Los Angeles: Sony Pictures has announced the return of the original Karate Kid franchise to the big screen by dating a new Karate Kid movie for June 7, 2024.
According to ‘Variety’, while the franchise has lived on thanks to Netflix’s Cobra Kai series, which just debuted its fifth season on the streaming platform, this new Karate Kid project will be the franchise’s first film offering since the 2010 reboot starring Jaden Smith.
The 2024 Karate Kid movie does not yet have a synopsis from the studio or a cast and crew attached.
Other new titles added to Sony’s release calendar included an untitled horror movie from Screen Gems set for release January 6, 2023, and Missing, the next installment in the ‘Searching’ franchise.
Storm Reid and Nia Long star in Missing, which opens February 24, 2023.
Sony has also shifted release dates for several upcoming tentpoles.
Madame Web, a comic book movie set in the Spider-Man universe that stars Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney, is moving from October 6, 2023 to February 16, 2024.
Another Spider-Man universe film, the Aaron Taylor-Johnson Kraven the Hunter movie, is shifting to October 6, 2023 from January 13, 2023.
Both films will be released in Imax.
An untitled Sony/Marvel Universe movie has been dated for July 12, 2024.
Elsewhere, the Chris Pratt-voiced Garfield movie will hit the theatres May 24, 2024.
The Adam Driver-starring thriller 65, from A Quiet Place screenwriters Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, will open March 10, 2023.
