THE HOUSEMAID'S SECRET Sets Release Date; Will Go Head-To-Head With AVENGERS: SECRET WARS Next Year

THE HOUSEMAID'S SECRET Sets Release Date; Will Go Head-To-Head With AVENGERS: SECRET WARS Next Year

Lionsgate is clearly very confident in Paul Feig's ability to deliver the goods with his sequel to The Housemaid, which will go up against two major blockbusters next year...

By MarkCassidy - Mar 30, 2026 05:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Secret Wars
Source: Via FearHQ.com

The Housemaid's Secret Wars?

The Housemaid proved to be very popular among fans of Freida McFadden's best-selling novel, and had taken in $125 million domestically and nearly $400 million at the worldwide box office by the end of its theatrical run.

Even so, director Paul Feig's planned sequel is really going to have its work cut out when it arrives in theatres next year.

Lionsgate has announced that The Housemaid's Secret is set for release on December 17, 2027, the same day as Marvel Studios' Avengers: Secret Wars and Warner Bros.' The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum.

Sydney Sweeney is set to reprise her role as Millie Calloway, along with Michele Morrone as Enzo. Kirsten Dunst has also joined the cast in an undisclosed role (we assume she'll play Millie's new employer).

According to THR, the sequel "centers on Millie (Sweeney), the lead of the initial film, who agrees to keep house for a woman she is never allowed to see. Eventually, Millie discovers the truth behind the locked door that hides secrets darker than even the ones she herself keeps."

The Housemaid’s Secret is scheduled to begin production later this year. Feig is back to direct alongside screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenshine, who adapted the first book. Feig will also produce, along with Todd Lieberman of Hidden Pictures, Laura Fischer of Pretty Dangerous and Sweeney through Fifty-Fifty Films.

Lionsgate is also planning to adapt the third novel, The Housemaid Is Watching, down the line.

You can check out the first promo poster for The Housemaid's Secret below. A new trailer and poster for Euphoria season 3, which stars Sweeney and Spider-Man: Brand New Day's Zendaya, have also been released.

THE HOUSEMAID is a wildly entertaining thriller starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, based on the best-selling book. From director Paul Feig, the film plunges audiences into a twisted world where perfection is an illusion, and nothing is as it seems. Trying to escape her past, Millie (Sweeney) accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar). But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous — a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power. Behind the Winchesters’ closed doors lies a world of shocking twists that will leave you guessing until the very end.

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NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 3/30/2026, 5:21 PM
Yeah they're cooked.

LMAO Euphoria.
regmovieguy
regmovieguy - 3/30/2026, 5:50 PM
@NinnesMBC

Counter-programming is a real thing and the first movie did big numbers. These are two totally separate audiences.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 3/30/2026, 5:53 PM
@NinnesMBC - I like Zendaya but Euphoria never seemed like my cup of tea.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 3/30/2026, 5:55 PM
@regmovieguy - True, one is a sequel to a best-selling book and the other a sequel to what is certainly yet another guaranteed box-office and critical acclaimed installment of a previous ensemble movie that will be out this year full of recognizeable faces that have been playing beloved characters from now almost a decade. I really wonder what will give in.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 3/30/2026, 5:59 PM
@TheVisionary25 - I do too a bit, her best roles have been in Challengers and Dune but Euphoria was always what some like to call "teen drama slop" but with "better cinematography/direction blah blah" and what if they actually could get away with absolutely sexualizing minors in high school. The original angle of the addiction her main character has to go through obviously became sidelined in favor of more gratitious and creatively empty sex scenes. HBO didn't do anything new here.

