Before Jennifer Aniston donned a short, budget-looking dark wiglet for Squirrels to the Nuts, she wore a glam blonde wiglet earlier this year for a film now called Life of Crime. In that film, she almost gets sexually assaulted, and several media outlets are running that plot point like “JENNIFER ANISTON FENDS OFF RAPIST (in a movie).” Weird. Anyway, Life of Crime is an Elmore Leonard adaptation, and the plot strongly resembles that Bette Midler film, Ruthless People. Only I guess this will be a more dramatic take on the material? Perhaps. I was going to bitch about how it’s really, really early to promote this film, but I guess not – the film premieres at TIFF later this week. Thus, some early promotion, via Us Weekly.
Coming off the box office success of comedy We’re the Millers in which she played a stripper-turned-housewife, Jennifer Aniston continues to make riskier choices in Daniel Schetcher’s Life Of Crime — in which she fends off a would-be rapist. The flick will be the Toronto International Film Festival’s Closing Night event on Sept. 14.
Based on the novel Switch by the late Elmore Leonard (Justified, Get Shorty), the movie serves as a prequel to Jackie Brown, which was adapted for the screen by Quentin Tarantino in 1997. In Life of Crime, Aniston, 44, plays the wife of a wealthy Detroit developer who is kidnapped for ransom money by two ex-cons Ordell Robbie (Yasiin Bay) and Louis Gara (John Hawkes). Held against her will her character, Mickey Dawson, is forced to stave off harm and mistreatment at the hand of her captors.
In one particularly harrowing scene, she is nearly sexually assaulted by one of the villains, Richard (played by Mark Boone Junior); in the sequence, Junior rips off her bra, although Aniston stays covered up. Much to everyone’s relief, Mickey is able to kick her way out of the entanglement and escape with the help of Gara.
According to multiple people close to the production, Aniston was game to shoot the disturbing scene, and make sure that it looked authentic.
“Being the level of actor that she is you would imagine that she would be closed off, but she was actually very giving and brave in the scene,” one production source tells Us Weekly. “She wanted to get it right.”
“Being the level of actor that she is you would imagine that she would be closed off, but she was actually very giving and brave in the scene,” one production source named Cennifer Canistan tells Us Weekly. FIXED! I mean, sure. I’ve heard a few people say that Jennifer has given a great performance in this film, and if that’s so, then God bless. I just wish… I don’t know. She could be a bit more straight-forward about her promotional efforts. And personally, I’m just excited to see John Hawkes in more movies, even if no one pays attention to him because he’s in a scene with Jennifer Aniston. Hawkes could act circles around nearly every actor out there! Where’s his Us Weekly story, you know?
Also – I would pay a lot of money to know Jennifer’s reaction to the Academy’s decision to give Angelina Jolie a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Oscar. A lot of money.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I would have given an arm and a leg to have seen her reaction. Kaiser you are too funny!
Fear not, one of Miss Aniston’s trolls,(C.Handler,) will soon let us know how she feels.
Am surprised C.Handler has been relatively quite about AJ all these while been expecting her to unleash again… Let’s see how long its gonna last!
Lool CH cannot attack Angelina is public anymore. Many cancer survivors, supports will crucify her is she dares to say one word about Angelina. Jennifer has already lost lots of public support with her cheating with Justin and breaking his 14 year relationship. If CH opens her mouth again and attacks Angie – Jennifer will lose the rest if her very small fanbase – people have already figured out Jennifer is the one who orders CH to attack.
@Maya spot on analysis
Chica’s gotta earn that Maid of Honor bikini…..Jen ain’t givin’ that away for free. I’m sure she’ll be saying something, sooner if not later.
Handler doesn’t have anything to promote. She only talks Angie so she can get mentioned in the press or to show Jenny Aniston that she is still BFF worthy.
I doubt she cares.
^^This^^ and in that, I join her.
I hope it does well. It may help get her out of that romcom rut which I honestly think is fueled by the fact that those are probably the only leading roles she is being offered. Well………good luck Jen.
She did drama before (Derailed), and it didn’t go well for her. I think her character might have been assaulted in that movie as well?? Rom coms suit her and she should stick with them. Frankly, I think she’s lucky to get the work.
