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Stars: Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon, Billy Campbell, Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt | Written by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, Sam Lansky | Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson

In the era of legacy sequels, it was only a matter of time before 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer was also revived for the modern-day. From the title to the threatening image of a hook, it is an iconic slice of ’90s horror which helped revitalise the slasher subgenre and is remembered fondly as part of many viewers’ nostalgia. But, to borrow a line from returning final-girl Julie James, “Nostalgia is overrated,” as we are now left with 2025’s I Know What You Did Last Summer.

Returning to her hometown of Southport, Ava Brucks (Chase Sui Wonders) reunites with her past friends at the engagement party for her bestie, Danica Richards (Madelyn Cline). As the...

There’s a new sequel to the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it Here) and its 1998 follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one Here) in theatres now (JoBlo’s own Tyler Nichols gave it a 4/10 “dumpster fire” review that can be read at This Link). Jennifer Love Hewitt, who played heroine Julie James in the first two films, and Freddie Prinze Jr., who was Julie’s boyfriend Ray Bronson in those films, reprise their roles – and they’re facing off with a new “Fisherman” killer that’s stalking a whole new cast. The movie features a twist that has been upsetting a lot of fans of the original movies, though, and in an interview with Variety, Hewitt took the opportunity to defend that twist. So we’re going to have to dig into Spoiler territory before we get to her defense.

There’s a new sequel to the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it Here) and its 1998 follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one Here) in theatres now (JoBlo’s own Tyler Nichols gave it a 4/10 “dumpster fire” review that can be read at This Link). Jennifer Love Hewitt, who played heroine Julie James in the first two films, and Freddie Prinze Jr., who was Julie’s boyfriend Ray Bronson in those films, reprise their roles – and they’re facing off with a new “Fisherman” killer that’s stalking a whole new cast. One of those new cast members is Madelyn Cline (Outer Banks), who revealed during a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter that some reshoots were filmed just last month! There were some Spoilers in the conversation, so beware of the quotes below.

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) directed the film...

Editor's Note: This article contains spoilers for the I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot.

The new I Know What You Did Last Summer was as fulfilling of a legacy sequel as they come. It’s difficult to blend legacy with something completely new, but filmmaker Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and her co-scribe, Sam Lansky, did so almost completely seamlessly, delivering a worthy follow-up to the two canon films of the late ‘90s. For years, fans of franchises like Halloween and Scream have been calling for a huge upheaval that would see one of the primary protagonists switch teams and go to bat for the villains. While — so far — other film series haven’t fully gone there, I Know What You Did Last Summer took that leap of faith and turned Freddie Prinze Jr.’s Og character, Ray Bronson, into a rain-slicker-wearing, hook-wielding killer. The creative decision has fans and critics divided,...

Jennifer Love Hewitt’s return to I Know What You Did Last Summer came down to a deep “love” of the horror franchise.The 45-year-old actress is reprising her role as Julie James nearly 30 years after first appearing in the iconic teen slasher, and has now credited the new film’s creative team with bringing the franchise back with a lot of heart. She told Variety of director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and co-writer Sam Lansky: “What was very apparent from the word ‘Go’ is how much both of them loved the original movie.“I feel like, if you’re going to go back and make something new but pay homage to an original, you have to love it. You have to understand it. “So, I was just blown away and it meant a lot to me.”The new instalment, set for release in 2025, follows a fresh group of teenagers in Southport,...

The following contains major spoilers for I Know What You Did Last Summer, in theaters now.

I Know What You Did Last Summerstar Madelyn Cline explains the new movie's last minute changes.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Cline opened up about the fact that test audiences were overtly upset by the death of her character, Danica, in the newly-released I Know What You Did Last Summer threequel. According to Cline, she "only got the news that I was coming back about two-and-a-half weeks ago," leading to a round of reshoots in which it is shown that Danica did indeed survive her ordeal with the latest murderous Fisherman.

Directed by Robinson from a screenplay co-written with Sam Lansky, I Know What You Did Last Summeris a sequel to 1998's I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer, completely ignoring 2006's much-maligned supernaturally-charged direct-to-video threequel,...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains major spoilers from “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” now in theaters.

Sarah Michelle Gellar never thought there would be an “I Know What You Did Last Summer” movie released in 2025.

