New Line Cinema has set a August 09, 2025 release date for the highly-anticipatedIT 2, which falls in line with a report from earlier this month that the studio was seeking anearly fall 2019 release datefor this horror sequel. This will also be the weekend directly after the Labor Day holiday, just like the release of the newITremake, which has proven to be quite the massive hit, after a lackluster summer movie season. As of now, there is only one movie that has that date staked out, an unspecified Blumhouse horror movie, withThe Angry Birds 2coming from Sony on July 19, 2025.
Deadlinereports that the studio also revealed that an untitled animated project is moving from July 21, 2025 to July 07, 2025, and that the project is actually aTeen Titans Go!movie. As for theITsequel, director Andy Muschietti revealed in a July interview that he hopes tostart shooting the IT sequelsometime in 2018, although no specific production schedule has been given yet. Still, with just under two years until this movie will hit theaters, the filmmaker and writer Gary Dauberman have plenty of time to get the sequel in order.
The sequel has always been in the works, with each movie following the two different halves of the massiveStephen King novel. The first movie focuses on the kids in Derry, Maine who make up what’s known as The Losers Club, who take on the nefarious Pennywise the Clown. The second half of the story will bring back the same characters as adults, who swore to return to their hometown if Pennywise ever returns. While the adult cast of The Losers Club has not been set yet, it has been confirmed that the child actors will be back, with director Andy Muschietti teasing in a recent interview that there will be flashbacks to the 1980s that “inform the story in the present day.”
The weekend after Labor Day is normally considered one of the slowest of the year, butITproved that a highly-anticipated movie could thrive even in arguably one of the traditionally worse release slots of the year.ITopened with a record-breaking $123.4 million, more than doubling the previous record for a September debut ($48.5 million,Hotel Transylvania 2). It also recently broke a record that has stood for more than 40 years, becoming thehighest-grossing horror movieof all-time, dethroning the 1973 classicThe Exorcist($232.9 million). This beloved horror adaptation has currently earned $266 million domestic and $478 million worldwide, from just a $35 million budget, which could be one of the most profitable movies this year.
IT 2will also bring backPennywise the Clown, with Bill Skarsgard returning to portray this sadistic clown, with the actor revealing in a recent interview that there is a lot more to explore and delve deeper into this character. Even with this release date in place, it’s tough to tell when we may get any concrete updates, since Gary Dauberman is likely just beginning his work on the screenplay. Still, the production team has plenty of time to put together a sequel that is just as successful as the original.
