The shade from Gitesh who runs boxofficeguru.com (he's legit, he talks about box office on CNN):
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Wanderlust/Gone both flop FRI w/ $2.2M/$1.7M heading to $6M/$5M for wknd. They shd have cast real-life Navy SEALs.
I really don't get Aniston's choice of roles. Does she not like challenges, does she just want money, does she actually think those movies are good, or WHAT is it?
I really don't get Aniston's choice of roles. Does she not like challenges, does she just want money, does she actually think those movies are good, or WHAT is it?
It's so strange how she was so likable on TV and yet in films she's so... not. (I liked her in The Good Girl though)
Next week's box office looks meh. Lorax looks okay but Project X looks like a turd.
I'm seriously going to stop now, though.
Why should I bother when the press is doing the roasting for me?
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Starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston, David Wain's Wanderlust opened at no. 8 with an embarrassing $2.2 million at 2,002 sites, according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Wanderlust's debut was so poor that it trailed even last weekend's weak performers such as the Reese Witherspoon / Chris Pine / Tom Hardy comedy This Means War and the Nicolas Cage 3D actioner Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Wanderlust will be lucky if it reaches $6 million by Sunday evening.
For comparison's sake: The Switch, Jennifer Aniston's 2010 comedy co-starring Jason Bateman, was considered a major box-office disappointment when it opened at 2,012 theaters with $8.43 million. The Switch went on to collect a measly $27.77m domestically and $22m overseas. Wanderlust will likely fare considerably worse. The film's total domestic gross, in fact, will in all probability amount to less than the opening-weekend grosses of two other recent comedies co-starring Aniston: Adam Sandler's Just Go with It ($30.51m) and Horrible Bosses ($28.3m).
Reviews surely didn't help matters much for Wanderlust, as the Universal comedy has a mediocre 52% approval rating among Rotten Tomatoes' top critics.
... when it's not stooping to slow-motion scenes of superannuated nudists running across a field in all their pendular glory. Male frontal nudity may be the driving raison d'etre of "Wanderlust," which also features a sequence of Aniston taking off her top - an image that's digitally scrambled, presumably according to the actress's contract.
Between this film and last summer's "Horrible Bosses," Aniston's coyness - starring in explicit movies without having to be explicit herself - seems to be becoming her stock in trade. It's not a particularly commendable one, and "Wanderlust" does little to disprove that she's still a star more suited to TV rather than the big screen.
LA Times:
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"Wanderlust," a new Judd Apatow-produced comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd, and the thriller "Gone" starring Amanda Seyfried were both flops, opening to just $6.6 million and $5 million, respectively.
Can you believe Judd Apatow produced Wanderlust? He's been behind some of the biggest comedy smashes of the past decade, the last one being Bridesmaids.
He's been behind some of the biggest comedy smashes of the past decade, the last one being Bridesmaids.