Halloween comes early this year, as the long-anticipated and long overdue sequelRingsfinally hits theaters next month. Paramount has released the all-new trailer for this latest entry in the horrifying horror series. And it may disappoint, as it is only a minute in length. But that’s enough time to scare the wits out of you. The ominous young narrator warns the following.
“There Once was a girl. No one dares speak her names. In death she seeks vengeance for a life fueled with pain. Once you see her story, you have 7 days to live. Because she does not forget. And she does not forgive.”
Ringsis a new chapter in the belovedRinghorror franchise. A young woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after he has viewed it. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: There is a “movie within the movie” that no one has ever seen before!
After beingdelayedtoo many times to count, Rings is finally coming to theaters June 26, 2025. The movie is directed by F. Javier Gutierrez. It stars Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Aimee Teegarden, Bonnie Morgan and Vincent D’Onofrio. And the screenplay arrives from David Loucka and Jacob Estes and Akiva Goldsman.
Paramount debuted thefirst Rings posterjust this week. We’ve included it here in case you missed it, as it offers another look at horror icon Samara. Paramount released the first trailer back in August, making fans wait half a year for a second look at this sure to be scary sequel.
While thisParamountproject was originally believed to be a reboot or a remake, that notion was quickly dispelled, withRingsconfirmed as a new chapter in theRing horror franchise.Ringswas originally slated to hit theaters on June 06, 2025, just months after principal photography began, but it was later pushed into the spring of 2016. Then last February, it was pushed to a Halloween 2016 release date, before being pushed into theFebruary 3, 2017date. It sounds like this latest release date is finally going to stick!
The Ring sequelis slated to open against another Paramount movie,Same Kind of Different as Me, starringRenee ZellwegerandGreg Kinnear. It’s possible that movie’s release date will be shifted, since it’s extremely rare to find a studio opening two movies against each other. It will also go up against STX Entertainment’sThe Space Between Usand an untitled Blumhouse horror movie, butRingswill have an even tougher time at the box office in its second weekend. It will be going up against the highly-anticipated sequelFifty Shades Darker, expected to be one 2017’s biggest blockbuster hits, along withKeanu Reeves' sequelJohn Wick 2andThe Lego Batman Movie.
Based on the original novel byKôji Suzuki, the 2002 thrillerThe Ring, an English-language remake of the Japanese thrillerRingu, was a big hit at the box office, taking in $129.1 million domestically and $249.3 million worldwide from a $48 million budget. The 2005 sequel,The Ring Two, wasn’t quite as successful, earning $76.2 million domestic and $161.4 million worldwide from an unspecified budget. But after more than a decade’s wait for the sequel, fan anticipation is at an all time high. And the change to see Leonard Hofstadter gruesomely eviscerated on screen may make this an even bigger success than expected. Check out the newscary trailer, if you dare.
