It hasn’t been the most effective of years for Jennifer Lopez, and her last-minute endorsement of Kamala Harris ending up for naught wasn’t the one misfire.
After that and a re-examination of her relationship with former boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs, a person now dealing with too many sexual misconduct legal costs and lawsuits to depend, her newest film, “Unstoppable,” had a short launch in the UK in December.
When you’re in Merrie England and also you missed it, you’ve missed it till it begins streaming: The movie, regardless of palatable sufficient evaluations, dropped out of cinemas after every week because of incomes about as a lot cash as Clarkson, Hammond and Might used to pay for a junker throughout these cheap-car challenges on “Prime Gear.”
“Unstoppable” is a type of real-life sports activities dramas which, based on a blurb, “facilities across the lifetime of wrestler Anthony Robles, who was born with one leg and gained a nationwide championship in 2011 whereas competing at Arizona State College.”
Different stars embrace Jharrel Jerome, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Pena and Don Cheadle — massive names all. And a fats lot of fine that did it.
In response to the U.K. Daily Mail, its opening weekend pulled in a mere £3,112 — equal to simply beneath $4,000.
Now, there’s kind of a catch to this: In response to the Each day Mail, they heard from a supply — unplaced supply together with unnamed, thoughts you, so take it for what it’s price — “that the movie was solely launched in cinemas for one week in an effort to qualify for awards season, referred to as a qualifying run.”
However, making beneath $4,000 in a “qualifying run” in a restricted variety of theaters and being the fifty fifth most-watched movie within the U.Okay. for the one week it was out remains to be notably pathetic — and it’s not like this has been an excellent 12 months for her on different fronts, whether or not commercially, culturally or politically.
Along with “Unstoppable” being pulled from theaters after its one-week run (you’ll be capable of miss it on Amazon Prime beginning in January, fear you not), there was additionally the matter of her comeback album, “This Is Me … Now.”
That album reached No. 38 on the U.S. Billboard Prime 200 and No. 55 on the U.Okay. Albums Charts — each extremely low placings, particularly given the longer lifespans that legacy acts have these days.
For mere act of comparability, have a look at Fall Out Boy, a band that debuted 4 years after Lopez’s first album (2003 vs. 1999 for Lopez) and which has by no means been almost as well-known. I’d say each have retained their cultural relevance simply as nicely over time, which is to say they actually haven’t. Their final studio album, “So A lot (For) Stardust,” debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 final 12 months.
Do you know that Fall Out Boy had a brand new album out final 12 months, fellow millennials? Precisely. So yeah, that’s not an excellent signal for J-Lo.
Lopez additionally needed to cancel her “This Is Me … Reside” tour; divorce paperwork later revealed she’d break up from Ben Affleck (once more) the month prior. No “Gigli” guilty this time.
After which there was former boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs, whose lengthy historical past of sexual misconduct claims lastly caught up with him this 12 months and landed him with quite a few costs and lawsuits. On Friday, movie star website InTouch reported, one of many males suing Combs might be calling Lopez as a witness in his $400 million lawsuit.
However apparently, what the Harris crew thought would juice assist amongst Latinos within the last week of the marketing campaign was an emotional endorsement from Lopez in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The endorsement from Lopez, whose dad and mom had been born in Puerto Rico, got here amidst a manufactured controversy regarding a joke told by a roast comedian about Puerto Rico at a Trump rally in New York Metropolis.
“I promised myself I wouldn’t get emotional, however you understand what, we needs to be emotional,” Lopez stated relating to the joke. “We needs to be upset. We needs to be scared and outraged. Our ache issues. We matter.”
Jennifer Lopez fights again tears whereas campaigning for Kamala Harris in Nevada:
“I promised myself I wouldn’t get emotional, however you understand what? We needs to be emotional. We needs to be upset. We needs to be scared and outraged. We should always. Our ache issues. We matter.” pic.twitter.com/t0GgE5nEvT
— The Recount (@therecount) November 1, 2024
This was completely unhelpful. Not solely did Harris lose Nevada handily — it was thought-about one of many simpler swing states for her to hold amongst most pollsters — however Harris gained 8 p.c much less of the Latino vote than Joe Biden did in 2020, based on NBC News exit polls.
The Bible says that God resists the proud. Possibly she’s not proud, however Lopez certainly seems to be amongst their quantity — and he or she’s simply been by way of a 12 months full of humiliation on a degree most of us won’t ever need to endure. The Democratic endorsement backfiring — certainly, both the nominee or the speaker pondering it will even matter — was simply the icing on the cake.
Ah nicely. If the Oprah Winfrey/Kamala Harris gig was any indication, she in all probability obtained far more from that chance than she did from the cinema run of “Unstoppable” or from royalties on her new album.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.