist Fight will battle it out against The Dark Tower, The Great Wall, and the third Maze Runner movie (if lead actor Dylan O'Brien recovers from his recent on-set injury quickly enough for production to resume in time to make that date).
The studio is also dating a mysterious "event film" for August 11, 2017 to go up against Sony's Emoji Movie, but I'm not certain what that film could be. It's too early for another Harry Potter, and the same is probably true for another DC Cinematic Universe film, so I'm not sure what other "event films" WB has in its possession...maybe another LEGO movie?
Source: Deadline