“I don’t think I had that one pegged,” Gellar told me Thursday at the taping of the Las Culturistas Culture Awards in Los Angeles.

The new movie, directed and co-written by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, follows a group of former high school friends being targeted by a serial killer a year after they were involved in a deadly car accident.

“Jenn Robinson brought it up to me like three or four years ago – this has been a long process – I thought, ‘It’s such a good idea, but you don’t know. Do people still love the movie? Do people still watch the movie?’” Gellar said.

Just days before Las Culturistas, Gellar appeared...

Warning: Spoilers Ahead!

The 2025 reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer is now in theaters, and director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is addressing the movie’s divisive twist.

In the film, similar to the 1997 original 1997, a group of friends are terrorized by a stalker who knows about a gruesome incident from their past.

But the director revealed that she knew not everyone would love this new movie’s ending.

Keep reading to find out more…

In the 2025 movie, one of the film’s killers is revealed to be Ray Bronson, the character Freddie Prinze Jr. originated in the first film.

His character’s motive is that he’s angry the town has erased the 1997 massacre to promote tourism, so he reminds everyone of the fisherman’s murder spree by helping his employee Stevie (Sarah Pidgeon) get revenge on her friends who caused a deadly car accident.

Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt...

Spoilers: This post contains details about I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

As I Know What You Did Last Summer slashes its way into a new generation, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson‘s requel has plenty of surprises in store for fans of the Og.

The latest horror franchise to come back from the dead, amid the likes of Halloween and Scream, the followup to the 1997 slasher flick and its ’98 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer takes some big swings with its killer reveal, as well as some top-secret cameos that longtime fans will appreciate.

With Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. reprising their roles from the previous two films as survivors and high school sweethearts Julie James and Ray Bronson, nostalgia was inevitably going to be a major factor in this new installment, which also boasts a young cast of new potential victims (and suspects), including Chase Sui Wonders,...

There’s a new sequel to the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it Here) and its 1998 follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one Here) in theatres now. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who played heroine Julie James in the first two films, and Freddie Prinze Jr., who was Julie’s boyfriend Ray Bronson in those films, reprise their roles – and they’re facing off with a new “Fisherman” killer that’s stalking a whole new cast. We’ve seen what JoBlo’s own Tyler Nichols had to say about the new film; his 4/10 “dumpster fire” review can be read at This Link, or you can hear it in the video embedded above. Now, we want to know: what did you think of I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)?

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) directed the film from a screenplay by Leah McKendrick (M.

Warning: This post contains Major spoilers for the new I Know What You Did Last Summer.Freddie Prinze Jr. breaks down his reaction to Ray's shocking story in the new I Know What You Did Last Summer. For the Jennifer Kaytin Robinson-directed legacy sequel, now in theaters, Prinze Jr. returns alongside fellow original star Jennifer Love Hewitt, with the two reviving their characters, Ray Bronson and Julie James, respectively.

As with the first I Know What You Did Last Summer, the sequel follows a group of friends who are tormented by a masked killer seeking vengeance. Ray was one of the original survivors, but the new movie changes his fate considerably by revealing that he's now one of the killers.

In an interview with ScreenRant's Ash Crossan, Prinze Jr. shares his full reaction to Ray's killer turn, admitting that he realizes fans are going to be a bit torn by it.

This article contains major spoilers for "I Know What You Did Last Summer" 2025.

1997's "I Know What You Did Last Summer," along with the series of films (and TV show) that followed it, is generally regarded as a slasher. More specifically, it's a whodunit slasher, the type that carries on the tradition of murder mysteries made famous by Agatha Christie as much as they revel in staging kill scenes. This type of slasher tends to tone down the element of the supernatural as seen in something like John Carpenter's "Halloween," which contains a lot of mysterious goings-on involving its masked killer that can't be easily explained or rationalized. This tone for "Ikwydls" was established in large part by Lois Duncan's 1973 novel of the same name, but "Ikwydls" screenwriter Kevin Williamson reworked the murder mystery into a more true-to-form slasher, much to Duncan's chagrin.

Because of this reputation for...

