HATE-WATCH PARTY!

When Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial premiered on Tubi Sept. 30, Johnny Depp was ready with the popcorn. “He organized a viewing party for his close friends,” an insider tells Star. “He thinks it’s hilarious.” The ripped-from-the-headlines movie, starring

Mark Hapka as the 59-year-old and Megan Davis as Amber Heard, covers the exes’ bitter defamation trial. “The buzz was that it was ‘unintentionally hilarious,’” adds the insider. That’s why Johnny wanted to see it. He’d rather hate-watch it with friends than by himself.” Even though Johnny won the lawsuit, adds the insider, he’s still angry: “We were hoping he wouldn’t smash the TV screen!” ★

Melissa Marty stars as Johnny’s attorney Camille Vasquez in the flick one critic called “schlocky.”