Lionsgate moved Mel Gibson's The Resurrection of the Christ: Part One from Good Friday 2027 to Ascension Day, May 6, 2027, while Part Two shifted to May 25, 2028, turning a sequel plan into a small course in ecclesiastical scheduling. [1]

Deadline reports the original plan had Part One opening March 26, 2027 and Part Two following just 40 days later; Johnny Depp's Day Drinker now takes the Good Friday slot, which means the studio did not abandon the holiday so much as reassign it. [1]

The business explanation is plain enough: Deadline says the studio considered the original dates too close together for productions of this scale, and the new dates put both films into the summer box office corridor. [1]

Searches for Lionsgate, Resurrection of the Christ, Ascension Day and Day Drinker did not verify a usable X /status/ URL after three tries, leaving the divergence between Deadline's calendar mechanics and the way audiences will read the calendar as theology, faith-film politics and Depp comeback positioning, all packed into the same date grid that studios pretend is neutral until marketing begins and the posters explain otherwise to believers and buyers at scale globally.

-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles