Ghost Rider has an official release date. Disney dated the Ryan Gosling film for July 28, 2028 in a wave of calendar updates sent out after D23, locking the Spirit of Vengeance into the late July slot the studio had been holding for an untitled Marvel Studios movie.
The date gives Marvel Studios three theatrical releases in a single year for the first time since the current slate reset. X-Men opens May 5, 2028, Ghost Rider follows on July 28, and Black Panther 3 closes the year on December 15, 2028. That is a sharp turn from the current stretch, since Kevin Feige has confirmed no Marvel movie arrives between Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars, leaving 2027 without a standalone MCU release.
The Slot That Keeps Delivering
Late July has become Marvel’s favorite launchpad. Deadpool and Wolverine, The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Spider-Man: Brand New Day all opened in that window, with Brand New Day setting the all time opening weekend record from it last month. It is a date other studios are being warned off.
Shawn Levy directs Ghost Rider from a script by Jonathan Tropper, reuniting the Star Wars: Starfighter team of Levy, Tropper and Gosling, whose casting was announced at Comic-Con in July. Gosling takes over a role Nicolas Cage played in two films for Sony, and the reveal has already reshaped how earlier Marvel casting teases read in hindsight.
The Rest Of The Calendar Shuffle
The same update firmed up more of Disney’s post-D23 map. An untitled Marvel Studios film now sits on November 9, 2029, a date previously listed only as an untitled Disney movie. Pixar’s original film Ghost Market arrives March 10, 2028, joining a 2028 lineup that already includes the live-action Tangled on March 31, Lilo and Stitch 2 on May 28 and Incredibles 3 on June 16. Searchlight also moved its suspense horror film Monitor up two weeks, from April 30 to April 16, 2027.
One number worth flagging: Black Panther 3 has turned up in some listings as a 2029 release, but Disney’s calendar puts it on December 15, 2028, the same date the film has held since it was announced.
A Loaded 2028
Between three Marvel films, two Pixar releases, Tangled and Lilo and Stitch 2, Disney’s 2028 is shaping up as its most crowded theatrical year since 2019, and it is already being framed as a run at the studio’s record global box office. Ghost Rider now anchors the exact midpoint of that year, in the weekend that has treated Marvel better than any other since the pandemic.
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