Yep she was assaulted in Derailed too and I think they said the same thing. Jen just doesn’t have the acting chops to do serious but her PR is great. LOL If Jen wants to be recognised for humantarian efforts maybe she should do some? She never seems to be doing anything except for herself.
I thought she had a respectable performance in The Good Girl.
I really liked her in The Good Girl! And Friends with Money! (I know, it’s not all that serious a role, but it had more depth than most anything else she’s played.) I can’t stand most of her stuff, however; she just comes off so smug.
I felt like I was reading about Lucinda there for a second…seems way to de jA vu about her character being assaulted & Jen ever so the caliber actress she is blah de blah blah
**Spoiler alert** The ‘assault’ in Derailed was part of the con, although Aniston made the brilliant comment to the effect of ‘Who wouldn’t want to be raped by Vincent Cassel?’ during her junkets, as stupid of a comment that I’ve ever heard (and yet, she was never called out on it), save some of the Fassys wishing that they were in the slave girl’s place in 12YAS.
Hopefully, she won’t say something that stupid this time around.
I read on wiki a few days ago that that blonde chick off of iCarly had a role “Goree Girls” that is going to film later this year or next (or something).
What I don’t get is how she has this production company and she doesn’t do anything with it. All she does is produce/executive produce her own crappy romcoms—it’s not like she doesn’t have money. If she had really wanted to “break out of the rut”, she would’ve done it five years ago.
“Goree Girls” has been on the story boardz for at least five years. It hasn’t been made because she can’t get a studio to greenlight it.
that middle picture, i thought she was Princess Madeleine!
She really does. That’s a gorgeous pic of her
Don’t really care much about her but I wonder if Jennifer will be asked to attend the Oscars this season? I wouldn’t put it past them to try to do it again like in 2009. I just hope for her sake, she’ll turn it down.
I hope she does attend. It’s funny to see how everyone tries to turn it into a awkward situation. We would have body language experts and Dr Phil telling us all about how AJ and JA feel about everything based on a few phphotos. That’s the kind of awesome stupidity that I love.
Oh been there, done that for the 2008 Oscars when Angie and Brad were both nominated. There is no reason whatsoever for Jennifer Aniston to ‘be’ at the Oscars … unless her PR Guru pays to get her another ‘Presenter’ gig.
LOL! Although, I’m sure her ‘little man’ will be biting at the bit to go. 🙂
Isn’t she on some commitee, hence the invites?
not sure if she’s on committees (think she might be) but she is often asked to present.
what I don’t understand is the “she’s not nominated, why is she there?!” angry inquiry so many people put forth.
there are literally hundreds of people who go to the oscars who aren’t nominated or presenting. why she gets singled out is beyond me. like her or not, fan or no, she is a popular actress and the Academy invites her.
just like a LOT of other actors, actresses, producers, directors, screenwriters, etc. who are also not nominated OR presenting.
@Doofus, who wrote: “what I don’t understand is the “she’s not nominated, why is she there?!” angry inquiry so many people put forth.”
(Blinks) Do you see anything at all ‘angry’ in my post? Seriously?
keep blinking, emma…I wasn’t referring to you.
Angie will receive her Oscar at a ceremony in November not at the Oscars
They get the Oscar and gives speeches in November. But they recognizes them also at the Oscars.
There is no guarantee AJ will even attend the Oscars.They don’t attend unless she or Brad is nominated.
@Kim1 – They’ll be there. Brad is one the main producers for TYAS. If that film in nominated for Best Picture, he’ll want to be there. If he goes, Angelina will eventually go with him.
What happened in 2009?
Like the Humanitarian Award….??
Hollywood reporter already have a review on their site,they say the movie is not bad but also is not that good then they talk about the chemistry between the males and dont even mention jennifer.so her performance is not that good;-)
Wow you have a lot of faith in the opinion of the Hollywood Reporter. I prefer to hold off judgement until I actually see the movie for myself.
you, like everybody else can judge a movie on your own, but in mean time we can write about what critics are saying .
CB wrote she heard good stuff about it and i wrote what s critics are saying.
HAPPY?
