Right now, November 9, 2018 is unclaimed, so Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas does have an open field to run in.
Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas is a CGI animated refresh of the 1966 holiday classic, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of the titular Grinch.
For now though, we’ll just have to wait and see if Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas steals ticket sales from both of its competitors, on its new release date of November 9, 2018.
The new release date shuffle may seem like a mysterious offing at first, but looking at the box office calendar for November 2017, the week that Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas was supposed to open would have been in the crosshairs of not one, but two different superhero franchise pictures.