Fox has shuffled the opening dates of two as-yet-unnamed Marvel movies, provided a release date for Robert Rodriguez’ adaptation of Battle Angel Alita, and moved the Predator reboot up from March 2, 2018 to February 9, 2018.  Fox has moved the release of one of its unnamed Marvel films from January 12, 2018 to Predator’s old date of March 2, 2018  (see “Best in Shows Index”), which definitely beats its original January “dead zone” date by a country mile.  It will now open two weeks after the debut of Marvel’s Black Panther in February. 

Deadline  also reports that Fox is moving up the opening of a second 2018 Marvel-based release from the originally announced date of July 13, 2018 to June 29, 2018.   Rather than opening just a week after a second Ant-Man film, this Fox Marvel movie will instead debut just a week after Jurassic World II on the same day as Terminator 3 and How to To Train Your Dragon 3.

Fox also announced that the live-action adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s 1990s cyberpunk sci-fi manga Battle Angel Alita finally has a release date—July 20, 2018, which is just two weeks after the opening of Ant-Man 2, and one week before the debut of the first Aquaman movie.  James Cameron toyed with adapting Battle Angel Alita for years, but he ended up just producing the project, which Robert (Sin City) Rodriguez will direct (see “Live-Action Battle Angel Alita May Have a Director”).

Michael Bay has also revealed via twitter the title and release date of his next Transformers film.  Transformers: The Last Knight will debut nationwide on June 23, 2017.   Bay also released a video teaser that revealed that a redesigned Megatron (see video clip below) will return as the villain in The Last Knight.