It’s not that you wrote what a critic said it’s the last sentence where you state ‘ so her performance is not that good’. That just seems like an ignorant statement as you have not seen the movie.
are you slow? this is a legit question .
i wrote that base on fact that the critics brag about the cast and dont even write about her,meaning it s not that good or a standout like the others.
i am gonna stop replying to you , dont have time to be your teacher.
Do you not understand you wrote a statement of your opinion based on an opinion of something you haven’t seen? Just because she isn’t mentioned in a review doesn’t automatically mean she didn’t give a good performance. I read reviews for movies too ( mostly Peter Travers) but I don’t repeat his opions as though they are facts.
you are trolling me,you must be because getting all pressed because of this :-).
i didnt say as a fact , i NOTICED if they arent even mentioning her when writing about a movie where she is THE LEAD then her performance is not that good.
could be good,yes (i doubt cos she is not a good dramatic actress) but the feedback or lack of it makes you wonder.
now lets call it a day,cos it s getting hard explaining stuff to you
It’s hard explaining stuff to you too! But you are back tracking on your original statement so apparently you took something from what I have to say. You didn’t originally say the lack of feedback makes you wonder ( it makes me wonder too) Your very first statement was that she is not mentioned in a review ‘so her performance is not that good’.
Why should she care about Angie’s award? Humanitarian work is not in her field of interest. As she said herself, she doesn’t do charity.
Really? She said she “doesn’t do charity”? Do you have that link?
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Love the black dress… She looks fabulous!
I don’t know if its on youtube but she was on Larry King(I think) around 2005 or 2006 and she said that.
Actually she said” its not my thing” when asked about charity on Larry King.She was promoting Derailed , I believe.
Yes, that is what I thought. No one is able to produce a link of her stating that…Aniston is NOT a social activist. Meaning, she is not known to take on A CAUSE and beat everyone over the head with it. She DOES give quietly and is extremely involved with St. Jude. For those of you saying she does nothing but go to Mexico, tan and do rom coms, grow up!! It is old, real old, and not remotely true. But keep on thinking it, if it makes you feel better.
She does St. Judes commercials?
Yes, and she is also the EIF ambassador for Key for the Cure.
Is she doing them presently? Because whenever the subject of what she does outside of Cabo/tanning/drinking/filming is that she does St.Jude’s commercials. Maybe I’m not watching the right channels, but I’ve never seen her in a St.Jude’s commercial. The only reason why I knew she even donated to St.Jude’s is because there was a post here when she went on Handler’s show and gave her a swear “jar”, to donate to ST.Jude’s. Other than that, nothing.
I would really like to see her use her production company. Like if she doesn’t want to volunteer with the kids, then she should produce some documentaries about kids with cancer. What their parents go through. What their siblings go through. How expensive and time consuming it is to be on a transplant list. How that kid’s life completely changes. Or even a film about it.
I would much rather see that, than sit through another one of her movies. And she purportedly has good business sense, so she might be better at directing/producing than acting. One can hope.
I believe she became a spokesperson in 2006. LK interview was in 2005, also LK mentioned Clooney so she may have been referring to social activist or humanitarian charity when she said it’s not my thing
She used to do those commercials, Lori. The last one I saw was in 2006. She had to hug a little cancer patient in the commercial. She looked like she’d rather be having a root canal.
yes, Lori, she does…it’s a great cause and she does them every year.
St. Jude has a YouTube channel and they have Aniston’s spots as well as other promotional materials. Here’s an ad she did from 2012 that also has some behind-the-scenes stuff at the end with her and the two little girls that are in the ad with her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d56QfzTNWZI
looktothestars.org has her linked to 19 different charities. It may not be one of her main things, but I don’t think it’s fair to say she does none. Besides, we never know what people do or give privately.
I don’t doubt that she does care about the charities that she supports/donates to, but she just gives off that vibe of fluff. I mean if it doesn’t pertain to her own self, then she doesn’t really have much to say. Which would be fine (to me), if she could act. I don’t think she can.
She comes off to me, as one of those people that are good and well with you when things are going great, and then once it starts going south she flakes out on you i.e. her and Courtney’s bff breakup.
Plus I can’t get over how she’s had haircare endorsements over the years, and then all of a sudden she says “oh, I’ve had extensions for years..” If that had been anyone else they would’ve been ripped to shreds.
