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Just Go With It Red Carpet Sweepstakes
Every time you place a delivery order using your MasterCard card on www.pizzahut.com, you will be automatically entered into the “Just Go With It” Red Carpet Sweepstakes (free alternate method of entry available)**. The grand prize winner will receive a three-night trip to New York and two tickets to attend the Red Carpet special screening of “Just Go With It”, as well as a $2,500 MasterCard Gift Card. In addition to the grand prize, Pizza Hut will also be giving away select movie memorabilia and MasterCard gift cards*.
“There are few things that go together as well as movies and pizza,” said Tressie Lieberman, head of promotions for Pizza Hut. “Our customers have made both a favorite part of their date night moments, which is why we are thrilled to partner with MasterCard and the upcoming release of ‘Just Go With It’ on this promotion.”
The “Just Go With It” Red Carpet Sweepstakes ends January 9, 2011, but Pizza Hut and MasterCard will continue to work together to send their customers to a showing of the movie. From January 10 through February 13, 2011, each time you make a for delivery purchase from www.pizzahut.com of $25 or more using your MasterCard card, you will be awarded one movie ticket ($10 value).
Pizza Hut Red Carpet Sweepstakes
From PR News Wire
Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler and Brooklyn Decker star in ‘Just Go With It’
Jen plays Sandler’s assistant who has developed the perfect pick-up routine by being the forlorn husband in an unhappy marriage until he is smitten with Brooklyn Decker. Decker isn’t buying the package and insists on meeting his wife. Originally titled ‘The Pretend Wife’ Sandler talks his assistant into playing the part.
Alan Arkin May Join Jennifer Aniston in ‘Buttercup’
The Wrap is reporting Alan Arkin has signed on to Buttercup.
Oscar winner Alan Arkin is set to star opposite Jennifer Aniston in the dark indie “Buttercup,” an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap.
Niki Caro (“Whale Rider”) directs the dramedy from a script by Alice O’Neil.
Arkin will play a grossly irresponsible father who, in the wake of his wife’s death, decides to get his life back on track with the help of his slightly neurotic daughter (Aniston).
No official word as yet.
Alan last worked with Jen in Marly and Me.
Read more at: TheWrap
Alan Alda joins “Wanderlust” cast.
According to The Hollywood Reporter Alan Alda will play the head of the nudist camp Paul Rudd and Jen join to escape the New York rat race.
Alda will first board Universal’s Judd Apatow comedy “Wanderlust,” then becomes the first to join Ben Stiller in “Tower Heist,” which Brett Ratner is directing.
In “Wanderlust,” which follows a married couple played by Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd trying to escape modern society by moving out of New York, Alda will play the head of a naturist village.
Alan has worked with both Jennifer and Paul Rudd in the The Object of My Affection in 1998
‘The Switch’ at the box office ( Updated )
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
| Title | Theaters | Gross/Theater |
|---|---|---|
| 1. The Expendables | 3,270 | $5,189 |
| 2. Vampires Suck | 3,233 | $3,774 |
| 3. Eat Pray Love | 3,082 | $3,930 |
| 4. Lottery Ticket | 1,973 | $5,399 |
| 5. The Other Guys | 3,472 | $2,927 |
| 6. Piranha 3D | 2,470 | $4,092 |
| 7. The Switch | 2,012 | $4,193 |
| 8. Nanny McPhee | 2,784 | $3,020 |
| 9. Inception | 2,401 | $3,265 |
| 10. Scott Pilgrim vs. | 2,820 | $1,845 |
This is the actual order when the average per theater total is used instead of the gross:
| Title | Theaters | Gross/Theater |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Lottery Ticket | 1,973 | $5,399 |
| 2. The Expendables | 3,270 | $5,189 |
| 3. The Switch | 2,012 | $4,193 |
| 4. Piranha 3D | 2,470 | $4,092 |
| 5. Eat Pray Love | 3,082 | $3,930 |
| 6. Vampires Suck | 3,233 | $3,774 |
| 7. Inception | 2,401 | $3,265 |
| 8. Nanny McPhee | 2,784 | $3,020 |
| 9. The Other Guys | 3,472 | $2,927 |
| 10. Scott Pilgrim vs. | 2,820 | $1,845 |
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.
