We spent eighteen million dollars testing the title, specifically the word “angry,”

[jakeXT]

FROM: Amy Pascal
TO: Scott Rudin

Don’t talk to me like I’m Joe Piscopo. I told you I’m not interested in a remake of “12 Angry Men.” And I explained why.

We spent eighteen million dollars testing the title, specifically the word “angry,” and no one wants to see a movie with the word “angry” in it. Our audience (males aged four to eleven) didn’t have a fully formed definition of “angry” (seventy-three per cent thought it was just the first word in “Angry Birds”). Nor were they able to correctly define the words “voir dire,” “deliberation,” or “jury.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/pen-pals-sony-story

[SomethingFishy]

1. And that is a nutshell is what is wrong with the movie industry.

So instead we'll get Ninja Turtles 2.

[HERVEPA]

5. Molly had a sense of humor.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. You know it's satire, right

Just checking.

[jakeXT]

3. yes it's humor /nt

[Warpy]

4. It's satire that cuts too close to the truth

and that makes it unfunny.