Last year, Disney‘s “Artemis Fowl” was scheduled to hit theaters August 9, 2019. That obviously changed and the movie—based on the beloved YA fantasy novel by Eoin Colfer is now hitting theaters eight months later in May. That’s a pretty big push, but Disney has set a much more summer-friendly date for the film, so maybe reshoots or whatever the problem was, helped.

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Directed by Kenneth Branagh, who has a difficult directorial career to pin down (recent films include “Thor” and “Murder On The Orient Express“) “Artemis Fowl” centers on Artemis Fowl II (Ferdia Shaw), a young Irish criminal mastermind who kidnaps the fairy LEPrecon officer Captain Holly Short (Lara McDonnell) for ransom to fund the search for his missing father in order to restore the family fortune.

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