Dave Bautista’s My Spy will face another delay as STX made the decision to move the premiere to April 17th. Deadline reported the news of the shift as the company identified an opportunity to own a date on the calendar after Trolls World Tour moved into the April 10th window. The Trolls movie was supposed to enter theaters on the 17th of that month, but Universal decided to slot the best option into the Easter box office weekend. This all comes after the company elected to move the latest Bond film, No Time to Die, to November because of box office fears around the Coronavirus. Bond fans even wrote the film’s distributors pleading for the film to be held until the global health issue has been completely resolved. STX has no such worries about My Spy and is trying to make the most of it.

Back in July of last year, the spy movie was pushed from an August release date to a January holding date. From there, it was moved again to March, and now it will be heading to theaters in the states on the 17th of next month. That’s a long road for this film, but the modest budget ($18 million) and decent returns have a lot of people behind the film hopeful about its performance. Bautista has more to gain from this film than any other he’s been in because the WWE star is a producer on the project. He talked about how much that consideration meant to him at CinemaCon last year.

“You let me contribute, you kept your word, and you were so easy to deal within so supportive from Day One.” Bautista told STFXFilms exec Dan Fogelson. “Me being involved, down to everything, down to the casting of this beautiful young talented woman, was just amazing for me.”

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