Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is the 2020 feature film that pulls together concepts from DC's Birds of Prey comic books and the 2016 Suicide Squad movie.
Margot Robbie reprises her role as Batman villain Harley Quinn, a character she played in Suicide Squad. In this take, Quinn breaks up with the Joker, prompting her considerable list of enemies to come gunning for her. Not the least of which is Roman Sionis (aka The Black Mask, played by Ewan McGregor) and his muscle Victor Zsasz (Chris Messina). Fortunately Quinn finds an unlikely group of allies in Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell, The Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), police detective Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) and a young street thief named Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco).
Cathy Yan directs the film from a script by Christina Hodson.
The movie was released February 7, 2020 under its original title Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) but got a lukewarm response at the box office. Realizing that they buried the lead, Warner Bros unofficially re-titled the film as Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey in its first week of release to bring Harley's name to the front. However, the original title has been used on home entertainment releases.
Another noteworthy marketing aspect of the movie is that it's home entertainment release was accelerated dramatically due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With movie theaters shutting down and people being asked to stay home in mid March of 2020, Warner Bros assigned the movie a March 24, 2020 date for digital purchase.
