We really didn't know how well we had back in the early 2000s. Compared to today's landscape dominated by streaming, and the future of the trash awaitingEarly teachings were a blessed time when films still felt like movies and shows great cinema comedies around the world. There is no doubt that the king of these comedies in the era in the 2000s was a Dud Apatow, who not only wrote and directly directed some of the best films of the time, but seemed to have a hand in the very funny that hit the theaters. Now, Studies left big comediesAnd the Apatou has an insight into why it could be.

In an interview of 2025 with Hollywood reporter For the 20th anniversary of the "40-year-old virgin", Apatow was asked about the recent IP-based comedy hits, such as the "naked gun" and "Freak Friday" and whether he thought the "40-year-old virgin" could be done today. "I think it's possible," he said, "it can be a little striking way, but I think the studio would like comedy to do very well." This may seem a little more positive than you expected, but the Apatou continued to notice how large the risk comedies are for studios:

"The hard part is when you make comedies, you take chances. You can't just make them based on the old IP. You can't rely on just throwing someone in a lot of hit movies.

The director also remembered "For years" the studio opposed Will Ferrell Classic "Anchorman: Ron Burgundy Legend" and a pleasant vulgar comedy coming in the Superbad, both produced by the Apatou. "It is necessary for someone to risk that a huge comedy for a breakthrough," he added.

The latest comments from the DUD Apatou follow those he made in 2017, when he was asked about the then -Hollywood aversion to the comedy. Talking to a vulture, Apatou has stated that studios do not make comedies anymore Due to strikes and writers moving to TV. "After the latest strike by the writers, he felt as if the studio decided not to develop films," he said. "They used to buy a lot of scripts (...) now they would seem like they would be more about packing: script, cast, director. As a result, many great comedy writers go to television instead of sitting at home and trying to write a movie script, to write the way I was."

The last game of the Apatou as the director was the movie "Netflix" "Bubble" for a group of actors shooting during the Kovid-19 pandemicthat earned a 20% rating on rotten tomatoes. Otherwise, it is focused on documentaries such as "The American Dream of George Carlin" and "Bob and Don: Lovebow Story" and also returned to the stand-up comedy in 2017 with the special "Dud Apatou" on Netflix: While it still produces: The foggy mountain "The Golden Age of the comedy with the Apatoustocyan is really over.

But that does not mean that comedy will not make a return. Hollywood goes into cycles, and we are currently witnessing the end of the Superhero era as an audience of comic book tickets. In response, the studio, as Apatou pointed out, doubled to the IP, turning to video games and a series of Harry Potter restarting to keep our attention in a world where Tiktok happily attracts young people. But, as the director said, all that is needed for the right CEO to take a chance. Although this is a more likely scenario in 2025, it only needs to happen once in the right person. Whatever the next Dudud Apatou, hopes it is, I hope it will not be long before they are given that chance to return the comedy to the cinemas.