‘The Strangers: Chapter 2’ Going This Fall Instead Of ‘Saw XI’ – Deadline
By Anthony D’Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office Editor
Lionsgate’s The Strangers: Chapter 2 will open in theaters on Sept. 26, 2025.
Saw XI, which had the date, has been moved off the calendar for the time being.
The first movie, Strangers: Chapter 1, debuted last May, and was one of the better-performing movies for Lionsgate in 2024, making $35.2M domestic, $48.1M worldwide.
In Chapter 2, Renny Harlin directs Riverdale‘s Madelaine Petsch as well as Gabriel Basso and Ema Horvath. Producers are Courtney Solomon, Mark Canton, Christopher Milburn, Gary Raskin, Alastair Burlingham, Charlie Dombek on the horror franchise movie. Alan R. Cohen & Alan Freedland wrote the screenplay.
The Strangers movie franchise kicked off in 2008 at Focus Features and starred Liv Tyler in the Bryan Bertino directed-and-written movie. That pic followed James Hoyt and Kristen McKay who visit an isolated vacation home only to encounter a rude surprise when three masked assailants make their stay a nightmare. The movie was massive on a $9M production cost grossing $52.5M stateside, and over $82M WW.
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Ten years later, there was a sequel, The Strangers: Prey at Night which Johannes Roberts directed off a script by Bertino and Ben Ketai. The pic, released by the now-dead Aviron Pictures, made $24.5M domestic, $31M WW.
Strangers – Chapter 1’s blurb was as follows: After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple is forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. Panic ensues as they are terrorized by three masked strangers who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motive.
Per THR, Lionsgate and the producers of the Saw franchise aren’t on the same page in regards to the project, hence the pic getting kicked off the calendar prior to CinemaCon. Saw XI scribes Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan turned in a draft a year ago, which they’ve billed as being timely. Saw X director Kevin Greutert was attached to helm the eleventhquel. His 2023 version opened to $18.3M domestic, finaled at $53.6M stateside and went north of $112M global.
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Source: http://deadline.com/2025/03/the-strangers-chapter-2-release-date-saw-xi-1236348275/
