Reese Witherspoon’s Mad Dash

Bombed again last night. Number 12.

Penelope was better than I expected. I really loved that movie. It was a disappointment that they weren’t as big of a success as I wanted. Everyone should go watch it!

The idea that the public would want to go see a movie about the problems of a pig-faced woman is ridiculous. Reese shows she doesn’t know what the public likes by producing it.

What is ominous about 4 Christmases is that the director appears not to have made any successful movies during the 2000’s. In fact his credits seem pretty dim. I wonder why Reese would think it smart to get into a movie with a “mediocre”? director. Perhaps she is so egotistic that she thinks she can carry any movie she is in. WRONG. She didn’t make Rendition a success and she didn’t make Penelope a success. Given that Jake’s movies since Brokeback have been quasi-failures too makes them a…..well let’s just say they aren’t Jolie and Pitt.

There is no backlash against reese , people are beginning to notice that she is not worth all the money she is being paid.,like clooney once said the era of quality actors are now gone. all these americans actors suck, Kate Blanchet is an excellent actor but you don’t see her getting paid what this woman reese is getting paid. Natalie Portman is another example if she were to get the right roles. What happens is the the big studios back a mediocore movie with all this hype and put alot of money into advertising, and how great the acting was and people start to believe this ****.The weinsteins kept saying how linsey lohan was going to get an oscar for her last movie another ex. of how big studios back these talentless actors with hype.How many good movies did it take Denzel washington to finally get an oscar the black actors have more acting depth but they don’t get all the hype.,they rather promote little Matty Damon whose movies all tank with the exception of the franchise Borne Indentity but put matty in a serious role and watch him tank like his good friend ben who can’t act for the life of him, and by the way neither can his wife. But they are the ones the studios back.Take JUno wtf a little movie which i saw and was shocked at all the hype it got and how people ate it up. Not to leave out the christian senator that went out to promote it to all the christian youth, so that they would support llfe oppose to abortion. It’s going to get worse with all these singers becoming actors now wtf stay in your gengre. Jessica Simpsom , mariah , beyonce etc. wtf.

If Reese didn’t get paid for Penelope and took a pay cut for Rendition, how come she was the top paid actress in 2007. Was she in another ‘blockbuster’ I somehow managed to miss.

Ah I see it’s the same person commenting back and forth to themselves again. At least V hasn’t hit up this thread yet with her broken English.

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It ’s not a joke, she has worked hard and made studios millions of dollars for years. Penelope which is a low low budget movie with limited release is not expected to do well and it was screwed during ditribution, it was first picked up by IFC a divsion of Weistein at the Toronto Film festival in 2006, they went thru management changes and dropped many movies, that’s when another company came forward and purchased Penelope again (Summitt). It’s miracle the movie was able to land another companies interest and it will make it’s money back. Rendition wasn’t just her movie and had subject matter that people didn’t want to see.

But after that Reese has been golden for the studios, bringing in well over 100million dollar box office results in both Legally Blonde movies, Sweet Home Alabama & Walk the line, all movies that the cost was way less then the returns. Just Like Heaven has also earned over 100 million dollars and Cruel Intentions was
a movie that cost 10 million and made 75 million.

She is being smart and so is the studio doing 4 Christmases which should be a hit just for the subject matter and the cast alone.

Only good - your heart’s in the right place, but some of your facts are off. This is Variety’s account in September of the Summit acquisition of distribution rights for Penelope. Variety also does not support your low budget Indie theory.
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“Summit Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to “Penelope,” starring Reese Witherspoon and Christina Ricci.
Summit, which is gearing up to operate as a full-service studio, plans to release “Penelope” on Feb. 1. Pic’s a teen fable centered on a woman with a facial deformity who must marry someone from her own class to break an evil spell.

IFC acquired domestic theatrical rights for “Penelope” last year at Toronto. It set release dates in April and then again in August before pulling the plug as part of its move to focus on its core business of smaller-budget indies. IFC was partnered with the Weinstein Co., which had acquired TV and homevid rights. :

You only make yourselves sound like obnoxious, jealous and ignorant people.

Ha how very very true that is.

So people who don’t think Jake and Reese are amazingly talented, good looking and successful are obnoxious, jealous and ignorant??

How about different people like different stars and many people find Jake and/or Reese to be stuck up, boring and ugly.

That is also very true.

twittypoo - 7 million and 9 million. I had too many zeros. Those numbers are from Forbes - Top 100 for 2006 and 2007. Kinda disputes her being a 15-20 million dollar actress.

Vaughn desperately needs a hit, too, so if 4 Christmases doesn’t work, they’re both dead meat.

I give a d…. about her….