I'm intrigued to see The Drama with that said.
regmovieguy
regmovieguy - 3/30/2026, 5:59 PM
@NinnesMBC

Lmao. I don’t think you understood what I said at all. They’re not going after the same audience.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 3/30/2026, 6:05 PM
@regmovieguy - I do. But fine let's agree to disagree.
JackDeth
JackDeth - 3/30/2026, 8:59 PM
@TheVisionary25 - Yeah, I couldn't get into it. It's almost like the writer has never been to high school.
ImNotaBot
ImNotaBot - 3/30/2026, 5:29 PM
They for sure will move the date or get obliterated by Secret Wars, there is no way this will turn out to be good for Lionsgate.
Odekahn
Odekahn - 3/30/2026, 5:31 PM
Who tf is making these decisions?! LMAO
MrDandy
MrDandy - 3/30/2026, 5:33 PM
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Oberlin4Prez
Oberlin4Prez - 3/30/2026, 5:38 PM
The Housemaid’s Secret Wars
FleischerSupes
FleischerSupes - 3/30/2026, 5:50 PM
Maybe Secret Wars isn't getting released.

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harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 3/30/2026, 5:53 PM
u...u 4 got to include an insta link .....Hurry!!!
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gambgel
gambgel - 3/30/2026, 5:55 PM
The studio should have called it: SECRET HOUSEMAID WARS

Avengers: Secret Wars
Secret Housemaid Wars

"Toe to toe on December 2027!" Lol
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 3/30/2026, 6:07 PM
It seems like a dumb move on paper but might be good counter programming for atleast a fair amount of the female audience who might not want to watch LOTR or Avengers but we’ll see…

Anyway , I haven’t seen the first Housemaid but do want to for Brandon Sklenar & Amanda Seyfried so will do before the sequel comes out.
KaptainKhaos
KaptainKhaos - 3/30/2026, 6:28 PM
One of these two movies will have tiddies
Skestra
Skestra - 3/30/2026, 10:11 PM
@KaptainKhaos - *thinking of Hailey Atwell, Rebecca Romijin, Florence Pugh, Vanessa Kirby, and Hannah John-Kamen* Oh please be Doomsday, please be Doomsday, please be Doomsday....

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BruceWayng
BruceWayng - 3/30/2026, 6:28 PM
So not only are we getting “Dunesday” but we’re also getting “Secret Whores”
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 3/30/2026, 7:19 PM
@BruceWayng - “Secret Whores”!? Ummm… you wouldn’t happen to have any info on the specialty popcorn bucket that goes with that movie would you? Oh… and uhhh… I’m uhh… asking for a friend…
Irregular
Irregular - 3/30/2026, 7:04 PM
LOL do people truly believe that the release is going to STICK?
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 3/30/2026, 9:03 PM
@Irregular - Why not? It did great against Avatar Fire And Ash.
Irregular
Irregular - 3/31/2026, 7:06 AM
@BlackStar25 - Yeah, it releases it around the same day but it's not like it was expected to make close to $400 million WW either. So for a sequel, for a brand new IP...do they really think it's a good idea to share it with Avengers Secret Wars? An IP WAY more popular than Avatar 3?
BackwardGalaxy
BackwardGalaxy - 3/30/2026, 7:26 PM
Absolutely zero demographic overlap.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 3/30/2026, 7:33 PM
Boobsday.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 3/30/2026, 7:34 PM
Wait no,

The Housemaid's Secret Wars!
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 3/30/2026, 7:35 PM
(oh shit Josh beat me to it, lol nm)
Nolanite
Nolanite - 3/30/2026, 8:07 PM
The search for Gollum will take out both of those films that weekend

Nolanite out
Lokiwasright
Lokiwasright - 3/30/2026, 8:36 PM
Let housemaid have their fun

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Orangeblack
Orangeblack - 3/30/2026, 8:52 PM
2 movies coming out on the same day?!? In other news water is wet. Where's that article
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 3/30/2026, 8:55 PM
Shocked how much the first one made...pretty good though. First one went against Avatar so it should do fine here with that whole "counter programming" thing.
JackDeth
JackDeth - 3/30/2026, 9:01 PM
This is not BARBENHEIMER, no matter how much they want it to be.
SteviesRightFoo
SteviesRightFoo - 3/31/2026, 5:38 AM
I admire how freely sweeney is willing to get her milkers out
UltimaRex
UltimaRex - 3/31/2026, 8:00 AM
The Hunt for Gollum's Secret Housemaid Wars?!?

"It was on VHS, precious..."
WiIkes93
WiIkes93 - 4/1/2026, 4:46 AM
no one cares

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