{"id":547968,"date":"2010-04-30T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=103001"},"modified":"2010-04-30T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:58:36","slug":"%e2%80%9canchorman-2%e2%80%b3-axed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547968","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAnchorman 2\u2033 Axed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Anchorman-Sequel-Killed-By-Paramount-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Anchorman Sequel Killed By Paramount\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-103002\" \/><\/p>\n<p>San Diego will have stay classy  without Ron Burgundy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Anchorman 2<\/em> has been declared &#8220;Dead On Arrival&#8221; after Paramount suits axed plans for a sequel to the 2004 cult comedy <em>Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-103001\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, director Adam McKay revealed that a follow-up to the 2004 hit, which starred Will Ferrell as a dim-witted anchor, was in the works after he convinced stars Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, and Steve Carell to reduce their fee to appear in the sequel.<\/p>\n<p>Despite working out an acceptable budget, Paramount has refused to greenlit the movie.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo bummed. Paramount basically passed on Anchorman 2. Even after we cut our budget down. We tried,\u201d<\/em> a disappointed McKay Tweeted on Thursday. <em>\u201cTo all who asked: no we can\u2019t do Anchorman 2 at another studio. Paramount owns it,\u201d<\/em> he later added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5-j2ZIDgslyA9XzuBQEt920dntI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5-j2ZIDgslyA9XzuBQEt920dntI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5-j2ZIDgslyA9XzuBQEt920dntI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5-j2ZIDgslyA9XzuBQEt920dntI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego will have stay classy without Ron Burgundy. Anchorman 2 has been declared &#8220;Dead On Arrival&#8221; after Paramount suits axed plans for a sequel to the 2004 cult comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Earlier this week, director Adam McKay revealed that a follow-up to the 2004 hit, which starred Will Ferrell as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}