‘Silver And Black’ Movie Taken Off Sony’s Release Calendar, ‘Under The Silver Lake’ Delayed Six Months
Here’s some bad news for the nascent Sony Marvel Universe: one of its upcoming superhero entries,Silver and Black, no longer has a release date. Meanwhile, A24’sUnder the Silver Lake, an indie film starringAndrew Garfield, has been delayed until December. Read more about both below.
Silver and Black Movie
We’ve always thought Sony’s idea of creating a universe of Spider-man-centric Marvel comic book characters that’s entirely separate from Marvel Studios' Marvel Cinematic Universe was weird. While it appears thatVenom(the first movie in the Sony Marvel Universe, or “SMU”) will make it to theaters on schedule, the next planned entry in that universe has hit a major speed bump.
Silver and Blackwas originally set to open on June 11, 2025, but Exhibitor Relations reports that the film has been removed from Sony’s release calendar altogether:
Sony’s SILVER AND BLACK was set for Jul 27, 2025, but is now listed as the worst date possible…UNDATED.
— Exhibitor Relations Co. (@ERCboxoffice)June 30, 2025
Silver and Blackis a female-led superhero movie that centers on Silver Sable and Black Cat, two supporting characters in Spider-Man comics. Silver Sable is a mercenary who hunts war criminals, while Black Cat, AKA Felicia Hardy, is a master thief. In the comics (and the 1990s animated TV series), Felicia Hardy is a love interest for Peter Parker.Gina Prince-Bythewood, the director of movies likeThe Secret Life of Bees, Love and Basketball, andBeyond the Lights,is in the director’s chair for this one. (She also directed the pilot of Marvel’sCloak & DaggerTV series for Freeform.) I was looking forward to seeing what she could do with this, but now we may be in for a long wait.
Under the Silver Lake
Putting superhero movies aside and heading into the world of indie thrillers, A24 has delayed the release ofUnder the Silver Lake, an upcoming movie starring Andrew Garfield fromIt FollowsdirectorDavid Robert Mitchell. Here’s the trailer:
We were just weeks from seeing this, but now the movie has been bumped all the way toDecember 7, 2018.
A24’s UNDER THE SILVER LAKE will go into hiding for 6 months and reappear Jun 26, 2025. Previous date was just 3 weeks away–June 22.
Some film reporters who have seen the movie at film festivals already are suggesting that this delay could imply that A24 is re-editing the movie. Many reviews have said that the film is messy, and the overarching implication is that there’s a good movie buried somewhere in its two-hour-and-twenty-minute runtime.
But as writer Brian Tellerico pointed out on Twitter, there may be a different reason for the delay:
This could easily be explained by tracking on Hereditary and not wanting another film out there to promote two weeks later. And this way it can play fall fests. Makes sense.
— Brian Tallerico (@Brian_Tallerico)August 01, 2025
A24 has a stone-cold classic on their hands withHereditary(read our review here), so pushing this to devote all of their time and attention toHereditarygetting its proper due may be a smart move for both films. Plus, if they’re confident inUnder the Silver Lake’s trippy noir vision, they may be positioning it for awards contention by slotting it later in the year. Either way, I’m looking forward to checking it out as soon as possible, because I’m super curious about this one.