It's always great to watch an acting duo who have an on-screen chemistry that has snowballed into a very robust relationship off-screen. It always helps, especially when they have to star alongside each other in rom-coms. The entire experience is elevated on the strength of their synergy. On the red carpet for the premiere of I Know What You Did Last Summer earlier this week, Freddie Prinze Jr. revealed to Deadline that he’s gearing up to shoot a brand-new holiday romantic comedy, The Christmas Affair. Even better? He’ll be reuniting with a familiar face, his She’s All Thatco-star, Rachael Leigh Cook.

The project will mark a full-circle moment for both stars, who have worked closely in previous films. According to the actor, filming will take place in New York City this October and November. The project promises to be more than just a sugary holiday flick, bringing...

I Know What You Did Last Summer director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson doesn’t want to see a cell phone on a movie screen.

“I’ve done this in all of my movies, for better or worse. I don’t like social media and phones,” says the 37-year-old director. “I don’t want to look at a phone screen. I don’t want to see you text-messaging. I just don’t care.”

There is something inherently ridiculous in asking audiences to leave their plentiful screens at home to go to a theater to watch a big screen, only to be confronted with a character incessantly looking at small screens. Still, when those characters are a gaggle of 20-somethings being stalked by a hook-wielding and slicker-wearing homicidal maniac, there is surely cause for some cellular activity.

“Would all of these people be texting all the time? Sure. But I don’t care.

In the twenty-seven and a half years since the first incarnation of I Know What You Did Last Summer assaulted movie theaters in 1997, the film has spawned a 1998 sequel as well as a 2021 television series. Now, the story returns to theaters with a reinvented version that does little to warrant the continuation of the franchise moving forward, despite multiple nods to previous installments that will surely please fans of the series.

As did the original film, this one begins with a lengthy prologue of sorts that sets up the unfolding of events throughout the story. A year ago, five friends accidentally cause the death of a motorist in a car accident. But it is their pact to cover up the incident and their involvement that leads to deadly consequences on the anniversary of the “murder,” when they begin receiving messages that someone knows what they did. Then, one by one,...

Poster for ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ (Photo Credit: Columbia Pictures)

Almost 30 years ago, Scream brought back the near-dead slasher genre by infusing it with a hip, teen vibe to it. Shortly thereafter, the original I Know What You Did Last Summer entered the teen slasher chat. Well, recently Scream has been enjoying a nice little renaissance with a couple of new movies, so it only figures that there’d be a new I Know What You Did Last Summer, too, right? Yes, unfortunately, that is right.

I Know What You Did Last Summer is about five friends who, on the Fourth of July, inadvertently cause an accident in which an innocent person is killed. In order to preserve their futures (see: save their skins), the group makes a pact amongst themselves to never speak of their involvement again. But, the next year, one of them gets a...

Smart, funny, scary, and sexy, “I Know What You Did Last Summer” is the perfect summer entertainment, an escapist thriller that raises serious moral questions but never gets bogged down by them. Both a sequel to the 1997 slasher film of the same name and an origin story for a new set of characters who coexist with series regulars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr., “I Know What You Did Last Summer” pays respect to its predecessor (as well as 1998’s underrated “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer”) without being paralyzed by its influence — it’s a movie as exciting in the new directions it takes as it is satisfying in its recreations of the first film’s pleasures.

It’s also one of the most felicitous pairings of auteur and studio assignment in recent memory, as “Do Revenge” director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson applies her darkly comic sensibility...

I Know What You Did Last Summerdirector Jennifer Kaytin Robinson explains actors Lola Tung and Nicholas Alexander Chavez's absences from the film. The two had been announced as having roles inn the movie during production, but neither had their scenes make the final cut.

Per Deadline, Robinson recently discussed Tung and Chavez's absence from the upcoming sequel in an interview, stating, "It was just one of those situations where it had nothing to do with Lola and Nicholas — they are both so fantastic. I really would love to work with them again. I loved working with them. They did a fabulous job. But in the larger tapestry of the film, it just didn't fit."

Robinson went on to note that the situation "sucks because you don't want to do that to those actors... And it sucks when you love something as a scene but that scene just doesn't...

The anticipated legacy sequel to 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer finally arrives in theaters on July 18, and the reviews are trickling in. So was the follow-up feature worth the wait? On Rotten Tomatoes, 2025's I Know What You Did Last Summercurrently holds a 46% rating from 46 reviews, indicating that it is, at best, a mixed bag. The new slasher stars Madelyn Cline as Danica Richards, Chase Sui Wonders as Ava Brucks, and Jonah Hauer-King as Milo Griffin, among others, and welcomes back Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. to reprise their roles.

