The critters of Ice Age are coming back for a fourth big-screen outing.
20th Century Fox has announced it will release Ice Age: Continental Drift in theaters on July 13, 2012. The film will be released in stereoscopic 3-D, making it the second film in the series after Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs to be released in that format.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs was a huge hit last year for the studio, grossing $884 million worldwide.
And that’s not the only film that got a release date.
Fox also set a release date of June 3, 2011 for X-Men: First Class, which will now be directed by Kick-Ass helmer Matthew Vaughn. The film will go back to the early days of the X-Men and focus on younger versions of such characters as Cyclops, Jean Grey and Beast. Vaughn previously was set to direct X-Men: The Last Stand before scheduling issues prompted him to pull out of the project.
Also, Paramount set the release date for Mission: Impossible IV, starring Tom Cruise, as Dec. 16, 2011.
And The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn will debut on Nov. 18, 2011. It’s not yet clear if the adaptation of the final book in the series will consist of one film or two.
