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Feb. 24-26 Weekend Actuals
1. Act Of Valor (Relativity) NEW [3,039 Theaters] R
Friday $9M, Saturday $9.5, Sunday $6M, Weekend $24.5M2. Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (Lionsgate) NEW [2,132 Theaters] PG13
Friday $5.3M, Saturday $6.6M, Sunday $3.6M, Weekend $15.6M3. Journey 2 3D (Warner Bros) Week 3 [3,350 Theaters] PG
Friday $3.2M, Saturday$6.4M, Sunday $3.9M, Weekend $13.4M (-33%), Cume $76.6M4. Safe House (Universal) Week 3 [3,052 Theaters] R
Friday $3.2M, Saturday $5.0M, Sunday$2.7M, Weekend $10.9M (-54%), Cume $97.6M5. The Vow (Screen Gems/Sony) Week 3 [3,038 Theaters] PG13
Friday $3.3M, Saturday $4.5M, Sunday $2.2M, Weekend $9.9M (-57%), Cume $102.9M6. Ghost Rider 2 3D (Sony) Week 2 [3,174 Theaters] PG13
Friday $2.3M, Saturday $4.1M, Sunday $2.5M, Weekend $9M (-59%), Cume $38M7. This Means War (Fox) Week 2 [3,189 Theaters] PG13
Friday $2.7M, Saturday $3.9M, Sunday $1.8M, Weekend $8.4M (-52%), Cume $33.5M8. Wanderlust (Universal) NEW [2,002 Theaters] R
Friday $2.2M, Saturday $2.9M, Sunday $1.4M, Weekend $6.5M9. Gone (Summit) NEW [2,186 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.7M, Saturday $2.1M, Sunday $995K, Weekend $4.8M10. Secret World Of Arrietty (Disney) Week 2 [1,522 Theaters] G
Friday $1M, Saturday $2M, Sunday $1.3M, Weekend $4.4M (-33%), Cume $14.5M
SATURDAY PM/SUNDAY AM, 2ND UPDATE: Appropriately 
enough for Oscars Sunday, it’s another up weekend for the 8th straight week in 2012. Overall moviegoing is at $135M, which is a whopping +24% over last year. Needless to say, Hollywood is ecstatic (though not at the prospect at sitting through 
the interminable Academy Awards only to watch Harvey Weinstein gloat). Relativity’s R-rated Act Of Valor has stayed No. 1 all weekend. It’s the the Bandito Brothers’ independently financed low-budget U.S. Navy fighting force tale using actual SEALs from an original screenplay by Kurt Johnstad (300). (FYI, there was a novelization of that script, “Tom Clancy Presents Act of Valor”, written by Dick Couch and George Galdorsi and released in paperback by Clancy’s publisher. Relativity acquired the rights to the project last June for $13 million and a $30 million in prints and advertising commitment - the biggest money paid for a finished film with an unknown cast at that time. But Relativity didn’t spend $30M on P&A. That may have been the studio’s minimum legal commitment but it spent a lot more. Ryan Kavanaugh et al took out 4 wildely expensive Super Bowl game day ads. Yes, 4. That cost between $12M-14M alone (though Relativity claims it was $6.5+M). Educated guess is that they spent $45M-$50M total to hawk this actioner. Yes, they acquired domestic rights for cheap and aggressively pre-sold foreign. And, yes, the budget was only $12K. Looks like Relativity will recoup. Marketing-wise, Relativity launched an aggressive 400 screening program in over 40 markets as part of a multi-pronged strategy that spoke to gamers, action fans, sports fans, ethnic audiences, country music fans, patriots, military, women, and the faith-based community. It was all about word of mouth then and now: audiences are complying by giving it an ‘A’ CinemaScore.
Also getting an ‘A’ CinemaScore from audiences was Lionsgate’s uplifting romantic drama Good Deeds. The result is middling for the Tyler Perry movie — does he clone them? — which was only playing in 2,132 locations. Butthen those films where he doesn’t crossdress as Madea (and offend with that stereotype) earn less. But it’s right in line with Lionsgate expectations and, besides, the budget was only $15M. Like them or not, this is yet another of writer, director, producer Perry’s soap operas targeted to his core fans. But is Tyler an interesting enough thesp to carry a movie virtually by himself or a big enough draw to feature only himself on the movie poster? Not really. (And I say this dreading his upcoming portrayal of fictional crimefighter Alex Cross.)
Universal’s alleged comedy Wanderlust bombed worse than even the studio expecte: lousy tracking for this R-rated nonsense had indicated the film would open below $10M. Audiences gave it a mediocre ’B-’ CinemaScore. The combination of Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd proved toxic to moviegoers. FYI: this greenlight was the studio’s payback to Role Models director David Wain and and his creative partner Ken Marino and mogul/producer Judd Apatow. Unfortunately the budget was $30M which is cheap by any standard except when a pic flops this badly. Sad, really, because Aniston’s flack-from-hell Stephen Huvane pulled out all the nauseating stops by exploiting her personal life — as usual. Also tanking is Summit’s not-so-thrilling Gone starring Amanda Seyfried which earned only a ‘C+’ CinemaScore. This is the latest in a row of stinkers for that studio which is now part of Lionsgate. The only good news is that, based on the structure of the deal with producers Lakeshore Entertainment and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and other parties, the studio has a net risk of only $2 million.
Remember that kids on the East Coast were out of school this weekend so family holdovers Warner Bros’ Journey 2 and Disney’s The Secret Life Of Arrietty held strong — at least until Universal/Illumination’s Dr. Suess toon The Lorax opens next weekend. Sony’s The Vow passed the $100M domestic mark this 3rd weekend out as the first Screen Gems film to ever hit $100M.
Here’s the Top Ten (order determined by weekend grosses):
1. Act Of Valor (Relativity) NEW [3,039 Theaters]
Friday $9, Saturday $9.4, Weekend $24.7M
2. Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (Lionsgate) NEW [2,132 Theaters]
Friday $5.3M, Saturday $6.7M, Weekend: $16M
3. Journey 2 3D (Warner Bros) Week 3 [3,350 Theaters]
Friday $3.2M, Saturday$6.4M, Weekend $13.4M, Cume $76.7M
4. Safe House (Universal) Week 3 [3,052 Theaters]
Friday $3.1M, Saturday $5.0M, Weekend $11.3M, Cume $98M
5. The Vow (Screen Gems/Sony) Week 3 [3,038 Theaters]
Friday $3.2M, Saturday $4.5M, Weekend $10M, Cume $103M
6. Ghost Rider 2 3D (Sony) Week 2 [3,174 Theaters]
Friday $2.3M, Saturday $4.1M, Weekend $8.8M (-60%), Cume $37.8M
7. This Means War (Fox) Week 2 [3,189 Theaters]
Friday $2.7M, Saturday $3.9M, Weekend $8.5M (-51%), Cume $33.5M
8. Wanderlust (Universal) NEW [2,002 Theaters]
Friday $2.1M, Saturday $2.9M, Weekend $6.6M
9. Gone (Summit) NEW [2,186 Theaters]
Friday $1.6M, Saturday $2.1M, Weekend $5.0M
10. Secret World Of Arrietty (Disney) Week 2 [1,522 Theaters]
Friday $1M, Saturday $2.1M, Weekend $4.5M (-30%), Cume $14.6M
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Relativity marketing did the best they could with with they were given, amazing what $35 million in media ($46 P&A) can do for Active Duty Navy Seals. Wanderlust and Gone should have been straight to video and by video I mean VHS.
