HEROES FIGHT TO STOP ANISTON FILM
09.16.09
(Pff, that’s not how you headbutt)
Regardless of their reasons, as someone maybe once said, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And right now screenwriters Greg Crowder and Tony Freitas are looking pretty friendly. Because their lawsuit is attempting to stop the release of Jennifer Aniston/Aaron Eckhart’s Love Happens, you see.
Crowder and Freitas filed suit against NBC Universal, claiming they gave a script titled “The Truth” to Scott Bernstein in 2006 when Bernstein was VP of Production for Universal Pictures.
Crowder claims he had multiple meetings with Bernstein about the script, but Bernstein told Crowder it needed a rewrite before Universal would buy it. Crowder said he’d rewrite it but only if Universal paid. Bernstein wouldn’t pay so the deal fell apart.
Fast forward to 2009 … Crowder says he submitted the script to another film company, who told him they were “concerned that [he] might have stolen” the script from the upcoming Jennifer Aniston/Aaron Eckhart project called “Love Happens.” The suit says it was the other way around.
Crowder and Freitas are asking a judge to block NBC Universal from releasing the film on September 18. If it gets released they want the profits … which they estimate at more than $100,000,000. [TMZ]
Sources say the case ground to a halt when the judge read that $100 million profit part and found his gavel hand wanking dismissively. Also, in the early meetings, Bernstein is alleged to have asked, “I like your script, but I wonder… Can we give it a title that makes people think of sh’t?”
[Thanks to Cinematical for the assist]
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The only way this movie makes 100 million is if the word “Love” in the title is replaced with “Donkey Punch”.
That’s what I’ve been saying!
If it gets released they want the profits … which they estimate at more than $100,000,000.
David Prowse would like to remind them to ask in terms of the gross, not the net. Also, that George Lucas is a dick-milker.
Aniston in that picture is telling herself, “If I squint hard enough he kinda looks like Brad”.
Sometimes one must say the enemy of my enemy is still a man who wrote a bad romantic comedy and I cannot be friends with an asshole like that.
“Donkey Punch” happened to make less than a million.
Does nobody realize you can’t copyright an idea?
wait, so more than one studio thought this was a great idea for a movie?
Whenever somebody asks me why I dislike Aniston so much, I point out that she just makes the same shit over and over, and I’ll cut her some slack when she actually does something different.
Soooooo, I’ll stop hating her in approximately, oh… never?
I’m suing the writers for even coming up with this lame ass movie.
If I were a writer/director in Hollywood, I’d try to get at the helm of every single Jennifer Aniston flick just so I could change the name of the male lead to “Brad” and the female antagonist to “Angelina” just to watch her slowly go mad on set.
The Mighty Feklahr asserts that Aniston’s severed head would look great atop His black and white tv.
You can keep the head Fek as long as her legs, exposed by short short dresses, keep trotting out to late night shows to promote movies I’ll never see.
I’d rather see the scat porn version of this: Love Crappin’s
“Can we give it a title that makes people think of sh’t?”
If the title doesn’t then Aaron Eckhart’s chin will.
Move Judy Greer to the center of this thing and set it in the trunk of my ’94 LeBaron, I’ll get on board.
@ttyBoo: She showed her tits in The Good Girl, that was different.
“If it gets released they want the profits … which they estimate at more than $100,000,000.” Meaning- that the MOVIE could GROSS that and they want a percentage….they were not asking for that absurd amount of money and their attorneys chose to file yesterday to generate as much free press as they could because the movie is opening this week!
Also-I am not what sure what “sources” you have… it was filed and accepted yesterday. It was NOT thrown out. Perhaps time to get some new “sources” or time to stop passing off your opinion and trying to make it sound as though you know what you are talking about!
1. The story never specified whether they meant gross or net. It said “profit”. I doubt it will do $100 million domestically regardless, but when you say “profit”, that tends to mean earnings minus expenses, i.e., net. Either way, I never implied they wanted $100 million for themselves, so I don’t what the fuck you were reading.
2. Where did I ever say it was thrown out? I said the judge wanked dismissively. Which, obviously, was a joke. What the fuck planet are you from? They let you read FilmDrunk there?