Monster Problems, starring Michael Rooker, gets a slight delay

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

If you're looking forward to the Paramount Pictures release MONSTER PROBLEMS, and personally I can't help but look forward to a movie that's called MONSTER PROBLEMS and stars the great Michael Rooker, you're going to have to be looking forward to it for a little longer than originally planned. 

The movie had been set to reach theatres on March 6th, but has now been pushed back six weeks to April 17th.

Deadline has heard that the decision to delay the release slightly was made because "the mid-April date is a good fit ahead of the summer blitz." There also appears to be less box office competition on April 17th. On March 6th the film would have been opening against Disney/Pixar's ONWARD, the A24 period drama FIRST COW, and the Warner Bros. basketball drama THE WAY BACK, starring Ben Affleck. On April 17th it will be opening against the Universal cartoon TROLLS WORLD TOUR.

Directed by Michael Matthews from a screenplay by Matthew Robinson, Craig Johnson, and Brian Duffield (THE BABYSITTER, UNDERWATER), MONSTER PROBLEMS begins when 

a monster breaks into a colony’s bunker and kills one of its members. Joel Dawson (Dylan O’Brien) sets out to reunite with his high school love (Jessica Henwick) and braves dangerous mutated animals, unexpected friendships and foes along the way. 

Rooker plays Clyde, "an expert hunter who teaches Joel how to survive the monster apocalypse." 

Ariana Greenblatt and Dan Ewing are also in the cast.

MONSTER PROBLEMS was produced by Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen of 21 Laps, with John Starke executive producing.