To be Pushed Back

Usually the phrase pushed back can be heard in different situations. I am talking about what I hear in Canada, and not other countries. 

For example, you can be pushed back a grade because you weren't the brightest kid on the block, or because you missed a lot of school in that year. The school can also hold you back. We can express this in a lot of ways.

People can generally push back especially when they boycott something, then usually they end up buying that very thing years later because they forgot all about it. That's if what they're buying is an actual product, and not something law or government related.

We can also use the term pushed back when talking about a delay. For example, a video game was pushed back to early next year, a movie, or even a project in I.T. 

Let's look at an example

Even where movie theaters opened back up there's not a huge line of movies to get excited about warner brothers wonder woman 1984 which was originally scheduled for  October was pushed back to Christmas.

As you can see, we're talking about movies being delayed because of COVID-19. A lot of films don't want their films released on online streaming platforms because it won't generate the same revenue which it would from selling movie tickets.

Some movies like Borat and Scooby-Doo were released online, but these aren't Triple A block buster titles, and with the case of Borat, it's an Amazon Exclusive so it would released on their platform first.

I have posted the video about movie theatres surviving in the pandemic. Please jump to 6 minutes and 30 seconds.