

Peacock has been quietly amassing a slew of upcoming series to bolster its catalog. A mystery series titled Poker Face by Rian Johnson is set to release on the platform, as is a brand new comedy series uniting The Office star Craig Robinson with Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-creator Dan Goor. This marks the first time Universal has attempted a simultaneous release of this magnitude with the streaming platform.

The news also follows Universal's decision to remove The Office from Netflix and instead make it available for streaming on Peacock. This news follows the delay of the Boss Baby sequel from March 26, 2021, to mid-September 2021. have been releasing select films simultaneously in theaters and on streaming (Disney Plus and HBO Max, respectively) due to the slow pace of the theatrical market's return to what it once was. Universal decided to sell Trolls: World Tour as a premium VOD release early in the quarantine process and now NBCUniversal has decided on a simultaneous theater/streaming release for Boss Baby 2, hoping to utilize Family Business to draw audiences to Peacock.

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Disney and Warner Bros.
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RELATED: An Animated 'Injustice' Movie Is On Its Way From DC As it stands, The Boss Baby is one of Dreamworks Animation's most recognized properties around the world. The film that starred funnyman Alec Baldwin as a talking baby earned a total of $175 million at the domestic box office, spawning the successful Netflix series titled The Boss Baby: Back in Business shortly afterward. The first Boss Baby film was a hit with family audiences upon its release in March 2017. Now, Universal will be experimenting in a similar way with The Boss Baby: Family Business by releasing the film in theaters and on Peacock, NBCUniversal's streaming service, on the same day. Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic caused movie theaters to close for months, studios have experimented with ways to release their blockbuster films in atypical ways.
