Yup, you read that right. Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards will be reprising their roles for the sequel to “Hello, Love, Goodbye”.

Titled “Hello, Love, Again” the movie is slated for release on November 13 in the Philippines and is scheduled for international releases as well. Reprising their roles as Joy and Ethan, Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards are once again teaming up for a romantic film directed by Cathy Garcia-Sampana. According to Deadline, the film will be set in Canada five years after the original. After parting ways in Hong Kong, the pair meet up again in Canada after a global shutdown and realize they have also changed a lot individually.

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The original “Hello, Love, Goodbye” was released in 2019 and became the highest grossing Filipino film until it was surpassed by “Rewind” in January 2024. Netizens first speculated about the sequel when Cathy Garcia-Sampana posted a video of herself at the Hong Kong International Airport. She captioned her post with a very mysterious, “Nostalgic…hihi.”

Alden Richards, Kathryn Bernardo to reunite in 'Hello, Love, Goodbye' sequel after 5 years

Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards in a scene from ‘Hello, Love, Goodbye’
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MANILA, Philippines — Due to insistent public demand, KathDen or the fans of Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards, will finally have their HEA or happily ever after (hopefully) on screen as the blockbuster stars are finally making the much-awaited sequel to 2019’s “Hello, Love, Goodbye.”

The sequel to the movie have been persisting since its release in 2019, but a Deadline report finally confirmed it. The online news site on May 18 said the sequel is titled “Hello, Love, Again” and will be released on November 13 in the Philippines. Cathy Garcia-Sampana will return as director in the movie that will be shot in Canada.

The upcoming sequel will be the first time that GMA Pictures and ABS-CBN’s Star Cinema will collaborate on a movie.

“’Hello Love Again’ is born out of that same passion, and this time, focusing on the lives of the Filipinos in Canada. This also marks the beginning of our beautiful collaboration with GMA Pictures, who share the same passion with us in telling stories for the Filipino audience worldwide,” Garcia-Sampana told Deadline.

“I am as excited as all of you perhaps, to find out what Joy and Ethan had gone through after Hello, Love, Goodbye and will be going through in ‘Hello, Love, Again,’” she added.

In the 2019 movie, Ethan (Alden) and Joy (Kathryn) cross paths in Hong Kong where Joy’s initial reluctance to pursue romantic feelings for Ethan ended on a hopeful note. Set on pursuing a better life in Canada, she leaves Ethan in Hong Kong, who has his own reasons for wanting to stay in the special administrative region.

“Hello Love Goodbye” once held the record for the highest-grossing Filipino movie of all time, with P880.6 million worldwide gross revenue. It was toppled with another Star Cinema movie, the 2023 Metro Manila Film Festival entry “Rewind,” starring real-life couple Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera.