Valentine’s Day Half-Sequel Already Planned

Posted by on February 9th, 2010   Filed under: Drama
Source: Deadline Hollywood

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Valentine’s Day, the ensemble romantic comedy starring Bradley Cooper, Taylor Swift, and a whole bunch of other people, is four days away from being released, but New Line is already planning a follow-up. Titled New Years Eve, the movie will undoubtedly encompass a whole bunch of different stories set around New Year’s Eve and will probably end with the ball dropping. These are not spoilers mind you, that’s just human logic being put into place.

With the success of Love Actually, and more recently He’s Just Not That Into You, these type of ensemble films are starting to pop up more and more, in an attempt to grab at what’s left of the theater-going public. Is this a good idea? Time will tell, but let’s see just how well Valentine’s Day ends up doing/being before any of us make a snap judgment.



  • projectgenesis

    “….in an attempt to grab at what’s left of the theater-going public”

    Bit of a doom and gloom prognostication if you ask me. Hasn’t movie theater attendance gone up the last few years? Didn’t we just break the domestic box office record a few weeks ago?

    As for ensemble films with name actors, they’ve always been around. From 1932’s Grand Hotel to 1999’s (underrated) 200 Cigarettes.

    Mountain out of a molehill.

  • Maopheus

    Jennifer Garner’s shoulders look huge in that picture.

  • I admit I was a little doom and gloom when I wrote it, but as a movie theater worker, I haven’t really seen the increase of patrons like people say. Might be where I’ve worked. Plus, with people pirating everything and eventually with other technologies coming into play, it’s inevitable the movie theater business itself is going to slide down. Maybe not dramatically, but at one point.

    And I know ensemble films have been around for awhile, but lately it felt like they have increased in the number. Along with the two I mentioned, New York I Love You and Paris J’Taime have both come out in the past couple of years, and I feel like they are just going to get more and more plentiful as time goes on.

  • Maopheus

    I think what it’s saying is that so-called A-list stars are less and less able to “open” a movie big, so these types of star-studded cast movies are going to be more and more likely. The actors probably only need maybe 2-3 weeks of filming instead of 2-3 months.