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Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: 24 Jump Street Lands Dec 2027: Tatum and Hill Return

The Third Jump Street Movie Finally Has a Date

Thirteen years. That's how long it's been since 22 Jump Street hit theaters in 2014, and comedy fans have been waiting for a follow-up with the kind of patience usually reserved for concert presales. This week, Sony Pictures ended the suspense: the third Jump Street film is officially titled 24 Jump Street, and it lands in theaters December 10, 2027.

Skipping 23 entirely is, of course, a franchise running joke. When Neal H. Moritz announced the project in June 2026, the script's title page reportedly read: "It took so long we had to skip one." That's the Jump Street sense of humor in a nutshell — the franchise has always been in on its own joke, and the title is already doing comedy work before a single scene has been shot.

The Gang Is Back Together

The Sony slate announcement settled weeks of talks reporting: Channing Tatum (Jenko), Jonah Hill (Schmidt), and Ice Cube (Captain Dickson) are all confirmed to return. For a comedy built entirely on chemistry, that's the whole ballgame. Tatum and Hill's buddy-cop energy carried two movies; Ice Cube's perpetually furious Captain Dickson stole every scene he touched.

Directing is Rodney Rothman, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who co-wrote 22 Jump Street. Rothman wrote the screenplay with Hill and Meghan Malloy, and having a co-writer from the last film behind the camera suggests the tone will be protected. Original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller return as producers alongside Moritz, Tatum, and Hill — the architects staying close to the building they designed.

Why This One Feels Like an Event

Comedy sequels have a bad reputation for good reason. Third installments especially tend to arrive tired. But a few things about 24 Jump Street suggest this could be the exception.

Tatum's endorsement carries weight

Back in a 2024 interview, Tatum called the third-movie script "the best script I've ever read for a third movie." Actors say nice things about their projects; they rarely say that. For a star who's been protective of this franchise — he and Hill produce it themselves — that quote is a genuine signal.

The Rothman factor

Rothman co-wrote 22 Jump Street, which means he was in the room where the franchise found its voice. A sequel directed by someone who helped build the tone is always safer than a hired gun. His Oscar pedigree (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) doesn't hurt either.

Thirteen years of anticipation is an asset

The long gap means something specific here. 22 Jump Street's end credits famously teased absurd possible undercover assignments — medical school, culinary school, space — and fans have spent over a decade imagining what comes next. The franchise's core joke has always been about sequels themselves. A third film arriving after thirteen real-world years of sequel-baiting has more material to play with than any writer could invent. No plot details are confirmed yet, and frankly, the speculation is half the fun.

The Comedy Landscape in 2027

Here's the honest industry context: big-screen studio comedies have had a rough decade. Audiences love comedy; they just stopped going to theaters for it. But the pendulum may be swinging. Franchise comedies with genuine star power and real craft behind them — the kind of event that feels bigger than a streaming night — have a lane again.

December 10, 2027 positions 24 Jump Street as a holiday-season crowd-pleaser, the kind of movie you take a group to between Christmas shopping trips. Counter-programming against the season's heavier fare has worked before, and a broad, silly, quotable comedy is exactly the antidote to prestige-season solemnity.

What We're Not Getting (and That's Fine)

For the record: the once-discussed Men in Black crossover, the famous "MIB 23" project, is dead. It's franchise history, not part of this film, and everyone involved seems happy about that. This is a pure Jump Street movie — Jenko and Schmidt, Captain Dickson, Lord and Miller's fingerprints, and a script its own star calls the best third-movie script he's ever read.

Some franchises should have stopped. This one just made us wait thirteen years and skipped a number. That confidence is earned. 24 Jump Street arrives December 10, 2027. Schmidt and Jenko are going back undercover, and we wouldn't miss it.

Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: Treasure Island: Ridley Scott’s 2027 Pirate Epic Preview

Some release dates are routine calendar housekeeping. Then Sony drops Ridley Scott and Hugh Jackman on a pirate movie and suddenly the whole industry is paying attention. This week the studio confirmed that its new take on Treasure Island will hit theaters on November 11, 2027, anchoring a late-year one-two punch alongside the newly dated 24 Jump Street.

It is the newest major announcement on the board, and frankly the most interesting one. Scott, at 88, keeps choosing projects like a man with half his career ahead of him. Jackman keeps picking roles that dare people to underestimate him. Put them together on Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 novel and you get the kind of old-school movie event that doesn’t come around often anymore.

What Sony actually confirmed

The details that are locked in: Scott directs and produces. Jackman leads the cast. The screenplay comes from Jack Thorne, who co-created Netflix’s acclaimed Adolescence and wrote the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The cast also includes Hugh Grant and Adolescence breakout Owen Cooper, whose roles have not been specified yet.

The story is the one every schoolkid knows. A young boy finds a map to a legendary buried treasure, sets out on a perilous sea voyage, and ends up locked in a battle of wits with the charismatic, treacherous Long John Silver. Different outlets disagree on exactly which pirate Jackman is playing, with some naming Silver and others Blackbeard, so we will wait for Sony’s official word on that. What is certain is that this is a serious, grown-up treatment. Forget the felt pirates. The Muppets had their turn.

Why this pairing matters

Scott does not make small pictures, and he does not make them for long. His filmography is a wall of epics: Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, Napoleon. He shoots fast, he builds worlds you can smell, and he has a particular gift for making history feel like it is happening right now, with dirt under its fingernails.