No what’s amazing is what the SEALs do day in and day out for our country. They can out last our most highly paid athletes and then some. If you’d see the film it might clue you into a sliver of that sacrifice. $35MM in ads, if that’s what they spent, did exactly what it was supposed to do, create intent to see this awesome film.
God, I hope that after this we’ll see the right wingnuts stop it with the anti-Hollywood phony outrage.
And if they want to bitch that nobody in Tinseltown wants to support “patriotic” films then PLEASE tell me where these clowns were at when George Lucas spent 2 decades trying to make Red Tails. Better yet, where were they when Lucas was trying to build awareness for the film.
Hee hee! Hilarious. You have just two measely examples to throw out there…and that’s proof that Hollywood isn’t anti-patriotic, anti-traditional America?
That’s like saying, “I’m not a racist…I nod to my black postman all the time.”
Good one. And so true.
The only thing Hollywood hates more than they love making money is Christians and Patriots. Movies catering to that demographic (3/4 of the US population) always make money. Funny how that works.
You mean George Lucas spent 2 decades making a film that had already been made.
Yeah, cause hollywood would never want rehash a good story.
HBO made a superior movie about the Tuskegee Airmen called, oddly enough, “Tuskegee Airmen.” They did it for less money, some of the same actors, and 10 years earlier.
As for the rest of your post?
Lions for Lambs
Redacted
Stop-Loss
Platoon
Thin Red Line
Wag The Dog
War, Inc
Casualties of War
Grace is Gone
Three Kings
Brothers
etc, etc, etc…
I dunno. I know some ex-Navy SEALs and while they’re extraordinary people, I wouldn’t want to pay money to see them act. And while they’re pretty tough guys who I wouldn’t want to cross, Act of Valor is a fictional movie. It’s not reality. Further, I’m pretty sure paying to see it isn’t proof of my patriotism or respect for the soldiers. I imagine telling them I’m in awe of their dedication is.
My family’s made up of Green Berets. You know, the guys that don’t chopper out as soon as the f**king magazine goes dry.
We got f**kin John Wayne, a**hole.
My brothers, sisters, and several cousins are all cybernetic ninjas. We wield submachine guns that shoot razorblades. And we eat you guys breakfast.
*”You guys” includes SEALs, Green Berets, and those tulips in Delta Force.
Many SEALS recognize that this film is propaganda posing as entertainment for an empire posing as a democracy that’s exporting domination posing as freedom.
They took an oath to defend the constitution, not the interests of multinational bankers who profit from the resources our increasingly privatized Pentagon secures for them with our tax dollars, and young people’s lives, while we collectively fall trillions deeper into the hole and lose more of our rights.
That irrefutable reality makes this sorry fantasy spectacle all the more pathetic.
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The Navy Seals salary is meager and their death rate is high.
Why would a Navy Seal risk his life and limb if he thought as you say that he was dong it merely to protect bankers’ profits and to subjugate foreign peoples?
Because they don’t know? Duhhh
On the other hand, non-specialist forces, that is, non-career soldiers, represent the largest single donating category for the only anti-war candidate in the race. And by anti-war I mean anti-preemptive strike, chickenhawk war.
But movies that depict soldiers as crazed murderers? Totally legit. For every movie like this there are a dozen like ‘Stop Loss’ or ‘In the Valley of Elah’ or ‘Rendition’. God forbid another side of the soldier’s life gets told.
Speaking as someone retired from the SpecWar community… YOU HAVE NO CLUE WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!!!!!
The teams wanted this movie and cooperated with it because it is a good recruiting film. Good on the guys that made it!
It’s their own fault, Anonymous. Anybody who believes getting paid to murder people is somehow noble deserves to be maniupulated and lied to and killed. Apparently, the film stars real-life meatheads, and that’s exactly why I won’t be seeing it.
I don’t think they deserve to be killed like you say… but they are responsible for their actions.
Problem is a lot of these guys come from military families so it’s in their DNA. And to break from that takes a very strong person. There are few that are “waking up”, but most are still brainwashed by stars and stripes. My hope is that more and more “get it” and realize it’s not an Xbox game.
We have junk like this that is clearly for recruitment, and all those endless commercials on tv about how cool it is to wear night-vision goggles, but has there ever been a single a commercial against being trained to kill? No.
Defending your freedoms is a waste of time. You don’t deserve them. Why these brave men risk their lives for the likes of you is the great mystery.
I suppose we should disband the military?
You need to look up the definition of murder.
Why are kids out of school on the east coast?
Why in the world did studios decide to release four movies this weekend when march is virtually clear, are they really expecting that john carter is gonna hit big?
Just saw Act Of Valor in Century City. It was astonishing. Wow.
The trailers for Wanderlust make it look almost like Vince Vaughn’s Couples Retreat. While that film made money ($100m box office on a $60m budget), it sure seemed like a half-assed effort. So does Wanderlust. Guess Aniston and Rudd just decided to work for the paycheck now.
I’m sure these weren’t huge paydays. Rudd probably wanted to have fun his pal Wain and the rest of the cast. Aniston probably wanted to hang with the “cool kids.”
Does Aniston still demand a hefty paycheck? Does Rudd?
Yes they should demand a fat pay check. She is the queen of comedy. Did you see horrible bosses and just go with it two box office hits back to back.Wanderlust was very good and funny.what is wrong with your sense of humor.
Oh, ‘work for the paycheck *now*,’ you say….as if Aniston’s been working for the sheer artistic integrity of her craft before now. Did I miss some deeper profundity in that sperm rom com she did? GTFO.
Don’t get me wrong I like Paul Rudd, but have you ever seen him do talk shows when he has a movie coming out? (i.e. the daily show)
The guy could give a s**t.
Him and his friends (you know who they are) don’t care if their movies bomb. They’re insulated from the ripple effects due to the clique they hang out in. They work with the same people over and over, and once in a blue moon someone gets a hit.
This is just one of their many, many strikeouts.
I don’t think you understand how this works. And by “this,” I mean the acting biz. Once you’re in a film, one does one’s best within the confines of the script, your fellow cast, and the direction. All of which you typically know before you come on board. What is out of your hands is the edit. Ah yes, often times the most unkindest cut of all. Until that time, you really have no idea, often times, what quality of film you’ve ultimately made. But you’ve fulfilled your commitment. Now the best attitude is just to be sanguine, peaceful about it. Old hands know that. I think Paul Rudd is very talented and I wish he’d stretch himself away from these mindless films. I think he tried that with “How Do You Know,” and was mistaken badly. He’ll be back.
