\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has dated\u00a0The\u00a0Beekeeper\u00a02\u00a0for Jan. 15,\u00a02027, which is the MLK four-day holiday weekend. <\/p>\n
\n\tThe first film was also released MLK weekend\u2013January 12,\u00a02024, ultimately grossing $162.6M at the worldwide box office and a 92% Verified Hot rating on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n
\n\tDirected by Timo Tjahjanto and written by Kurt Wimmer, the sequel has Jason Statham returning and also stars Jeremy Irons, Yara Shahidi, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi, Jemma Redgrave, Pom Klementieff, and Adam Copeland. The film is produced and financed by Miramax.\u00a0As Deadline first told you, Amazon MGM Studios landed The Beekeeper 2<\/a> in a $50M-plus global deal. <\/p>\n \n\tProducers also include Statham via his Punch Palace Productions banner, Chris Long via Longshot Productions, and Wimmer.<\/p>\n \n\tCurrently, The Beekeeper 2 is set to go up against a Universal\/Blumhouse event title and Paramount\u2019s Children of Blood and Bone from filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has dated\u00a0The\u00a0Beekeeper\u00a02\u00a0for Jan. 15,\u00a02027, which is the MLK four-day holiday weekend. The first film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337,178329],"class_list":{"0":"post-427160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-the-beekeeper-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}