User blog:JCama 2/‘The SpongeBob Movie’ Release Pushed Back to 2020

Paramount Pictures has moved the third SpongeBob SquarePants movie back a year from Aug. 1, 2019, to July 31, 2020.

The animated project, now called “The SpongeBob Movie,” had been announced in 2015 with Paul Tibbitt returning to direct and a voice cast including Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence, and Mr. Lawrence. The last SpongeBob pic, 2015’s “Sponge Out of Water,” grossed $315 million worldwide, while “The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie” grossed $140 million worldwide in 2004.