I don’t think you know how the acting biz works. You’re only as good as your last film which is why actors promote the hell out of their films so they can get people into the theaters in order for producers to hire them for more work. Paul Rudd doesn’t actually “promote” his films. He basically talks about everything else but the film. He may mention the title but that’s it.
Showing up = promoting. Lots of actors refuse to do talk shows entirely. Who cares what he talks about?
He fulfills his press obligations. Beyond that, box office is frankly not his concern nor should it be. He’s an actor, he’s not the marketing department.
What’s happen to THE VOW????? Happy for Act Of Valor and Good Deeds.
The Vow cleaned up V-day week/weekend. This is simple, Act of Valor is the Mens turn to pick what movie they want to see… Genius release date by Relativity.
That’s fine BUT I expected THE VOW to still be in Top 5. It seems to have just disappeared????
I’m pretty sure The Vow will still be in the top 5, Box Office Mojo expects it as well. These are very early numbers, so The Vow must not be available yet.
Agreed. The Vow will be in the top or maybe 6. There is no way gone could pass it.
Yes, correct. Thanks for the comments all.
Too bad about Wanderlust. It’s almost as funny as Bridesmaids.
That’s enough Jen, go back to lifetime tv.
I thought it was funny too. I mean not as funny as The Tourist, but still. I think opening Wanderlust against Tyler Perry and a Pro-war propaganda film was probably a mistake. As was running five or six different ads. Pick one or two and stick with them.
Wait, not as funny as The Tourist? You mean, in like a really, god-awful bad way?
You are so right Wanderlust was hilariously funny. It was a good movie. A must see.
Just saw Wanderlust. There were some funny parts…
But WOW I can honestly say that I’ve never watched a movie with more forced humor. So few of the jokes flowed organically from anything. I was very aware that I was watching a movie, watching Justin theroux recite contrived jokes in front of a rolling camera. All the jokes and gags seemed like they were written with the mindset of “wouldn’t it be funny if…”
if you’ve watched Your Highness, it’s the same type of humor. it’s not good.
Malin Akerman is in it. Of course it is going to be forced. She is just lifeless and bubbly at the same time.
I laughed a lot, but I do see your point. There were moments that felt that way. Forced, I mean. A little. Maybe. Like I said, I laughed a lot. I think it’s superior to Your Highness, which was strangely unfunny and airless. Wanderlust is far more lively and genial.
I sure hope not. I hope it’s more like Role Models should I rent it on Redbox in a few months. It’s so interesting members of MTV’s The State make it big lately. Loved that show when I was a teen.
So where is THIS MEANS WAR?
Maybe this bomb will finally force people to take a look at Simon Kinberg’s hackwork. The guy has been dining out on Brad Pitt hooking up with Jolie for years now, and to the tune of millions.
Now he’s angling to becoming a “producer.” What a laugh.
what a bizare and weird stance to take…studios love simon, people like simon and audiences respond to his work. and hes been a producer at fox for years, they contnue to put him on their biggest and best projects…they dont do this because for the opposite reasons listed above.
AND This Means War is not a bomb. Disappointment, sure. Bomb, not even close
Personally I have never understood Americans’ love of Reese (her movies do drastically worse overseas). Maybe they finally came to their senses.
This means war is pure fun and should be doing better. But it’s not a bomb. It did get an A- cinemascore but with so many choices out there, it’s getting a bit lost in the shuffle.
It seems Tyler Perry is taking after Oprah and begging people on his website to go see Good Deeds:
tylerperry.com/messages/its-been-rough-12-days/
Wow. Tyler Perry must really be desperate:
“It’s the opening weekend box office numbers that count in Hollywood. That is how they judge you, so if you can make it to the theaters this weekend, please do so”
Best part is:
“A friend of mine, who has always been honest with me, told me that this is my best movie yet”
Tyler Perry: your “friend” is lying to your face
@Will
“Best part is:
“A friend of mine, who has always been honest with me, told me that this is my best movie yet”
Tyler Perry: your “friend” is lying to your face”
This implies that you think Mr. Perry has made films better than Good Deeds.
I think his friend could be being perfectly honest with him, thing is saying “This is Tyler Perry’s best film” is kind of like saying “This is Uwe Boll’s best film”….It doesn’t mean that it’s actually any good.
My God! Think of the possibilities of a Tyler Perry/Uwe Boll mashup!
Put Boll in any of Perry’s past films…and well, good God, we’re talking *ccciiinemaaaa*…
NO not desperate just playing the game by double standard rules. Notice his cast didn’t get invited to the morning shows to promote. or the night time shows. They didn’t get blog post talking about who they are dating or when they started. They were not invited to Ellen, the View, Letterman, Kimmel, GMA, Today, or any other show that very seldom spotlights other movies that feature a cast of color. and please if the Help had not been nominated they would have overlooked Viola and Octavia too.
I’m not a fan of Perry’s films for my own reason. But to not recognize that the media overlooks films of people of color is putting your head in the sand. His films make money. And no he didn’t need to Promote the shit out of it and still made 2nd place instead of 5th or below.
He is making films for his audience. Films that don’t get magazine covers for most of it’s stars. So if he tweets or blogs and says go see my movie. That cost a hell of a lot less than what most of the other films of “Alist stars have shelled out”
I had no intention of seeing this film.. but now I think I will.
Your post is a complete FAIL.
There was a concerted effort ON PERRY’S SIDE to promote this film on channels (BET), magazines (ESSENCE), and shows (WENDY WILLIAMS) where his target demo resides. He knows his films lack depth, so he focuses on selling it to ‘people of color’ because they will see it anyway.
Shove your ‘people of color’ rant up yer guilty white arse.
He’s clearly talking about that banal waste of time Anuston’s over saturation by way of her power pr flack. The woman epitomizes ‘lack of depth,’ and yet we get the overwhelming deluge of her fugly mugly and stuttering halting listless interviews promoting her schlock everywhere. So you can take your entitled ‘white arse,” and fck off.
Jay,
Why don’t you shove it. Why is it when someone defends an African American some white racist like you accuses them of being “guilty”? They can’t honestly defend someone who’s Black? Or maybe you’re just a malicious bigot who only wants to hear Black people attacked.
Dopleganger is correct. Tyler Perry’s success should grant him access to talk shows and magazine covers other than the one or two you named. Justin Theroux was all over Ellen and Kimmel and Letterman promoting Wanderlust for all the good it did. Perry’s movie smoked him at the boxoffice so whose movies have more appeal? Is a movie that only appeals to white people of a certain sensibility any better than a movie that appeals predominantly to African Americans?
