Jennifer Garner Box Office Flop Enters Netflix’s Top 10
Jennifer Garner‘s legion of fans has helped raise awareness of Catch and Release, which resurfaced on Netflix recently. The movie was a box office flop in January 2007 but now has a spot on the streamer’s Top 10 movies list. Garner can also be seen in one of Netflix’s biggest recent hits, The Adam Project, which co-stars her 13 Going on 30 castmate Mark Ruffalo.
Catch and Release holds the number three slot on Netflix’s Top 10 Movies in the U.S. Today chart as of April 13. It is behind two other movies getting a Netflix bump, Halle Berry’s The Call (2013) and the comedy Without a Paddle (2004). Cleaner (2007), starring Samuel L. Jackson and Eva Mendes, and Mark Wahlberg’s Four Brothers (2005) round out the Top 5.
Although Catch and Release was released when Garner’s star was on the rise after Alias ended, the $25 million movie grossed just $16.1 million worldwide. The romantic comedy stars Garner as Gray Wheeler, who learns about her recently deceased fiance’s secrets after she falls in love with his best friend. It was written and directed by Susannah Grant, who co-created Netflix’s 2019 series Unbelievable. Catch and Release also stars Timothy Olyphant, Kevin Smith, and Juliette Lewis.
Garner’s fans can also find her in the Netflix originals Yes Day and The Adam Project. She is also the voice of Mama Llama in Netflix’s Llama Llama animated series. HBO Max subscribers can see Garner in Daredevil (2003), Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), Danny Collins (2015), A Happening of Monumental Proportions (2017), and her short-lived HBO show Camping.
Garner’s next TV project will take her to Apple TV+. She is starring in a limited series based on Laura Dave’s novel The Last Thing He Told Me, alongside Angourie Rice. Dave created the series with Spotlight writer Josh Singer. Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine is producing the series. Olivia Newman, who is directing Sony and Hello Sunshine’s adaptation of Delia Owens’ The Crawdads Sing, was hired to direct The Last Thing He Told Me. The new series stars Garner as Hannah, who bonds with her stepdaughter (Rice) while investigating her husband’s disappearance.
While Garner continues to add new projects to her resume, she also finds herself in the headlines this week for something ex-husband Ben Affleck did. He got engaged to Jennifer Lopez over the weekend. A source told Us Weekly Affleck told Garner and their three children about his plans to propose to Lopez before the public. Lopez and Affleck waited “a few days” before letting fans know about the engagement. Insiders previously told Us Weekly Garner gave Lopez her “seal of approval” after Lopez and Affleck rekindled their romance.