“Book Club: The Next Chapter” is a romantic comdey film starring Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen.
Let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the film.
- Book Club: The Next Chapter is a 2023 American romantic comedy film
- It serves as a sequel to 2018 film Book Club
- It is written and directed by Bill Holderman
- It stars Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen
- With Craig T. Nelson, Giancarlo Giannini, Andy García, and Don Johnson in supporting roles
- Book Club: The Next Chapter was released on May 12, 2023 by Focus Features
- Unlike the first film, Paramount Pictures is not involved with the production
- Four Older best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls’ trip they never had
- When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure
- In May 2022, Variety announced that Book Club 2: The Next Chapter, began production with Keaton, Fonda, Bergen, Steenburgen, Garcia, Johnson, and Nelson reprising their roles from the first film
- The film shot over the course of two months in Italy, including for 10 days in Venice
- Focus Features replaced Paramount Pictures as distributor in the United States
- With Universal Pictures distributing in other markets
- In the United States and Canada, Book Club: The Next Chapter was released alongside Hypnotic
- It is projected to gross $7 – 10 million from 3,507 theaters in its opening weekend
- It made $2.1 million on its first day
- Including $550,000 from Thursday night previews
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 47% rating
- Based on 78 critics’ reviews
- With an average rating of 5.1/10
- The website’s consensus reads: “Book Club: The Next Chapter’s leading quartet remains eminently watchable, but they’re underserved by its corny jokes and somewhat patronizing tone”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 48 out of 100
- Based on 24 critics
- Indicating “mixed or average reviews”
- Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “B” on an A+ to F scale
- While those polled by PostTrak gave it an 81% positive score
- With 55% saying they would definitely recommend it
