'The Holiday' Director Shuts Down Rumors of an Imminent Sequel: 'Sorry but It's Not True'

Mar. 15, 2025

Nancy Meyers; Cameron Diaz and Jude Law inThe Holiday(2006).Photo: Anthony Harvey/Getty, Alamy Stock Photo

Sorry, fans ofThe Holiday— there’s no sequel currently in development.

Nancy Meyers, who wrote and directed the 2006Christmas-set romantic comedy, shut down rumors of an imminent second installment on Tuesday.

“So many DM’s about this —sorry but it’s not true. ❤️,” wrote Meyers, 72, on Instagram alongside a screen grab from an article reporting that a sequel was getting made with the original main cast all returning:Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz,Jude LawandJack Black.

Kate Winslet, who’s currently promotingAvatar: The Way of Water, also shut down the rumor to PEOPLE, saying, “I read something about that, but it’s the first I’ve heard of it. I promise you not an agent or a representative or anyone from the first one around has had any conversation with me about that. Hand on heart, that’s never come up.”

Meyers' denial comes days after a performance ofThe Holiday in Concertin London, which the filmmaker was unable to attend butshared a video fromto her Instagram Story Monday.

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InThe Holiday, heartbroken movie-trailer producer Amanda (Diaz, 50) offers up her Los Angeles mansion in order to get away for the holidays, before similarly downtrodden columnist Iris (Winslet, 47) answers, swapping her English country cottage.

During their visits, Amanda falls for Iris' widower brother Graham (Law, 49), a book editor, while Iris hits it off with film composer Miles (Black, 53), a friend of Amanda’s ex.

In a December 2019 interview withVariety, Black momentarilyforgot that he starred inThe Holidayafter a reporter from the outlet asked him his favorite Christmas movie, and initially answeredElf.

“Do I have a Christmas movie? Which one is mine?” Black asked, before realizing his blunder. “Oh,The Holiday! Obviously,The Holiday!”

He added, “Nancy Meyers — genius.”

Kate Winslet and Jack Black inThe Holiday(2006).Zade Rosenthal/Sony/Kobal/Shutterstock

The Holidaywas a modest theatrical hit at its time of release, racking up more than $200 million in global ticket sales on an $85 million budget,Box Office Mojoreports.

While it holds a rating of 51% on Rotten Tomatoes, itsAudience Score sits at 80%on the site — and the film is still even inspiring some real-life acts similar to its plot.

Last December,two women switched homesfor the holidays after Flo Patterson from Bath, England, responded to a video Grace Gagnon posted, in which the latteroffered up her own waterfront studio in Boston.

“It’s amatch made in heaven,” Patterson said on theTODAYshow, as shehosted Gagnon in her English home. “If anything, I fell in love with Grace. We’ve got each other at the end of this, anyway.”

Gagnon echoed the sentiment, explaining that they planned to have “regular meetups” in the future: “She’ll come to Boston and just hang out, and I’ll come to England and just hang out. I love her family already.”

source: people.com