Disney’s Artemis Fowl will not have a theatrical release but will be shown on its digital platform, Disney+. Based on a novel of the same name written by Eoin Colfer, the film is directed by Kenneth Branagh. It stars Ferdia Shaw, Lara McDonnell, Josh Gad, Tamara Smart, Nonso Anozie, Colin Farrell and Judi Dench. The film is made at a budget of $125 million and is the story of the 12-year-old Artemis Fowl, an extremely sharp descendant of a family of criminal masterminds, who seeks to find his father who has disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
The big-budget extravaganza was to hit the screens on 29th May but Disney has decided to forgo its theatrical release in view of the coronavirus epidemic in the USA as in the rest of the world. Because of the lockdown in the US, cinemas are closed currently, and one doesn’t know when they will reopen upon normalcy returning. Rather than wait indefinitely, the studio has taken the decision to release the film directly on its digital platform.