{"id":624289,"date":"2026-04-22T20:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/624289\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T20:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:49:10","slug":"heart-eyes-2-a-go-for-2028-release-from-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/624289\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Heart Eyes 2&#8217; a Go for 2028 Release From Paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tParamount is doubling down on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/heart-eyes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_heart-eyes_1\" data-tag=\"heart-eyes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heart Eyes<\/a>. The studio has has set a Valentine\u2019s Day weekend release date of Feb. 11, 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tParamount will co-produce and co-finance Heart Eyes 2 along with Spyglass Media Group and handle global distribution. (Sony had domestic on the first film, while Paramount handled international for the for the romantic slasher sequel.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMason Gooding and Olivia Hoult starred in the first movie as co-workers mistaken for a couple by a killer who targets romantic partners on Valentine\u2019s day. It earned $33.1 million globally after opening Valentine Day Weekend last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/how-heart-eyes-josh-ruben-heal-after-losing-his-home-1236129911\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Ruben<\/a> directed the first Heart Eyes and will return to direct and co-write the sequel script with Darcy Fowler, from a story by Christopher Landon and Michael Kennedy. (Landon and Kennedy wrote the script for the first movie with Phillip Murphy.) Landon\u00a0and Divide\/Conquer\u00a0will produce the feature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAt this stage, it\u2019s too early to say if if Gooding or Hoult will return for the sequel. Ruben made the original film in near record time, pitching it on Valentine\u2019s Day weekend in 2024, with the film arriving in theaters a year later. \u201cWe really hustled, and it\u2019s truly a nine-month baby,\u201d he told THR upon release. This time, there will be a little bit more breathing room to hit that 2028 date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount is doubling down on Heart Eyes. The studio has has set a Valentine\u2019s Day weekend release date&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,5604,134,243143,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-624289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-box-office","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-heart-eyes","13":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}