Brad Pitt’s science-fiction adventure movie “Ad Astra” has quietly vanished from the release schedule, three weeks prior to its previously announced May 24 opening date.Fox had originally dated “Ad Astra” for Jan.
11, 2019, then decided in late 2018 to move it back four months to the Memorial Day weekend on May 24.
Disney closed the deal for the 20th Century Fox film assets in March and has not done any promotion for the movie since then — no trailer or stills have been released.
“Ad Astra” was not included in early tracking numbers released Thursday for the Memorial Day period, expected to be dominated by Disney’s live-action “Aladdin.”Pitt is expected to be at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” in which he co-stars with Leonardo DiCaprio.
The screening will likely be on May 21, the 20th anniversary of “Pulp Fiction.”The studio had no comment Thursday.
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