And for all the people who criticize his movies (and none of you have even seen his movies, admit it, so how would you know if they’re awful) white filmmakers make crap every weekend but they don’t get attacked like Perry (Green Lantern, Green Hornet, Sucker Punch, I’d like my money back for all of them).
I’ll give Perry this much credit, at least in his movies he sees Black people as more than just maids and charity cases for white people. Maybe that’s why white people like Jay Markowitz don’t like him.
Have to give to you your absolutely right on. It’s a shame how much Hollywood just getaway with just simply not so good films made by directors in Hollywood. But for an black director such is Tyler Perry,it just troubling to hear these rude comments wanting defeat of what this director is and able to do. It’s down right disturbing,I’ve never in my time have every saw so much rude comments and criticism in my life. But everything will rise to the top at some point. Totally agree with your comment!!!
TEH STUPID… IT BURNS!!!
First, dople wasn’t defending anything. He made an ill informed, factually incorrect observation. Also, he brought up race, which is a straight up troll maneuver. And I called him on it.
Second, Snyder GOT PUMMELED IN THE PRESS AND ON THIS SITE for Suckerpunch. HE ALSO GOT MALIGNED FOR ‘WATCHMEN.’ Clearly, you have never been here before. I am not even going into your ignorance of the invective hurled at Green Hornet and Lantern makers and participants.
The above points, plus the fact that you actually spent money on ‘Suckerpunch’ proves that you are, for all intensive purposes, an idiot. So who cares what you think. Now, go get yer shinebox.*
* pure trollbait to garner misconstrued replies of ‘shinebox’ being some sort of an African-American slur. See ‘guilty white arse’ supra.
Also Tyler Perry was on The View, The Talk, Fallon & Chelsea Lately; Newton was on The Talk & Fallon & Gabrielle Union was on Fallon
Last time I checked my ass was BLACK.. so you can slow you roll. Don’t have any idea why you assume I was white.
I know that TP was promoting his film on networks and shows that are geared to his target audience. The thing is while Tyler was on the shows mentioned his other actors were not. There was not the mulit million dollar PR push. Not saying he didn’t promote, but stop being silly. and you can call my post a fail if you want. I’m looking at the BO totals for the films that got HUGH promotion and failed. I don’t want to make this about a particular person. But Jennifer Aniston gets loads of press and the facts show this woman can not open a film when she is the headliner. And pushing her relationship with her boyfriend was the PR. So considering it was on EVER show and talked about constantly the failure of that films and the success of Tyler’s film with less known stars who don’t make half the money that Aniston and Rudd make is very telling.
so next time stop being a idiot. my race has nothing to with my opinion. Everyone on this site is voicing their opinion. Based on what they think and feel. MINE is no less because it differs from others.
and yes there is always some unreasonable hate and negative against TP. As I said, I’m not a fan of most of his films. Don’t usually see them. But they make money.
Slow my roll? What an insipid colloquialism. You brought up the race issue. I called you on it. I said ‘white’ ass because your post was exactly what guilty white people rant about. I could really care less about who you are, you are a troll and completely ignorant of how Hollywood works. This is a comment section on an entertainment industry site and yet you have no idea how the industry works, which is really annoying. I hurt your feelings? Grow some balls or don’t post. You could also do some reading and learn what you are talking about, but since a simple Google search would’ve also provided you a FACTUAL list of shows PERRY has appeared on lately, I don’t think that’s gonna happen.
I love the person who called me a racist. An ignorant little chicken (I do not hide behind a fake name) who also has no idea how Hollywood works, and also apparently does not understand what the term ‘racist’ means. Also, just like you ‘dople’ could not comprehend my first post in which I clearly state TYLER PERRY MAKES THE DECISION ON WHAT SHOWS TO PROMOTE HIS MOVIES. That you think he is being held back because of his skin color is pure troll. However, Mr. Perry absolutely uses his skin color to sell his movies. Does that make him a racist? No, that makes him a smart businessman. His estimated worth is $350M.
Let me put this into simple terms for you. Jennifer Aniston, the Kardashians, they bring in the clicks and eyeballs. Eyeballs and clicks = money. THIS IS A BUSINESS, NOT A FEEL GOOD EXPERIMENT FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU TO GATHER HANDS AND SING ‘KUMBAYA.’
And for the love of all that is holy, ahe gave his main protag the last name DEEDS and named the movie ‘GOOD DEEDS’ ferchissakes! That shows some serious lack of imagination and creative depth right there. I can actually back up the things I post, that is why I use my real name.
So, congratulations on being called out on being a troll and then proving it. You win a troll doll! Pick up your prize up at any participating southland area Shakey’s. As for the chicken who called me a racist. Since no part of my posts are racist, no troll doll for you! Aw, that’s mean. I don’t like being mean to children. You can have one, too.
gz doppleganger on today’s most ignorant post
not sure where the hate for TP comes from – his films always have a good, moral message underneath, and it gives a lot of black actors jobs – and people are always complaining about blacks being unemployed and committing crimes – not that these actors would be robbing a 7-11, but he’s a job maker, and america needs that, right? don’t be a racist, at least he didn’t go to the oscars dressed as madea to promote his film, like somebody tall, white, and thin.
If Tyler were taking after Oprah, he’d be doing the film as Madea ( an even fatter Madea that is)
Act of Valor will do really well in the bible belt, with all the pro war people and 16 year old boys so I expect it will blow the rest of them out of the water. But making judgements based on noon numbers on opening day? Seriously, isn’t this a little early? What kind of people go to see a movie in the morning?
I know it seems crazy, but whatever mathematical formulae or algorithms they use to extrapolate weekend box office from early results, they’re remarkably accurate.
These early predictions will probably be borne out
First disappointment Act of Valor didn’t open in Vicksburg Ms. But I have to agree that’s it’s to early to tell for Valor to be judge as hit. Yes,I would got see it.
There aren’t enough seats for “Act of Valor” in in San Diego. It’s a good old fashioned war film. Acting is pretty bad, but who cares! These guys are the real thing. If they are even half as good on missions as portrayed anyone who is unfortunate to come up against them would be wise to run as fast as they can in the opposite direction. Relativity will do very well with this. Congrats to them.
Yeah, who needs acting?! Let’s just show some pumped-up tools blowing s**t up!
Thanks for your comment, Plant, I mean, Kesem…
I imagine that Act of Valor will over-perform in a Navy town like San Diego. Ticket sales are probably strong in the Norfolk and Pearl City markets as well.
Oh, God. Seriously, quit hand-job’ing the SEALS. The reason it’s doing well in San Diego is because Camp Pendleton is like 20 minutes away.
And honestly, what is it that makes the SEALS so worthy of all this adulation? If they do a good job, good for them. You know what? Lots of people do good jobs in their given field.
Everyone needs to get over it with these “anyone would be wise to run in the opposite direction” comments. The mission ain’t that hard when you’ve got satelites giving you intel on enemy positions, state-of-the-art communications devices and body armor and you’re fighting people from 3rd world countries. Jeez…
Shorter Anonymous:
The SEALs – even a cave man could do it.
