NEW YORK -- For Drew Barrymore, creating and filming the Charlie's Angels movies remains a heavenly experience.

But she literally grits her teeth at the suggestion this summer's sequel Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is a bomb.

"We've made close to $260 million US worldwide to date, so it's really bitchy and mean when people try to make you feel like a failure," says Barrymore, who's one the film's producers as well as one of its stars.

Full Throttle had been targeted to gross more than $200 million in North America alone. The industry scuttlebutt puts the blame for the film's disappointing box-office at the feet of Demi Moore.

The concensus is that the publicity surrounding her affair with Ashton Kutcher created a backlash.

"You could say there is a bit of irony in all that. In the film, Demi's character Madison Lee wanted to overshadow the new Angels and that's what happened in reality," says Barrymore.

"I refuse to feel bad and wouldn't even if the film had only made back its costs. "I've had a wonderful experience these past six years working on the Angel movies with Cameron (Diaz) and Lucy (Lui), who are two of my best friends.

"If a dynamite third script surfaces, I'm pretty certain we'd all come back for more."

A third Charlie's Angels is really the furthest thing from Barrymore's mind. She has too many other projects on front and back burners.

She's currently starring opposite Ben Stiller in the farce Duplex about a young couple trying to dispose of their annoying elderly tenent.

She has already completed Fifty First Dates with Adam Sandler and is waiting to finalize production schedules for the Will Ferrell comedy A Confederacy of Dunces and the fantasy adventure The Silence of Sleep.

She hopes to begin filming Date School, a romantic comedy with Stiller as producer. "It's a romantic comedy where I play a woman who's just the worst dater in the world.

"I'm sure some people are going to assume it's autobiographical," jokes Barrymore who numbers Jeremy Thomas and Tom Green as former husbands and Luke Wilson and Jamie Walters as former fiances.

Barrymore and her producing partner Nancy Juvonen are planning a remake of the 1968 sex comedy Barbarella, with Barrymore reprising the Jane Fonda role.

"I'm not sure where it will fit in our schedule or whether I'll be in it or if I'll just produce it," says Barrymore.


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