Hollywood is getting even more delays: Mission Impossible, Sponge Bob, and more moved to 2025

The ongoing actors strike in Hollywood continues to affect various productions that were to be released in theaters during 2024. Paramount decided to delay three of its major releases to 2025, among them ‘Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part 2 ′, the last chapter of the adventures of Ethan Hunt, since filming is not completed, therefore altering post-production times that have affected its original release date in theaters.

The original release date of ‘Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part 2′ was June 28, 2024. It has now been changed to May 23, 2025.

Delays coming to more Hollywood films

‘Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part 2′ was not the only one affected: ’A Quiet Place: Day One’, the prequel to the film directed by Michael Sarnoski which will feature Emily Blunt, Lupita Nyong’o, Alex Wolff and Joseph Quinn in the main roles, has also changed its release date. This post-apocalyptic horror film was originally going to be released on March 8, 2024 and has been postponed to June of the same year.

And another premiere of Paramount that will be affected by the strike is the new ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ film, which does not yet have a title and will be released on December 19, 2025 instead of May 23 of the same year.

The last of the premieres that was affected by the actors’ strike in Hollywood is ‘Paddington 3′, subtitled ‘Paddington in Peru’, which was produced in the UK and which postponed its premiere to January 17, 2025 in the United Kingdom, two months after its original date (November 8, 2024), so we will have to pay attention to the arrival date in the rest of the world’s cinemas.

“After ten years of working on the Paddington movies, I feel absurdly protective of the little bear, and I’m delighted that Dougal will be there to hold his paw as he embarks on his third big screen adventure,” said Paul King, who directed the first two Paddington films, to Comicbook.