Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Studios have The Batman Part II flying off to a new date, again.
The film will now open on Feb. 18, 2028 in Imax, after being previously slated for an Oct. 1, 2027 release. DC Studios had the film earlier set for a release date on Oct. 3, 2025, which had to be moved in the wake of the 2023 writers and actors strikes.
Warner Bros. is now putting The Batman Part II in the same corridor as 2022’s The Batman, which nabbed the second best opening of the pandemic with $134 million domestically, on its way to a global haul of $770.3 million.
The Batman Part II move was part of a larger shuffle. The other big one wasThe Great Beyond, the J.J. Abrams sci-fi fantasy starring Glen Powell and Jenna Ortega, moving from a previously scheduled Nov. 13, 2026 release to open in theaters on Oct. 1, 2027 in Imax and with a two-week Imax 70mm run thrown in.
The Great Beyond will fill the date previously held by The Batman Part II as Abrams marks his first directorial effort since 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker. Panic Carefully, described as a paranoid thriller reminiscent of Silence of the Lambs, stars Elizabeth Olsen, Julia Roberts, Eddie Redmayne, Brian Tyree Henry, Ben Chaplin, Aidan Gillen, Joe Alwyn and Naledi Murray.
Other calendar date changes at Warner Bros. includes Sam Esmail’s Panic Carefully, previously slated for a Feb. 26, 2027 release now delayed to an April 9, 2027 rollout in Imax. Warner Bros. Pictures’ and New Line Cinema’s Revenge of La Llorona will now open theatrically on Feb. 26, 2027 after being previously slated for a April 9, 2027 release.
The Batman Part II, directed by Matt Reeves and starring Robert Pattinson, Andy Serkis, Colin Farrell and Scarlett Johansson, will now get more time in post-production, according to Warner Bros., and a new release window that allows the film a domestic four-day weekend. The Batman sequel also saw its start of production delayed five months due to the Hollywood strikes.
