Here's when the pandemic-postponed Hollywood blockbusters are slated to hit Czech cinemas

With Hollywood pushing back global release dates for summer blockbusters due to the domestic situation in the US, six of the top ten films at the Czech box office this weekend were local productions, including the presidential biopic Havel.

The comic book blockbuster Wonder Woman 1984 has been moved to October and the James Bond adventure No Time to Die is now set for November. Both were originally scheduled to open in spring 2020.

One of the first big new Hollywood films to hit Czech screens may be Christopher Nolan’s highly awaited spy thriller Tenet, But people still have to wait until August 27, which is still sooner than when it will arrive in the US. But like many other films, the date has moved several times and may move again.

The action film Medieval (Jan Žižka), shot in the Czech Republic and featuring Ben Foster and Michael Caine, has been pushed back to February 6, 2021.

No new films opened in Czech cinemas between March 11 and May 11, and since then the selection has mostly been European art house films, a handful of new Czech films plus a new, more explicit cut of the documentary Caught in the Net (V síti).

There were also a 20th anniversary edition of the classic Czech film Loners (Samotáři), a 30th anniversary edition of Smoke (Kouř), and a 40th anniversary edition of Jiří Menzel’s film Cutting It Short (Postřižiny), based on the novel by Bohumil Hrabal. These are not expected to be huge financial successes, but will at least provide something to help fill a few seats.

“We shot the film Loners for the silver screen and the darkened halls of cinemas. That is why I am extremely happy that it is returning to cinema distribution after 20 years in a restored version. I wonder if the current young generation will accept it the way they did in 2000. Maybe, despite all the social networks, we are even further away today, and even though we live in big cities, we are still Loners,” director David Ondříček said.

The most anticipated of the European art films is Proxima, opening July 30 after having been pushed back from March. The French-German co-production, partly in English, stars Eva Green as a French astronaut who has to juggle her space training and the responsibilities of being a single mom. Matt Dillon appears as an American astronaut who questions her capabilities. While billed as sci-fi, it is really a domestic drama built around space training.

Sci-fi fans currently have to make do with a 40th anniversary remastered edition of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back that has curiously popped up in some Czech multiplexes, but only in English without Czech subtitles.

Czech films to come out recently include the well-received biopic Havel,looking at the life of the late president during the Normalization era. The comedy 3Bobule, the third outing for the comedic series about life in a vineyard in South Moravia got mixed reviews. The comedy Bourák, starring Ivan Trojan, had a mostly negative reaction.

The Czech film Charlatan (Šarlatán), by director Agnieszka Holland, has been pushed back to August 20. It tells the true story of natural healer Jan Mikolášek, who fell afoul of communist authorities. The film played at the Berlin Film Festival in February, and was supposed to be the opening of Febiofest in March.

July 30:
Proxima

August 6:
Trolls World Tour
Ava

August 13:
Palm Springs

August 20:
Charlatan

August 27:
The Courier
The New Mutants
Tenet

September 3:
After We Collided

September 10:
The War with Grandpa

September 17:
The King’s Man

October 1:
Mucha: The Story of an Artist who Created a Style
Wonder Woman 1984

October 8:
Death on the Nile

October 15:
Candyman
Greenland

October 22:
Connected
Dragon Rider

October 29:
100% Wolf

November 5:
Black Widow
Bigfoot Family

November 12:
Deep Water
Red Notice

November 19:
Clifford the Big Red Dog
No Time to Die
Soul

November 26:
Let Him Go
Voyagers

December 3:
The Happiest Season

December 10:
Free Guy

December 17:
Coming 2 America
Dune
West Side Story

December 24:
The Croods 2

December 31:
Escape Room 2