Correct Answer: They were releasing the movie on Friday.

Solution : The first option is correct.

Change from active voice to passive voice involves restructuring a sentence so that the subject of the active sentence becomes the object in the passive sentence, and vice versa.

• The given sentence is in the past continuous tense and in the passive voice.
• The rule for changing the given sentence in past continuous tense is from passive voice to active passive voice.
  • Interchange the object and subject with each other, i.e., the object of the passive sentence becomes the subject of the active sentence.
  • The helping verb comes before the object in the active voice, as the passive voice starts with the object of the active voice.
  • The structure of the active voice is: subject + was/were + V1 + ing + object.

So, the correct sentence would be: " They were releasing the movie on Friday ."