Rounders 2

[stormswa]

I dont think we can really compare competitive sports and poker. Sports like Football have a lot more die hard fans then poker has, like I said the diehard poker fans will go see it but sports like football have a lot more diehard fans then poker has. The thing about rounders is it gave a peek into what its like to play poker professionally but now every poker player or want to be poker players already knows what it takes to play serious poker. We have TV shows, books, magazines etc etc etc where when rounders came out none of that was around. Lets not forget the millions of poker forums now.

If it has a really really really good storyline that might help a lot but like others have said if the cast from the 1st one dont come back I dont see it having a chance.

[Wes]

I believe this is one of the few times that a poker movie could be a success at the box office. All other sports movies have hit a downturn. This may be to the lack of sports movies in general (especially this year given that the only sports movie of note is a boxing movie regarding a fringe character mainstream).

I think a poker movie has a much better chance of being a financial success than any other sports movie atm. All other sports pretty much fail overseas (except like supremely foreign sports like Invictus which grossed 85 million international as opposed to 32 US). There really has not been an adult male dominated demographic in a while outside of clearly dominated cinemas regarding male demographics (westerns, sci-fi).

Rounders 2 though. Meh. The first movie was OK at best. They would need to seriously revamp the series to make it interesting. Seems very unlikely. At least I would hope they give Mike D. a kid that swindles people for transfer money online.