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The epic showdown draws closer...

As the movie industry continues to play musical chairs with release dates, Godzilla vs. Kong is actually bumping its release date up instead of pushing it back further. It will now open in theaters nationwide as well as debut on HBO Max on March 26, 2021.Originally slated for May 21, 2021, Godzilla vs. Kong has moved its release date a few times since its original planned opening in 2020.

2021 Movies Preview

Here's a closer look at No Time to Die, Fast 9, Venom 2, Morbius, Jungle Cruise, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, <em>four</em> MCU: Phase 4 films, and more movies set for 2021!

<h2>Raya and the Last Dragon</h2><br> <strong>Release Date:</strong> March 5 (US), March 12 (UK), March 25 (AU)<p> Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon, from Carlos López Estrada and Moana's Don Hall, will hit both theaters <em>and</em> Disney+ on March 5, 2021. Featuring the voices of Kelly Marie Tran and Awkwafina, the film follows a fearless and passionate warrior princess and a water dragon who can transform into a human - and is the last dragon in existence.<p> Disney also announced the animated musical fantasy Encanto for November 24, 2021, about a Colombian girl who lacks powers despite coming from a magical family, and Pixar's Luca, about sea monsters who take a vacation on the Italian Riviera, for June 18, 2021.

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<h2>The King's Man</h2><br> <strong>Release Date:</strong> March 12 (US), March 12 (UK), March TBA (AU)<p> Matthew Vaughn's The King's Man, which began <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/09/30/the-kings-man-set-visit-new-kingsman-timeline-matthew-vaughn" target="_blank">as a different movie not set in the Kingsman universe</a>, is a prequel to the franchise and stars Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, and Matthew Goode in the story of one man (Fiennes) and his protégé (Harris Dickinson) who race against time to stop history's worst tyrants from enacting an evil plot to kill millions.

<h2>Morbius</h2><br> <strong>Release Date:</strong> March 19 (US), March 19 (UK)<p> The next big headliner to <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/this-is-the-official-name-of-sonys-spider-man-marvel-movie-universe" target="_blank">join the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters</a> is Jared Leto's <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/is-morbius-a-vampire-the-origin-and-powers-of-the-spider-man-villain" target="_blank">Morbius the Living Vampire</a>. Directed by Daniel Espinosa (Safe House, Life), Morbius stars Leto as genius scientist, Dr. Michael Morbius -- a character who battled Spider-Man in the Marvel comics -- who accidentally becomes a monster while trying to create a cure for his rare blood disease.<p> Morbius, releasing March 19, also stars Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, and Tyrese Gibson.

<h2>Zack Snyder's Justice League</h2><br> <strong>Release Date:</strong> March (US)<p> With about <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/justice-league-snyder-cut-150-minutes-of-unseen-footage" target="_blank">150 minutes of unseen footage included</a>, and about <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/justice-league-the-snyder-cut-will-only-have-roughly-four-minutes-of-new-footage" target="_blank">four or five minutes of additional photography</a> inserted (<a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/justice-league-snyder-cut-jared-leto-joker" target="_blank">including Jared Leto as Joker</a>), along with new designs for major characters, <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/justice-league-snyder-cut-four-part-release" target="_blank">Zack Snyder's Justice League will be released in four parts on HBO Max</a>.

<h2>No Time to Die</h2><br> <strong>Release Date:</strong> April 2 (US), April 2 (UK), April 12 (AU)<p> One of the first big tentpole films to get bumped out of theaters due to COVID was Daniel Craig's final Bond film, No Time to Die. It is now scheduled to finally hit theaters a year after its originally intended release, on April 2, 2021.<p> Directed by True Detective's Cary Fukunaga (with a script punch-up by Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge), No Time to Die takes place five years after the events of Spectre and follows James Bond as he comes out of retirement to face down a new villain, Rami Malik's Safin - a hyper-intelligent terrorist out for revenge. Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, and Jeffrey Wright return as Bond's support while Léa Seydoux reprises her role as Madeleine Swann. Lashana Lynch joins the franchise as a new "OO" agent, while Ana de Armas plays CIA agent Paloma.

