‘Crawl’ Sequel, Starring Mason Gooding and Emily Rudd, Gets July 2027 Release Date — SkimNews
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- Paramount scheduled the untitled "Crawl" sequel for July 16, 2027, with Alexandre Aja returning to direct and produce alongside Craig Flores and Sam Raimi.
- Mason Gooding and Emily Rudd star in the "Crawl" follow-up, written by Jason Harry Pagan & Andrew Deutschman and Aja & Gregory Levasseur, with Gregory Levasseur, Kevan Van Thompson and Zainab Azizi as executive producers.
- "Heart Eyes 2" moved up one week to Feb. 4, 2028 from its original Feb. 11 date, with Paramount co-producing and co-financing the sequel with Spyglass Media Group for worldwide distribution.
- Sony Pictures distributed the first "Heart Eyes" in 2025, which earned $33 million globally against an $18 million budget — a near two-times return that helped greenlight the sequel.
- Alexandre Aja directed the original 2019 "Crawl," a breakout box office success about killer alligators, and now returns for the sequel in both directing and producing capacities.
Why it matters: Paramount is filling summer 2027 and winter 2028 with two horror sequels whose predecessors earned outsized returns — the 2019 'Crawl' as a breakout hit and 'Heart Eyes' nearly doubling its $18M budget with $33M global in 2025 — prioritizing proven genre IP with established directors and producers.
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