>"I'm gonna hold you to this."
>
>I'm going to hold you to riding for SJP.

Dog, I'm not riding for SJP versus the field. It's just that I was encouraged by The Family Stone and see Jennifer Aniston, whom I originally stated SJP was taking the place off, falling off some.

>"woah. She's not running for president."
>
>You can't become a movie star without having most of America
>like you. If you are popular on the coasts you'll have a
>modest career. If you have the midwest and south you can have
>a career despite any lack of talent.

So they're throwing ticker tape parades for Kate Hudson in Cleveland?

I understand what you're saying as far as you can't have a decent portion of the movie going public detest you, but I think you're stretching it.

I'd be curious to see movie-going stats broken down by large urban cities and their relation to overall box office success.

Plus, what's a ticket in NY or LA cost compared to Bumblefuck, GA?

>"Plus, you judge someone by the success of their last work."
>So Jay Hernandez is a box office star becuse Hostel made 10x
>its budget? This kind of rationale is what gets Hollywood
>making three picture deals with Renny Harlin or Ben Affleck.
>SJP was in an ensemble comedy that did well. I wouldn't give
>her the benefit of any doubt right now.
>

Not exactly what I meant, don't be coy.

Was Hostel marketed as a starring Jay Hernandez? No? Then its initial success is not necessarily his success. I would say it's more the success of gore flicks, Tarantino, and Eli Roth, since they were the brands riding on it.

Juts like I wouldn't say homie who played the gay deaf son in The Family Stone was the reason it made 60 mil and that he should be given a star on the Walk of Fame. No, but Parker's performance was central, she got good billing, and reviews focused on her. I chalk up its success, in large part, to her, more so than any other actor in the film, with the slight exception of Diane Keaton, who has a strong 3 decade-long established familiarity with audiences.

>"Reese Witherspoon I'll give you, though I'm pretty sure that
>movie she did with Mark Ruffalo came and went quickly."
>
>Made over 90 million worldwide. She and Hudson have better
>foreign records than SJP.

She and Hudson have been starring in big name movies longer than SJP has. They're already established.

>"I thought Kate Hudson fell off post-pregnancy. (Failure to
>Launch just looks like a rehash of How to Lose a Guy in 10
>Days.)"
>
>So SJP is doing movies Hudson did years ago. Not a good
>look.

A. Hollywood is a bastion of creativity now?

B. No one said Failure to Launch is gonna be good. I criticized it in my first post and said it looks god awful elsewhere.

>"And has Naomi Watts even made the types of of movies Jennifer
>Aniston and SJP have been?"
>
>You think SJP wants to make Life Without Dick and Dudley Do
>Right? She wishes she had Watts' career.

When did those movies come out?

>SJP made one film
>that did well, I wouldn't go crowning her queen of the box
>office. I think she has about as much box office clout as
>someone like Paul Walker. Very few people really go just
>because they are in the film.

You're trying to read way too much into what I'm saying.