The original I Know What You Did Last Summer also didn't impress critics. While it was a commercial success that topped the US box office for three consecutive weeks, it holds just a 45% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Over time, however, it has become a cult classic.

The new film, the fourth installment in the franchise,...

Chase Sui Wonders is trapped while Gabbriette Bechtel is chased by the killer in IMDb‘s new clip from I Know What You Did Last Summer.

Watch it below — and keep an eye out for Gabbriette’s Helen Shivers tribute tee!

The legacy sequel to the 1997 slasher sinks its hook into theaters this Friday, July 18, from Sony.

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) directs from a script she co-wrote with Sam Lansky, based on a story by Robinson and Leah McKendrick (M.F.A.).

When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer… and is hell-bent on revenge.

As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer,...

Time is a flat circle in the legacy sequel I Know What You Did Last Summer. Nearly three decades after an ill-fated accident led to tragedy, then murder, a new group of friends unwittingly stumble down the same path, awakening the Fisherman’s wrath once more. Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), who co-wrote with Sam Lansky, uses Southport’s latest slasher cycle to not quite re-write the past but rather honor the franchise’s legacy while updating it for modern audiences. Armed with a blood-thirstier killer, Robinson’s installment narrowly avoids the pitfalls of legacy sequels and their overreliance on trauma in favor of slasher fun.

Mirroring the 1997 original film, I Know What You Did Last Summer introduces a close-knit friend group of early 20-somethings who have returned to their hometown of Southport around the Fourth of July for the engagement party of Danica (Madelyn Cline) and Teddy (Tyriq Withers...

The new I Know What You Did Last Summer wants so desperately to be this franchise’s Scream (2022), but it’s a failure by comparison. I’d say act like you’ve been there, but the truth is, I Know What You Did Last Summer has never been on Scream’s level. The original has its fans, but I Still Know What You Did Last Summer feels like a worse version of Club Dread, and let’s not even acknowledge 2006’s unwatchable straight-to-video threequel. Director and co-writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is tasked with rebooting a series that hasn’t been relevant since the late 90s, but she never finds a balance between nostalgia bait and revamped storytelling. It’s worth a few laughs, roasting how outlandish prior knowings of last summerses are, yet the experience is an overlong mess that frustrates far more than it delights.

Decades after Southport’s 1997 massacre,...

It’s not a good idea to heat up old fish in public. Those leftovers almost always stink, and the smell is particularly bad if the fish was iffy to begin with. By that logic, Sony’s new “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” a reboot/sequel of the now-iconic but then-mediocre fisherman slasher from 1997, should reek like low tide. But director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson made the catch of the season with this lean, mean serial killer flick.

Set once again in the tortured coastal town of Southport, North Carolina, this sinister seafood surprise returns Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. to a world that remembers their nautical nightmare better than we do. Kevin Williamson’s original film — about a killer fisherman and four teens involved in a hit-and-run accident — came just one year after his legendary horror comedy, “Scream.” The two titles showed the screenwriter’s range,...

"I Know What You Did Last Summer" holds a special place in the pantheon of horror — not for breaking new ground, but for being a prime example of late-'90s studio opportunism dressed up in blood and teen angst. Loosely adapted from Lois Duncan's ominously titled YA thriller that was a staple of every junior high library, the script was penned by at-the-time up-and-coming screenwriter Kevin Williamson. Unfortunately, the film didn't move the needle, and it was discarded by Columbia Pictures. But then Williamson teamed up with Wes Craven for "Scream," ushering in a slasher renaissance that had every studio in town desperate to cash in.

"Ikwydls" was hastily exhumed and rushed into production, now boasting the golden tagline "from the writer of 'Scream,'" which basically guaranteed a box office bloodbath. Even better, the production nabbed the lightning in a bottle ensemble casting of Jennifer Love Hewitt,...

How do you make a legacy sequel when you’re unsure what your legacy even is? That’s the question plaguing I Know What You Did Last Summer, director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s update of the 1997 slasher of the same name. Stuffed to the idiomatic gills with thudding callbacks, hoary one-liners, and phoned-in cameos, the film feels like the predictable endpoint of a trend toward empty nostalgia that’s run through all the big fish in horror cinema and is now coming to swallow up whatever might be left behind.

