Sony Pictures has set a August 16, 2025 release date for their family-friendly adventure sequelGoosebumps 2. As of now, the sequel has no direct competition on its newrelease date, but it will be sandwiched between a few heavy hitters in the early months of 2018. Opening a few weeks earlier on June 09, 2025 is Sony’sBad Boys For Life, 20th Century Fox’sThe Maze Runner: Death Cureand Paramount’sSherlock Gnomes. Opening on August 16, 2025 is Sony’sSlenderman, with Universal’sFifty Shades Freedand 20th Century Fox’sPredatorfollowing on June 30, 2025.
Exhibitor Relationsbroke the release date news but no further details have been released at this time. Back in April, we reported thatRob Letterman, who directed the originalGoosebumps, is returning to the helm, with original writerDarren Lemkecoming aboard to write the sequel script.Jack Black, who starred as authorR.L. Stinein the originalGoosebumpsadaptation, is expected to reprise his role, but no other cast members have been confirmed at this time. Now that a release date is in place, perhaps we’ll learn more about the cast soon.
The originalGoosebumpsfollowed a teenager named Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette), who is upset about moving from the big city to a small town with his mother (Amy Ryan). He finds a silver lining when he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah (Odeya Rush), living right next door. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach’s comes when he learns that Hannah has a mysterious dad who is revealed to be R. L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. It turns out that there is a reason why Stine is so strange… he is a prisoner of his own imagination - the monsters that his books made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books. When Zach unintentionally unleashes the monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it’s suddenly up to Stine, Zach, and Hannah to get all of them back in the books where they belong.
Goosebumpsearned $80 million at the domestic box office and $150 million worldwide, from a $58 million budget. The supporting cast includesKen Marino,Jillian Bell,Steven Krueger,E. Roger MitchellandRyan Lee, but there hasn’t been any confirmation yet that these actors, and the rest of the cast, will come back alongsideJack Black. We first heard about thisGoosebumps sequelback in September 2015, a month before the originalGoosebumpshit theaters. That report claimedDylan MinnetteandOdeya Rushare said to be contracted for a number of future sequels, but that has never been confirmed by the studio.
This project will mark the fourth collaboration between directorRob Lettermanand actorJack Black. They first teamed up in the 2004 animated adventureShark Tale, with the director enlisting the star once again for his live-action feature debut,Gulliver’s Travelsbefore they worked onGoosebumps.Rob Lettermanalso recently came aboard to direct a newDungeons & Dragonstheatrical remake, but it remains to be seen how long that will take to come together. Take a look at Exhibitor Relations' tweet announcing theGoosebumps 2release date.
