In need of a hit: Hollywood golden girl Jennifer Aniston on the set of Just Go With It - her latest film The Bounty Hunter has flopped at the box office
Dud: Why Aniston falls for the horrible Butler in The Bounty Hunter is inexplicable
In Jennifer Aniston's new movie, a man enlists the help of a woman and her children to help him land the girl of his dreams.
Can't imagine where this one is going...
Co-star: Adam Sandler filming Go with it at Casa Del Mar Hotle in Santa Monica
Biker chic: Jennifer Aniston in aviator shades and leather jacket arriving on set
Endless: Aniston and Butler were in danger of becoming a laughing stock with their 'are they or aren't they' routine promoting The Bounty Hunter
But, believe it or not, direct from The Bounty Hunter and a story about a woman who artificially inseminates herself, this is the former Friends star's new project.
At least this one has a decent cast - Nicole Kidman, Adam Sandler and, er, Heidi Montag, also appear in Just Go With It.
The movie is due out in February but at first glance seems unlikely to provide Aniston with a much-needed hit
America�s Sweetheart and everyone�s best Friend has seen her career hit the skids of late - as proved by the disastrous box-office takings of her latest film, The Bounty Hunter.
Despite spending the past few weeks touring the globe on a ridiculous publicity trail flaunting her �chemistry� with her co-star Gerard Butle, the movie made just �3.8m a.
That compares poorly with the likes of Tim Burton�s Alice In Wonderland, which after four weeks of release has made nearly �35m.
The Bounty Hunter, which has suffered terrible reviews, also pulled in only �24m in its first 10 days in cinemas in America last month.
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.
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.
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.�
Next up for Aniston is The Switch, about a woman who uses a turkey baster to get pregnant and discovers her best friend switched her preferred donor's sperm for his own.
She sure picks them, doesn't she?
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