With a new Grudge movie set to start shooting next month, the latest reboot has now been given a set release date.

For those eagerly awaiting the next outing for this famed horror franchise, be sure to pencil August 16th, 2019 in to your diary – for that’s the date that this to-be-titled Grudge effort will be hitting the big screen.

Already on board to star in this new Grudge picture are genre faves Lin Shaye, Demian Bichir, John Cho, and Andrea Riseborough.

The Eyes of My Mother’s Nicolas Pesce is on board to write and direct this refresh of an old favourite, with Pesce reworking a script previously put in place by Midnight Meat Train’s Jeff Buhler.

The Grudge, of course, was originally released in 2002 under the Ju-on title. That Japanese horror was then given a more Western skew with the 2004-starring Sarah Michelle Geller remake. That, though, was not simply it for the franchise, with a whopping eleven Ju-on or Grudge movies to date, plus several short films, video games, and graphic novels.