After the events of the summer that still haunt Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.), the North Carolina fishing village of Southport suffered an economic downturn, giving land developer Grant Spencer (Billy Campell) an opportunity to turn it into the “Hamptons of the South.” Among Southport’s new generation of rich young people is Ava...

Written by Kevin Williamson soon after the success of the iconic horror picture Scream, 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer somehow has an enduring cultural legacy despite being a mostly straightforward slasher. The second attempt to reboot the franchise for the 2020s (after a failed Prime Video show in 2021), Jennifer Kaitlyn Robinson’s I Know What You Did Last Summer follows in the footsteps of the original in that it’s a straightforward, pretty generic slasher.

I Know What You Did Last Summer Review

Like the original film, I Know What You Did Last Summer follows a group of friends who find themselves pursued by a vengeful killer after a tragic hit-and-run accident the year before. One of the most frustrating things about Robinson’s take on Ikwydls is that it feels desperate in its attempts to be trendy. While some moments, including a clever reference to the Nicole Kidman AMC ad,...

“So here we are, it’s 1997 all over again,” one of the characters says tellingly in I Know What You Did Last Summer. That line, of course, is not from the original film in the series but rather its same-titled “legacy sequel,” which, if you’re not familiar with Hollywood parlance, basically means “Let’s see if we can squeeze more dollars out of this sucker.” Slavishly reminiscent of its predecessors, the film also features so many Easter eggs that it mainly serves as canned nostalgia.

Those throwbacks, ironically, are the most fun aspect of this new installment, which is unlikely to garner the same sort of cult following as the 1997 original. The concept remains the same, with a group of extremely good-looking young people (here in their mid-20s rather than teen years) covering up a violent death for which they were responsible. Cut to a year later, when...

“Nostalgia is overrated,” proclaims Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt). She’s just been through a convoluted domino of events and been thrust back into the town of Southport, which is laughably not anything like the North Carolina it is supposed to take place in. It’s an odd line; we’ve just watched 100 minutes of nostalgia-ridden dialogue. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s legacy sequel I Know What You Did Last Summer is nothing if not packed with direct references to its 1997 origin film, a vapid, utterly hollow husk of revival. And when it isn’t copy-pasting lines straight out of Hewitt’s mouth it resorts to an almost impressively high level of pandering to its Gen Z audience.

The whole thing begs the question, “Who is this even for?” Why are we making a legacy sequel to a slasher that has only remained relevant as a footnote to its far superior cultural touchstone,...

Poor Julie James can’t seem to catch a break. Jennifer Love Hewitt‘s then-teenage character was first traumatized by a certain Ben Willis (Muse Watson), the vengeful fisherman who killed his victims with a fish hook. So traumatized that she had to yell “What are you waiting for?!” not once but twice in the first two movies. She did manage to get rid of the somewhat unstoppable Ben Willis at the end of the second movie in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

Besides, emptying the bullets from a revolver all over his chest at point-blank range should be more than enough to kill him for good. But then again, Julie’s nightmare was far from over. Ben Willis was somehow alive, and the last time we saw him, he ended up pulling her from under the bed. Wasn’t he supposed to die, or was it...

There’s a new sequel to the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it Here) and its 1998 follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one Here) coming our way from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), aiming for a July 18 theatrical release. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who played heroine Julie James in the first two films, and Freddie Prinze Jr., who was Julie’s boyfriend Ray Bronson in those films, are reprising their roles – and they’re going to be facing off with a new “Fisherman” killer that’s stalking a whole new cast. Unfortunately, two of the announced cast members didn’t make it into the finished film, as Robinson has revealed that the scene involving Lola Tung (The Summer I Turned Pretty) and Nicholas Alexander Chavez (Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story) was cut out.

Robinson directed the film from a screenplay by Leah McKendrick (M.

Nearly 30 summers later, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. reunited for Monday’s world premiere of I Know What You Did Last Summer.

On the red carpet at the United Artists Theater in Dtla, Prinze told Deadline “it was very surreal” sharing the screen with Hewitt again as they reprised their roles as Ray Bronson and Julie James in writer/director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson‘s update of the 1997 slasher film.

“It was weird, man,” said Prinze. “I never went to a high school reunion, but it was close to that as I could imagine ’cause I hadn’t seen her in 20-plus years.”