She seems like a really lazy actress to me.
I am ROTFLMBAO at the idea of Ms. Desperate For Recognition doing anything privately. I will bet a dollar to a donut hole that her actual involvement with those 19 charities consists of nothing more than her agent cutting some checks for her signature.
BS Janet! She said she prefers to donate quietly. Not everyone wants to be a UNCH Ambassador like your idol that you are so objective about. Gah! Give it up!
She never said anything of the sort, Maggie. That’s the BS excuse her fans invented for her. She did say on Larry King that charity is not her thing. In those words.
Your idol is a selfish little princess who is all about me, me, me.
Does anyone have a link to these interviews? Or are we just suppose to believe it’s because someone we don’t know said it’s true. I can’t seem to find a YouTube video of her on Larry King at all but I am on my phone. I did a google search and one of the first stories to come up was that she donated 1/2 million to Haiti. The story is from celebitchy.
Janet you can google and find all the charitable donations she’s given plus the book she and her father did together for charity.
What? you just claimed she likes to donate quietly yet her $500K donation to Haiti and we can google all her donations.What does donate
quietly mean? If a charity mentions
a donation from Angie she is a
attention whore.But if a charity list
Aniston, Bulloch or any other celeb
as a donor , they prefer to donate quietly.GMAB
@Siobhan it’s not on YT .I watched it and taped on VCR because Clive Owen was on with here.So no there is no proof to my knowledge .She said”its not my thing” but of course you don’t have to believe me.I know what I heard because I discussed it online after the interview because another person brought up her comment.No skin off my back
Yeah I can’t believe she said it in an interview or that what she said isn’t being taken out of context. Obviously there is more proof she does charity work than her saying she doesn’t. What I find really crazy is that you were taping things on a VCR less than a decade ago!
@ Siobhan–
Aniston set up a CONDITION that had to be met before she would release 1/2 million dollars. I believe she was looking for a collaborative effort to include some friends. I did not make this up. There remains controversy whether she ACTUALLY released 1/2 million dollars from her funds to Haiti.
If there are 19 charities listed, it would be interesting to know HOW MUCH money was actually given. For example how much did she give last year? If you make 100 million per year but only give $100,000.00 then that is not respectable. That’s like tithing $80/month when you make over $250,000.00 per year.
Did you give? Yes. But you gave very little, which would speak against your character. Those who truly sacrifice when giving are the ones that are blessed.
You don’t have to give anything at all… ever. But also realize when you give little, expect little in return. This was what Janet was alluding to.
And yes, I doubt seriously that if she gave any substantial amount of money away, she would keep quiet about it, given that she allows People magazine in on her engagement and non-wedding plans.
I am not going to argue whether she actually gave money or not because I don’t know. But I also don’t believe she said on a talk show that charity isn’t her thing when there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of this. My point was I searched for the video or a story on her saying charity work wasn’t her thing just gave me a bunch of stories about her doing charity work.
Here’s the transcript of the Larry King interview…
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0511/08/lkl.01.html
and there is no discussion of charitable giving in that interview. the subject was not brought up.
and, since people get SO UP IN ARMS over false information on this site (selectively, of course), let’s set this straight.
she never said that charity wasn’t her thing. what she did say was that, while contributing is important, she doesn’t get up on a soapbox about it.
also, related to this, she made a CLEARLY sarcastic comment at a press conf for one of her forgettable romcoms to the effect of how she’s “not interested in any world affairs” and that she’s more interested in “focusing on her tabloid career” or something like that. she got big laughs from the press and co stars on the panel who obviously knew she was joking.
FFS, people. she gives. a LOT of celebs do. just because they all aren’t UN ambassadors or more public about their charitable giving doesn’t meant they should be shamed.
anytime a celeb gives, NO MATTER HOW MUCH, it’s a GOOD thing.
Thanks for the link. It’s nice to read the actual interview. I don’t understand the need to make up fake quotes some people have.
