Image Credit: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images Producer Joseph McKelheer confirmed to EW The Wrap‘s report that Jesse Eisenberg has been tapped to star in Free Samples alongside Jess Weixler (Teeth). The film centers on a law school drop-out (Weixler) who begins a job serving ice cream from a food truck. Eisenberg will play her love interest. Before Free Samples heads to the big screen, check out The Social Network star in Ruben Fleischer’s 30 Minutes or Less, which just wrapped production.
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The Social Network stars should be hollywood royalty by now. Too bad it wasn’t as big a hit in the U.S. as your annual Sandra Bullock flick. Yet oversees is where it really scored. Once again America, you make me sad.
Actually the movie did rather well in the states. It made between $70 & $80 millions which is really good for a movie released in October. Since it’s a movie for adults it will most likely do healthy business in the Blu Ray & DVD market.
Actually its made $91 million in the U.S. and its worldwide total is $185 million, so it did really well Ry.
And if they re-release it during the awards season, particularly after Oscar noms are announced, it would likely cross the $100 million mark. It’s an adult movie that many adults are reluctant to see because it would seem the movies about, well… online social networking.
Jesse is on the verge of stardom and yet he chooses to go indie? I don’t get it.
Jessie is going indie because he is concerned with treating acting as a craft. But, he will do a sequel to “Adventureland.”