Prinze walked the red carpet with his wife Sarah Michelle Gellar, whom he met on the set of the original, and who previously sparked rumors of her return when she got in trouble for leaking a photo from set while visiting her husband.

While there are...

There’s a new sequel to the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it Here) and its 1998 follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one Here) coming our way from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), aiming for a July 18 theatrical release. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who played heroine Julie James in the first two films, and Freddie Prinze Jr., who was Julie’s boyfriend Ray Bronson in those films, are reprising their roles – and they’re going to be facing off with a new “Fisherman” killer that’s stalking a whole new cast. One of the new cast members is Madelyn Cline of the Netflix series Outer Banks, and while speaking with JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray, Cline revealed that she had always said she didn’t want to do horror movies… until the I Know What You Did Last Summer opportunity came along.

If you’re going to see I Know What You Did Last Summer this weekend, be sure to stick around for an end-credit scene.

“Don’t miss the credits,” Jennifer Love Hewitt teased Extra. “It could be a popcorn moment, it could be a death, or it could just be something really fun — but don’t miss it.”

Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. reprise their roles from the 1997 slasher alongside Madelyn Cline (“Outer Banks”), Chase Sui Wonders (Bodies Bodies Bodies), Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid), Tyriq Withers (Him), and Sarah Pidgeon (“The Wilds”).

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) directs from a script she co-wrote with Sam Lansky, based on a story by Robinson and Leah McKendrick (M.F.A.).

When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later,...

There’s a new sequel to the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it Here) and its 1998 follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one Here) coming our way from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), aiming for a July 18 theatrical release. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who played heroine Julie James in the first two films, and Freddie Prinze Jr., who was Julie’s boyfriend Ray Bronson in those films, are reprising their roles – and they’re going to be facing off with a new “Fisherman” killer that’s stalking a whole new cast. With just a few days left before the new film reaches theatres, Hewitt has sent out a message to fans, encouraging them to stick around through the end credits.

Robinson directed the film from a screenplay by Leah McKendrick (M.F.A.), which has received some rewrites from Robinson and journalist Sam Lansky.

Los Angeles, California – July 14: (L-r) Jennifer Love Hewitt, Austin Nichols, Tyriq Withers, Jonah Hauer-King, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Chase Sui Wonders, writer/director/executive producer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, Gabbriette Bechtel, writer Sam Lansky, Billy Campbell and Freddie Prinze Jr. attend the Columbia Pictures & Screen Gems World Premiere of “I Know What You Did Last Summer” at The United Theater on Broadway on July 14, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Sony Pictures via Getty Images) I Know What You Did Last Summer returns with a chilling new chapter, and the premiere in Los Angeles buzzed with tension, nostalgia, and star power. Los Angeles, California – July 14: Sarah Michelle Gellar (L) and Freddie Prinze Jr. attend the Columbia Pictures & Screen Gems World Premiere of “I Know What You Did Last Summer” at The United Theater on Broadway on July 14, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Sony Pictures...

The stars of the new I Know What You Did Last Summer are hitting the red carpet for the Los Angeles premiere!

Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Sarah Pidgeon, and Gabbriette Bechtel posed for photos together at the event on Monday (July 14) at the United Theater on Broadway in Los Angeles.

The actresses were joined at the premiere by co-stars Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Austin Nichols, and Billy Campbell, as well as writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and co-writer Sam Lansky.

Freddie and Jennifer are reprising their roles from the first films!

The reboot of the franchise – which saw the original movies released in 1997 and 1998 – is relaunching the horror movies for a new generation. Watch the trailer now and check out the film in theaters on July 18.

Fyi: Madelyn is wearing a Conner Ives dress and Gabriel & Co jewelry. Chase is wearing a Wiederhoeft dress.

There’s a new sequel to the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it Here) and its 1998 follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one Here) coming our way from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), aiming for a July 18 theatrical release. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who played heroine Julie James in the first two films, and Freddie Prinze Jr., who was Julie’s boyfriend Ray Bronson in those films, are reprising their roles – and they’re going to be facing off with a new “Fisherman” killer that’s stalking a whole new cast. JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray recently had the chance to talk to Prinze about the film, and during their conversation, Prinze revealed why he decided to come back for a new I Know What You Did Last Summer, even though he had previously turned down offers to return to the...

