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Netflix shares The Kissing Booth 2 image with Joey King and Joel Courtney

The first look at The Kissing Booth 2 is finally here!

Fans of the hit Netflix movie and Beth Reekles’ book series have been waiting for a look at The Kissing Booth 2 forever, basically, and now, that moment is here.

Netflix released an image from The Kissing Booth sequel, and in the image, above, we see Elle (Joey King), Lee (Joel Courtney), and Rachel (Meganne Young) walking through the school halls in their uniforms.

In The Kissing Booth 2, Elle and Noah will have to deal with the next big phase of their relationship. Noah is moving across the country for college, while Elle stays behind in California to finish high school. That’s not the only thing the young couple will deal with, though.

According to Netflix, there are some new characters — and possible love interests — that pop up in the lives of Elle and Noah. Will they remain a couple through it all?

That’s what we’ll find out when The Kissing Booth 2 premieres on Netflix on Friday, July 24!  It’s going to be one of the biggest movies of the summer.

Netflix also confirmed Molly Ringwald is back for the sequel, along with King, Elordi, Courtney, and Young, who were mentioned above. Maisie Richardson-Sellers and Taylor Perez also join the cast as Noah and Elle’s new friends, respectively.

Joey King, with the help of all the stars of the Netflix movie, announced the release date for The Kissing Booth 2 in a YouTube live chat. King put together a puzzle that revealed the release date for the new Netflix movie.

Other than the release date announcement, this is the first Kissing Booth promotion we’ve seen in a long time.

We still haven’t seen the trailer for The Kissing Booth 2 yet. Netflix will likely share that as we get closer to the release date of the movie, but we shouldn’t have to wait too much longer.

Stay tuned for more news about The Kissing Booth 2! 

Remember, the movie hits Netflix on Friday, July 24! Don’t miss it!

Aidan LeCompte, rewatched Super 8 during the quarantine lockdown and decided to draw my character, Joe Lamb, and he gave me the original.

Aidan: Thanks for doing this. The drawing is simply amazing. You have such great talent.

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Aidan LeCompte’s sketch of Joe Lamb from Super 8.

Wow! Thanks, Diamonds USA!

The Kissing Booth star Joel Courtney is now officially engaged to his girlfriend Mia Scholink. The two who have been dating for a while now got engaged on Valentine’s Day. It was while self-isolating together that Courtney, 24 popped the big question on one knee with a jaw-dropping sparkler and Scholink said yes. The couple got engaged.

While happy lip locked pictures of the two splashed all over social media on the following weeks, Scholink’s engagement ring too got a fair share of the attention. It appears that Courtney took a lot of care and attention in selecting the sparkler.

The ring the Netflix Movie Kissing Booth star proposed with is a diamond ring from the house of an online diamond giant. The ring features a gigantic oval cut diamond which is flanked on two sides by two a set of smaller stones, possibly diamonds that adorn the band shanks. The ring features an elegant split shoulder designed, adorned on alternately with tiny diamonds. The stones are set on a sleek yellow gold band.

Courtney turned to Instagram to share the news with his fans. “I like it, so I just had to go and put a ring on it. Stay tuned! Sooooooo much more to come!!!” A day later, Courtney followed up the post with more. He wrote “Like I said, so much more to come!!! This woman right here, lemme tell you a lil bit about her. She is kind, patient, hysterical, forgiving, so beautiful she makes my heart stop, honest, and joyful. I love you @mia_scholink and I am so blessed to have you as my fiancé.”

Scholink’s announcement of the engagement on Instagram read, “ENGAGED to my best friend!!! Can't wait to marry you”.

A close up of the ring surfaced on Mia Scholink’s Instagram profile in a picture of the two holding hands. The ring, viewed from top appears both intricate and delicate. While the center stone shines abundantly, the tiny accent stones on the sides give the bling band a shine factor which leavens up the aesthetics further. The delicate split shoulder band gives the ring a nice eye design at the center of which the diamond sparkles mightily. From what it appears, the stone must be over 4 carats.

Hope a wedding is in works.

From News Lagoon:

The Kissing Booth 2 is opening up for business this summer. Netflix has set the release date for the sequel to its inexplicably popular teen rom-com hit The Kissing Booth, which hit the streaming service in 2018 at the height of its romantic-comedy explosion. The Kissing Booth 2 brings back Joey King, Jacob Elordi, and Joel Courtney for more romantic mishaps and heartbreaks.

Joey King hosted a livestream Thursday announcing the summer release date of The Kissing Booth 2. The teen rom-com sequel will debut on Netflix on July 24, 2020, The Kissing Booth star revealed after a 48-minute video.

In addition to King, The Kissing Booth 2 stars Joel Courtney, Jacob Elordi, Taylor Zakhar Perez, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Meganne Young and Molly Ringwald. Vince Marcello returns to write and direct the sequel after turning The Kissing Booth into one of Netflix’s biggest hits.

But the algorithm speaks loudest, and Netflix quickly brought back the cast and crew for the sequel, which seems to be their new practice, following the success of the sequel to To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. While To All the Boys probably warrants a sequel since it’s based on a series of books, I don’t know if I like this whole tradition of rom-com sequels, which I fear will lessen the magic and chemistry that makes a rom-com so watchable. Few people want to watch conflict get invented for a couple we rooted so hard for in the first movie, just to see them get back together for lesser effect. It destroys the illusion. Not that The Kissing Booth had that illusion to begin with, as many — critics and fans alike — condemned the movie for its sexist and outdated tropes.

Here is the synopsis for The Kissing Booth 2:

Elle Evans (Joey King) just had the most romantic summer of her life with her reformed bad-boy boyfriend Noah Flynn (Jacob Elordi). But now Noah is off to Harvard, and Elle heads back to high school for her senior year. She’ll have to juggle a long-distance relationship, getting into her dream college with her best friend Lee (Joel Courtney), and the complications brought on by a close friendship with a handsome, charismatic new classmate named Marco (Taylor Perez). When Noah grows close to a seemingly-perfect college girl (Maisie Richardson-Sellers), Elle will have to decide how much she trusts him and to whom her heart truly belongs. Director and screenwriter Vince Marcello returns for The Kissing Booth sequel, based on characters from Beth Reekles’ 2012 young adult book.

The Kissing Booth 2 premieres on Netflix on July 24, 2020.