The upcoming film is a sequel to 2019's Godzilla: King of Monsters and 2017's Kong: Skull Island in which the two titular monsters will finally go toe-to-toe in Legendary's so-called Monsterverse.Directed by Adam Wingard, known for his work primarily on horror films such as You're Next, V/H/S, and Blair Witch, Godzilla vs. Kong is going to be his first action-centric film. It will also see returning star Millie Bobbie Brown joined by co-stars Alexander Skarsgård and Rebecca Hall.Godzilla and Kong have been building towards this epic clash since 2014's Godzilla reboot and fans have been eager to see the two universes collide on the big screen since the first footage was released late last year.It's unlikely that these are the only two Titans that will be featured, however, as many of the kaiju from the Godzilla franchise are likely to make another appearance. Check out the gallery below to see every monster featured in the movies, so far.

MonsterVerse: Every Major Monster

The MonsterVerse is Legendary's shared universe which positions the secret government agency Monarch at the center of an eco-system of monsters, or "Titans" as they call them, both new and classic. The latest chapter in this saga, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, sees our favorite Titans working together to stop a new, terrifying threat from Hollow Earth. <br><br> Click through the slideshow, or read on, for all the monsters we know of so far in the MonsterVerse movies and TV shows, from Godzilla to Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and all the way through Godzilla vs. Kong, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Skull Island, and the trailers of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire! <br><br> And don't worry, we'll be updating this soon with the new monsters from the latest film now that it's out!

Godzilla<br><br>Rogue One's Gareth Edwards directed the somber and grim opening chapter to the MonsterVerse, 2014's Godzilla, which of course reintroduced the titular monster to the world. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Bryan Cranston, Godzilla features the titan emerging from a long slumber to stop two rampaging parasitic monsters from mating. In 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla battled a prehistoric alien Titan, "Monster Zero," known as King Ghidorah. In 2021, he fought against both Kong and Mechagodzilla, but only the two titular titans walked out victorious after they chose to work together in epic fashion. While Godzilla may have won the big battle between the two, the film ends with them respecting each other and leaving it at that. <br><br> Now a new empire rises from the Hollow Earth that threatens everything...

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King Kong<br><br>Kong: Skull Island, from The Kings of Summer's Jordan Vogt-Roberts, features a more adventurous tone than Godzilla ground zero, and starred Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L Jackson, John Goodman, and Brie Larson as members of an expedition filled with soldiers and scientists who travel to a mysterious island in the Pacific... where they of course find King Kong himself. This stands as the MonsterVerse's Kong reboot/restart, 12 years after Peter Jackson remade King Kong (a film that also featured Skull Island). In 2021, Kong was being held captive by Monarch following the natural super-storm decimation of Skull Island and being forced to lead an expedition to Hollow Earth. In Godzilla vs. Kong, the pair initially fought each other but joined forces to take down Mechagodzilla with an atomic beathified Axe. While Kong may have lost the big battle against Godzilla, they ended the film with great respect for each other. <br><br> In Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, these two titans must once again work together to stop a new threat that originates in the Hollow Earth...

M.U.T.O.s<br><br>Okay, so Godzilla's M.U.T.O.s (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms) probably won't marquee their own movie, but these prehistoric parasites wreak havoc on human civilization as they're drawn to man-made radiation. They seem to love trampling anyone and everything in their path. Two unnamed M.U.T.O.s (a male and a female pair) appear in 2014's Godzilla, while a second female debuted in the third film, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, heeding the clarion call of King Ghidorah. King of the Monsters also phased out the M.U.T.O. name, instead referring to any of the massive beasts in the MonsterVerse as Titans.

Skullcrawlers<br><br>Scavenging Skull Island are pesky pack-hunting predators called Skullcrawlers (a term coined by John C. Reilly's stranded islander Marlow) who generally make life miserable for both man and beast as an intelligent, burrowing, bullet-proof species of crawling carnivore lizard creatures. They come in both frightful airplane-size and also towering Alpha-size - like Skull Devil, who killed Kong's parents. These critters also play a role in Godzilla vs. Kong and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.

Mother Longlegs<p> One of the more memorable scenes from Kong: Skull Island involved the perpetually in-peril platoon getting skewered by the sinister stems of a mammoth Mother Longlegs - a gargantuan spider with lethal limbs that our heroes didn't know they'd walked under. <br><br> We catch a glimpse of the Mother Longlegs in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters chasing Bill Randa during the 1973 Monarch expedition to Skull Island. Sadly for that monster, that chase leads to a battle with the Mantleclaw and, although Mother Longlegs emerges victorious, it appears to be brought into the water to its death with it.

For more, check out all the big movies (probably) coming out in 2021 as well as everything else coming to HBO Max this year and beyond. Matthew Adler is a Features, News, Previews, Reviews, and Wikis writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @MatthewAdler and watch him stream on Twitch.