{"id":686790,"date":"2026-03-28T01:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/686790\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T01:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:29:16","slug":"ryan-reynolds-jason-momoa-comedy-release-date-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/686790\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Reynolds &#038; Jason Momoa Comedy Release Date Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/warner-bros\/\" id=\"auto-tag_warner-bros\" data-tag=\"warner-bros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warner Bros<\/a> is shifting the release date for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/legendary\/\" id=\"auto-tag_legendary\" data-tag=\"legendary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legendary<\/a>\u2018s live-action animated hybrid comedy <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/animal-friends\/\" id=\"auto-tag_animal-friends\" data-tag=\"animal-friends\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Animal Friends<\/a> to January 22, 2027. We understand that the reason for this latest date change is because the film\u2019s talent \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ryan-reynolds\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ryan-reynolds\" data-tag=\"ryan-reynolds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Reynolds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jason-momoa\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jason-momoa\" data-tag=\"jason-momoa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Momoa<\/a>, Aubrey Plaza, Dan Levy, Lil Rel Howery, Addison Rae and Ellie Bamber \u2014 more will be available to do press then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Peter Atencio-directed movie, which was written by Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider, jumped from Sony to Warner Bros after Legendary\u2019s deal at the Culver City lot ceased. There\u2019s been a slew of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/release-dates\/\" id=\"auto-tag_release-dates\" data-tag=\"release-dates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release dates<\/a> for this pic including August 15, 2025, October 10, 2025, May 1, 2026, and most recently June 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWarners already had January 22 next year on hold for a title. Animal Friends is the only major studio title on that date so far, joining Bleecker Street\u2019s The Third Parent and Cineverse\u2019s Air Bud Returns. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLogline for Animal Friends: Two fugitive animals embark on an adventure across America to find the ranch that was once their home, healing their friendship while pursued by an equally \u201codd-couple\u201d DEA agent and Fish and Wildlife ranger with something to prove.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProducers are Legendary, Maximum Effort and Prime Focus Studios. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThere\u2019s still plenty of movies on June 5: Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 Masters of the Universe, Lionsgate\u2019s Nick Jonas and Paul Rudd pic Power Ballad, and Paramount\/Miramax\u2019s Scary Movie. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tR-rated animated movies are rare, and it\u2019s been awhile since we had one; the first ones that come to mind are August 2016\u2019s Sausage Party, which grossed $97.7 million domestic and $140.7M worldwide, and June 1999\u2019s South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, which hit theaters during its heyday on TV and grossed $52M U.S. and $83M-plus globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is shifting the release date for Legendary\u2018s live-action animated hybrid comedy Animal Friends to January&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":686791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[157283,171,33706,9842,53,74542,4519,67,132,68,1021],"class_list":["post-686790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-animal-friends","tag-entertainment","tag-jason-momoa","tag-legendary","tag-movies","tag-release-dates","tag-ryan-reynolds","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-warner-bros"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116304213794841985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}