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Screen Geek
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Screen Geek
2023 Movie Getting Surprise Sequel
There's certainly lots of uncertainty regarding what gets a sequel these days. Hollywood often places more of their focus on major IPs than churning out brand-new franchises, but there are the occasional follow-ups that slip through the cracks. Now a 2023 movie is getting a surprise sequel from Sony Pictures' Screen Gems. Additionally, the film will feature the return of its writer and director, Jalmari Helander. While the announcement of a sequel to his 2023 hit comes as a surprise, it may be even more surprising to note that the film will be released as quickly as this year. Now that's definitely surprising. While the first film was released by Lionsgate, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions' Stage 6 Films only sold the domestic rights to that first film while keeping the global rights. For the sequel, they are continuing to keep global rights to the rather successful property. As shared via Deadline: 'Sony Pictures' Screen Gems is releasing a sequel to Jalmari Helander's gritty World War II action movie Sisu .' The outlet adds that the release date for the Sisu sequel has been marked for November 21, 2025. The film's release is also slated for theaters, which means that Sisu fans will be able to see the 2023 sequel on the big screen. Actor Jorma Tommila will reprise his role for the sequel which will include two major actors in new roles: Richard Brake and Stephen Lang. Details regarding the follow-up are being kept under wraps, but hopefully we'll have more information in the near future. Especially if the release date will be following later this year. Fans will be able to see the surprise sequel to 2023's Sisu in theaters on November 21, 2025. Stay tuned to ScreenGeek for more updates regarding this highly-anticipated project from writer and director Jalmari Helander as we have them. It's definitely turning out to be a good time for original movies and IPs.
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘It Ends With Us' Is No. 6 On 2024's Most Valuable Blockbuster List
Deadline's Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament has returned, and as you'll see from the most profitable films of 2024 that we're about to disclose, a movie's game doesn't end at the box office. Rather, its downstream revenues and subsequent home windows must be taken into account. Streaming continues to be a wildcard: While traditional motion picture studios such as Disney, Warner Bros, Sony, Paramount and Universal rely on lucrative pay two and pay three streamer deals to catapult their slates into the black, those streamers who've embraced theatrical (specifically Amazon MGM Studios and Apple Original Films) have a clandestine metric as to how they evaluate a movie's post-cinema success. By traditional studio P&L standards, some of those releases would be considered flops. Given that, Apple and Amazon are excluded from this year's survey. The Most Valuable Blockbuster series runs later rather than sooner as we gather the best data possible from seasoned and trusted sources on 2024's event films, bombs, and low- to midsize-budget wins. IT ENDS WITH USSony Pictures More from Deadline 'Dune: Part Two' Provides Spice To Box Office As No. 7 Most Valuable Blockbuster Of 2024 Sony's Screen Gems Sets Fall Theatrical Release For 'Sisu' Sequel Blake Lively Reveals Her Mother Was Assaulted Years Before She Was Born Despite the brutal headlines and legal clash between It Ends With Us star and producer Blake Lively and its filmmaker and financier Justin Baldoni, and all the on-set gritty details that have been exposed in court documents, if there's one thing to be said about the success of this movie, it's not that one star got paid more than the other. Had that been the case, we'd probably have heard that by now. From a business standpoint, there's a positive takeaway here in Wayfarer's wisdom in recognizing the popularity of and nabbing the rights to the 2016 Colleen Hoover novel and its 2022 sequel It Starts With Us. At the aorta of this movie's success is Hoover's fevered fan following on BookTok, with more than 2 billion views on her hashtag. The first novel was published by Atria Books in August 2016, and by 2019 had sold more than 1 million copies around the globe. Thanks to TikTok, It Ends With Us experienced a huge boom during the pandemic, and by 2022 was the top-selling print book, with a 135-week run on the New York Times Bestseller List by the end of 2023. Hoover served as EP and worked closely with the production on the big-screen adaptation. The movie was made for a thrifty $25M, 50% co-financed by Sony Pictures, and dealt with a production pause due to the strikes. Despite the behind-the-scenes drama around the film, it clearly didn't drive business off the road: women showed up at 84% for the big-screen take of a florist (Lively) who deals with an abusive spouse (Baldoni). Tracking had the movie opening to $15M, but heading into its August 9 theatrical release, it boomed to $50M stateside. Sony has been here before in regards to dynamiting female moviegoers (Hollywood could make more movies for them), with previous hits like Little Women and Where the Crawdads Sing. Sony prides itself on yielding great studio margins, and the $60M P&A spend was a targeted sell to women with a big digital boost. Sony, Lively and the It Ends With Us team were keen about moving the romance drama from February to June to two weeks after Deadpool & Wolverine. They capitalized off that heat, not just because Lively had a cameo in the MCU title but also husband Ryan Reynolds, his mom and Hugh Jackman ultimately and hysterically junket-bombed the It Ends With Us presser, a stunt that took off on social. Lively rolled up her sleeves and became a lynchpin in the marketing campaign, involved with the first trailer's edit and obtaining use from her BFF Taylor Swift the song 'My Tears Ricochet.' Sony also receives a healthy worldwide distribution fee after its co-finance of the movie here. Its pay-one deal is with Netflix, and monies from that are seen in the $120M global streaming and TV line item. Participations are figured at $50M, our sources contending that Baldoni and Lively were paid at cash breakeven. The net profit here after $153M in worldwide expenses is a robust $207M. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About The 'Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping' Movie So Far Everything We Know About Netflix's 'The Thursday Murder Club' So Far TV Show Book Adaptations Arriving In 2025 So Far
Yahoo
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Netflix UK adds Finland's John Wick movie that created a huge buzz — and it's 94 % on Rotten Tomatoes
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Netflix has added Sisu, a World War Two set historical thriller that drew rave reviews when it was released in 2022. The Finnish war movie, which drew comparisons to the John Wick franchise, follows an ex-soldier who discovers a massive amount of gold while he's mining. However, when he runs into a squad of Nazis they desperately try to take the gold from him, leading to a brutal battle between the soldiers and the highly skilled man. The movie currently has a 94% "Fresh" score from critics and an 88% positive score from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. The makers tease: "During the last desperate days of World War Two, a solitary prospector crosses path with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover that they have just tangled with no ordinary miner. While there is no direct translation for the Finnish word 'sisu,' this legendary ex-commando will embody what sisu means: a white-knuckled form of courage an unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds. And no matter what the Nazis throw at him, the one-man death squad will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold back — even if it means killing every Nazi in his path." While Sisu, from Finnish director Jalmari Helander, didn't get nominated for any Oscars, it did win awards at movie festivals. Best movies on Netflix When Sisu was released, people quickly started comparing it to the John Wick movies. Sisu's Aatami (Jorma Tommila) and John Wick (Keanu Reeves) don't realize how much they can kick butt when we first meet them and both have tried to move on from their past. Neither man talks much, indeed Aatami doesn't actually say a line until very near the end of Sisu. Both men love animals, John Wick set off on his crusade originally after his dog was killed, while Aatami has a dog and a horse. They also appear mortal despite their strength. They feel pain. At just 91 minutes, Sisu has plenty of pace and although it's bloody it's rated a 15 rather than an 18. The movie is in English, not Finnish, so reading subtitles is not required. If you like the John Wick movies, then this is certainly one to add to your watchlist. Sisu is available now to watch on Netflix in the UK. In the US, Sisu is available on Starz.
