Exactly two years after Lionsgate‘s opened the Paul Feig near-$400M grossing R-rated hit The Housemaid, the pic’s sequel, The Housemaid’s Secret, will open on Dec. 17, 2027.
Like the first film which was mega female Christmas counterprogramming to tentpole Avatar: Fire & Ash, Housemaid’s Secret be positioned against New Line’s Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum and Disney/Marvel Studio’s Avengers: Secret Wars. Housemaid posted a 3-day domestic opening of $19M legging out to a massive 6.6x multiple of $126.5M stateside. This was in the face of Avatar: Fire & Ash‘s $89.1M opening.
As we reported previously, Kirsten Dunst is joining in on the hijinks with Sydney Sweeney, who returns as Millie. The enigmatic young woman with the mysterious past takes a job keeping house for a woman she’s never allowed to see – only to discover the truth behind the locked door that threatens to
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