Jackman, for his part, has spent the back half of his career proving range is not a rumor. Wolverine made him a star; The Greatest Showman made him a song-and-dance man; Logan made him an actor critics had to take seriously. A pirate role under Scott’s direction gives him a stage big enough for all of it. He has played a pirate before, in 2015’s Pan, but that was a cartoon villain in a cartoon movie. This sounds like something else entirely.

And then there is Thorne. Hiring the man who wrote Adolescence, one of the most talked-about television events of 2025, tells you Sony wants this to be a character piece with a pulse, not a theme-park ride with sails. The best pirate stories were always about greed and loyalty wearing costumes. Thorne knows how to write that.

The pirate competition

Here is the wrinkle. Scott’s Treasure Island will not be the only version in town. A six-part series starring Hayley Atwell, with David Oyelowo as Long John Silver, is headed to streaming this October via MGM+ and Paramount+. That puts more than a year between the two adaptations, and honestly, the contrast could help both. Television does the slow burn. Scott does the spectacle. Audiences who binge the series in October will be primed for the big screen version in November 2027.

It is also worth noting the calendar company Sony is keeping. 24 Jump Street lands December 10, 2027, with Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Ice Cube reportedly returning and Rodney Rothman directing. Two wildly different films, one month apart: pirate epic, then self-aware comedy sequel. That is a studio with confidence.

The bottom line

We are more than a year out, and plenty can change. Productions shift, dates move, casts evolve. But the bones of this are strong: a master director, a star at the height of his powers, a writer with genuine literary chops, and one of the great adventure stories ever written. If you only follow one 2027 release date, make it this one.

Until November 2027, there are plenty of adventures closer to home. This week’s lineup of books, jazz, salsa and night markets will keep any explorer busy, and the city’s 2026 holiday tree and lights celebrations are already on the calendar. Yo ho ho, indeed.

Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: Hollow Preview: Sydney Sweeney’s Sleepy Hollow Reimagining

Some stories get retold because they ran out of ideas. Others get retold because someone finally found the right angle. Hollow looks like the second kind. Sony’s supernatural reimagining of Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” puts Sydney Sweeney front and center as Katrina Van Tassel — and for the first time in the story’s 200-year screen life, Katrina is the protagonist. Fall 2027. Mark it.

Finally, Katrina gets her movie

Here’s what’s genuinely fresh about this one. Every version you’ve seen — including Tim Burton’s 1999 film with Johnny Depp as Ichabod — told the story through the men. Hollow flips the camera. The tale unfolds through Katrina’s eyes, and the love triangle with Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones stays intact, but the power dynamic is entirely new: Katrina is auctioned off for marriage to settle her family’s debts.

That’s a feminist reimagining with teeth, not a coat of paint. A young woman whose future is being sold to the highest bidder, in a haunted valley, in a story everyone thinks they know? That’s a premise with somewhere to go.

The team behind it

Writer-director Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) is adapting her own debut novel — and yes, both the novel and the film are eyeing fall 2027, which is a neat little publishing-to-screen pipeline. Sweeney isn’t just starring; she’s producing through her banner Honey Trap, her first film production under the company. LuckyChap produces alongside Honey Trap and Lab Brew.

Casting news broke this week that Belmont Cameli — the Off Campus breakout — has joined as Brom Bones, confirmed by Deadline. Cameli talked to Entertainment Weekly on September 28 and described the film as “heavily thematic and stylized… a period piece,” adding that Sweeney is “a fantastic actress.” Ichabod Crane’s casting is still open, which means the triangle’s third corner is the industry’s favorite guessing game right now.

Why the timing is perfect

Gothic romance is having a moment, and audiences are hungry for period horror with a pulse. There’s something delicious about a story set in 1820 speaking directly to right now. The debt-marriage plot, the woman at the center of a legend that used to treat her as a prize — it lands differently in 2026 than it did in 1999.

And Sweeney keeps making interesting choices. Between this and her producing ambitions, she’s building the kind of career that lasts: big swings, real authorship, genre work with substance — the sort of Hollywood glow-up the industry loves to celebrate. A supernatural erotic thriller told through Katrina Van Tassel’s eyes is exactly the kind of role that separates a star from a celebrity.

A genre ripe for a comeback

The erotic thriller has been quietly knocking on Hollywood’s door for years, and gothic horror might be the perfect way back in. Think about it: the genre’s golden age gave us atmosphere-drenched classics, and Hollow arrives with all the right ingredients — a period setting, a slow-burn love triangle, and supernatural stakes. Done well, it’s catnip for adult audiences who want their scares with some sophistication. Done poorly, well — but nothing about this team suggests poorly. Beer wrote and directed her way into this chair, Sweeney is producing it herself, and LuckyChap’s track record with female-led stories speaks for itself.

The one thing to watch

The novel isn’t out yet, so detailed plot beats beyond the love-triangle-and-debt premise are unconfirmed — that’s industry talk territory, and we’ll wait for the book. But the bones of it are strong. Stories rooted in classic literature keep finding new life when someone finds the angle nobody tried, and “what if Katrina was the hero all along” is precisely that angle.

Our early verdict

Enthusiastic. A gothic period piece with a modern spine, a star-producer betting on herself, and a director adapting her own novel? Hollow has all the ingredients of the kind of mid-budget genre film people end up loving hardest. We’ll be watching the Ichabod casting news like everyone else — fall 2027 can’t arrive soon enough.