'A Simple Favor 2' Gets New Title, Chosen as 2025 SXSW's Opening Night Movie with Paul Feig Seemingly Implying Blake Lively Will Be There!

Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively‘s A Simple Favor 2 has a new title, and more news about the film’s debut!

The sequel to the 2018 hit is now titled Another Simple Favor, and was announced as the March 7 opening night movie for the 2025 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas!

Should Blake attend, this could be her first major public appearance since her It Ends with Us lawsuit.

Keep reading to find out more…

Director Paul Feig said in a statement, “I couldn’t be more thrilled to be back at my favorite festival in the world where we successfully launched ‘Bridesmaids’ and ‘Spy,’ and I cannot begin to say how honored I am to have our film opening it all. I’ve avoided making sequels to any of my films but these characters were just too much fun not to revisit. So, to be able to have Anna, Blake, Henry, Andrew, Michele, Elizabeth, Alex and myself watch our film with the great SXSW audience is a bucket list event that I’ll be able to check off March 7 and move playing drums for Dwight Yoakum’s band up to the top slot.”

Paul‘s statement does make it seem as if Blake and the cast will all be attending!

Find out why A Simple Favor 2 is debuting on Prime Video for streaming instead of a theatrical release, plus who else from the first film is returning.