The stakes for 'Bridesmaids' succeeding were immense, and perhaps no one felt them more acutely than Paul Feig failed — from wonky projections to being told 'another movie starring women all hinges' on its success.
Feig felt the pressure, having been told that "another movie starring women all hinges on the success" of "Bridesmaids."
It isn't fair for one movie starring all women to set the standard for all future movies starring women. But that's howOn top of the film being "predicted to not do well right up until the day of release," Feig recalled being "told for months, 'Another movie starring women all hinges on the success of this.' And it's like, 'Really? So I'm just about to kill movies for women.
To make matters worse, the studio showed "a preview the night before, and it didn't do well in the midnight screening. So this call comes in the next morning, and they're like, 'Well, the projections are $13 million for the weekend.' I'm like, 'Sorry, man.'" It seemed just about over for Feig, who called McCarthy and her husband, comedian Ben Falcone the night of the release. "It's like, 'Come over, we'll have dinner, and we'll just kind of lick our wounds together.' And as we're at dinner, I'm getting these texts. They're like, 'It's looking like $18 million. Well, it's looking like $19 million. Actually 21.' What? And then suddenly it's going like 22, 23, 24.
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