Jennifer Aniston's new film The Bounty Hunter flops as it takes just £3.8m at the box office

By Sara Nathan

Campaign trail: Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler in Madrid, Spain, last week at one of the many premieres held to promote The Bounty Hunter which has flopped


She was America’s Sweetheart and best known for being everyone’s best Friend.
But Jennifer Aniston’s career has hit the skids after her latest film made little more than £3 million at the box office.

The Hollywood golden girl has spent the past few weeks touring the globe on a ridiculous publicity trail for her new film The Bounty Hunter, flaunting her ‘chemistry’ with her co-star Gerard Butler

However, the film, in which the pair play a feuding ex-husband and wife, made just £3.8 million at the UK box office after its first two weeks of release – compared with Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, which after four weeks of release has made nearly £35 million.

The Bounty Hunter, which has suffered terrible reviews, also pulled in only £24million in its first 10 days in cinemas in America last month, where it was beaten by a child’s film called Diary Of A Wimpy Kid and Alice In Wonderland.

The lacklustre profits for the film will come as a blow to Miss Aniston, 41, who went to great lengths to promote the movie in a bid to resurrect her film career


Camera shy: Aniston arrives in Los Angeles from Paris last week


Nuzzling up to rugged Butler, 40, on the red carpet at premieres from London to Paris and Madrid, Miss Aniston has done little to dispel rumours of just how close she has come to the Scots hunk.

She has gushed: ‘He's so funny and handsome. I've made a note to myself to have more of this.’

While Butler added: ‘The best thing about this movie is that the two of us got to be together.

‘I literally became a member of her family while shooting this film. I even went to Mexico to see her on her birthday during a day off.

‘It was not a chemistry we had to work at.’

The pair, who were this week spotted - by chance - sharing a romantic boat trip in Paris, even teamed up for a raunchy photo shoot in W magazine.

That just happened to be the same magazine where Miss Aniston’s ex-husband Brad Pitt and Angelina sparked rumours about their on-set romance when they posed to promote their 2005 film, Mr & Mrs Smith – shortly before the couple announced their separation after five years of marriage.

The Bounty Hunter stars Butler as struggling bounty hunter Milo and Miss Aniston as his bail-jumping ex-wife Nicole.

Much to his glee, Milo learns that Nicole is his next target and begins his assignment with enthusiasm. However, Nicole is determined to escape from Milo's custody once he has found her. He is determined to find and put her back into jail and take the credit – which fails to be easy.

Daily Mail critic Christopher Tookey rated it as a ‘Turkey’, saying: ‘Whatever they've been up to offscreen, onscreen Gerard and Jen have less sexual chemistry than Ant and Dec’
Miss Aniston has struggled to find a box office hit after her television hit Friends, in which she starred as Rachel Green, finished after 10 years in 2004.


Not a hit: The pair appearing in the movie together

While her best friend and former Friends co-star Courteney Cox is having massive success with her TV series Cougar Town, Miss Aniston’s 2009 movie, Love Happens - another romantic comedy with Aaron Eckhart - grossed just £15million in the U.S. last September.

The star’s other 2009 offering, Management, with Steve Zahn, made a measly £612,000.
One American film critic said: ‘Aniston just can’t play the good friend anymore. She’s aged out, no matter the yoga and the highlights. She just can’t do America’s sweetheart next door. She needs a big wake-up call.’



source: dailymail