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Jennifer Aniston Starts Production Co., Announces Projects

Tue, 04/01/2008 - 9:29am by BuzzSugar
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Brad Pitt can have his Plan B — Jennifer Aniston will do just fine with her own production company, thank you very much. Joining forces with producing partner Kristin Hahn (who served as executive producer on The Departed), Aniston is creating Echo, a production company with a first-look deal at Universal Pictures. Variety has more:

Echo's emphasis will be on producing grounded, relatable material, the partners say. . ."We're drawn to stories about people finding their voice and finding their way because they help us as listeners and viewers do what we feel we're all trying to do, which is making sense of our lives through the stories of others," Aniston said. "That's why we chose the name Echo, to echo back an idea, a challenge, something that resonates through all of us."

The busy duo has already acquired several projects for Echo, some of which sound pretty great. Of course, there's the singing Texan female prisoners movie Goree Girls which will also star Aniston. And then there's my favorite of the bunch: "Chemistry, a David Sussman-scripted dramedy centered around the fact that romantic love and obsessive compulsive disorder demonstrate similar brain chemistry." For a list of the other movies Echo will be handling, read more.

  • Getting Rid of Matthew: "[Jane] Fallon, a veteran U.K. TV producer who is married to Ricky Gervais, will adapt her novel about a hard-charging publicist whose lusty affair with a married man is ruined by his decision to leave his wife and two children for her. She invents a new persona, befriends the spurned wife and attempts to patch up the marriage up so she can be rid of him. In the process, she develops a thing for his oldest son."
  • The Divorce Party: "As a husband and wife reach their 35th wedding anniversary, they hold a party to announce their divorce. It creates complications for their son, who returns home with his commitment-shy fiancee."
  • Counter-Clockwise: "A true story based on a study conducted by Harvard prof and psychologist Ellen Langer in which she tried to reverse the aging process of subjects by re-creating the era of their prime."
  • Love: Todd: "A drama about an aging tennis pro-turned-coach who gets schooled by a precocious teen tennis phenom."

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  • Jude C's picture
    Jude C
    1

    Exactly what I figured they would produce.

    I don't think I'll be much interested in Echo fare. None of those really sounds like my thing. But they do seem appropriate to Jen A.

    33 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • tiabia's picture
    tiabia
    3

    Sounds like Aniston found a back door entrance into the movies!!!

    33 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • yiddidea's picture
    yiddidea
    4

    I think this is great for her and a few of those projects sound really interesting.

    33 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • amandahugginkiss's picture
    amandahugginkiss
    5

    and people get on the case of the "haters" in the brangelina threads for their vitriol. *rolls eyes*

    good for jen...

    33 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • Jude C's picture
    Jude C
    6

    I don't think the few negative comments here really compare to what goes on at the Angelina threads, but whatever--we're all entitled to express our own opinions Smiling

    33 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • amandahugginkiss's picture
    amandahugginkiss
    7

    true jude, true. so people shouldn't get mad when those of us who don't like angelina say something negative about her. carry on...

    33 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • pequeña's picture
    pequeña
    9

    She's fantastic, such a class act. She doesn't always choose the right projects as an actress but all of those in the list sound interesting. She does have great taste in most of the things she does.

    33 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • gege111's picture
    gege111
    10

    i am so happy for her and i hope she play in some of these projects. i love jen.

    33 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • Zahara Pitt's picture
    Zahara Pitt
    11

    what happened to movies such as Wanted and the Senator Wife that she got when she left Plan B

    33 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • sus9's picture
    sus9
    12

    i just love jen i whish her all the best and she will do just great as allways

    33 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • idawson's picture
    idawson
    13

    pequena i was going to say that (regarding the projects). acoording to IMDB here are the list of projects that are wrapped up or are in production or announced:

    # Gambit (2009) (announced) (rumored) .... Nicole
    # The Senator's Wife (2009) (announced) .... Rosalind
    # Marley & Me (2008) (filming) .... Jennifer Grogan
    # Management (2008) (post-production)
    # He's Just Not That Into You (2008) (post-production) .... Beth
    # Traveling (2008) (post-production)

    33 weeks 22 hours ago Report Comment
  • BuzzSugar's picture
    BuzzSugar
    14

    Aniston is still acting in other films, this post was just to announce that she is also starting a production company and they have acquired the projects listed above. It doesn't mean she's not involved in other movie projects.

    33 weeks 22 hours ago Report Comment
  • lily8206's picture
    lily8206
    16

    I don't know why, but for some reason this seems very fitting for her.

    Some of those movies sound interesting.

    33 weeks 8 hours ago Report Comment

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