{"id":38805,"date":"2016-07-01T13:18:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T17:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=38805"},"modified":"2016-07-01T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T17:18:13","slug":"pacific-rim-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/01\/pacific-rim-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PACIFIC RIM 2 Release Date Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/PacificRim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/PacificRim-678x381.jpg\" alt=\"PacificRim\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-mh-magazine-content wp-image-25423\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giant robots and monsters will go at it again on February 23, 2018, as that is the date that Universal has set for <strong>Pacific Rim 2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the studio had roped off April 7, 2017 and then August 4, 2017 for the announced sequel to director Guillermo del Toro&#8217;s 2013 big budget science-fiction film, though various issues forced them to push back those dates. Production is set to start later this year in the fall, with new <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> trilogy star John Boyega set to star and Steven S. DeKnight to direct.<\/p>\n<p>No other film has staked out that for release yet, but the date has its good an bad points. On the upside, it is coming just over two months after <strong>Star Wars: Episode VIII<\/strong> which features Boyega and the excitement for that film could carryover to <strong>Pacific Rim 2<\/strong>. However, the film is slotted right in the middle of two Marvel Studios superhero films &#8211; <strong>Black Panther<\/strong> on February 16 and an untitled Fox\/Marvel pic on March 2, which is heavily speculated to be <strong>Deadpool 2<\/strong>. Additionally, Warner has their own monster film coming on March 2, the prehistoric shark movie <strong>Meg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The Apocalypse will be cancelled again in February 2018.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/01\/pacific-rim-2\/\" title=\"PACIFIC RIM 2 Release Date Set\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[6785],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-pacific-rim-2"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38805"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=38805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}