Eddie Murphy's Coming 2 America Shifts From Theaters to Amazon Prime Video

Paramount's comedy sequel will be available to stream in early 2021

It’s official: Amazon Prime Video has snapped up the worldwide streaming rights to Coming 2 America, the anticipated sequel to Eddie Murphy’s 1998 comedy classic Coming to America.

Coming 2 America, which Paramount Pictures had originally planned for a holiday 2020 theatrical release, will skip theaters in the U.S. and will instead debut in more than 240 countries and territories on Amazon Prime Video on March 5, 2021, making it the latest in a string of films that have shifted their distribution plans amid the ongoing and intensifying Covid-19 pandemic.

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