{"id":13902,"date":"2011-05-01T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T14:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=13902"},"modified":"2021-10-29T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:31:00","slug":"ferrell-calls-studio-execs-idiots-for-nixing-anchorman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/01\/ferrell-calls-studio-execs-idiots-for-nixing-anchorman-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrell Calls Studio Execs “Idiots” For Nixing ANCHORMAN 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Will Ferrell would like to make a sequel to his comedy Anchorman. Fans would like to see Will Ferrell make a sequel to Anchorman. It seems that the only people who don’t want to see a sequel to Anchorman made are executives at Paramount Pictures. And that makes them, according to Ferrell, “idiots.”<\/p>\n

Doing the rounds for his upcoming comedy Everything Must Go<\/strong>, Farrell confirmed that the studio had decided that they didn’t want to proceed with Anchorman 2 based on some number-crunching and that it may be up to the fans to prove them wrong.<\/p>\n

Anchorman 2<\/strong>, you really have to assert some sort of email hate campaign to Paramount Pictures. They’ve told us, ‘We’ve run the numbers and it’s not a good fit.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Usually in Hollywood, a film that makes $90 million at the domestic box office against a $25 million budget would be considered a hit with a sequel being under consideration. And the film’s audience has only continued to grow as it became a steady seller on home video.<\/p>\n

Ferrell went on to explain that the project would have started as a Broadway musical that would then be adapted into a film.<\/p>\n

We were going to do almost a reverse… almost like how the Marx brothers used to do – we were going to do a Broadway musical and then have a film come out after the stage show. Everyone we tell the idea loves it, except for the studio that owns the rights. Ball’s in their courts, but they’re being idiots.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sadly, this is the state of affairs that we’ve known about for almost exactly a year. Anchorman 2 remains a dead project, fans remain disappointed and, as Farrell points out, Paramount executives remain “idiots.”<\/p>\n

Via CinemaBlend<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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