Bad Santa 2 (2016)

Is it really that hard to make an effective comedy sequel? Yes, yes it is, and for several key reasons you'll find in this handy editorial. Read on to see why it's hard to keep the laughs going for even the best comedies of our past.

It was a hit and miss holiday weekend at the box office, with really only one movie having much of anything to be thankful for.

Terry Zwigoff's Bad Santa wound up being a big hit and a season favorite when it came out in 2003, and yet it took a shockingly long time for a sequel to get made.

It's a huge week at the box office this time around with Thanksgiving weekend coming down the pike. The studios want a little something for everyone, and you get that and more.

The whole piece paints Thornton as a surly dude, particularly when people come up to him RIGHT after a concert and ask him to sign a DVD of Sling Blade, the 1996 drama in which Thornton played a mentally challenged man released from a hospital.

A brand new red-band trailer for the upcoming Bad Santa sequel has just hit the web, and it's even ruder than you think. Check it out!

Bad Santa 2 has just released its first full length trailer, and it's pretty gold. Be warned, this video is definitely not suitable for work.

The summer movie season is actually beginning to wind down, which means it's time to look forward to the busy holiday movie season. This one won't exactly be a blockbuster, but it's one that fans have been waiting for, for a very long time.

Just when you thought the cast of Bad Santa 2 couldn't get any more exciting, a brand new face has been cast as Billy Bob Thornton's main squeeze for the sequel. Click through to see the woman who'll give him a run for his money.

Bad Santa 2 just cast Billy Bob Thornton's mother, and you're never going to believe who's going to go toe-to-toe with everyone's favorite antiheroic mall Santa. Read on to see the fellow Academy Award winner who's about to give Willie a run for his money.

It was 2003 when Billy Bob Thornton starred in Bad Santa. Since then the film has become something of a holiday classic among those who have a slightly twisted view of the term holiday classic.

Prepare for the return of Willie T. Stokes! Since its release back in 2003, the holiday comedy Bad Santa has developed a sizable cult audience, and, as a result, it looks like a follow up is actually going to happen. Billy Bob Thornton himself has teased that Bad Santa 2 is currently in the early stages of development.

He’s already started on Bad Santa 2’s script though, and should the film get made, Thorton wants production to begin after he’s finished filming Mathew Cullen’s London Fields with Amber Heard.

While I did like director Steve Pink's Hot Tub Time Machine, the element that prevented it from being a great comedy was that it just wasn't dark enough. Sure, it had plenty of drugs, sex and violence, but it all felt more like window dressing than part of the bigger story - which I felt was its real intention.

Bad Santa isn't a movie that needs a sequel. It's completely self-contained, has satisfying endings for all of the characters, and operates perfectly as a singular dark comedy. Sure, Willy is a great characters and it could be interesting to see him on another "adventure," but why risk creating something so awful that it would leave a bad taste...

We couldn't agree more about Bad Santa being a Christmas perennial, but that still doesn't mean a sequel is necessary. Though really, who knows-- the movie is all about Thornton and his performance, and if he's on board and enthusiastic he might be able to bring the magic yet again

Now that Thanksgiving’s nearly out of the way, people are getting down with Christmas. For me Christmas mostly means sitting around watching Christmas movies. At the top of my yearly viewing list? Bad Santa