Did Apatow’s ‘Funny’ Make Any Money?

Hollywood’s been waiting for the answer to the question Does Judd Apatow have what it takes to be a “serious film” filmmaker? or at least wants to know about his bankability in drama. Take a guess what happened.

Early box office counts show Funny People pulling $US23.4M since opening on Friday in the US and in Canada. Which, let’s see, had Nikki Finke – who’s been having fun with the picture of Apatow scratching his head, above – noting as “lousy,” and Reuters pointing out in their lede that it was Adam Sandler’s worst opening in almost five years. It was also the lowest opening for a #1 movie since Jim Carrey’s Yes Man, it has a Metacritic score of 60/100, and on Rotten Tomatoes, has only 65% positive reviews.

So, no. Guess people don’t like dramedy with their dick jokes- well at least North Americans, anyway.