Robert De Niro This article is more than 13 years oldWhat comes after Valentine's Day? New Year's Eve
This article is more than 13 years oldReports link Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer with follow-up to critically panned but lucrative romcomJust when you thought it might be safe to go back to the multiplex, studio executives have announced plans for a follow-up to this year's critically panned romantic comedy, Valentine's Day. Titled – you guessed it – New Year's Eve, Garry Marshall's new film will centre on the intertwining stories of a group of New Yorkers as they navigate their way through romance over the course of 31 December.
The original movie featured one of the largest ensemble casts in Hollywood history, including Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper, Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Alba, Patrick Dempsey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner and many more. Despite being ravaged by critics, it was a spectacular box office success, grossing more than $213m worldwide.
The cast for the follow-up looks similarly stellar, with Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hilary Swank and Kutcher in negotiations with the film-makers, according to the Hollywood Reporter. De Niro is being lined up to play a bitter man dying in a hospital, while Pfeiffer could be a frustrated executive secretary who decides to tackle her unfulfilled resolutions. Swank is considering the role of a producer of the famous annual Times Square New Year's Eve show, and Kutcher could play a man who detests New Year's Eve.
Producers will be hoping – though perhaps not with much fervour – that the new film fares better with critics than its predecessor. The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw called Valentine's Day a "yucky, plasticky confection of sentimentality, like eating fudge with the cellophane wrapper still on", while Mark Kermode compared it to a "greeting card full of sick".
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