‘Avengers’ delayed: Both ‘Doomsday’ and ‘Secret Wars’ pushed back

Marvel Studios and Disney have slightly delayed the next two assemblies of Avengers.

Avengers: Doomsday, the hotly anticipated team-up movie that is currently filming and will see the return of Robert Downey Jr. into the Marvel Cinematic Universe fold, has been pushed back from its previously scheduled May 1, 2026 release date to Dec. 18, 2026.

The move comes in conjunction with a delay for Avengers: Secret Wars, which was planned to quickly follow Doomsday. That movie is making a similar shift—from May 7, 2027 to Dec. 17, 2027.

Stepping in (no doubt wearing a stunning designer shoe) to take Doomsday's freed-up date is the previously announced sequel to The Devil Wears Prada. The cast for that has yet to be confirmed, but director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna are returning behind the scenes.

The shift for Doomsday means that December 2026 will be even more packed with tent poles. Already tentatively scheduled for the month are Dune: Messiah, Ice Age 6, Shrek 5, and Jumanji 4.

Doomsday will mark only the second MCU movie released in December. Spider-Man: No Way Home bowed near the end of 2021 and pulled in $1.9 billion at the worldwide box office.