'Smile 2' Checks Grin To Paramount+
Big smiles everyone! Christmas just got a bit cheerier…?
Smile, you’re on Paramount+. Now you’ll be joined by your sequel. The streamer has on very short notice announced that horror flick Smile 2 will begin streaming in the United States tomorrow, Tuesday December 3.
Having opened in theaters on October 18, a 46/47 day stretch from then to its Paramount+ arrival certainly falls on the stricter side of that 45 day baseline the pandemic created. It’s a week shorter than the 53 days that Mean Girls and IF took and two weeks shorter than the 60 days that A Quiet Place: Day One took. Unlike these Paramount films which arrive halfway through however many weeks, Transformers One took whole weeks, eight to be exact, 56 days to hit the streamer.
Directed by Parker Finn, Smile 2 follows Skye Riley, played by Naomi Scott, who is preparing for a comeback tour while staving off addiction stemming from a horrific accident. Because she witnesses a drug dealer’s gruesome death from the Smile curse, it passes onto her, so she starts having the hallucinations of the creepy smiling faces in her friends and family. It causes her mental health, already coping with the drug withdrawals, to deteriorate rapidly, leading to a series of horrifying events.
Smile 2 also includes Rosemarie DeWitt as Skye’s mother, Lukas Gage, Agatha All Along’s Miles Gutierrez-Riley, House M.D.’s Peter Jacobson, Dylan Gelula, Raúl Castillo, Jack’s son Ray Nicholson and Kyle Gallner, reprising his role as police officer Joel, who was cursed in the first film. As far as its box office, it’s had a rather even split, earning $68.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $68.9 million internationally, for a worldwide total of $137.6 million. Unfortunately this leaves it not as big a success as the first movie, which earned $217.4 million worldwide.
Source: Variety