Jen Aniston's 'Switch' Bombs at Box Office

Entertainment August 22, 2010 AT 1:05PM
Jen Aniston's 'Switch' Bombs at Box Office Credit: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic

American moviegoers switched off The Switch -- preferring vampires, killer piranhas, Sylvester Stallone and Julia Roberts, to name a few.

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In its debut weekend, Jennifer Aniston's widely promoted sperm donor comedy landed at eighth place, grossing just $8.1 million, Entertainment Weekly reports. Us Weekly's Thelma Adams wasn't a fan of the film, either: giving it two stars out of four, Adams says that the actress "treads on all-too-familiar ground; there isn't an exasperated hair flip we haven't already seen 100 times."

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The Switch was bested by such newcomers as Twilight spoof Vampires Suck (#2, $12.2 million) Bow Wow's Lottery Ticket (#4 with $11 million) and Piranha 3-D (#6, $10 million). Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables nabbed the top spot at $16.5 million, with Julia Roberts' Eat, Pray Love landing at #4 in its second week.

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Aniston's March action comedy Bounty Hunter, with Gerard Butler, fared better: grossing $20 million in its first weekend, and nearly $70 million overall.

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  • October 29, 2010 - 10:58am Sara Corbello

    i love her she's my role model i always loved her on friends my dad love's her to i got some of her movies and friends dvd one of my cousin did her hairstyle and name her baby emma so i think she's a good role model she don't go crazy and at stupid with the pappiz

  • September 04, 2010 - 2:04am Jeri Lynn Phillips Nelson

    She is an OK actress but she does continue to play the same person. She has done only 2 roles that weren't Rachel... I just want her to get a hairstyle.

  • August 31, 2010 - 3:06pm T~

    didnt we just see this movie with Jlo? OH YEAH the back up plan, WHICH this is just a variant of that, hollywood needs to do something new!

  • August 30, 2010 - 12:54pm Hasbeen Aniston

    In NINTH place!!! The BOMB of the summer. 1,000 bloggers are asking why she is still a movie star. Even an ESPN writer is ridiculing her, asking why she can't get a man. The LA times is asking why she is still making movies. The studio is hiding the budget to keep from revealing how big a loss they are taking on her. Bateman is ashamed to be in her film. Mayer is running screaming from her, telling all who will listen that he DOESN'T WANT HER!!!. She is the biggest JOKE in the business, even worse than Lohan.

  • August 30, 2010 - 12:48pm Hasbeen Aniston

    @Poor pitiful Hasbeen a/k/a Boycott Aniston: Ahhh, looks like someone has a great big old CRUSH on me!! Very sweet, hon, but I require my lovers to have at least ONE functioning brain cell, and since you're a MANiston fan, that eliminates you. By the way, they added 5 theatres, and the Swith is STILL in 9th place!!! That's NINTH. So shouldnt you be going to see that SH!T instead of worrying about me? As I keep telling you, WE ARE BOYCOTTING THE HAG's MOVIES. Her career is OVER. No one is going to see her BOMBS ever again. Want proof -- look at her box office numbers! LOL!!!! Oh how I LOVE lending a hand in DESTROYING the career of a loathsome tw@t who thinks it's fun to ridicule special needs children. Her miserable FORMER career will not be redeemed! Now go run and re-post this, like my good and faithful lapdog. LOL!!!

  • August 28, 2010 - 11:17pm Ali

    This movie was absolutely adorable. I am not sure by who's standard "movie bombed" but I just saw it and the movie theater was packed. Everyone actually gave the movie a clap. Get over the I hate Aniston club. One actress does not make a movie bad. It takes, writers, editors, PR, Studio exec'. and on and on....... Go Jen and keep the movies going.....Like you just as you are....

  • August 28, 2010 - 3:14pm Lou

    ABSOLUTELY Loved her in this movie...why are people so weird? This was a great flick with the cutest little boy I have ever seen. Jason and Jennifer really had great chemistry...cute and funny!

  • August 25, 2010 - 8:33pm Trish

    Seems to me that most of the people who actually SAW the movie liked it. Bow Wow is not an unknown rapper, he's actually pretty popular especially among the younger demographic which are mostly the ones that are actually watching these films (can you honestly say that people worthy of critiquing a movie are watching Vampire spoofs?) My friends and I are planning a girls night this weekend to see this one. I bet the numbers will go up.

  • August 25, 2010 - 2:10pm roXy

    HAHA!!!, loser!

