Focus Features has shifted release date plans for A Monster Calls, the new feature film from The Orphanage and The Impossible helmer Juan Antonio Bayona.
The creative team on A Monster Calls also includes production designer Eugenio Caballero, an Academy Award winner for Pan’s Labyrinth, who previously collaborated with the director on The Impossible, costume designer Steven Noble (The Theory of Everything), and cinematographer Óscar Faura, who shot both The Impossible and The Orphanage.
On January 6, A Monster Calls will expand against newly opening sequels Amityville: The Awakening and Underworld: Blood Wars.
Although A Monster Calls is the first film to claim that Friday, December 23 date, a trio of films will be opening on Christmas Day that following Sunday.