Was considering going to see this and checked Metacritic which claims it is released in a week despite it already being in theaters here in Finland. Looking at IMDB’s release day page for the movie there’s a long list of countries where it is released before May 1st, the day people in US can go see it. I remember plenty of cases where we get a movie late and that doesn’t seem weird, but this is the first bigger movie we get so much earlier I can remember. Anybody know why the release dates for this movie are like this?
It was released 2 days ago here in the Netherlands.
It’s been a common thing in recent years on big movies; my understanding is that it’s due to piracy issues in other countries.
The first Avengers movie was released on May 4, 2012 in the US (though it’d had its Hollywood premiere on April 11); by May 4th, it’d already been released in dozens of other countries.