‘Entourage’ – Claudette Barius
(The Hollywood Reporter) – Bob’s Burgers writer Wendy Molyneux hated the HBO series Entourage – so much so that she joked to her husband that someone would have to pay her $10,000 to see the upcoming big-screen version.
The Internet took her up on the offer.
On a lark, Molyneux set up a GoFundMe drive on March 26, setting a $10,000 goal to force her “to see the worst movie of the year and possibly our lifetime.” She figured she’d get a laugh from friends and get them to chip in a few hundred dollars for CureSearch, a non-profit dedicated to childhood cancer research. Just as importantly, she would likely not have to watch Entourage.
Instead, Molyneux hit her goal in the first day, and the campaign has currently raised $14,695 from 256 donors. “Well, this has not worked out very well,” Molyneux posted in an update Thursday. “Thanks to all of the terrible people I know and a bunch of awful strangers I’ve NEVER EVEN MET WHO CARE ABOUT CHILDREN’S CANCER, I’ve reached 10K in one day…If for some reason this goes on all the way to 20K I am going to have to see this movie twice. TWICE.”
These horrible friends and strangers include Eric Stonestreet, Megan Mullaly, Nick Offerman, Christina Applegate, Eugene Mirman and even Turtle himself, Jerry Ferrrara. Reward levels for the campaign, which ends when Entourage opens June 3, start at $5 (D-Bag Level) to receive photographic proof of Molyneux watching the movie through the $15,000 Ultimate Turtle Level, in which donors will watch the movie with her as well as receive a home-baked cake and a Molyneux-autographed photo of either Turtle or a turtle.