Jennifer Aniston 2010 News

Busy Philips talks to Pop Sugar about Jen and says she is disappointed they didn’t have any scenes together.

This just in from Entertainment Weekly:

It’s official: ABC is confirming what I first reported last month: Courteney Cox will reunite with her former Friends costar (and real-life BFF) Jennifer Aniston in the show’s second-season premiere on Sept. 22.

Who will she play? Keep reading for all the exclusive details straight from exec producer Bill Lawrence…

“She’s going to play Courteney’s shrink named Bonnie,” reveals Lawrence, referring to Cox’s character, Jules. “Kind of a get-too-involved-in-her-life-type of therapist. Those guys are so close in real life they kind of do that for each other anyway. Bonnie has the life Jules wishes she has.”

Cougar Town is a favorite around here and we are so happy to get this news!

I usually don’t play the numbers game with Jens films, but it has gone beyond the absurd this time.

Actual  Numbers are from Box Office Mojo.

UPDATED WITH ACTUAL – Tue, Aug 24, 2010

This is the actual order when the average per theater total is used instead of the gross:

You cannot compare the gross take of one film showing at over a thousand more theaters any more than you can compare the performance of a 500 horsepower engine to one with only 200 horsepower. It’s simple grade-school arithmatic.

Only $37.00 per theater separates the number 3 and 4 spots, a virtual tie for third place.

UPDATE: Difference between 3 and 4 is $101.00 using final weekend numbers.

If  ‘The Switch’ had another 1000 theaters it would have finished with a gross of over 12 Million for the week end and landed in the third place.

The Switch didn’t under perform, Disney and Miramax dropped the ball.

And with a production budget in the neighborhood of $16 Million it made back half of its cost to produce in 3 days.

And yet you have US Weekly proclaiming “Jen Aniston’s ‘Switch’ Bombs at Box Office”.

CNN and the LA Times join in too:

The film’s shoddy opening weekend led several media outlets to pose questions like, “Jennifer Aniston: Exactly why is she a movie star?” and “Why don’t Jennifer Aniston’s friends help her more at the box office?”

All this is absolute nonsense. And the LA Times and CNN should be ashamed for being so superficial in their reporting, just parroting the tabloid press with the “poor Jen” headlines.

As to the Bill Simmons ESPN article that Patrick Goldstein of the LA Times quotes, Bill Simmons and his sources obviously get all of their Jen news from the likes of Star, Us Weekly and the National Enquire, the epitome of all that we have come to love about journalism in the 21 century; BS is entertainment and the LA Times and CNN are really just that, Entertainment.

Starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Patrick Wilson, Jeff Goldblum and Juliette Lewis, “The Switch” is produced by Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa. Nathan Kahane, Jennifer Aniston and Kristin Hahn are executive producers.

THE STORY

Jason Bateman in 'The Switch'

Jennifer Aniston in 'The Switch'

Jennifer Anniston with Thomas Robinson as Sebastian

“The Switch” is based on the short story “Baster,” written by Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Jeffrey Eugenides, author of “The Virgin Suicides” and “Middlesex.” Screenwriter Allan Loeb discovered the story when it was originally published in The New Yorker in 1996 and believed it would be a great premise for a film. Loeb subsequently developed the screenplay with producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa of Bona Fide Productions.

Producer Nathan Kahane, president of Mandate Pictures (“Juno,” “Stranger than Fiction”), had an opportunity to read the script and became an enthusiastic fan. “We felt it had a totally fresh approach to a very unique subject, so we reached out to Albert [Berger] and Ron [Yerxa], whom we have worked with in the past, to let them know we were extremely passionate
about partnering with them on this film.”

Walt Disney Pictures and Miramax - The Switch ©2010 Baster Productions, LLC

‘The Switch’ Opens Everywhere today

Jen and Chelsea always have a great time, Jen was on Chelsea Lately last night talking about ‘The Switch’, tabloids and Jens new perfume.

Although…I don’t think Chelsea knows how to use perfume, well…never mind…