Sony Announces New 'Karate Kid' Movie, Later Dates for 'Madame Web' and Other Titles

Sony has announced a new "Karate Kid" movie, more than a decade after the Jaden Smith-led reboot.

The production company has added three new films to its 2023-2024 theatrical release schedule, including an untitled "True Haunting" from Screen Gems slated for January 6, 2023; a “Karate Kid” film for June 7, 2024; and a sequel to “Searching,” titled “Missing,” on February 24, 2023 starring Nia Long and Storm Reid.

The Dakota Johnson-directed "Spider-Man" prequel film "Madame Web," also starring Adam Scott, Zosia Mamet, Sydney Sweeney and Emma Roberts, has been delayed from October 6, 2023 to February 16, 2024. The Columbia Pictures The film will screen in IMAX, as will Aaron Taylor-Johnson's superhero vehicle "Kraven the Hunter," which now opens October 6, 2023 (originally slated for January 13, 2023).

Columbia Pictures' Chris Pratt's "Garfield" has also been pushed back to May 24, 2024, Memorial Day weekend. "Madame Web" reverts to its original premiere date of February 16, 2024.

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The cast of "Garfield" also includes Samuel L. Jackson, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Hannah Waddingham and Cecily Strong.

"Madame Web" is set to be an origin story for the clairvoyant comic book character, played by Johnson - the character's psychic abilities allow her to see into the world of spiders. A mutant, the blind Madame Web first appeared in "The Amazing Spider-Man" comic #210. She specializes in predicting the future of spider-centric superheroes, the movie being supposed to be Web meeting the parents of Peter Parker, played by Scott and Roberts, before he was born.

An untitled Sony/Marvel Universe feature is now scheduled for July 12, 2024, delayed by one month from its original date of June 7, 2024.

The only feature to be moved is “65,” now slated for March 10, 2023 after its original April 28, 2023 premiere. “65” features Adam Driver, escapist “In the Heights” Ariana Greenblatt and Big Little Lies alum Chloe Coleman, using a script by "A Quiet Place" creators Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. While the plot has been kept under wraps, the film has been in the works for years.

"For us, ['65'] was the project we were writing when 'A Quiet Place' came out and the studio decided it was going to be a franchise and a sequel," Woods explained during a virtual panel, as reported by . "We wrote 'A Quiet Place' because we were tired of sequels. The only movies being made were sequels, franchises and comics. We wrote this movie as a result of that."

Beck added, "He's the one that's been in our heads for years and years."

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