FUNNY PEOPLE Dies!
With a string of box office hits to his credit, writer/director Judd Apatow’s latest comedy, FUNNY PEOPLE, managed an anemic $23 million at the weekend box office.
According to close friends, Apatow is just as bewildered as the industry pundits over the failure of his latest film. Widely considered to be one of the strongest comedic premises in recent movie history, the film stars Adam Sandler as a comic who discovers he has a terminal disease, only to recover and realize what is truly important in life. Of his latest laugh-out-loud comedy, Apatow promised: “There won’t be a dry eye in the house!”
It has yet to be seen how the failure of FUNNY PEOPLE will affect Apatow’s next feature, currently in production. Although there has been no official word from Universal on the state of 
Apatow’s next film, most industry insiders predict it will be delayed indefinitely following the failure of FUNNY PEOPLE. This newest comedy, tenatively titled DEATH RATTLE , will star Jaden Smith as a child dying of cancer and confined to his bed. The film was supposed to be, according to Apatow, “an intimate look at the death process … except with laughs.” Most insiders agree that the film, if it is made at all, will be trimmed substantially from its projected running time of three hours and twenty nine minutes.
Judd Apatow has declined an interview for this article.
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