The past comes back to haunt in the upcoming legacy slasher sequel I Know What You Did Last Summer, from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge).

The Fisherman is back and more vicious than ever when five friends cover up their involvement in a deadly car accident. One year later, they are targeted; someone knows what they did last summer and is hellbent on revenge.

The good news for the newcomers is that survivors Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.) are back, bringing invaluable experience with them when it comes to dodging that mean hook.

It’s not just experience that these legacy characters bring with them, but emotional baggage and trauma that amassed in the wake of time and outlasting two rounds with the Fisherman. It also means that the road to romance for Julie and Ray hasn’t been the smoothest since we last saw them.

Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson with a script by Robinson and Sam Lansky, I Know What You Did Last Summer is the latest horror legacy sequel to hit the big screen. The fourth film in the Ikwydls franchise is bringing back surviving characters from the original films, like Jennifer Love Hewitt as Julie James and Freddie Prinze Jr. as Ray Bronson.

The plot pairs them alongside a fresh crop of new potential victims hoping to escape a similar killer. One popular survivor of the previous I Know What You Did Last Summer films who could also make an appearance is Brandy's Karla Wilson, who escaped Ben Willis' murderous rampage in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Although she hasn't been confirmed to be in the film by any of the promotional materials, the film's creatives suggested that the franchise isn't entirely done with Karla yet.

During a preview...

There’s a new sequel to the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it Here) and its 1998 follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one Here) coming our way from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), aiming for a July 18 theatrical release. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who played heroine Julie James in the first two films, and Freddie Prinze Jr., who was Julie’s boyfriend Ray Bronson in those films, are reprising their roles – and they’re going to be facing off with a new “Fisherman” killer that’s stalking a whole new cast. It sounds like things are going to get a bit messy when this Fisherman lets loose, as the Motion Picture Association has confirmed that they’ve given the film an R rating for bloody

horror violence, language throughout, some sexual content and brief drug use.

Robinson directed the film from...

There’s a new sequel to the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it Here) and its 1998 follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one Here) coming our way from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), aiming for a July 18 theatrical release. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who played heroine Julie James in the first two films, and Freddie Prinze Jr., who was Julie’s boyfriend Ray Bronson in those films, are reprising their roles – and they’re going to be facing off with a new “Fisherman” killer that’s stalking a whole new cast. With the film’s release date swiftly approaching, Creepy Kingdom reports that the experimental dining pop-up Chain is teaming up with Sony Pictures Entertainment to bring a “haunted” food truck called Dread Lobster to secret locations in the Los Angeles and South Bay area. “Combining culinary nostalgia with a splash of horror,...

There’s a new sequel to the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it Here) and its 1998 follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one Here) coming our way from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), aiming for a July 18 theatrical release. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who played heroine Julie James in the first two films, and Freddie Prinze Jr., who was Julie’s boyfriend Ray Bronson in those films, are reprising their roles – and they’re going to be facing off with a new “Fisherman” killer that’s stalking a whole new cast. Now, the Regal theatre chain has revealed that if you see the movie at one of their cinemas, you’ll have the chance to drink out of tie-in color-changing cups and eat popcorn out of a tackle box! They shared an image of the cups and tackle box on social media:

Summer’s back,...

Just in time for 4th of July Weekend, tickets for I Know What You Did Last Summer are now on sale, and yes, we’re getting an official popcorn bucket for the new slasher movie!

In addition to putting tickets up for grabs on their website, Regal has revealed that I Know What You Did Last Summer is getting an official “popcorn tackle box,” of course themed to the franchise’s hook-handed killer known as the “Fisherman.” Branded with a “Southport Fishing & Tackle” logo, the limited edition popcorn bucket also celebrates the 4th of July.

Additionally, I Know What You Did Last Summer color-changing collectible cups are coming soon to theaters, and they look to feature figural toppers depicting both the Fisherman and the slasher villain’s iconic hook. Look for a Collectible Combo to be offered up in theaters soon.

Madelyn Cline (“Outer Banks”), Chase Sui Wonders (Bodies Bodies Bodies...

The ’90s slasher franchise I Know What You Did Last Summer returns to theaters in less than one month with a brand new movie, and it marks the return of original legacy characters Julie James and Ray Bronson. They’re pulled back into a past nightmare by a new group of fresh faces, and the cast previews what’s coming in a sneak peek featurette you’ll find below.

