, Shakespeare in Love
, and Rounders
. Ahhh, Rounders. How I love you so. Why must they do these things to me? With Billy Bob Thornton recently discussing his desire to star in a sequel to Bad Santa, there's no clue whether this deal will have any effect on that. This deal actually augments a deal the two studios had in place already, so this will probably increase the odds that we'll see a follow-up to the 2003 Christmas hit sooner rather than later.
Other titles said to be in consideration are sequels to Clerks
(that would be Clerks 3), Swingers
, Bridget Jones's Diary
(another 3rd), Cop Land
(seriously??), Shall We Dance?, 
The Amityville Horror 
and yet another From Dusk Til Dawn
. The deal also includes the possibility of live-action television series to be developed based on these films. You can't mention Clerks without Kevin Smith somehow being involved. He recently stated that he might be up for a third and final film featuring Dante and Randal. So maybe there's a chance we'll get that now.
Expect a few of these to be direct-to-DVD "cheapquels", as I like to call them. In particular From Dusk til Dawn and Swingers, which skew much younger and can be easily cast with relative unknowns. I don't really want to see sequels to any of these movies(except Bad Santa), but I guess it was bound to happen. Shakespeare in Love, though? That one has to be a joke. That'd be like making a sequel to The Cider House Rules
....or did I just spoil the next story?
