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Straits Times
31-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr return for slasher sequel I Know What You Did Last Summer
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Cast member Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. attend the premiere of I Know What You Did Last Summer in Los Angeles, on July 14. LOS ANGELES – For fans of 1990s Hollywood horror – when the slasher genre was revitalised by charismatic young stars – the new I Know What You Did Last Summer film is both a good old-fashioned scare and nostalgic throwback. Now showing in Singapore cinemas, it is the fourth instalment in the iconic franchise that began with 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer. It is also a full-circle moment for American actors Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. They reprise their roles from the original film and the 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, which launched their careers at a time when the box office was ruled by films such as these, along with early chapters of the Scream franchise (1996 to present), The Faculty (1998) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998). The latest movie revolves around five friends who cover up their part in a deadly car accident. A year later, one of them receives an ominous note saying, 'I know what you did last summer', and a vengeful killer with an ice hook begins picking the gang off one by one. The quintet is played by American actors Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers and Sarah Pidgeon. But at the film's Los Angeles premiere earlier in July, all eyes are on original stars Hewitt, 46, and Prinze Jr, 49. They play Julie James and Ray Bronson, who in the first film found themselves in a similar predicament after accidentally killing a boy in a hit-and-run. Top stories Swipe. Select. Stay informed. Asia US-Malaysia tariff deal expected after Trump-Anwar phone call on eve of Aug 1 deadline Asia Trump says US will set 15% tariff on South Korean imports under new deal Singapore Driver in 2024 Tampines crash that killed 2 set to plead guilty in October Multimedia 60 years, 60 items: A National Day game challenge Singapore Wegovy and beyond: Will weight-loss drugs change the way people look at obesity? Singapore $10 million Toto results to be announced on July 31, after no winners in last 3 draws Business US Fed holds rates steady despite Trump's pressure, with two governors dissenting Singapore Escape, discover, connect: Where new memories are made I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), starring Jennifer Love Hewitt (left) and Freddie Prinze Jr. PHOTO: COLUMBIA PICTURES Hewitt expresses gratitude that the film-makers decided to bring back the two characters – and that fans of the first two movies had lobbied for it. 'They didn't have to have me back, but they did. My heart was very touched by that,' says the actress. She and Prinze Jr did not appear in the second sequel, 2006's I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, which went straight to video and was panned. 'It meant a lot to me that the fans were loud about that for Freddie and I, and I took that to work with me every day. 'So, I'm just deeply grateful to be here,' says Hewitt, who also starred in the supernatural series Ghost Whisperer (2005 to 2010) and procedural drama 9-1-1 (2018 to present). Jennifer Love Hewitt in I Know What You Did Last Summer. PHOTO: SONY PICTURES She is also thrilled that a new generation of fans will get to discover the franchise with this new film. 'It's so fun and it's very scary, and I'm really excited for them to see it,' says the star, who is married to American actor Brian Hallisay, 46, and has three children aged three to 11. Prinze Jr enjoyed working with the new cast. 'I love working with young people,' says the actor, who met his future wife, American actress Sarah Michelle Gellar – now 48 and the mother of their two children aged 12 and 15 – on the set of the 1997 film, where she played one of the other teens being stalked. 'They're still hungry, there's no cynicism built into their ego structure yet. And so, for me, it was very inspiring. It makes me excited to go to work.' Freddie Prinze Jr in I Know What You Did Last Summer. PHOTO: SONY PICTURES And he had nothing to teach them when it came to acting, he says. 'They're all so much better than I was at their age, they're such pros. I was very impressed by all their performances,' says Prinze Jr, who also co-starred with Gellar in the Scooby-Doo action comedies (2002 to 2004) and headlined the romantic comedy She's All That (1999). Hewitt saw her role on set as being there to support the younger ones, not steal their thunder. 'I wanted to give them space, and to know that this was not mine, it was theirs. And just be there to support and love and give guidance in any way that I could, or give no guidance at all – whatever they wanted,' she says. 'And I was blown away and very touched by all the respect and love that Freddie and I were given for being in the original.'
