Robert Pattinson’s "The Batman Part II" Release Delayed to 2026

Robert Pattinson's  Caped Crusader will not return as soon as previously planned as Warner Bros., the studio behind the superhero tentpole, has announced "The Batman: Part II" release has been delayed a year. 

The gritty sequel will debut in theaters on October 2, 2026, instead of its original date of October 3, 2025.

While Matt Reeves returned to direct “The Batman Part II,” it is unclear who, beyond Pattinson, will be back for the sequel. 

The first movie, which took a grim (though PG-13), was a box office hit with $772 million globally that looks at Bruce Wayne’s earlier days as “the world’s greatest detective." 

“The Batman” starred Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, Andy Serkis as Batman’s butler Alfred Pennyworth, Colin Farrell as the crime lord known as Penguin, and Jeffrey Wright as Gotham City’s police chief James Gordon.

In addition to the move, the studio has shuffled around other titles on its release calendar. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride,” starring Christian Bale, Jessie Buckley and Peter Sarsgaard, will take “The Batman” sequel’s old spot on October 3, 2025, and “Alto Knights,” a mob drama starring two Robert De Niros, has relocated from November 15, 2024, to March 21, 2025.

The studio also added the latest project from director Paul Thomas Anderson to its schedule, slating it for August 8, 2025. 

The movie, labeled by Warner Bros. as “An Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Event Film,” will be released in Imax. Little is known about the project, though it features the sprawling cast of Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor and Alana Haim. 

Production on Anderson’s latest movie is underway in California, where nearly all of the filmmaker’s movies are set.