"Ballerina" & "The Crow" Swap Release Dates

Lionsgate‘s "John Wick" spinoff movie “Ballerina,” starring Ana de Armas, has been pushed to 2025. Rupert Sanders’ “The Crow” remake will now take over its release date of June 7, 2024, while “Ballerina” will bow on June 6, 2025.

Studio insiders say Chad Stahelski, who oversees the “John Wick” franchise alongside Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee at Thunder Road, is working closely with “Ballerina” director Len Wiseman on additional action sequences for the spinoff. 

With “The Crow” ready to go, Lionsgate saw no reason to rush “Ballerina” into theaters yet, especially with strong advance tracking numbers.

“Ballerina” follows a skilled assassin trained in the traditions of the Ruska Roma. It also features Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Norman Reedus.

It will also feature appearances from Ian McShane and Keanu Reeves.

“Ballerina” is written by Shay Hatten, based on characters created by Derek Kolstad and produced by Iwanyk, Lee, and Stahelski.

Meanwhile, the modern reimagining of “The Crow” stars Bill Skarsgård in the story based on the original graphic novel by James O’Barr. 

In the movie, soulmates Eric Draven (Skarsgård) and Shelly Webster (FKA twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. 

Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric seeks merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to make wrong things right.

“The Crow” also stars Danny Huston, Laura Birn, Sami Bouajila, and Jordan Bolger. Directed by Sanders, the film is written by Zach Baylin and Will Schneider and produced by Victor Hadida, Molly Hassell, John Jencks, Samuel Hadida, and Edward R. Pressman.

The studio has also added an untitled Guy Ritchie movie to its release calendar, slated for January 17, 2025. 

The project will reunite Ritchie with stars Henry Cavill and Eiza González following their other upcoming Lionsgate film “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” which is set to release on April 19, 2024.

In the upcoming movie, two extraction specialists played by Cavill and Jake Gyllenhaal must designate a route of escape for a senior negotiator (González). The project is scripted and directed by Ritchie, who is producing with Ivan Atkinson and John Friedberg.