Jennifer Lawrence Has 'No Hard Feelings' at Sony

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Jennifer Lawrence, Gene Stupnitsky Team for Sony’s ‘No Hard Feelings’ https://t.co/tu6Q6Mq7qG
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 13, 2021

Jennifer Lawrence and Gene Stupnitsky (The Office) have set a deal with Sony to make a coming of age dramedy called No Hard Feelings. Set in Montauk, the project has drawn comparisons to Bad Teacher and Risky

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[fluffybb]

is she worth $25M? … do pp actually go to see a film because she’s in it?

[doriiansz]

She's not. I don't know why she's bothered coming back. She peaked with Winter's Bone and everything she's been in after has been terrible.

[agentsoup]

She mentioned in an interview once she always wanted/knew she'd be famous, whether that was a local weatherperson or what. I'd imagine it'd be hard to stay out of the limelight after the craziness that surrounded her for that era.

Edit: I misremembered. It was a story relayed by Sherry Lansing at a Women in Entertainment event: https://www.nme.com/news/jennifer-lawrence-always-knew-famous-2169201

[jojito]

I agree. I liked her in the first HG but after that I didn't care anymore.
I think the only other movie I've seen her in was Joy, and I don't even remember what happened.

[matsaurus]

Well, when the biggest streaming thing right now is a Korean series that cost like $10 million less to make than just her salary alone maybe the streaming scales are tilting back towards series and mini-series? I feel like the big stars want those theatrical release checks again anyway.

[sadmagikarp]

lmao @ her team requesting $25 million. that's the kind of money julia roberts was making in the early 2000s back when movie stars and theatrical releases still meant shit. absolutely absurd in this day and age especially given her abysmal track record since like 2015

[jojito]

Actors complain good scripts are hard to find and there's no originality anymore, but when you are asking for this astronomical numbers, you are making it really hard for anyone to greenlight anything.

I get it if you are part of a succesfull franchise and want to cash out when the studio is making billions, but asking $25M for a regular romcom / coming of age movie seems too much.

Besides, is Jlaw really a boxoffice draw?

[genbu_no_miko24]

You're absolutely right. Most times when it comes to filmmaking there have been times where I thought some of the real root issues have been the budgeting some will ask. Like some filmmakers are asking 50-100M for a movie that not big-scale like an mcu or standard action film and some of those films aren't guaranteed box office successes so sometimes I can understand studios being tight on films that won't give back.

[syvlie0o0]

This isn't "actors" this is just a handful of actors who ask for astronomical salaries. There's probably like less than 50 actors on the entire planet who ask for paydays like that.

[gumby]

I'm not a fan of Lawrence's acting, but I'm curious how this will turn out. She's never done a full-blown comedy, so I'm curious if she'll do better with this genre since she's naturally funny.