Set in a cyberpunky, post-apocalyptic America, Alba played Max Guevera, also known as X5-452, a genetically-enhanced child who escaped from her facility and adopted a life as a young adult who motorcycles around the Pacific Northwest looking for other former lab kids and avoiding nefarious government agents.
In 2000, Alba headed up the cast of Dark Angel, a heavily hyped Fox science-fiction series co-created by Titanic and Terminator director James Cameron. Jessica Alba is known primarily as an actor in feature films, but her first major starring role came in a network television series.
Honestly, who has the time or inclination for the grueling process of landing movie roles and then filming them for months on end, when they're a hands-on leader and co-owner of a billion-dollar empire? Available in more than 4,400 stores, Alba's company generated $150 million that year, right around the time it enjoyed a market valuation of $1.7 billion. By 2015, the Honest Company offered more than 130 products, including balms, toothpaste, detergent, and an offshoot beauty line. In its first year, Alba and associates sold $10 million worth of 17 products, primarily diapers and wipes, sold via mail order. She hired Healthy Child Healthy World author Christopher Gavigan as a consultant and LegalZoom founder Brian Lee to form Love & Honor, renamed the Honest Company at the time of the company's official launch in 2012.
In 2008, her newborn daughter broke out in hives after wearing baby clothes washed in a leading detergent, so Alba set out to start a company that manufactured products free from potential toxins and allergens. Jessica Alba has found more than a little satisfaction, financially, professionally, and personally, as the co-founder of the Honest Company.
After so many years of so-so films, movie producers just aren't willing to pony up millions to pay Alba if they aren't going to get a good return on their investment. To name a few examples: The dance flick Honey took in $30 million in 2003, Good Luck Chuck brought in $35 million in 2007, Machete earned $26 million in 2010, and Escape from Planet Earth earned $57 million in 2013. Alba had smaller roles in big hits like Little Fockers and Valentine's Day, but those can't really be considered "Jessica Alba movies." Those projects that do fall under that umbrella title, however, include one mildly or moderately successful and largely forgettable movie after another. Only two movies in which she played a prominent, leading role - Fantastic Four and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer - made more than $100 million at the North American box office, an industry benchmark for financial success. Jessica Alba was given a few shots at big-screen stardom in the 2000s and she didn't completely deliver on the hype and the promise. That means there’s a lot more drama, secrets, forbidden love and tragedy still to come as part of Lifetime’s Saturday Night Thrillers event.Hollywood is a town ruled by money, in that the actors who consistently pack movie theaters around the country with ticket-buying customers are the actors who get the best roles and the most roles. There will still be three more movies in the series - “Fallen Hearts,” “Gates of Paradise” and “Web of Dreams” - left to air after this one ends.
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Andrews’ Dark Angel” premieres on Lifetime on Saturday at 8 p.m. As Heaven reaches out for love, she is slowly ensnared in a sinister web of cruel deceits.”įind out more about the troubled lives of Heaven and the Casteel family when “V.C. But even in the world of the wealthy, there are strange forebodings, secrets best forgotten. " picks up directly after Heaven (Annalise Basso) finds a new life in her estranged grandmother and grandfather, Jillian (Kelly Rutherford) and Tony Tatterton’s (Jason Priestley) exquisite Boston mansion, Farthinggale Manor. Andrews’ Dark Angel,” according to Lifetime: Andrews’ Dark Angel.” Lifetime / Cate CameroĪfter the events of last week’s installment, here’s what viewers can expect from “V.C. Jason Cermak stars as Troy and Annalise Basso stars as Heaven in Lifetime’s feature “V.C.