Jennifer Lawrence will star in true-crime mafia movie 'Mob Girl,' as she tries to rebound from a string of major flops
- Jennifer Lawrence will star in and produce the true-crime movie "Mob Girl," directed by Paolo Sorrentino.
- Lawrence is in need of a hit after a string of flops that failed to impress both critics and audiences.
- Her most recent movie, "Dark Phoenix," is the lowest-grossing "X-Men" movie to date and was slammed by critics.
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Jennifer Lawrence has found her next project.
The Oscar winner will star in and produce "Mob Girl," based on the 1992 true-crime book "Mob Girl: A Woman's Life in the Underworld" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Teresa Carpenter. Paolo Sorrentino, who directed HBO's 2017 limited series "The Young Pope," is set to direct.
The studio Makeready released the below movie summary:
Lawrence is in need of a hit after a string of major flops. Her last five movies have failed to land with both critics and audiences: this year's "Dark Phoenix," last year's "Red Sparrow," 2017's "mother!," and 2016's "Passengers" and "X-Men: Apocalypse."
The highest-rated movie of those on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes is Darren Aronofsky's "mother!" with a 69% score. But the movie bombed with audiences, grossing $44.5 million worldwide and receiving a F rating from Cinemascore, which surveys moviegoers on a movie's opening night.
The other four aforementioned movies all received "rotten" scores on Rotten Tomatoes (below 60%). The lowest rated of them is the "X-Men" movie "Dark Phoenix," which grossed just $250 million off of a $200 million production budget.