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Lilo, short on dough

11:23 AM Fri, Jul 27, 2007 | Permalink |
Stephen Becker

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Lindsay will try to finally scare up some box office bucks with I Know Who Killed Me (TriStar Pictures.)

I realize this is open season on Lindsay Lohan ... so please, allow me to fire my shot. It looks like I Know Who Killed Me will likely bomb at the box office this weekend. It wasn't screened in advance, and the one review I've read so far ain't good. And that got me wondering how our little powder queen has been performing at the box office. And what I found is: Little Lindsay did a lot better than All Grown Up Lindsay. When she was first on the scene, playing the cute kid roles, films like Freaky Friday and The Parent Trap were solid box office performers. When she moved on to her late teen years, Herbie: Fully Loaded managed $66 million, and Mean Girls was a breakout hit at $86 mil. Still pretty solid. But once she gave adult acting a try, that seems to be where things went south. Her last four movies (Georgia Rule, Bobby, A Prairie Home Companion and Just My Luck) have earned a total of about $68 million. And I doubt this week's entry will add to the pile much. The point is: As much as we love to follow her every move off screen, all of that interest sure hasn't amounted to much in the way of putting butts in theater seats. They say all publicity is good publicity, but that publicity doesn't seem to be generating anything useful.

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Posted by Nancy Churnin @ 1:36 PM Fri, Jul 27, 2007

I find the whole fascination with Lindsay Lohan's meltdown pretty sad. Hollywood has a long history of using up child stars and tossing them aside from Macauley Culkin to Britney Spears (who got her first big break as a Mouseketeer). Actually I don't know if it's Hollywood to blame per se, or if in the heady excitement and frenzied activity that goes into being a young star, parents and kids neglect education, character development, all those inner things you need when the spotlight shifts as it will inevitably do -- even for most adult stars. It doesn't have to go that way. Fingers crossed, Daniel Radcliffe seems pretty grounded.

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Posted by Holly Warren @ 3:35 PM Fri, Jul 27, 2007

Personally, I'd like to see her clean up her act, get it together and get back to acting for real. I don't thinks she's the next child-star-turned-Oscar-winner, but if she would actually concentrate on being an actress, rather than a celebrity, she might have a decent career ahead of her. For every Macauley Culkin or Gary Coleman, there's a Jodie Foster or a Drew Barrymore. Heck, if Drew can come back from a coke addiction at 13, you'd think Lindsay could at least turn it around at 21.

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Posted by PJW @ 12:43 PM Mon, Jul 30, 2007

I saw the movie
Lilo can and does act well.
But the movie is a MESS, OMG
i so wasted $9.50 and the time on this so called movie.

Again LILO can and does act well in this TRASH.

JMO

pjw

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