  • August 25, 2010 - 12:57pm Poor pitiful Hasbeen a/k/a Boycott Aniston

    This is really long and kind of hard to follow, but I include it for everyone's amusement. AND STILL WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE, JEN IS STILL RICH, AND "HASBEEN a/k/a BOYCOTT ANISTON" IS STILL PATHETIC. HA! ********** August 25, 2010 - 10:49am Don't you get it "Hasbeen"? Says: It's no longer about Jennifer Aniston. It's all about poor pitiful you and the amount of time you waste wishing for someone else's demise. You go on and on about it, amusing us all. Watch out honey -- Karma's a real b.i.t.c.h. That negativity is going to bite you right in the a.s.s. But then again, you sound very unhappy, so it must have already kicked in. Now run off to the next Jen article and get your Jen fix! ********** August 25, 2010 - 10:39am Hey Hasbeen (I'll leave out the A, cause I'm not sure what you're initial is) Says: BTW, that's right I wrote you're when it should have been your. Make sure to write a 50 pg response on that one. Ha! You're too too funny! August 25, 2010 - 10:37am Hey Hasbeen (I'll leave out the A, cause YOUR RESPONSE on August 24, 2010 - 6:16pm Hasbeen Aniston Says: August 24, 2010 - 12:57pm Hey Hasbeen A a/k/a Boycott Aniston Says: Geez, you're still at it and now using the name "Boycott Aniston" too. I'm sure if I looked at other stories about Jen, you've used many names. You can't hide that the jealous venum you keep spewing is from you. ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR TIRADES ******** First, "venom" is spelled with an "o," not a "u." As a Huvane employee, I guess you are required to have an unusually low IQ so as to make Aniston feel at home. As for your comment, the day I am "jealous" of a 41-year-old, photoshopped, brainless twit who has been DUMPED by every man in Hollywood, and whose vocabulary consists of two words -- "cool" and "uncool" -- is the day I slit my wrists. What I am, is ELATED and GLEEFUL that this HASBEEN HAG is now such a FAILURE that a kid like Bow Wow can BEAT HER A$$ by more than $3mil. Her HUMILIATING DEFEAT is exactly what a self-centered PIG who insults special needs children deserves. If you are upset by criticism of her (by the way, too bad you aren't as concerned about SPECIAL NEEDS KIDS as you are about this worthless oinker), then I suggest you NOT Google the words "Aniston+Flop" because your head will explode from the sheer volume of RIDICULE. Even the esteemed LA Times is asking: "Why is she a Movie Star?" The criticism of this MANIPULATIVE, WRINKLED OLD COW will continue unabated. Articles about her FAKE-dating Mayer, or about her appearing on Cox's near-flop of a show, won't take the focus off of her JOKE of a film career. An unknown rapper in a low-budget urban comedy is now a BIGGER STAR than she is. She is a PROVEN FAILURE, and there isn't a thing you can do about it. I WROTE on August 24, 2010 - 12:57pm Hey Hasbeen A a/k/a Boycott Aniston Says: Geez, you're still at it and now using the name "Boycott Aniston" too. I'm sure if I looked at other stories about Jen, you've used many names. You can't hide that the jealous venum you keep spewing is from you. Seriously, don't you have anything better to do? Too too sad for you. It's just pathetic and pitiful. Oh well, it has become a game for me and my friends now to see how many times you will post about your idol Jen. We all agree that for someone who tries so hard to convince US readers that you don't like Jen, your writing proves that you really want her life and wish you were her. We can always count on a laugh tuning in, which is what you want anyway. Otherwise, you'd find something else to do. Just pathetic. I WROTE ON August 21, 2010 - 10:21am Hey Hasbeen A - Says:You try awfully hard to prove how smart you are to people you don't even know. Congratulations on your wonderful education. Seems to me that you could use it in a much more productive way than to follow EVERY SINGLE MOVE of a person you CLAIM TO BE so much smarter than, and better than. I'M NOT CONVINCED. In fact, I pitty you even more now than I did before. You're just pathetic. YOU WROTE & RESPONDED TO ME on August 21, 2010 - 7:23am Hasbeen Aniston Says: August 20, 2010 - 4:03pm Dear "Hasbeen A" @12:36pm Says: WOW! You certainly are a very angry individual. As a fan of Jennifer Aniston, I read the articles on this site about her. I notice that you comment (several times in fact) on every single article about her. I find it amusing that you feel the need to read EVERYTHING about her, and then comment using the same name each time. Jen is rich beyond YOUR wildest dreams, pretty beyond YOUR wildest dreams, and very successful. YOUR LONG WINDED 1st RESPONSE/TIRADE TO MY POST IMMEDIATELY ABOVE ***************** Yes Dear, I post EACH time the high school "barely-grad" says or does something stupid, so that would indeed make me prolific. As for MANface (look at her UNRETOUCHED photos on ONTD and D-Listed and then try to convince yourself that anyone could be jealous of her simian mug) being "beyond" me, she and I are indeed quite different. Please allow me to delineate: First, I know more than five words. Second, I am not so REPULSIVE that any man has ever held a PRESS CONFERENCE to dump me in the middle of the street, as has happened to our unwanted pile of Jenny Poo. Third, I have a post-graduate degree from a top ten school and an IQ that is higher that she can even COUNT. My writing evidences my linguistic expertise, while MANiston, at nearly 50 years old, still can't distinguish a noun from a verb, so she is not even "beyond" the average fifth grader, much less someone of my academic and professional background. (At the risk of sounding immodest, she isn't worthy to hold the frames in which my degrees are encased.) Fourth, unlike her, I don't sleep with men who call blacks n*ggers (as her boyfriend John Mayer does), I don't call the woman who gave me life a "DISEASE" (as she has done), I cannot fathom using the DYING BABIES of Haiti to advance my own career (as she did when she LIED about hosting a Haitian benefit), I don't assume that Mexicans are too backwards to survive without me allowing them to wait on me hand and foot while I stay in a luxurious, WHITE-owned hotel (as she does), and I have enough respect for those who COURAGEOUSLY face life's added challenges with dignity and grace that I cannot imagine ever uttering the word "R*TARD." I have a VOCABULARY that allows me to express myself as an adult rather than as a pre-teen, so the biggest difference is that I am a HIGHLY EDUCATED, CARING, INTELLECTUALLY-DEVELOPED WOMAN with whom men actually want to spend time, and Aniston is a SELF-CENTERED, EGOMANIACAL, EMPTY-HEADED TWIT with a unique talent for alienating every man within a 50-mile radius. I am a HUMAN BEING with compassion for the less fortunate, while she is a black-hearted beast who is the best example I can think of for the term WASTE OF DNA. How's that for a new post, Dear? Are we "amused" yet?