Straits Times
30-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
At The Movies: I Know What You Did Last Summer doesn't hook, Sharp Corner is a slow burn
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox (From left) Sarah Pidgeon, Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King and Tyriq Withers in I Know What You Did Last Summer. I Know What You Did Last Summer (M18) 111 minutes, opens on July 31 ★★☆☆☆ The story: Five friends are stalked by a killer a year after they caused a fatal car accident and conspired to cover up their involvement. I Know What You Did Last Summer is best understood by first remembering what the high-school grads in the 1997 movie of the same title did 27 summers earlier, which was to inspire a Hollywood horror franchise with their bad decision to conceal a hit-and-run. This feature fourquel remake-update returns to the fictional North Carolina fishing town of Southport. Another generation of cavorting juveniles has again cost a driver his life, and a hooded vigilante is chasing down the four rich twits (Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King and Tyriq Withers) plus their working-class pal (Sarah Pidgeon) to harpoon them with his fishing hook. Pretty faces and privilege cannot save them. Their only hope is to seek help from the two millennial idol survivors of the original massacre. Freddie Prinze Jr's Ray Bronson advises them against fleeing to the Bahamas. If his reference to the 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is not sufficiently self-reflexive, there is Jennifer Love Hewitt's Julie James demanding: 'What did you do last summer?' Top stories Swipe. Select. Stay informed. Singapore MHA to support HSA's crackdown on Kpod abusers and help in treatment of offenders: Shanmugam Business S'pore's Q2 total employment rises, but infocomm and professional services sectors see more job cuts Singapore Fewer than 1 in 5 people noticed suspicious items during MHA's social experiments Asia Powerful 8.8-magnitude quake in Russia's far east causes tsunami; Japan, Hawaii order evacuations Singapore Migrant workers who gave kickbacks to renew work passes were conservancy workers at AMK Town Council Business Seatrium to pay $168m to Brazilian authorities, $73m to Singapore authorities to settle corruption case Singapore Man charged with having 320 vape pods and over 70 vapes meant for sale in car at Bugis mall Singapore Escape, discover, connect: Where new memories are made American writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge, 2022) winks at the film series and its slasher genre formula as the terrified victims continually run into dead ends and locked doors. How dumb such tropes have come to be, nearly five decades after their introduction in Halloween (1978). But the movie offers neither reinvention nor ingenious kills. The intrigue of the bogeyman's identity aside, it is a jokey bloodbath consequently just as dumb, although rarely dull. Hot take: Self-aware humour is the feeble hook for a 1990s teen-scream revival. Sharp Corner (M18) 111 minutes, opens on July 31 ★★★☆☆ Ben Foster in Sharp Corner. PHOTO: SHAW ORGANISATION The story: Family man Josh (Ben Foster) moves into a woodland residence with his wife Rachel (Cobie Smulders) and young son (William Kosovic), and becomes fixated on the auto collisions recurring outside their front yard. The first time a car skids by, sending a tyre crashing through the window on the couple's first night in their new dream house, they dismiss the traumatic experience as a freak incident. But soon, another vehicle crashes, then another. The Canadian-Irish co-production Sharp Corner is not an episode of sci-fi TV series The Twilight Zone (1959 to 2020). A sharp road corner is the logical explanation for the fatalities. The property filmed in Nova Scotia sits at a blind spot, and Canadian writer-director Jason Buxton's (Blackbird, 2012) adaptation of a Russell Wangersky short story is a psychological thriller about Josh himself going round the bend, so to speak, in his spiralling obsession to save future victims. Only by being a hero can he prove his manhood, he believes. What is he, after all, except an unmotivated IT project manager with a paunch and a balding pate, married to a capable, attractive psychotherapist? American actor Foster, long a hair-trigger presence in crime dramas like Alpha Dog (2006) and Hell Or High Water (2016), delivers an uncharacteristically internalised performance of existential unease in a disquieting study on masculine insecurity. In his search for purpose, Josh begins to furtively miss work for first aid training. More and more it consumes his life, until he loses everything and is left alone at home just waiting and hoping for – and eventually orchestrating – the next accident. Hot take: Such are the calamitous consequences of bad feng shui.