‘The Switch’ Opens today!
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'
Neurotic, self-absorbed and pessimistic Wally Mars’ (Jason Bateman) financial success with New York stock trading partner Leonard (Jeff Goldblum) does little to shake his fundamentally gloomy perspective on the world.
Jennifer Aniston in 'The Switch'
(Jennifer Aniston), beautiful and funny, who, unfortunately for Wally, is content being just friends. When Kassie, in her early 40s and single, announces that she wants to have a baby and doesn’t plan to let the lack of a husband or boyfriend stand in the way, Wally is bursting with anticipation at what he expects to be asked. Then Kassie lowers the boom—she wants him to help her find Mr. Perfect Sperm Donor, not be Mr. Perfect Sperm Donor.
Before long, Kassie finds the perfect donor in the form of charming, Nordiclooking Roland (Patrick Wilson). At Kassie’s “insemination party,” thrown by her best girlfriend Debbie (Juliette Lewis), Wally makes what is surely a lifechanging switch, then passes out and remembers nothing.
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
Jennifer Aniston with Chelsea Handler on E!
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…
‘The Switch’ Premiere Josh Gordon and Will Speck, Jen and Jason
Great interview at ‘The Switch’ Premiere from Amy Kaufman at the LA Times.
‘The Switch’ Premiere - Los Angeles
Jen is stunning in a Lanvin dress, with Josie and Lottie shoes at the Los Angeles Premiere of ‘The Switch’.
‘The Switch’ staring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman
“‘The Switch,’ in my view,” says Berger, “is really about a guy, Wally, Jason Bateman, who has very strong, unrealized feelings towards Kassie, Jennifer Aniston, who he thinks is his best friend.
But, what the audience realizes is that there’s much more to it for him and it’s one of those movies that takes the character a while to catch up to what the audience may be suspecting early on. It’s a very recognizable situation.
There are a lot of dynamics in relationships where a character has to grow into his own feelings and I think that’s very much the journey of Wally in this movie.”
Miramax Films - The Switch ©2010 Baster Productions, LLC
Aniston is also an executive producer on the film, along with her Echo Films partner Kristin Hahn.
“Jennifer, who’s a real pro, was able to wear those two hats in a very positive way for the film,” says Berger.
“She’s graceful, generous and is able to exert her influence on behalf of the production in subtle but good ways.
Kristin Hahn, Jen’s partner, is a very capable producer and it has been a real pleasure making the movie with them.”
“I’ve found Jennifer to be amazingly earthy, charming, direct, very easy to talk to,” adds Yerxa.
Jennifer Aniston found herself drawn to the part for several reasons:
“I thought it was a really beautiful, great story that was kind of unconventional and it’s also one of the first movies that our production company Echo Films will be coming out with. I also wanted to work with Jason Bateman.”
Finding the right child to play Sebastian was a big piece of the puzzle for the filmmakers. Directors Speck and Gordon and casting director Doug Abel did a search for two months in both the New York City and Los Angeles areas with a lot of open calls at grade schools, resulting in many work sessions, callbacks, and screen tests to find the right fit for Sebastian.
Finally, in Los Angeles, they found talented six-year-old Thomas Robinson. Both directors are justifiably proud of the work they put in bringing Thomas through the casting process and then nurturing and guiding him to deliver a fine performance on screen.
Says Speck, “We had seen Thomas on tape and knew we had to meet him in person, so we flew to LA and had a great work session with him.”
Adds Gordon, “He had the perfect balance of vulnerability and introspection that the character demands, and he happens to look a lot like Jason Bateman.”
JASON BATEMAN
JENNIFER ANISTON
JEFF GOLDBLUM
JULIETTE LEWIS
and THOMAS ROBINSON as Sebastian
Screenplay by ALLAN LOEB
Based on the Short Story “Baster” by
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
Produced by ALBERT BERGER and RON YERXA
Executive Producers JENNIFER ANISTON, KRISTIN HAHN and NATHAN KAHANE