  • August 25, 2010 - 12:45pm Observer

    No surprise at all that this movie bombed. The only thing that looks redeeming about it is Jason Bateman. Despite the fact that there are some really crazy Aniston fans on this site, it doesn't appear that that transfers into the mainstream. Jennifer's movies have been bombing for the last decade. I am surprised directors want to hire her. She's becoming like Lindsay Lohan = box office poison.

  • August 24, 2010 - 5:18pm BOYCOTT ANISTON

    The Hasbeen Hag was BEATEN BY BOW WOW, a kid whom most of America doesn't even know. Switch was in over 2,000 theatres, while Lottery Ticket was in 50 LESS theatres. Yet BIOW WOW earned $3mil MORE than the HAG. ShBOIW WOW IS A BIGGER STAR THAN HAGISTON. She went in EVERY tv show to promote it, while Bow Wow didn't appear on ONE. Yhet he BEAT HER BY $3mil. The isn't one person who doesn't know an Aniston STINKBOMB when we smell it, so you Huvane staffers can give it a rersst. The BOYCOTT of this and all future Aniston movies will continue so long as she refuses to apologize for her insensitive remark about special needs children.

  • August 24, 2010 - 12:05pm the switch

    Is Number seven... Salt dropped like a rock off the charts there will be NO SALT FRANCHISE..

  • August 24, 2010 - 12:03pm HEY HEATHER

    there will be NO SALT FRANCHISE, it is off the charts that is not a money maker. Get real..

  • August 24, 2010 - 11:51am z

    NUMBER SEVEN is not a bomb.. Salt dropped like a rock off the charts. Get over it Haters..

  • August 24, 2010 - 11:39am Tia

    ANISTON ROCKS!! ANISTON ROCKS!! IT WASN'T EVEN ANISTON'S MOVIE, REALLY. IT CENTERS MORE ON THE KID AND BATEMAN!! EAT PRAY LOVE WAS A TOTAL SNOOZEFEST!! JULIA IS THE ONE I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY SHE HAS HAD SUCH LONGEVITY. ANOTHER HOMEWRECKER THAT PEOPLE INEXPLICABLY SLOBBER OVER!

  • August 24, 2010 - 10:37am maggie

    The Switch has moved up to #7....so far so good. I thought you said it bombs??? doesn't sound like it to me.

  • August 24, 2010 - 10:24am @Be fair

    You are correct. The Switch was predicted to fail and it did. No news there.

  • August 24, 2010 - 8:55am jordan

    the switch is a good movie! thomas should win an oscar for his performance! jason and thomas bonding was amazing. the way jennifer is going to tell him how he is born is so sweet. juliette and jeff are fun! this is my favorite romantic comedy since the proposal!

  • August 24, 2010 - 8:51am be fair

    no flop! why aren't we saying why is matt damon a star still? his last movie lost more than all of aniston together! if fact matt damon hasn't budget on 2 of the last 3 movies he has done or even made a profit of 2 million! the same for george clooney! why is he still a star? he hasn't made a profit but on 1 money out of 4 or 5 of his last movies? same for matthew mccoughan? this is sad when tabloids single out a person like this and women keep the hate alive! the movie did what was predicted at the box office for the weekend that is not a bomb! be fair with the men that you are with the ladies to the media/tabloids!!!!

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