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The fourth entry in the teen romance movie series After is called After Ever Happy. Although the movies in the franchise have all received less than stellar reviews, the movie franchise continues to do well, thanks in part to it coming to Netflix in many regions in a timely fashion.
Based on the novels by Anna Todd, the After movies are often heavily criticized because of their poor screenplays and sometimes atrocious acting. Despite this, they are profitable and popular in many parts of the globe.
A fourth movie, following the three subsequent movies released annually since 2019, is due to be released in theaters on September 7th, 2022, after premiering in London in August 2022.
Beyond a fourth movie, Castille Landon teased that there may be other works telling Variety in August 2021, “I’m working on some other projects in the “After” universe and I’ll keep that vague.” A fifth movie has since been confirmed and is currently in development with the entry being called After Everything.
What to expect from After Ever Happy
Castille Landon is back for directing duties on the fourth entry with Sharon Soboil returning for writing duties.
The cast confirmed returning for the fourth movie includes Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Josephine Langford, Carter Jenkins, Louise Lombard, Rob Estes, Kiana Madeira, and Chance Perdomo.
A plot guide has been released, which gives us a good idea as to what we can expect from the fourth movie:
“As a shocking truth about a couple’s families emerges, the two lovers discover they are not so different from each other. Tessa is no longer the sweet, simple, good girl she was when she met Hardin — any more than he is the cruel, moody boy she fell so hard for.”
When and will After Ever Happy be on Netflix?
While there’s been no official confirmation (there hasn’t been in advance for previous movies either) we expect it to come to Netflix, albeit it won’t be a worldwide release.
Although available on Netflix and often labeled a Netflix Original, the movie is actually released by Voltage Pictures. Voltage Pictures is a US distribution company.
Over the past two movies, only a select handful of regions have received After movies, either sold elsewhere or unavailable in other countries.
Regions that are expected to receive After Ever Happy either in 2022 or 2023 include:
- Netflix Canada
- Netflix USA
- Netflix Hong Kong
- Netflix India
- Netflix Japan
- Netflix Malaysia
- Netflix Phillippines
- Netflix Thailand
We’re not expecting all regions to receive After Ever Happy at the same time either. For the past two films, we’ve seen Netflix in Asia receive the movie first before hitting the US and Canada much later.
Netflix US and Canada received After We Fell significantly later than Asia, with most regions getting the movie in October 2021, while the US had to wait until mid-January 2022.
As a rough estimate, those in Asia should receive the new movie by the close of 2022 while those in US and Canada may need to wait until early 2023.
Amazon will carry After Ever Happy in other regions
The past two movies have been released on Amazon Prime Video in several locations, including the United Kingdom and France. That will once again be the case going into the fourth movie and that’s despite the original movie, After, streaming in the UK as of September 2022.
Back in August 2021, Prime Video secured the rights to both After We Fell and After Ever Happy. Amazon Prime Video is debuting the movie in September 2022.
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