Hasta La Creative!

CollegeHumor is enjoying a measure of success with its first feature-length movie, a comedy called “Coffee Town,” but the website first thought it was headed for Hollywood gold years ago. In 2005, CollegeHumor struck a deal with Paramount Pictures to bring a movie called “Winter Break” to the big screen.

That venture didn’t go well.

“When you’re a 22-year-old and someone says you have a deal at Paramount you’re like, ‘I’m going to be sitting at a movie premiere in a year,'” recalled Ricky Van Veen, co-founder of CollegeHumor and a producer on the doomed project. “You’re just an idiot.”

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