New York Post
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘I Know What You Did Last Summer' fans speculate Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. shot scenes separately
Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt survived the original 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' — but they can't escape from new fan theories. Twenty-eight years after the 1997 slasher hit theaters, the movie returned with a sequel on July 18. 12 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' fans speculate about the film. X Along with new faces, including Madelyn Cline, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Chase Sui Wonders, audiences received the ultimate blast from the past. Prinze Jr., 49, reprised his role as Ray Bronson, while Hewitt, 46, brought back the iconic Julie James. However, on Saturday, one social media suggested that the stars didn't film their scenes together this time around. 'Okay guys. Let's spark a debate here,' they posted on X. 'Do you ACTUALLY think Jennifer Love Hewitt & Freddie Prinze Jr. filmed their scenes together for 'I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER' (2025)?! People are starting to notice the 'cuts and separate shots'. This is too much lol.' 12 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' fans think Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. shot scenes separately. X The Sony reboot's director, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, quickly cleared up any confusion. 'They absolutely shot their scenes together. Hope this helps,' she wrote on X with a heart emoji. The original poster apologized to the filmmaker and shared that they felt embarrassed. Robinson, 37, responded, 'No apology necessary! I totally get why people might think that cause of some of the coverage but they are absolutely acting off each other. It was electric!' 12 Jennifer Love Hewitt in the new slasher. ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Despite the pair filming their scenes together, Prinze Jr. revealed he hadn't seen Hewitt since shooting the 1998 sequel, 'I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.' 'We run in different circles,' the actor told Variety on Saturday. 'I hadn't seen her since we wrapped the second movie in '98, but we care a lot about these characters, and it was all still there.' 'After we finished that first scene, we had a chance to say, 'Oh, you have kids. And you have kids.' Honestly, I think the first scene we share in this movie, where Ray and Julie confront the reality of their relationship, is the best work we've done of all three,' Prinze Jr. continued. 'I'm really proud of it. Our director, Jenn Robinson, three-dimensionalized these characters.' 12 Freddie Prinze Jr. as Ray in the 2025 'IKWYDLS.' ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection The 'She's All That' alum tied the knot with his 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' co-star, Sarah Michelle Gellar, in 2002. The pair share kids Charlotte, 15, and Rocky, 12. Hewitt, meanwhile, married her 'The Client List' co-star Brian Hallisay in 2013. The couple are parents to Autumn, 11, Atticus, 10, and Aidan, 3. There has been rumors of a decades-long feud between Hewitt and Gellar, 48. 12 Freddie Prinze Jr. in a scene from the new 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.' ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection On Friday, the 'Holiday Junkie' actress revealed she hasn't kept in touch with her former co-star since starring in the 1997 project. 'I honestly don't even know what that was or how that all came to be,' Hewitt told Vulture. 'I just think people don't want the narrative to be easy. Why do we always have to be against each other and out for each other.' 'I haven't seen Sarah,' she explained. 'Literally, we've not talked since I saw her at 18 years old when the first movie came out. That's why it's so funny to me. People were like, 'Say something back.' And I'm like, 'What am I going to say? I've not seen her.' On my side, we're good. I have no idea where this is coming from.' 12 Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. in a scene from 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.' ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection In the original horror film, Gellar played Helen Shivers, the beauty queen who was murdered. Ryan Phillippe starred as Barry William Cox, who was also killed the first time around. The 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' alum addressed rumors of bad blood after she and Hewitt didn't pose together for pictures on the red carpet last week. 'For everyone asking — I never got to see @jenniferlovehewitt, who is fantastic in the movie. I was inside with my kids when the big carpet happened. And unfortunately, JLH didn't come to the after-party,' Gellar wrote on Instagram at the time. 12 Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ryan Phillipe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr. in 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.' Mandalay Ent/Kobal/Shutterstock 'If you have ever been to one of these, it's crazy,' she continued. 'I sadly didn't get pics with most of the cast. But that doesn't change how amazing I think they all are. Unfortunately, some things happen only in real life and not online.' Gellar instead posed for pictures with Prinze Jr. and her former 'Buffy' co-star, Seth Green. She also snapped pictures with Robinson, and the slasher's new star, Cline. 12 Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt in the original film. ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Hewitt previously addressed the online speculation in December. 'I just heard that there's this whole thing where they think that Sarah and I were fighting or something. There's all these things out there,' she said on Tommy DiDario's 'I've Never Said This Before' podcast. 'I've really enjoyed going and trying to read the stuff now and be like, 'What are people saying about when we did the movie before, now, all of that stuff?'' Hewitt continued. 'Somebody the other day was like, 'Yeah, I think Julie made sure that she was killed because girl actresses don't like to work with girl actresses.' I was like, 'What are you talking about?'' 12 Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Freddie Prinze Jr. in 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.' ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection 12 The cast of 'I Know What You Did last Summer' poses at the film's premiere on October 8 in Hollywood. Fred Prouser 'I was 18,' the 'Party of Five' alum said. 'They were not taking script notes from me guys. Like what are you talking about?' That same month, Gellar was asked if Hewitt would return for the new 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' film. 'I have nothing to do with that,' she responded before walking away from the interviewer. Gellar later clarified why she left on her Instagram Stories. 12 Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. at the 2025 premiere of 'IKWYDLS.' FilmMagic 'Aspiring actors please note: This 'deer in the headlights' reaction is perfect for when you are excited to see so many old friends in one project but have already stupidly forgotten what NDA means once this month,' she penned beneath a shot from the film's Australian set. Hewitt also confirmed that the entire cast got along great on set in the '90s. 'All of us were in that experience together, kind of figuring it all out and everything,' she recalled. 'I root for her and Freddie and think it's the cutest thing in the world that they've been married for 100 years and have kids. It's adorable. So yeah it's been really funny to see all this stuff that people think.' 12 Jennifer Love Hewitt on the red carpet of 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.' Sony Pictures via Getty Images This time around, Prinze Jr. had just as good of an experience. 'Whatever a high school union feels like, that's what it felt like,' he told People earlier this month. 'You have no idea what's changed, what's the same. You're excited to show what you think you're better at. You hope they notice it. It was all those things.'
