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The release date for Daniel Craig's final James Bond film "No Time to Die" has been postponed until November amid the global coronavirus outbreak.

The film's producers announced Wednesday that "after careful consideration and thorough evaluation of the global theatrical marketplace" the release would be postponed from its original April release date to Nov. 12 in the U.K. and Nov. 25 in the U.S.

Daniel Craig holding a gun: James Bond (Daniel Craig) comes out of retirement to save the day and deal with a new villain in "No Time to Die." © NICOLA DOVE James Bond (Daniel Craig) comes out of retirement to save the day and deal with a new villain in "No Time to Die."

MGM, Universal and Bond producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli gave no further elaboration beyond the economic impact for the decision to move the film directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga from its April 2 U.K. opening and April 10 U.S. opening.

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The Bond move from the coveted Easter weekend opening is the first high-profile film postponement resulting from the outbreak of the highly transmissible coronavirus.

In February, Paramount Studios scrapped a three-week “Mission: Impossible VII” shoot in Venice, Italy, which would have been the first day of production for the latest movie in the action franchise.

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The global outbreak has already curtailed other group entertainment activities such as high- profile concerts.

Mariah Carey announced Tuesday on Twitter that she was rescheduling a March 10 concert in Hawaii because of the "evolving international travel restrictions" stemming from the COVID-19 outbreak. 

Carey moved her Honolulu concert stop to Nov. 28.

The Korean pop group BTS was scheduled to kick off its BTS Map of the Soul tour on April 11 in Seoul, South Korea, but cancelled the entire tour last week because of the virus.

The eighth and ninth persons to have died in the U.S. from coronavirus were confirmed Wednesday. Washington state accounts for 27 of the 118 cases reported so far in the U.S., and state officials said 231 people are under public health supervision.

The global death toll was at 3,198 early Wednesday, with more than 2,900 of those deaths in mainland China, where the outbreak began.

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