Fifty Shades Freed (film) and Vancouver from February 9, 2016, to July 12, 2016, under the working title ""Further Adventures of Max and Banks 2 & 3"." "Fifty Shades Freed" was released on February 9, 2018, by Universal Pictures. A teaser trailer was released on September 10, 2017, and a theatrical trailer on November 6. "Fifty Shades Freed" was released on digital on April 24, 2018, with a Blu-ray Disc, DVD and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release following on May 8, 2018. The lead single from the film's soundtrack, "For You", performed by Rita Ora and Liam Payne, was released on January 5, 2018.
Fifty Shades Darker (film) and found fault in the change in directors, stating: Some of the greatest Hollywood melodramas (such as Douglas Sirk's "Magnificent Obsession") featured plotlines of an even more extravagant absurdity than that of "Fifty Shades Darker". Their extreme artifice became a framework for extreme ideas and extreme emotions, even in an era of extreme public reticence about what goes on in the bedroom. The freedom of the current age of sexual explicitness invites realms of characterization—and of intimate imagination—that the first film in the "Fifty Shades" series hints at and the second one utterly ignores. "Fifty Shades Darker"s indifference to its