Hotel Transylvania 4 Heads to Amazon as Latest Pandemic Film to Skip Theaters

The film, which was supposed to open this month, will instead debut Jan. 14

Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is the most recent film to skip a theatrical release and head straight to a streamer. The fourth installment of the animated movie franchise will instead debut on Amazon Prime Video Jan. 14.

Top line

The Sony film was set to premiere in theaters on Oct. 1, but that day came and went without a release or an announcement about alternative plans. Instead, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania will release worldwide (excluding China) on Amazon Prime.

Between the lines

The first Hotel Transylvania film debuted in 2012, and the franchise has pulled in more than $1.3

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