Shorter Anonymous:
BUDS/getting my food service certificate – same/same
Shorter Anonymous:
“Why do you keep saying I’m short! Mine is just as long as a SEALs you poopy face!”
Why does Jennifer Aniston keep getting booked in these movies? Is she the last resort for producers? Do they not know that almost every movie she’s in is a total bomb? Why take the risk as she can’t be worth anything overseas?
I have no clue. I’m glad Act of Valor is #1 show’s Anniston is not worth the $$$
R- I couldn’t agree more. She is the beyond boring. No wonder she can’t keep a relationship going. So many better actors out there.
Her last two films: Horrible Bosses, 209mil worldwide / Just Go with It 214mil.
Not sure why people get so bent out shape about her. With all the Seyfrieds running around the industry, it’s nice to see an actual woman onscreen.
Let’s be honest here, those were not HER movies, especially Just Go With It. SHE does not open a movie, and for a woman who is supposedly America’s Sweetheart, America has routinely stayed home when she is the biggest name in a film.
I disagree with both of you. The only reason my friends and I saw “Just Go With It” was BECAUSE of Jennifer Aniston, not because of Adam Sandler! I thought it was really cute and funny and I thought Aniston was great in it.
Apparently, you are the only one. Congratulations.
I don’t remember her opening a movie by herself? Has she ever had a movie like Pretty Woman (or all the hits Julia did in the 90′s), a Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama, While You Were Sleeping, The Proposal, etc.? Has she ever had a movie that she carried on her own star power past the 100 million mark? I can’t think of one? She always plays the girlfriend role, but somehow her PR plays her up as the big, A-list star? She’s all hype, it seems.
julia, reese, and sandra have all had bombs galore. aniston isnt at the top of the A list but shes right up there.
And they’ve all had hits galore… based on their name alone… which Aniston has never had. I like Aniston, but she is very much the B-list actress who is relegated to playing “The girlfriend of the real star” type roles. Even the despised Heigl is a bigger star than Aniston, because there was a time when people did pay to see a movie based on her name alone. Aniston has never had that time. Can’t even call Aniston washed up in that regard, because she never had A-list to begin with and at age 43, she never will have it. I say this as someone who likes Aniston, but is realistic.
Steve22 aka Aniston’s enablers. The difference between those women you stupidly decided to compare Aniston with is their 3 Oscars to her ZERO, and their ability at some point in their long illustrious careers to OPEN a film. Aniston has NEVER done that ever. I’d say she was along the lines of a Sarah Jessica Parker, but Sarah has won awards for her film acting (golden globes) and gets greenlit for her movies (SATC) on her name alone. Once again, Aniston has never had that – never won a gd thing, or opened a movie. Put down the crack pipe – Aniston is a tv hack still coasting on pity from 2005. All these years of Sympathy and demonizing her ex can’t make her Sandra Bullock, no matter how much her sad cat ladies want her to have her revenge.
Seriously, you’re actually trying to give Anuston credit for a frat boy comedy about killing bosses, and an Adam sandler movie? Sit the fck down. You could have put a Julie Bowen or Elizabeth banks in both those crap coms and they would have made the same amount of dough. Aniston is a boring hack. What makes her tough to swallow is the desperate narcissistic deceptive PR push down our collective throats every couple months when she releases another sure fire dud. Aniston gets a star, aniston goes to grauman’s, aniston is the hottest woman of all time, look out marilyn and liz!! Bahahahaha, Aniston can’t even rival Sarah Jessica Parker in looks or talent. Ridiculous.
This guy or gal has it spot on.
It appears you didn’t actually read the original comment.
aniston was the best thing in horrible bosses. spacey a close 2nd. the 3 male leads sucked.
So says you…
Jennifer was my third favorite female on a series I thought among the most overrated ever. having said that, she does seem to draw more hate from posters on this site than any steadily working actor, male or female, in Hollywood. I happen to think the genre you are most likely to see her in, romcom either traditional or Apetow-like, is dead or at least comatose. Maybe its not just her.
Aniston takes these roles because they’re what’s being offered to her with guaranteed financing. She can’t get anything green lighted on just her name and the box office results for movies like Wanderlust, The Switch, Love Happens and Management are the reason why. The sad thing about this movie is that her friend Paul Rudd got her the role the same as her friend Adam Sandler got her the role in Just Go With It. Just Go with It Made money because of Sandler but, man, it stunk to high heaven. With friends like that I’d hate to see the movies her enemies are offering her.
just go with it was great
Yep, all the razzie people thought Sandler was great in that, too.
cuz shes one of the few bankable actresses out there. why are you so jealous?
This weekend box office take is totally in line with what Aniston as top name on a marquee, usually pulls: between 4 and 10 mil opener. That’s not a-list, that’s not opening a film, that’s abject failure – especially for a woman who is solely getting hired to attempt to put butts in seats. She can’t do it. She’s never done it. She’s hired for her tabloid celebrity status that her personal life (see divorce from you know who, eons ago) has created, because some dim-witted producers or desperate directors, see her ability to move magazines and tabloids as a better reason to cast her than someone like a Julie Bowen who doesn’t have that. Except they’re wrong, her presence in a Sandler movie is a distraction as the film would have made money anyway. Her presence in an ensemble or smaller film, leading the marquee rather than existing in its own right, then becomes publicity for Aniston. A thing to keep Aniston in the kleiglights. Not an artistic effort. There’s no kudos or validations for script writers or directors on projects that star Aniston, only items about naked breasts that her PR guy forwards to bloggers and news sites. There’s no overcoming her and her prs publicity hound nature – they’ve been on a desperate mission to raise her self esteem or something, the reason why she does this has nothing to do with film – that’s my guess. It’s why in the past she’s tried to cut scenes and digitally enhance herself, all kinds of crazy. She needs validation. Other people work too long and too hard on their work to turn it over and make IT her therapy session. She is a living example of how big movie stars have long coattails, by way of tabloid media. You can thank her heretofore unfortunate personal life for her obsequitous presence we can’t escape.
she’s bankable ? None of her films make money because of her. Most of them are box office bombs. Maybe she needs to stop rom coms. She too old for them now. She needs to try something new
Speaking as someone of the younger generation (23 years old), young people today don’t care at all about stars. I see comments like this on here all the time about how “so and so” can’t open a movie, but young people today (the main filmgoers) don’t go see movies based on who is in them. The star system model is outdated.
So, Ramsey, are you saying that “young people” went to “Never Say Never” ($29.5 million opening weekend), not because of Justin Bieber, but because of the complelling story? Stars will always attract people to movies.
I think that some might say that your example was really concept-driven, rather than star-driven. As in, yes, people wanted to see Bieber but they wanted to see him in concert.
Another example would be Taylor Lautner. Put him in Twilight and he’s golden. Put him in Abduction and the fans don’t show up. Same could be said for Pattinson’s other films.