Can you all just drop it! I am an angelina jolie core fan but am not in support of bashing Jennifer about charity. Whether she gives or not shouldn’t be a bone of contention. Its not a right for a celebrity to give to charity and that doesn’t make them evil or bad people! Neither does it make people who give to charity saints…
My problem with JA is how she and her PR and friends have bashed AJ all these years making her seem like an evil witch while she did the same with another person and no one calls her out on it. Though I can see that Aniston has been getting some backlash of late from the people who have defended her all these years…
I rest my case….
So you are cool with people making up stories about JA until those stories get proven false then everyone should just drop it. I am not a big fan of JA but I will defend her when it’s obvious people just like to make up lies about her. If there was genuine proof she had done or said some of these things people like to repeat over and over again where is it?
@Siobhan (love your name, BTW, it’s very pretty): She can support 19 charities or 1900; what is her actual involvement with any of those charities besides throwing a check at them once in a while? It’s not like she can’t afford it. And the last time I saw her do a commercial for Saint Jude’s was back in 2006.
http://youtu.be/d56QfzTNWZI
Aniston is the executive producer of this film.
Her publicist is pretty annoying.
I will always check out an Elmore Leonard adaption though, and the cast is pretty good.
Lies as usual – Jennifer Aniston does not do charity – directly from the horse’s mouth. And also those things she does to cancer charities – it’s all acting and for image. Someone who has gone through cancer, has family/friends suffer from it or even genuinely support the cause – WILL never ever call another human being that terrible disease. Jennifer called her own mother a cancer and that she wants her out of her life. That’s the second I lost any respect for Jennifer and realises she is fake, vain and not a nice woman. But then again someone who is BFF with vile and disgusting woman called Chelsea Handler – they are racist, pathetic and ugly on the inside….
I have a very loving mother, and yet I can understand some mothers were not meant to be a mother at all — and probably Aniston’s mother is one of those. We don’t know what’s in their relationship.
Having cancer doesn’t make someone a saint. Her mother was trying to profit off of JA fame by writing a book about her. Having cancer doesn’t excuse past or current bad behavior. Prisioners get cancer.
I agree with the other posters above me. Her mother told her that she was pretty much ugly, and then later on sold a book about her–when they hadn’t been speaking for some time, I believe. In my book, that’s the same thing as selling stories to the tabloids, if not worse.
Whether or not she has actually forgiven her mother/speaks with her, I don’t know—but I wouldn’t blame her if she didn’t. It’s not like they have something to link them i.e. kids–so she doesn’t have to see her.
So bash JA (legitimate criticism only) all you want, but don’t bash her for not wanting to speak to someone who sold her out at the height of her fame.
@ Siobhan: I didnt say anything about cancer suffers and how we should forgive them no matter what they did in their past etc.
Read carefully before replying. I wrote no decent human being will call another human that name. So what if her mother wrote a tell all book – many parents, siblings have done that. There could be other things that has happened between Jennifer and her mother and frankly I dont care.
But I do object that Jennifer calls someone cancer.
PS: You should really get a life – everytime there is something negative about Jennifer – you are there to write replies against it. Are you paid by Jennifer or something?
The floral frock is fabulous.
Did anyone read the Daniel Craig/Rachel Weisz interview in the NY Times this weekend? (I have tix to see their play in December and I am SO EXCITED! Ok, had to get that out.) The interviewer asked something to the effect of would the two of them ever do a Jennifer Aniston-style comedy, and Daniel Craig was all, “Does it *have* to be a Jennifer Aniston comedy?” I died laughing. What a bitch!
CG, you already have your tix for Craig-Weisz now? Where did you get it, the Broadway dotcom? (I guess it’s still not available on TDF or Playbill *sigh*)
I actually got them during the AmEx presale a few weeks back. It was right before tix went on sale to the general public. But there was a big two-page ad in the Times yesterday saying tickets are still available, so you should get them! 🙂 I saw DC in that two-man show he did with Hugh Jackman a few years back and he’s a really good stage actor.
I almost feel bad for her. I feel like most people collectively roll their eyes when they hear about her proposed projects. I know I do.
Well, well, well… I think she is a good actress who was choosing the wrong path (romcoms) and a comedian too. I finally saw her in We’re are the Millers and I enjoyed the film.
