http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2009/01/hey-it-was-wort.html

http://www.allmoviephoto.com/c/HughJackman.html

Apparently there is a progression with these posters. If you look at Hugh Jackman’s posters, his prominence progresses until he is front and center in the 2009 X-Men Origins. I see both sides of the argument, both Tish’s and Tiffany’s side. Tish is right about Moonlight’s in-house fighting. That had a lot to do with it’s cancellation. Tiffany’s right about paying dues. Yes, there will be push and pulls in Hollywood; there is no one you can trust fully (just ask Heather Locklear, her husband taken by her best friend Denise Richards).

I am not referring to anyone here on AOLO as I have some friends, other than our Aussie Sisters who post here, that I correspond with daily… I have not come across anyone from there who is not of this nature…

And as for being well known, I think Alex’s name spans several continents for his role as Mick St John in Moonlight, not counting his Australian acting days for certain some of his roles probably reached England, which AU is under, and other European nations… Did it not this occur to anyone when it was Alex doing most of the promoting of Moonlight in continents abroad? So he is already a known star… If fans, especially female fans, go to see this movie it will be to see Alex, not JLo, I can guarantee that…she is not well liked except perhaps by Latino fans, who called Alex “What’s His Name” which was rude and insulting in anyway you one views it…

I have been a Richard Gere fan for many years… I love the man’s charisma and acting…However I did not go to see “Shall We Dance” because I knew it would not draw all the crowds is should not because of Gere but due to JLo being his co-star in it… Shortly after it made the Big Screen it went to DVD, & although the comback will be because DVDs reach more people than fans paying high prices at the theaters…IMO it is because JLo did not have the chemistry as some of Gere’s other female leads like Julia Ormond in “First Knight” (yep the same Julia Ormond who CBS let go from Three Rivers and who in “First Knight” had not a bit of diction problems in her speech), Diane Lane in “Unfaithful” & “Nights in Rodanthe” & one other one with Lane which name escapes me presently, &, of course, an all-time favorite, “Pretty Woman” with Julia Roberts, also “Runaway Bride” with Roberts… And least we not forget the Winning movie where Gere strutted his song and dance abilities in “Chicago” with Catherine Zeta Jones.
I feel that “Back -Up Plan” will also meet the fate of DVD due to the same draw reason of JLo that befell “Shall We Dance”…

And, no, having fans with our combined attitudes will not make Alex look like a Diva but an actor who has a great bunch of fans who believe in him & do not want his career spoiled by shoddy handling…

She is the star and she deserves the spot. I just hope that he can use her stardom to leverage his own. When he becomes a household name like JLo is then he can rightly expect that movie posters will include his name front and center. He has to earn his way just like anyone else and I am sure he and his agent and manager are aware of this.

If this were his 5th lead role in a major US production and they hadn’t bothered to put his name on the teaser poster… then we could rightly be worried. This is his first time out of the gate, I think you are expecting to much. Having fans with that attitude will make Alex look like the diva.

As far as being protective of Alex, I feel many of us have developed that emotion when it comes to this very special person/actor… He has such a genuine sweetness about him that I worry he is/will be taken advantage of due to his genuine nature in the Cut-Throat Jungle called Tinseltown/aka, Hollywood…

I am so ticked, so hot right now, that, if I were a canine I would be frothing at the mouth in rabid-like fashion… The nerve, the unmitigated Gaul of Paramount /aka CBS & JLo’s associates, including herself , to totally not include Alex’s name on that Back-Up Poster…I will be repetitive & say, CBS, IMO, as well as the opinion of any intelligent person posting here, is not helping Alex’s career; they are messing with it to ruination… For some reason one of those big wigs over at that network (& we all know who mostly that will be) will cancel Three Rivers before it gets good footing, mark my words, it is their pattern…If it weren’t Alex’s name would be on that poster instead of just JLo’s…And it is the fault of the agent that is based at Paramount who probably was assigned to Alex by NT, not of Alex’s own choosing…If this agent were any good, he would have made certain that this degrade did not happen to the Co-Star, Alex, (meaning both should have top billing) of Back-Up Plan was not slighted like this…

And to state truthfully why Alex’s other TV series, Moonlight, was cancelled, had nothing to do with the ratings at all… Les Monvees (NY Head of CBS) & Joel Silver had argumentative words of how Moonlight should continue… Now may I remind you all that Moonlight was Joel’s baby, not anyone connected with CBS’s… So the Major Pouters, NT & LM, pulled Moonlight for good..how utterly childish of this dumb, irrational network…