Now, if Bieber can open a non-concert movie then you’ve got a point.
Just because Lautner’s film did poorly, why does Pattinson always have to be dragged down with him? Pattinson’s Water for Elephants was a box office hit and made 117 million on a 38 million dollar budget. Even Remember Me made triple its budget as it was a small budget movie with only 16 million budget but made 56 million. Pattinson’s movies have been profitable.
What an awful example. NEVER SAY NEVER was a documentary/concert film in which the appeal was watching Bieber do what made him a star in another medium. Put him in a role that actually requires him to act, and we’ll see if he’s as big a draw.
Logic fail. Comparing a documentary about a specific person to a script-based film? Yeah, not the same. The “story” is Justin Bieber.
Stars do play some role, but it’s not to the extent sites like Deadline seem to think. Marketing and movie content play a much larger role. Or do you think Avatar became the highest-grossing film ever because of Worthington?
Bad example. Cameron is the star of Avatar bub. He is a brand in his own right. Not all stars are actors.
Act of Valor is a horrible movie. Saw it at a screening weeks ago and the acting is so bad, that it takes you right out of the film. Not worth the price of admission
I respectfully disagree. The adrenaline and unique action devices/sequences more than made up for a few lines of stiff delivery. I was very pleased to have invested a few hours of my time and a couple of dollars to see it. Great cinematography and the score was top-shelf.
Wow. Relativity a**clowns hard at work, ladies and gentlemen.
@ Jack @@s. Happy to disappoint you.
Although I am successful in this town, I am just a fan of the film and have nothing to Ryan or his cronies.
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Reality TV has been around for a decade and a half. Maybe we are now ready for reality movies–that is people who do the same things as the characters in the script. Let’s say Red Tails had been cast with black airmen playing the roles of their predecessors from six decades ago. It would have been fascinating to watch. I am not saying they could have handled heavy drama but they could have filled some of the roles.
The Vow should be on that list. Might make 7-12 mil. lets see
Not a bad guess with the actual figures in. “$100M domestic mark this 3rd weekend out as the first Screen Gems film to ever hit $100M”, more great news, I really enjoyed this movie for what it was.
With the hating of Channing Tatum at times, I’m glad this movie has been successful.
Channing Potatohead is now an A-lister. Once again film critics are proved useless and they can now crawl into a pit and die. Nobody cares what film critics or fanboy bloggers say. A-list Taterhead laughs in their face. A-list stardom isn’t about acting skill anyway. It’s about charm and sex appeal. Period. Any acting skills are just an unnecessary bonus.
Bridesmaids wasn’t very funny…
Agreed, and I’ve yet to understand just what made Melissa McCarthy suck a breakout. Her scenes were among some of the least funny of the whole film. Certainly not worthy of an Oscar nomination.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Melissa McCarthy, more so in Gilmore Girls than Mike and Molly, but she still wasn’t that great.
its box office and the public consensus say youre wrong
H.L. Mencken: ” Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” The public consensus, on its owm, with no critical leavening, can go fuck itself. From sea to shinig sea.
True words. I’m conservative and I long for conservatives to make good films that compete with liberal messages in the media. Unfortunately, conservatives often seem to prioritize ideology over art. ACT OF VALOR had extremely good production values behind it, but the decision to use the amateur actors was a disservices to the film, and frankly, taking Navy Seals out of their element and putting them in front of the camera in a fictional story with batman type villains made them look…well, made them look like they were “playing solder”. I thought it did our brave servicemen a disservice, and did little to compete with the liberal media. A survey published in HOLLYWOOD REPORTER reported that Republicans are more likely to sit out a film based on content than Democrats, and conversely more likely to support a film based on content, while Democrats seem almost twice as many films as Republicans–so you see who is really supporting the film industry and to whom the film industry primarily caters. I long for a conservative film industry that produces films of such high quality and compelling content that liberals come in droves and don’t even realize they are watching a competing set of values—they are just there to see a really good movie.
My theory is that Jen really wants to go back to TV full time and is choosing projects to make that happen as soon as possible.
Jolie > Anniston
my theory is that youre trying to be witty but sucking at it
Are you the bald breakdancing rent a date she recently hired? Because you seem way too invested ‘Steve.’
too low of prediction for tyler perry. will do at least 18 mill.
no it won’t
I played hooky from work and decided to see Gone. I liked it…good pacing, suspenseful, and Seyfried carried the film well. Reminded me of something like Panic Room. Only a few people in the theater though.
i hope you get fired
@BombmakerBob
They had $32 P&A at MOST, and even after their SuperBowl ads, I think this still took most of Hollywood by surprise. For the love of Pete, they have 26 people working in their entire marketing department; that’s a tremendous accomplishment, and it seems like sour grapes to malign or undermine that victory by stating they spent 46 million. I mean, I know Relativity isn’t popular around here, but SERIOUSLY.
Look up the actual meaning of “sour grapes.”
JGWI made money because of Adam Sandler, who is a box office guarantee, not because of Aniston.
She had very little to do with its success and in fact it did worse than a lot of Sandler’s films. Made with any other actress it would have made about the same.
Horrible Bosses success came from the 3 male leads, again not her.
When w/o a big male lead or cute dog she fails. For example The Switch, Love happens, Management, Derailed, Rumor has it etc.
@Sarah:
So Horrible Bosses succeeded because people were just dying to watch Jason Bateman and those two TV actors, but The Switch failed because it stared… Jason Bateman?
People didn’t see HB for the leads; they went for the villains, and Aniston’s was the centerpiece of the marketing campaign. Plenty of people like Aniston; men and women alike.
And it’s very unfair to judge her based on that list of failures. The Switch had a terrible premise and no advertising, Love Happens had a Lifetime premise and no advertising, Rumor Has It had a terrible/fringe/cable premise, Management was barely even released and Derailed actually made a profit.
So, it’s not Aniston’s fault? Did someone force her to make lame movies? Is she a little child? AND, she put her own money into The Switch. She was a co-producer. So, that movie was HER BAD IDEA.
The woman has enough $$$ to finance her own projects, and try to become an actor. She refuses to do so. She’d rather take millions for playing a Rachel-like character in awful crap. It’s her fault, she fails to find better projects.
AND, Julia Roberts picked some real dumb movies in her day. My Best Friend’s Wedding? Notting Hill? Runaway Bride? Same goes for Reese in Sweet Home Alabama, and Sandra Bullock and all her crappy romantic-comedies. But, guess what? All those movies made BANK. Know why? Because the actors were popular enough to get people into theatres no matter how bad the movie. Aniston has not been able to do that on her own.
Katerina, you seem to be obsessed with Aniston with three posts bashing her. If you don’t like her movies then don’t see them.
