I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) - Cannon slashes possible franchise with repititious turkey

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Four sexy young actors in scarlet-colored light about to be ripped apart on this effective poster for Danny Cannon's I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Julie and her boyfriend are in college, and they haven't done more wrong (since the preceding summer's fatal hit-and-run car accident on a skid road), and yet as they head to the Bahamas for vacation, a cloak-wearing maniac tracks them, spreading terror and death.

 

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is written by Trey Callaway (Phobia (2001, TV movie)) and directed by Danny Cannon (Strangers (1991)). It is a sequel to I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997).

The plot is pointless, and the film meticulously copies elements from the successful predecessor, even including having lead Jennifer Love Hewitt (Time of Your Life (1999-00)) do hysterical pirouettes in public while screaming to the killer.

Jack Black (The School of Rock (2003)) is a funny dope-dealer who is (predictably) killed. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is deadly boring and about as intelligent as an ironing board.

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Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: Reportedly 24 mil. $

Box office: 84 mil. $

= Big hit (returned 3.5 times its cost)

[I Still Know What You Did Last Summer was released 13 November (USA) and runs 101 minutes. Shooting took place from April - July 1998 in California, including Los Angeles) and in Mexico. The film opened #2, behind holdover hit The Waterboy, to a 16.5 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent one more weekend in the top 5 (#5) and grossed 40 mil. $ (47.6 % of the total gross). The film in some sites has a listed budget of 65 mil. $, which must be wrong, (the original film from the year before had a 17 mil. $ cost.) 65 mil. $ may likely be the cost including prints and advertising, expenditures that are normally not included in the budget. Roger Ebert gave the film a 1/4 star review, translating to a notch under this one. Cannon returned with Björk: Volumen (1999, music video) and CSI: Miami (2003-04) prior to his theatrical return with Goal: The Dream Begins (2005). Hewitt returned in Hercules (1999, TV-series) and theatrically in The Suburbans (1999); Freddie Prinze Jr. (Brooklyn Rules (2007)) in Vig (1998, TV movie) and theatrically in She's All That (1999). I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is rotten at 7 % with a 3.40/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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