THB #183: Revisiting The 2020 COVID Movies

Almost 2 full years ago (July 23, 2020), I wrote a Movie City News piece on the movies expected to be released in 2020 that were beached by COVID, their futures unknown. Now, as we are at the end of the list of those films (3 left, by my count), I thought it would be a good time to take a look at what happened to them all.

My first grouping was “The Untouchables,” 18 movies that I felt were too big to just stream.

It turned out that 4 of the movies were determined by their production entities to be just small enough to just stream:
Coming To America 2, sold to Amazon by Paramount, released March 2021
Connected, sold to Netflix by Sony Animation, titled changed to The Mitchells vs The Machines, released April 2021
Soul, pushed to Disney+ for Christmas 2020, winner of 2 Oscars
Mulan, pushed to Disney+ for Christmas 2020

Of the other 14, 10 had theatrical-first releases and 4 had combined theatrical/streaming releases.
Black Widow - $184m domestic - $380m worldwide

3 of the titles were part o…