Bullock and Roberts are the top of the heap (along with Streep, of course) as far as leading successful movies but even they’ve had misses and many of their hits had strong male leads. You mention Pretty Woman & Runaway Bride but they had Richard Gere in them who was a strong male lead (Officer & a Gentleman anyone). Notting Hill had Hugh Grant. Even Roberts had her failures. In fact one such time she had a string of 5 failures, none of which got near double their production budgets ( Everyone Says I Love You 1.8x, Michael Collins 1.1x, Mary Reilly 0.3x, Something Talk About 1.7x, Ready to Wear 1.0x). So everyone has hits and misses.
You are the one comparing Aniston to Bullock and Roberts. IMO, they are in a league of their own as I said above.
However, looking at other actresses there are not many that have led successful movies on their own as Streep, Bullock and Roberts are able to do.
Take for instance Cameron Diaz. She’s been making movies since 1994 and it took her until 2009 to get a success that she led on her own with Sister’s Keeper 3.2x. But she’s only had one. (Bad Teacher had the very hot Timberlake in it).
In fact, Diaz has made 25 movies and only 10 of them did 2.5x their prod budget at the box office which is a 40% success rate. Meanwhile Aniston has made 23 movies and 14 did 2.5x their prod budget or better at the box office, that’s a 61% success rate.
Another example is Julianne Moore. She’s successfully led 1 movie on her own, Forgotten which did 2.8x its prod budget; and that’s out of 42 movies she’s made. At one point Moore from 2005-2009 she had 9 movies in a row that didn’t even make 1x their prod budget. Moore has made 42 movies and only 12 of them broke even at the box office by making 2.5x or better its prod budget. That’s less than 30%. No one is calling for head. No one is saying she should stop making movies or go back to TV which is where she started.
So it would seem that these 2 very successful actresses have each led a movie on their own successfully only 1 time.
Others are similar, Amy Adams had 1 movie she led, Enchanted (with a big Disney marketing push). Cate Blanchett had 1 movie she led, Elizabeth, out of 29 movies. Halle Berry has none. Kate Winslet has 1, The Reader. Nicole Kidman has 1, The Others.
Why is Aniston being held to the Bullock/Roberts standard when no one else is. I also have never seen anything from Aniston to indicate that she thinks she’s in their league.
I just don’t get all the vitriol against Aniston and the way you pick and choose the angle of attack on her. She’s successful. She also has hits and missies like everyone. That’s business.
No one’s out there trying to argue that Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, or Amy Adams are box office draws. They also bring more to their projects than just their PR teams. Aniston’s ONLY hired for her “popularity”, and yet that popularity rarely if ever results in people going to see films for her.
Sue, you are criticizing katerina for being obsessed but you write a book about Aniston? Seriously, look in the mirror, fool.
As many pointed out, Aniston has yet to carry a movie ON HER OWN. Most Hollywood A-list actresses have had ONE BIG HIT where they carried a film as a headliner. Aniston does a TON of self-promotion. She even did her Hollywood Star ceremony right before this film opened. There’s a difference between the legendary star she protrays herself to be, and her actual box office success. People have been noticing the obvious for awhile now. Her crazy fans can spend all the time they want bashing posters for criticizing poor, poor Jen Aniston. The truth is–she’s not that big of a star as her PR depicts her to be.
Here’s the blunt truth. Jennifer Aniston is a tv star. Only when she is co-starring with a REAL MOVIE $TAR, and/or the movie has a great premise, will it have a chance at success. But without those important elements she’s just a celebrity, famous for her work on FRIENDS, modeling career and tabloid gossip. Her character on tv touched alot of people (that, and the fact that she’s smokin’ hot are the reasons she has a career) but in the movie world, she’s never done anything memorable. At all.
Here is the reality of a Jennifer Aniston movie; when the audience sees her poster or trailer, they either say “That looks good AND it’s got Jennifer Aniston” or “That looks bad. Jennifer Aniston makes bad movies”.
This definitely sounds like a FOJ. Aniston’s always quick to blame others for her movie failures, much like this poster is doing on her behalf. I swear I don’t know know why people work with her. Scratch that, I know why: they know her power publicist will slap her mug and partially nude aging photoshopped bod on all and sundry, and just promote the helll out of her and only her, pre-release, as they’re hoping her desperate 15% camp will subsidize their own marketing efforts…and get more bang for the buck (we’ll buy a couple billboards, and if jen mentions Angelina that’ll knock it out of the park) – but why make your film and premise into the Jen Aniston show? It’s just not worth it. Not if you have any kind of pride in what you’re doing. There are no returns on the investment in handing your film and script over to her PR circus that make it all about her, her non topless scenes, her 7 yr old divorce, or her rent a dates. She does semi-okay when she’s not the lead and only has a few minutes screentime ( when the movie is about men who hate their bosses, see office space, or horrible bosses, or a cute yellow lab and his owner Owen Wilson) – but on her own, no one cares.
Agree with DK – plus The Switch, Love Happens, Derailed and Rumor Has It all ended up making money given their budgets. The only true bomb out of that group was Management. People forget that most of Aniston’s films don’t have huge budgets to recoup, which goes a long way in recovering costs and making profit.
Also, it’s worth noting that JGWI was Sandler’s highest overseas earner – something that was attributed to Aniston’s foreign grossing power. Plus exit polls at theaters said she was the selling point, not him. His frat boy audience wasn’t running out to see him in a rom-com.
I’m too lazy to dispute your numbers on that Adam Sandler movie, but for you to try and say Aniston has ‘foreign grossing power,’ is ridiculous – especially when you consider all of the films she’s tried to open overseas fail miserably. Sandler cast Nicole Kidman, and the smokin hot sports illustrated swimsuit cover model Brooklyn Decker to supplement the bore that is Aniston. At the end of the day, for you to try and claim he wasn’t appealing to his base by putting all 3 females devoid of clothes and on a beach is preposterous. Yeah Brooklyn decker in slow mo coming out of the surf is sooooo romantic. My 16 yr old brother saw it for Brooklyn, alone…and he’s got the sticky SI to prove it.
Exit polling? Yeah, right. Link or lie. Her fans are always trying to prove she’s some big star. And, Adam Sandler has a huge track record. He can open an envelope, and people will run to see it. Aniston can’t.
Wanderlust had everything going for it–Judd Apatow produced it,
Aniston did a PR blitz hinting she was nude and that it was a raunchy film, and the reviews weren’t so bad. Why did it bomb? People didn’t want to see it. That means ANISTON doesn’t matter as a star. She doesn’t put people in the theatres.
Jen needs to do a drama and get away from the RomComs. I also wish some fans would let the Jolie/Jen stuff die already!
No, what ‘Jen’ needs to do, is stop torturing us with her mediocre acting skills, and boring persona. She can’t act. Period. It’s great she’s had all these coddling enablers who want her to do well and ‘triumph’ over her perceived personal issues, thus rewarding her with more fame and dollar billsmshe doesn’t deserve, but most people resent affirmative action for rich white no talent bishes. She’s had over 20 years to wow us on the big screen…She never has. ..and even that, was about 19 years too long.
for someone who “can’t act” she’s done quite well for herself. kinda sad how jealous you are.
