Fox Releases Dates for 'X-Men', 'Deadpool 2', 'New Mutants' & 'Gambit' | THR News - video Dailymotion

Fans can rejoice that 'Deadpool 2' will now hit theaters May 18, just one week before Lucasfilm's Han Solo movie.

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00:00Get excited, Deadpool fans. It turns out Deadpool 2 will be dropping into theaters a little sooner than we thought.

00:08The Hollywood reporters exclusively learned that Fox is shaking up the release schedule of its X-Men movies.

00:13The studio is giving Deadpool 2, New Mutants, and Gambit new opening dates.

00:18Deadpool 2, the highly anticipated sequel to the 2016 Ryan Reynolds smash,

00:23is being pushed up two weeks, from June 1st to May 18th.

00:27The move puts the action comedy up against Sony's Slenderman, but more importantly,

00:32it will now open one week before Disney's solo A Star Wars story.

00:36It's a strategic play, as even second weeks have been exceptionally strong for Star Wars movies.

00:41Josh Boone's take on Marvel's teen heroes, New Mutants, has been pushed back by 10 months.

00:46The movie stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams, and Charlie Heaton.

00:50Its release date is jumping from April 13, 2018 to February 22, 2019.

00:56One reason for the change, according to insiders, the studio now won't have an overlap with X-Men movies

01:01in certain overseas markets, where New Mutants and Deadpool 2 would have been in theaters at the same time.

01:06Finally, Gambit is seeing its release date move from February 14, 2019 to June 7, 2019.

01:13This news comes just after the Channing Tatum-led film lost its director.

01:17Gore Verbinski exited the movie on Thursday, and the search is on for a replacement.

01:21But studio insiders believe the project will do better as a summer Marvel movie.

01:25So Deadpool fans, I want to hear from you.

01:27Are you excited we're now getting the new movie two weeks earlier?

01:30Be sure to let me know in the comments.

01:32For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.