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SYFY Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day 2024 With an All-Day ‘Leprechaun’ Franchise Marathon
You can always count on SYFY to program the Leprechaun movies for St. Patrick’s Day, and we’re happy to report that this year is no exception. SYFY will be airing an all-day Leprechaun Franchise Marathon for St. Patrick’s Day once again, taking place on Sunday, March 17!
The good news? They’re showing ALL 8 MOVIES throughout the day, including 2018’s Leprechaun Returns. The bad news? As always, the movies are playing out of order.
The Leprechaun franchise kicked off with Mark Jones’s original horror-comedy in 1993, which was followed by five Warwick Davis-starring sequels, a reboot, and later Leprechaun Returns in 2018. Even though Leprechaun Returns was a sequel to the original movie, Linden Porco took over the role of the title character, played by Dylan Postl for Leprechaun Origins.
Here’s the full schedule for this year’s marathon…
Sunday, March 17, 2024:
- 1:30am – Leprechaun
- 9:30am – Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood
- 11:32am – Leprechaun V: In the Hood
- 1:37pm – Leprechaun 4: In Space
- 3:42pm – Leprechaun III
- 5:47pm – Leprechaun II
- 7:47pm – Leprechaun
- 9:47pm – Leprechaun Origins
- 11:40pm – Leprechaun Returns
Monday, March 18, 2024:
- 1:40am – Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood
- 6am – Leprechaun II
- 8am – Leprechaun III
There will soon be a ninth installment for SYFY to add to the rotation in the coming years. Lionsgate is rebooting the franchise with a new movie from director Felipe Vargas.
On a related note, Meagan Navarro highlighted The 10 Best Kills in the 8 Film Leprechaun Franchise back in 2020 here on Bloody Disgusting. Check that out if you missed it!
It’s now been five years since the release of sequel Happy Death Day 2U, Christopher Landon’s sequel to the Groundhog Day-style slasher movie from 2017. Both films star Jessica Rothe as final girl Tree Gelbman, and director Christopher Landon had been planning on bringing the character – and the actor – back for a third installment. So… where is it?!
We’ve been talking about a potential Happy Death Day 3 for several years now, with the ball in producer Jason Blum’s court. Happy Death Day 2U scared up $64 million at the worldwide box office, a far cry from the first film’s $125 million. But with a reported production budget of just $9 million, that first sequel was profitable for Blumhouse. So again… where is it?!
Chatting with Screen Geek this week while promoting her new action-thriller Boy Kills World, franchise star Jessica Rothe provided a hopeful update on Happy Death Day 3.
“Well, I can say Chris Landon has the whole thing figured out,” Rothe explains. “We just need to wait for Blumhouse and Universal to get their ducks in a row.
Rothe continues in her comments to Screen Geek, “But my fingers are so crossed. I think Tree [Gelbman] deserves her third and final chapter to bring that incredible character and franchise to a close or a new beginning.”
Back in 2020, Christopher Landon had revealed that the working title for the third installment was Happy Death Day to Us, said to be “different than the other two films.”
In the meantime, Christopher Landon is directing a mysterious thriller titled Drop for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes, along with a werewolf movie titled Big Bad for Lionsgate.
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