“It feels like a new movie but an homage at the same time,” Jennifer Love Hewitt teases. Freddie Prinze Jr. bluntly notes, “I love watching pretty people get killed in horror movies.”

Madelyn Cline (“Outer Banks”), Chase Sui Wonders (Bodies Bodies Bodies), Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid), Tyriq Withers (Him), and Sarah Pidgeon (“The Wilds”) star alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr., who reprise their roles from the 1997 slasher. The legacy sequel sinks its hook into theaters on July 18 from Sony.

There’s a new sequel to the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it Here) and its 1998 follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one Here) coming our way from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), aiming for a July 18 theatrical release. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who played heroine Julie James in the first two films, and Freddie Prinze Jr., who was Julie’s boyfriend Ray Bronson in those films, are reprising their roles – and they’re going to be facing off with a new “Fisherman” killer that’s stalking a whole new cast. Now, a batch of character posters have dropped online, featuring Hewitt, Prinze, and some of those new cast members. You can check them out at the bottom of this article.

Robinson directed the film from a screenplay by Leah McKendrick (M.F.A.), which has received some rewrites from Robinson and journalist Sam Lansky.

A new series of posters introduces the characters of I Know What You Did Last Summer, and nothing will save them.

Madelyn Cline (“Outer Banks”), Chase Sui Wonders (Bodies Bodies Bodies), Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid), Tyriq Withers (Him), and Sarah Pidgeon (“The Wilds”) star alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr., who reprise their roles from the 1997 slasher.

The legacy sequel sinks its hook into theaters on July 18 from Sony.

When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer…and is hell-bent on revenge.

As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they...

There’s a new sequel to the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it Here) and its 1998 follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one Here) coming our way from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), aiming for a July 18 theatrical release. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who played heroine Julie James in the first two films, and Freddie Prinze Jr., who was Julie’s boyfriend Ray Bronson in those films, are reprising their roles – and they’re going to be facing off with a new “Fisherman” killer that’s stalking a whole new cast. ExtraTV caught up with Hewitt on the set of the film, where she told them it felt it was “really so cool” that she was given the chance to come back for another I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel and that fans look forward to seeing her in the movie.

I Know What You Did Last Summer director and co-writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson has spoken about the importance of its legacy characters. The 2025 movie is the fourth feature-length installment in the slasher franchise, which follows groups of teens being targeted by a slicker-wearing, hook-wielding killer. The upcoming I Know What You Did Last Summer features a new crop of teens being targeted for a vehicular manslaughter they covered up the year before, aided by returning survivors Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.), who were central to the original 1997 movie and its 1998 sequel.

ScreenRant's own Brandon Zachary was in attendance at an I Know What You Did Last Summer trailer launch event on Saturday, where members of the cast and crew spoke about the movie during a Q&a afterward. During the conversation, Robinson shared that she "worked really closely" with both returning stars while developing the story,...

A new take on I Know What You Did Last Summer is arriving, and here’s the full trailer for the sort-of-remake.

Sony has unveiled a look at the upcoming revival of its slasher horror series, I Know What You Did Last Summer. The film – which releases next month – marks the sixth instalment in the series but has been gifted the simple titling of the 1997 original.

Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon, Gabbriette Bechtel, Lola Tung and Nicholas Alexander Chavez all star in the new film, while Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. reprise their roles of Julie James and Ray Bronson from the original movie.

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson will direct the film – she also co-wrote the script with Sam Lansky based on a draft by Leah McKendrick.

The first film in the series was written by Kevin Williamson, the mind behind 1996’s Scream,...

Today’s arrival of the official trailer for Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s I Know What You Did Last Summer certainly has many of us diehard fans talking. And we mean that in the best way possible. The tone of the movie was on full display thanks to the witty screenplay co-penned by Robinson and Sam Lansky, while the younger generation stepped up to the plate and commanded the audience’s attention. Then there were some wonderful throwbacks to a certain local beauty pageant, and we got to see Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Julie James hurl her iconic line at the cloaked killer after all these years.

Along with the trailer, Extra dropped a behind-the-scenes conversation between the leading final woman and Tommy Didario, where the two caught up chatted about the actress’ decision to return to the fold all these years later. Through their chat, Didario unsurfaced previously unreleased information...