Perth Now
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
I Know What You Did Last Summer director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson teases possible sequel
I Know What You Did Last Summer director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson has "a plan of what could be next". The 37-year-old filmmaker helmed the 2025 slasher, and has now revealed she has already started to think about a sequel – though refused to give any details about the possible follow-up. She told Screen Rant: "I do have a plan in mind of what could be next. I cannot tell you." Even so, the director teased she'd like Brandy Norwood's Karla – who appeared in the 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer as Julie James' (Jennifer Love Hewitt) roommate – to have a part in a potential follow-up after she cameoed in the mid-credits scene of I Know What You Did Last Summer. Robinson said: "I wanted Brandy in this film. And again, a lot of the cameos, a lot of the choices made—they just had to be the right thing. Not just for the character and for the franchise, but for this version of the movie and the story that we were telling. "So for me, to catch up with Brandy where we find her in the film, and to know that Julie James is a character who has shut everybody out—she left Southport, she abandoned Ray, she doesn't really have any friends, she lives by herself—that person wouldn't necessarily have kept up with anyone. "So bringing them back together was really fun, and I loved being able to do that." I Know What You Did Last Summer sees the return of Jennifer Love Hewitt's Julie James and Freddie Prinze Jr.'s Ray Bronson as they try to help a group of teens escape the clutches of a masked killer following a hit-and-run cover-up. The horror flick also saw the surprise cameo appearance of Sarah Michelle Gellar's ill-fated Helen Shivers – who met a grizzly end in the original 1997 I Know What You Did Last Summer. Reflecting on his wife's shock return, Prinze Jr. said he was "glad" he was able to keep quiet about Gellar's secret comeback. Freddie told PEOPLE he "knew from jump" that Sarah would be in the new movie, adding: "We were all really excited for audiences to get to see that and get a little bit of extra love that they weren't expecting. "It's nice to know a secret, and to know how well-received it's going to be, months and months before it ever goes out there. "To hear the reaction that people have had, because I know some other people that have seen it, they're all like: 'Oh, my God, you didn't tell me! That was the best.' "I'm like, 'Yeah, it was the best one. Everybody always loves her.' To give people another taste of that, I just think was awesome. I'm glad everyone made it happen."
Perth Now
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Jennifer Love Hewitt's return to I Know What You Did Last Summer sparked by ‘love' of franchise
Jennifer Love Hewitt's return to I Know What You Did Last Summer came down to a deep 'love' of the horror franchise. The 45-year-old actress is reprising her role as Julie James nearly 30 years after first appearing in the iconic teen slasher, and has now credited the new film's creative team with bringing the franchise back with a lot of heart. She told Variety of director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and co-writer Sam Lansky: 'What was very apparent from the word 'Go' is how much both of them loved the original movie. 'I feel like, if you're going to go back and make something new but pay homage to an original, you have to love it. You have to understand it. 'So, I was just blown away and it meant a lot to me.' The new instalment, set for release in 2025, follows a fresh group of teenagers in Southport, North Carolina, who are stalked by a copycat killer after a deadly accident. Jennifer's character Julie is contacted by the young group and asked for help – drawing her and fellow survivor Ray Bronson, played by 48-year-old Freddie Prinze Jr., back into the chaos of their past. Jennifer last played Julie in the 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. She was not involved in the 2006 direct-to-video follow-up or the 2021 reboot series. Kaytin and Sam offered a different approach, directly continuing the storyline of the original 1997 film. The creative team behind the project involved Jennifer in shaping Julie's character in the present day – a trauma expert and professor, recently divorced from Ray and determined never to return to Southport. The actress added: 'They allowed space for me to know her better than anyone, which was so kind because they didn't have to do that. 'I felt very seen as somebody who had created her the first time.' Julie plays a major role in the second and third acts of the film, mentoring Ava = played by Chase Sui Wonders – and helps to unmask two killers. The film also brings back Brandy Norwood as Karla, Julie's college roommate from I Still Know, in a surprise credits scene teasing yet another chapter in the series.