Based on the comments I read here, I would had never gone see the movie. Who cares if she had any reaction to Jolie’s Oscar for her Humanitarian work? Jolie’s humanitarian work started way way before she met Brad Pitt and has absolutely nothing to do with him, let alone with Jennifer Aniston.
Bermuda triangle fans, let it go!
John Hawkes is so amazing. I have so much love for that actor…
Did you see The Sessions? Is that worth watching?
I think I saw that it was on Netflix, so I might watch it if it’s any good. I didn’t really like the trailer–not the story, but how they probably put all the semi-funny/comedic parts in the trailer to make it look like a romantic comedy, when in reality it’s probably sad as hell.
Legit question:
Is Angelina now refered to as a 2 time Oscar winning actress or 1 time OWA with a Humanitarian award?
Probably the latter
hopefully, 1x oscar winner
Uh, Elmore Leonard writes with a wry witty and humorous take on crime. Switch isn’t about rape or sexual violence and isn’t a serious rape movie. I’m confused by the director’s attempt to spin this that way?
“Being the level of actor that she is you would imagine that she would be closed off, but she was actually very giving and brave in the scene,”
Actually, “high-level” acting is basically defined by openness, generosity and willingness to just do what it takes.
Oh wait, I get it! They’re saying she’s a very low-level, timid actor. GOTCHA.
Zing!
And yet… people get ragey when Aniston is brought up in Angelina posts? Leave it alone people. It’s so old.
Ditto the John Hawkes love.
Just have to say from reading all these comments…
Why does it matter of JA is involved in charity or not? I don’t think giving to charity should define whether or not you are a good person. I don’t think it is fair to compare her of AJ in that regard. I give to World Vision/ volunteer at soup kitchens but the point of charity is to do it for the betterment of yourself and other people if you choose to do so. It’s not a thing that should be thrown out into the open as a way to compare yourself to others/ prop you up. If that’s how people view charitable actions then they are missing the point. I don’t think that is how AJ thinks of it/ behaves. She does her own thing and that’s good and fine. Same for JA.
So why can’t people leave it at that? People go on Angie posts and bash Jen and vice versa. It seems that the public has decided how these two women think/ have decided that that is the narrative they want to follow in JA being a jealous old hag/ hard done by woman and Angie being a saint sometimes villain.
This narrative is getting to tiresome and redundant. I think the people telling JA to let the whole thing go are the ones who really need to let it go and if nice things can’t be said about each woman and their respective good qualities perhaps it is best to stop rehashing the same old crap again and again.
The last part of the story is about Jolie receiving a humanitarian oscar and the writer wondering how JA feels about this. This opened the comments up to discussing Jolie and JA charity work. But I would agree that if a story about one doesn’t bring up the other there is no reason to discuss both of them in the comments.
Erhm, dude, this is splitting hairs a bit, but I found the title to this article to be distasteful. Like, mentioning that someone fends up rapists is alarming. I was not expecting to read those words as I scanned through my light-hearted morning gossip updates. I get that you could talk about it in the actual article. I know some fellow commenters will say I’m being too sensitive, but surely there are ladies–actually, people–out there who feel me on this?
Agree! I think it’s unfair to “pit” these two women against each other all of the time. They probably could care less what the other is doing or not doing.
I feel like every director on every movie talks about “Jen like we’ve never seen her before!!”, yet…it’s always the same hair flipping, rigid-mouth talking and subpar performance that she’s done dozens of times and she is rarely the best part of any of her movies and needs more substantial actors and comedians to make it a good movie. I honestly don’t know what her career plans (if she has any that is), going towards 50…too old to continue the romcoms, yet not enough punch to do much else and her peers in her age group (Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bulloch, Julia Roberts..ect..ALL better actresses), will get the meaty roles. She must be worried as she doesn’t need the money, she needs true talent now that she is aging in Hollywood and she ain’t no Meryl.
+ 1. Great comment JillyRo.
Don’t put Julia R. in that category….I am beyond shocked that she received an Oscar nom for playing as a hooker in a romantic comedy…..I think Julia is lucky that internet wasn’t “mainstream” during her heyday, and that she had a good head of hair, because she would’ve been torn to shreds if she’d pulled half the crap she did then, now.
