Two new South Park movies will premiere on Paramount+ before the end of 2021.
According to ComicBook.com, Chief Programming Officer ViacomCBS Streaming Tanya Giles touched on the news during the Paramount+ panel at the Television Critics Association. Giles confirmed that the first two movies of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's 14-movie deal will be released this year, with two more movies coming every year right the way through to 2027.
It was announced in August that Parker and Stone had signed a huge new deal with ViacomCBS and MTV Entertainment Studios that will see them develop 14 original South Park movies for Paramount+ as well as six more seasons of their flagship series at Comedy Central, plus a new video game that is being made by an in-house team at South Park Studios.
The entire South Park library is currently streaming on HBO Max, except for five of the show's most controversial episodes. The 23rd season of South Park aired in 2019 but the show has been on hiatus ever since due to the COVID-19 pandemic, apart from two hourlong specials — last October's Pandemic Special and March's South ParQ Vaccination Special.
The plots of the two new movies have been kept under wraps along with the actual release dates, but it's possible that they might end up being similar in scope and scale to the two recent specials rather than 1999's South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (which was produced on a budget of around $20 million), given they are coming out before the end of the year.
In addition to their expansive new deal, Parker and Stone have also reportedly now reached a tentative agreement to buy Casa Bonita, aka the iconic restaurant that famously featured on their hit show, after the company that owned the Colorado eatery filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April, having been shuttered for more than a year due to the pandemic.
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