Yahoo News Cloverfield 3 delayed until Super Bowl weekend 2018
The third iteration of the Cloverfield movie franchise has been bumped to next year in hopes of achieving a bigger bite of the box office.
Julius Onah's follow-up to the original Cloverfield and its spinoff 10 Cloverfield Lane will move its US release date from October 27 of this year to February 2 2018, which happens to be Super Bowl weekend.
According to Deadline, Paramount Pictures chose to move the project, known as God Particle, so it wouldn't go head-to-head with fellow October 27 opener Jigsaw.
Like 10 Cloverfield Lane before it, God Particle was developed by producer J. J. Abrams as a standalone project so as not to raise suspicion about its connection to the Cloverfield series.
It will star David Oyelowo, Elizabeth Debicki, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Daniel Brühl as astronauts stranded in space when a particle accelerator accident appears to wipe out planet earth.
When a spacecraft begins floating towards their space station, the crew come to the startling realisation that they've stumbled on something truly terrifying.
This will be the blockbuster breakthrough for director Julius Onah, who scored an indie hit with his 2015 thriller The Girl Is in Trouble.
The project was co-written by Oren Uziel and Doug Jung, the rising Hollywood talent behind last year's smash hit Star Trek Beyond and the cult TV drama Banshee.
As part of Paramount's scheduling shift, the George Clooney comedy Suburbicon moves from November 3 to God Particle's previous October 27 date while Jennifer Lawrence and Kristen Wiig's Mother! moves up from October 13 to September 15.
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