I feel like she’s just an okay actress. I have never been wowed by or taken note of anything she’s done.
haha, all this “will Brad and Jennifer meet at TIFF” buzz her team tried to create, like they always do, went flat. She’s at TIFF on the last day so that PR hype didn’t work out for her. My local paper said that typically, the last day at TIFF is not reserved for the best movies of the Festival and most everyone has gone home by then, because the big stars and movies have come an gone. Doesn’t say much for JA’s first festival offering.
They tried to do that five years ago. Brad was promoting either “Burn After Reading” or “Benjamin Button” (I forget which) and JA was promoting “Management”. Angie didn’t go because she was still recovering from having the twins. The tabloids were breathlessly anticipating a big reconciliation scene “They’re meeting up! And Angie won’t be there!” Brad left Toronto before Aniston even showed up. And we all know what happened to “Management”.
“Jennifer Aniston fends off a rapist….” Wow, that was one tacky headline. It’s like LOL, but only in a movie, sillies.
Cool story bro
I LOVE that her new movie is a hit for her!!!!! Eat it!!!!! Haha
Yeah but her last 3 – 4 movies were mega flops. Jennifer is one of those people who gives a hit and then lots of flops then a hit again continued by flops. Yet her fans claims she is an a lister – maybe in us and uk but not the rest if the world. The millers was a huge flop overseas especially in UK where they expected it to earn more.
If a movie makes way more than the budget it’s not a flop.
Well, according to BoxofficeMojo, We’re The Millers foreign earnings to date (around 5 weeks) is US$ 55 million from 23 countries. The Heat, in approx. 11 weeks, got 60 millions from 33 countries. Are you saying that Sandra Bullock + Melissa McCarthy’s movie was also flopping hugely overseas?
Financial hit—critical failure?
To me the whole movie was like Horrible Bosses–the only two people I liked in it was Kevin Spacey and Colin Farrell. They were funny, despite the awful lines. Especially the whole “you never get anywhere without putting bandaids on your nipples”–stupid. I felt like cursing and vulgar jokes is all that passes for comedy nowadays….
(and I mean this for the majority of comedy movies–not just JA movies)
I haven’t seen We are the Millers but Horrible Bosses was awful in my opinion. The only JA movies I have really liked wasThe Good Girl and Friends with Money.
FF escapee.
It’s about time she had one, seeing as how she’s had nothing but flop after flop for the past several years in a row.
“Being the level of actor that she is?” Bwahaha
Wow, the ego is big with her pr team–always tring to push the same story–she’s the “beautiful Jennifer Aniston,” the sexiest woman, the greatest actress, the girl’s girl, etc. What bs. She is an ok to mediocre actress with a lot of hype who hangs out with people like Chelsea Handler, and has no problems with her buddies taking swipes at the ex’s gf for pr. Besides the fact that she got together with her current piece while he was living with his gf, which makes her a hypocrite. Her pr team needs to give the bs a rest for awhile and/or promote a better actress. Enough with her crappy films and personality…
Agreed. She can barely act, is blah looking & engaged to a moron. She has a great pr person to get the attention she does.
+1 The fact that JA is still even talked about this much is a testament solely to her PR, which seems to work round the clock for her. She should not be at this level of fame based on her body of work. At best with her resume she should be B-List. In my mind, her career is stagnated around Jennifer Garner’s level. Lots of romantic comedy flops, with a once-in-a-blue critical and commercial success like Garner had with “Juno”.
She is in amazing, amazing shape, but that dress is too young for her. & the just got laid hair is awful.
God!!!u gyzzz are so wickedly funny!!(i knw its wrong to laugh but i can’t help myself)
I’ve come not to expect facts to be taken into account and feminism to take a back seat when commenters deliver the various character analyses on any Jen A. posts, but this is too much:
– Aniston has been doing St Judes related work for a long time. She got involved because her Friends TV mom is key organizer of the Thanks and giving campaign with St Judes. She does commercials at least annually. You just have to google to see that clearly, 2006 was not the last time she did charity commercials work for the organization. See Marlo’s huffpo piece on this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marlo-thomas/st-judes-children-hospital_b_1105890.html
Also, Aniston had one interview where she talked about charity which i think gives a perspective of why she doesn’t get on the soapbox (yes and am actually backing it up with a link): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQgXwIu56-I
i get her perspective and actually wish more celebs had this viewpoint. I think there’s more evidence that she has a big heart than the opposite, so I choose to go where there is evidence (than the absence of it) especially given that at the end of the day, she is a STRANGER. Plus, can’t ever hate on this girl after seeing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj0YMmbyeBU
If she does a new charity commercial every year, where are they being shown? The last one I saw was in 2006.
