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Yahoo
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘One Of Them Days' Sequel In Development With Keke Palmer & SZA Returning
TriStar has a sequel to their sleeper comedy One of Them Days in the works with stars Keke Palmer and SZA expected to return. The comedy opened to $11.8 million in January and did a near 5x multiple at the domestic box office, grossing $50M. More from Deadline 'One Of Them Days' Review: Keke Palmer-SZA Physical Comedy Highlights Pure Comic Premise Justin Bieber Surprises Crowd At SZA & Kendrick Lamar's Grand National Tour With Rare Performance Sony Pictures Acquires Remake Rights To French Box Office Hit 'A Little Something Extra' - Cannes The buddy comedy follows best friends and roommates Dreux and Alyssa, who discover that the latter's boyfriend has spent all of their rent money. The two find themselves going to extremes in a race against the clock to avoid eviction and keep their friendship intact. The pic notched 94% with critics and 90% with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie before P&A cost a reported $14M. The movie's creative team is also expected to return, Deadline can confirm. Lawrence Lamont directed the original off a screenplay by Syreeta Singleton. Sony has a reputation for keeping its production costs low and profit margins high, particularly on titles that are counterprogramming and stoking underserved demographics, i.e., female moviegoers. It Ends With Us, which Sony co-financed for $25M, mushroomed to a net $207M after all ancillaries in its first cycle off a global box office take near $350M. Another cash cow for Sony was the Sydney Sweeney-Glen Powell romantic comedy Anyone But You, which netted $103M off a budget of $25M before P&A after racking up $219M worldwide. Sony currently has Karate Kid: Legends in theaters; it opened to $20.3M domestically this past weekend, and close to $50M worldwide off a $45M production cost. The movie teams Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan from the previous Karate Kid movies. Variety first had the news on the One of Them Days sequel. Best of Deadline 'Stick' Soundtrack: All The Songs You'll Hear In The Apple TV+ Golf Series 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out? 'Stick' Release Guide: When Do New Episodes Come Out?
Forbes
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Kiki Palmer And SZA's Hit ‘One Of Them Days' Is Getting A Sequel
Keke Palmer and SZA in "One of Them Days." 'One of Them Days'— a hit buddy comedy sequel starring Keke Palmer and SZA — is getting a sequel produced by Issa Rae. Rated R, One of Them Days opened in theaters on Jan. 17 and made its debut on digital streaming via premium video on demand debut on Feb. 11. After that, One of Them Days debuted on streaming video on demand on Netflix on March 31. Now, following the success of the film in theaters and on streaming, One of Them Days is getting a sequel, Variety reported on Wednesday. According to Variety, a sequel produced by Rae is being developed and the key talent in the film — including Palmer and SZA — is expected to return. The sequel is being set up at Sony Pictures Entertainment subsidiary Tri-Star Pictures, which released One of Them Days, the trade publication reported. One of Them Days marks the feature film directorial debut of Lawrence Lamont. The logline for the film reads, 'When best friends and roommates Dreux (Keke Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA) discover Alyssa's boyfriend has blown their rent money, the duo finds themselves going to extremes in a race against the clock to avoid eviction and keep their friendship intact.' The film also stars Vanessa Bell Calloway, Lil Rel Howery, Katt Williams, Janelle James and Maude Apatow. The Palmer and SZA comedy was a big hit in theaters, earning $50 million in North American theaters and nearly $1.3 million internationally for a worldwide box office gross of $51.3 million against a $14 million production budget before prints and advertising, The Numbers reported. One of Them Days was a big hit with Rotten Tomatoes critics, who collectively gave the film a 94% 'fresh' rating based on 117 reviews. The RT Critics Consensus for the film reads, 'Dishing out enough laughter and chemistry to spare through Keke Palmer and SZA, One of Them Days makes the buddy-comedy genre feel like magic once again.' One of Them Days also earned a 90% 'fresh' score on RT's Popcornmeter based on 2,500-plus verified user ratings. A target date for the release of the One of Them Days sequel is yet to be announced. One of Them Days, starring Keke Palmer and SZA, is streaming on Netflix.
