Bloodshot: Vin Diesel Superhero Movie Goes to VOD Next Week

In what is becoming a familiar refrain after Bloodshot, that is breaking through the theatrical window like some kind of cybernetic super soldier.

Sony and Columbia Pictures’ Bloodshot, which debuted in third place at the box office this past weekend, will make its VOD debut on March 24. This very reasonable move is being made after the film already suffered from and UK. New York and Los Angeles mayors have also legally closed all theaters in their cities.

Bloodshot competitor The Gentlemen. But we suspect that Bloodshot will not be the last of the slated spring 2020 releases to make the jump to VOD as movie theaters across the world continue to go on lockdown.

“Sony Pictures is firmly committed to theatrical exhibition and we windowing,” said Tom Rothman, Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group, in a statement. “This is a unique and exceedingly rare circumstance where theaters have been required to close nationwide for the greater good and Bloodshot is abruptly unavailable in any medium. Audiences will now have the chance to own Bloodshot right away and see it at home, where we are all spending more time. We are confident that—like other businesses hit hard by the virus—movie theaters will bounce back strongly, and we will be there to them.”

It’s a hopeful tone that other studios may be looking at as they consider the future. Onward, the Pixar movie that released two weeks ago and is facing the same grim situation of closed movie theaters.

Bloodshot is Vin Diesel’s comic book superhero movie adaptation, pulling from the Valiant Comics superhero, in which he plays a man who is reconstructed like RoboCop after seemingly being killed. Now he’s an evolved half-man, half-man, all badass who has to fight other meta-humans played by the likes of Arrival).

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