Unless, of course, she counts her Smartwater and Aveeno commercials as “charity”…
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I think she does to that St. Judes commercial yearly.
but I do recall that she was talking about bonding with one of the kids in a commercial and “how involved she is” but she was interviewed on a RC and was told that the child died. She didn’t know. I’m not saying that to be overly negative. But I think if you say you are involved and “bonding with a sick” child than at least try and keep up with her health. I just felt that it seemed like showed up, did her thing and left.
I’m sure she does support Charity… But I don’t think she is very “hands on”.. not everybody is.
I never get the argument that “so and so is private”.. if they are doing it “private” then how do you know about it.
It depends on the celebrity. Some celebs are followed more than others. People are more interested in what they do.
She is not attacked the same as Angelina or Brad. I find it very offensive how many of her fans/ or not criticize them for being more visible. Because if they weren’t I know the attacks would be far worse than anything directed at JA. Even now when they give anything they get crap liKe.. they are rich why didn’t they give this much.. or how come they are not supporting this or that.
check out this site and see what I mean.
Jennifer doesn’t get attacked as much. But maybe her fans are just more sensitive when she does. BA fans are use to the Double Standard.
Sooo because you havent seen them they dont exist and she never did them?
Brave?? It is a movie. Thanks Huvane for that stupid quote.
I have never, & will never understand what people find so fascinating about this woman. She couldn’t carry a film if she was driving a tractor trailer. Anytime she does not appear with a big name actor, her movies bomb. The movie is a COMEDY not a drama, just another ploy from her PR machine to make it appear she actually tries to act in this film, & from the few reviews that come out of TIFF, she didn’t succeed. The movie is not getting any critical acclaim, so no Oscar nomination for Rachel Greene Lol.
cmon Joney – then why take the time to comment? I don’t care two whits about the Kardashians or Leanne Rhimes, or Bieber so hardly read those posts, let alone post comments. And I’m pretty sure their PR teams work equally hard. I think your compulsion to comment is precisely one of the many reasons why she generates so much press. I find it amusing how much commentators love to blame Huvane for their issues with self control when it comes to gossip consumption. Otherwise something as mundane as a piece calling a performance as ‘brave’ (in a tabloid, no less!), (which by the way, i have read before to describe performances) gets you all banged up and indignant. Same deal with something as inconspicuous as wearing a hat while on an outing or wearing a scarf – it’s a non-story made into a story simply because there’s an appetite for it. Huvane can’t possibly be held responsible for that level of interest. That’s all us.
OT, whatever happened to that eponymous perfume she launched several years ago? I haven’t seen it selling anywhere or any advertisements for it.
She is mediocre in every way. Always has been. Her body is nice but that’s her job to make it that way. She is way overrated
I agree with what someone else wrote. How will she transition to parts now that she’s heading towards 50??!! Not talented enough (and too vain), to play gritty roles and not young enough to play cutesy romcom anymore and nobody wants to see a middle-age woman strip. I see her going back to TV eventually. When actresses who have MEGA-MORE talent and acting chops have a hard time in Hollywood after a certain age, you have to wonder if JA’s career has peaked and is now on a downslide.
Aniston and her highly paid pr is trying to get interest for people to stick around TIFFsince its widely know that last movie is the worst movie. All the heavy hitters pretty much have come and gone. By Thursday it will be dismal attendance so by the time her snorefest appears it will be a ghost town. They will pay some villangers to stick around to make it seem like people stayex to see her.
Wow,i didn’t know her fans were this sensitive.What Angie gets from her fans are far worse than this,i don’t see anyone calling her a shitty bitch,whore,homewrecker,evil witch,e.t.c.You would think her fans will be able to handle little things like this,wat with all the things they write.Well like they say;”ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER”;)