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Sydney Sweeney can’t put down her mop and bucket conscionable yet – she’ll soon beryllium tidying up again successful a just-announced sequel to her vacation container agency smash “The Housemaid.”
“The Housemaid’s Secret,” adapted from nan 2nd book successful writer Freida McFadden’s bestselling trilogy, is group to statesman accumulation this year, and has already been successful improvement for respective months.
It’s nary astonishment Lionsgate would greenlight a sequel to nan thriller aft “The Housemaid” cleaned up astatine nan container agency pursuing its Dec. 19 release. It’s already grossed an awesome $133 cardinal worldwide successful conscionable its first 2 and a half weeks — and nan number will only spell up pinch world territories rolling out.
“The Housemaid” stars Sweeney — alongside Amanda Seyfried and “It Ends With Us” character Brandon Sklenar — successful a twisted communicative of secrets and deception wrong a able couple’s seemingly cleanable home.
The movie held a splashy premiere successful Hollywood past month, wherever Seyfried and Sweeney were attached astatine nan hip.
Lionsgate is already nan workplace down juggernauts for illustration “John Wick,” “The Hunger Games” and “Twilight,” truthful “The Housemaid” is successful bully company.
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“It’s clear from some nan world container agency and from nan outpouring connected societal media that audiences person responded powerfully – and audibly – to nan wholly unsocial and genuinely theatrical acquisition of ‘The Housemaid,’ and want to cognize what happens next,” said Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chair Adam Fogelson. “We believed successful these stories from nan very beginning, and we are beyond excited to bring nan adjacent section of Millie’s communicative to life on-screen.”
Director Paul Feig (“Bridesmaids,” “A Simple Favor”) is eyeing a return arsenic director, while Sweeney and “365 Days” alum Michel Morrone are besides expected to reprise their roles connected screen.
Sweeney will besides service arsenic an executive producer.
“The Housemaid” book bid has sold complete 12 cardinal units crossed each titles, pinch nan 2nd book accounting for 4 cardinal successful sales. Translated into 40 languages, nan book has been a New York Times bestseller for 65 weeks and counting, and won nan 2023 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Thriller.
