Pokken Tournament for the Nintendo Wii U is set to release March 18 in Japan with a Spring 2016 release date window for the rest of the world. (player.one)
Beyond the fact that the blockbuster release date window is widening all around the industry, with big studio movies starting to come out in every month of the year, there is another reason why Black Panther is coming out so early in 2018: to give it some distance from Joe and Anthony Russo's The Avengers: Infinity War, which comes out on May 4, 2018. (cinemablend.com)
Since the release of director Jon Favreau's Iron Man back in 2008, Marvel Studios has done a lot of experimenting with various release date windows. (cinemablend.com)