20 years on, Will Ferrell reveals Anchorman had to change its ending after negative test screenings: "We just lost the audience"

Anchorman.

20 years after release, Will Ferrell has revealed that Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy had its ending changed after a negative test screening. 

"We put the movie together [and] we did our first test screening," Ferrell told the Messy podcast (H/T IndieWire), hosted by Anchorman co-star Christina Applegate and The Sopranos’ Jamie-Lynn Sigler. "You test screen your movie and it’s a score from zero to 100. We were like, ‘That seemed to play pretty great.’ We get the score back: it’s a 50. Not good. It’s not good."