Having had so much success with Valentine’s Day weekend in 2015, Universal is employing a similar release strategy for the sequel, and have the movie out on February 10, 2017.
We are presumably getting this big Fifty Shades Darker marketing push today because Bridget Jones’s Baby arrives in theaters on Friday, and both movies share a demographic and a home studio in Universal Pictures.
Fans can then expect to see the follow-up, Fifty Shades Freed, exactly 364 days later, as the final feature in the trilogy will be out on February 9, 2018.
That being said, fans are going to have to still wait a bit before they will actually get to see the new erotic romance film on the big screen.