Jessica Simpson and Kim kardashian who both ‘act’ in movies have also done ‘quite well for themselves.’ that doesn’t mean they should supplant Kate winslet, and be given starring roles in films. Your point? Surely you’re not equating bank balances fueled by mid 90s tv residuals to actor worthiness are you? If that’s the case, maybe Meryl Streep, Daniel day Lewis, and the cast of The Artist should just leave the acting, since JWOWW and snookie have more bank than them at this point. Snookie as Margaret thatcher, Aniston as Marilyn Monroe. Perfect casting.
No one is jealous of you, Jen. Now, go back to your tanning bed, down some Margaritas, and light another cigarette.
Why should they let it die when Aniston is all too eager to bring it up for the sake of some headlines?
Last I checked the last one of the triangle to bring it up for promo purposes was Pitt, who then proceeded to talk about the renewed controversy he achieved in several additional appearances.
Brad Pitt hasn’t mentioned that lame-os name in 5 years. That’s just Aniston and her enablers wishing he would. Last time I checked, a man saying he spent the late 90s and early 2000s as a doughnut in a deep blue funk, wasn’t the equiv of him ‘talking about Aniston.’ But because Aniston’s crazy cat lady fanbase and pr team wanted to link her name to what he was commenting on, being the nice guy he is, he calmed those mad cows down. Aniston’s pr once agin, worked a benign comment from Pitt on HIS life, never mentioning Aniston at all, into some sort of commentary about her. It was a stretch. The guy was saying he was bored out of his mind, and unfulfilled and that it was his own fault – and Aniston and her pr guy, quite stupidly piped up to say, ‘hey!! Quit talking about me!!’ lmao. Idiots.
I’m sorry, when has she brought it up? Brad/Angie/Jen have all been asked about this situation to death and all have commented on it. No of them has brought it up on their own to get publicity.
It’s the crazy tabloids and some fans who keep dwelling on it. Funnier even how Brad doesn’t get any flack for this. It’s always the women who are pitted (no pun intended) against each other.
Please. I really dont want to re-hash this stupidity, and drag Brad and Angie into Aniston’s failure yet again (how come none of Aniston’s wacky fans ever bring up her more recent escapees Vince Vaughn or John Mayer and attack them?) THAT SAID – Where have you been?! I guess you missed Aniston’s distraught sympathy baiting tell all in vanity fair back in 2005 which started this whole nightmare tabloid triangle machine rolling, and her subsequent women’s magazines actually snarking on Angelina – not to mention her gdmn’d Oprah special, entitled ‘please hate them, and pity worship me forever America,’ that same year. Jolie is out of it. Pitt only references himself in interviews and doesn’t mention Aniston either, and the last time he did mention her name was because a reporter asked him about Aniston’s ‘Angelina is so uncool,’ vogue cover. So let’s not revise history, Aniston’s been riding their coattails for seven years.
Act of Valor. Incredible movie. Will go and see again. Pure warriors. Sacrifices of family clearly delineated. Navy seal action scenes were authentic. Actors could not pull off what they showed in their faces or body language. Terrorists are real and the movie depicts how many continents are involved and what it takes to keep us safe. Without our special forces and military there would be no U S.
Act of Valor is a jingoistic fantasy for fratboys and flag wavers. Pure phallic propaganda.
Nasty, mean-spirited comment of the weekend! Thanks for keeping this forum up to the highest standards of civility!
Why do you hate America? I hear Cuba is a great place to live for your kind.
But the movie is fake. Hiring real SEALS to play these roles ended up being a big mistake. It’s a publicity stunt. If this were a documentary, sure. But it’s a fictional story using real tactics. Nothing against these real guys and what they do (they deserve all of our respect) but if they can’t act, all you’ve got left are action sequences.
Someone needs to hose Linda down.
Aniston’s movies, speculatively, are movies from her production company and she selects these people to work for her. She must be a little biased because everyone is always WHITE….We live in a pluralistic society…she needs to get with the program.
Aniston’s production company has not made one film, she cannot get the financing and she refuses to put up some of her own funds to make a film happen. She gets the same role offered her over and over and she is RGreen from Friends in every one cause that is her single claim to fame. She has no versatility as an actress and at some point she will be the oldest rom com female ever. And I so agree with you that all her films cast WHITE only just like Friends did until the very end.
You lost me at ” at some point she will be the oldest rom com female ever.” sexist much?
The TV Show friends was on how long? It based in NYC and had how many people of color, even as extras? What makes you think her movies would be any different.
YOU need to get with the program if you think everybody should cast minorities even though an individual does not see one in a particular role just to make you feel better and settle political score
This comment would only make sense if you think television sit coms are like basketball, and Jen Aniston’s talent and skill level was akin to Michael Jordan. Seeing her talent and skill level is more along the lines of…the worst basketball player ever. There is no justification for her entitlement, that validates your opinion that a sitcom doesn’t have to cast actors who may not be white.
Jennifer Anniston has to be one of the worst movie actresses out there as most of her films have tanked badly and this latest feature of hers just proves she just needs to stick to TV work for the time being.
I agree. Time to replace that one.
One problem with your theory is that “most” of her films have not “tanked badly.” Go look at her actual numbers (costs versus box office) and you will see she’s actually had very few bombs. Besides, most money is not earned at the box office but on DVD, TV licensing, etc. – all of which make her even more bankable since her titles tend to sell well for both.
Whatever you say, Aniston’s PR guy. Guess you must be busy these days with your BS spin, huh? Haha
I don’t get why the claws come out when it comes to Jennifer Aniston.
^^ jealous
Perry’s “Good Deeds.” Is this another melodrama?
I’m just glad we will get to see Tyler Perry in a film that’s not his/Black comedy/drama film ( not that there’s any thing wrong with black ensemble films I enjoy them a whole lot I just wanna kinda see him in something else every now and then) pretty soon he has signed on to be Alex Cross in the Alex Cross movie that they are making should be interesting to see him in that
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I’m just glad we will get to see Tyler Perry in a film that’s not his/Black comedy/drama film pretty soon( not that there’s any thing wrong with black comedy/drama films I enjoy them a whole lot I just wanna kinda see him in something else every now and then) he has signed on to be Alex Cross in the Alex Cross movie that they are making should be interesting to see him in that.
I’ve never gone to one Perry’s films because they’re clearly not made for me, but for another target audience. However, I’ll go see the Alex Cross movie, if, like the Freeman pair, they market it to everyone, not just the Tyler Perry crowd.
Is he also producing/directing I, ALEX CROSS?
I’ll bet after this weekends rotten numbers Lionsgate (or whoever is producing the Cross reboot) are feeling real dumb for having dumped a darn-near money-in-the-bank star like Idris Elba who’s star is ready to explode big time for a washed up effeminate chump who’s star is now burning out.
Guess everyone gets what they deserve in the end.