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I Know Who Killed Your Career
In the wake of Lindsay Lohan's personal scandals and her latest box office flop, EW asked studio executives to weigh in about the future of her career

LINDSAY LOHAN ''Her career was over long before she had these troubles,'' says one studio head
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All AboutLindsay Lohan

By Sean Smith
For one brilliant, flickering moment, she was poised to become a star. By the age of 17, Lindsay Lohan had played lead roles in four major films, two of them significant hits. In 2004, her first album had gone platinum. Mean Girls had opened at $24 million and had transported her from cute kid to budding sex symbol and style icon. Hollywood wanted to mold her into the next Julia Roberts. By last week, at the age of 21, she had blown it all away. ''She had the world at her feet,'' says the head of a major studio. ''And right now, she'd have to pay a studio to get herself into a movie.''

On July 24, just 11 days after leaving rehab, Lohan was arrested for cocaine possession and suspicion of drunk driving. Whether she does time or not, she's built her own prison in Hollywood. Her latest film, I Know Who Killed Me, premiered last week to an abysmal $3.5 million. ''The rate at which she has fallen, and gotten back up, and fallen again, does not inspire confidence,'' says one producer. ''It's always challenging for a young actor to mature into an adult star. It takes great planning, sophistication, and judgment. She hasn't shown any of those things.'' Lohan has not had a hit since Mean Girls, and her grosses have been declining. She hasn't opened a movie above $10 million since 2005's Herbie: Fully Loaded. Of the producers and high-ranking execs who spoke to Entertainment Weekly — some of whom have worked with Lohan, and most of whom insisted on anonymity so they could speak frankly — almost none would hire her now. ''Her career was over long before she had these troubles,'' says the studio head. ''The media treat her like she's Will Smith or Tom Cruise, like she's some big star, but she simply isn't.''

If Lohan wanted to blame somebody other than herself, she wouldn't have to look far. There's her mother, who seems to want to be a best friend rather than a parent. There's her ex-con father. There's the L.A. bar scene that serves underage stars and Hollywood's compulsion to turn child actors into products, plus a frenzied 21st-century media culture that has made Lohan and other celebs into exotic prey in flashbulb cages. ''It's ridiculous how different things are than they were 10 years ago,'' says Robert Downey Jr., who declined to speak about Lohan specifically, but waged his own public battle with addiction. ''Nowadays, the leap from instant stardom to instant bad boy or girl is so quick. It's a real challenge to reconcile your own process of becoming an adult with the temptation of celebrity.''

Lohan's young, but to say she's a victim of the blogarazzi misses the point. She was, after all, created by that very same culture. And she didn't exactly object. Without all the tabloid covers and red carpets and cell-phone photos and mug shots, Lohan would not be a household name; she would simply be a talented ingenue with a substance-abuse problem, a messed-up family, and a mediocre box office record. Harsh? Maybe so, but that's the cold calculus of Hollywood. ''Her troubles are what made her famous,'' says one studio exec. ''Her films don't open. She's a pain to work with. I think she's done.'' Others go so far as to worry that career death may be the least of Lohan's concerns. Says another exec: ''I think she has to stay alive.''

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She could be the next Drew Barrymore, okay Drew had her probs waaay before but she turned from troubled child star to an actress that for some reason keeps consistantly getting roles despite the fact she isn't world's best actress.
Lindsey could easily do the same....but I don't think she's saavy enough for the business to not sink (and no good work ethic on her track record to make her desirable to work with), to find a niche outside cutesy Disney produced movies which she is too old for now, partially thanks to some parents who don't know jack shit either.

I liked Parent Trap. Now she is a whore.

Aww bless. She's in actor jail.

I don't buy the idea that she's finished. She's only 21. It would be shortsighted to say she could never turn things around. If she cleans up her act and stays sober eventually someone will give her a shot again. It's really all up to her.

She'll probs stay quiet for a while, release a book, then get a killer movie deal and be all trendy again. Then she'll learn to control her coke habits like most respectable movie stars do.

i want to see her movie I know who killed me. and the one with Jane Fonda. but, when they opened, there were other movies that sparked my interest. and, it had nothng to do with the fact Lindsay Lohan was in them. Movies like the Transformers and Spiderman 2 and Harry Potter. they were going to be the blockbusters. i don't know why anyone thought these other movies were going to do that kind of business.

I love Lindsay. Mainly because she is the most beautiful face since Nicole Kidman, period. A true bombshell. Yes I know I'm shallow.

But hey she's also a good comedian and I think she has more talent than Drew Barrymore.

I just think she got into the Paris crowd and that really fucked her up, plus Dina Lohan

georgia rule was surprisingly un-sucky. but it's really because felicity huffman was so good. lohan was totally doing her usual slutty thing. i love how that film mirrors her real life, the car chase, the bad girl thing. but yeah, i think she can pull a barrymore, or an anna nicole, whatever, i don't give a shit. she can die if she wants to.

I liked her. She is a fucked up whore now but she never used to be, and I think she is talented. I just don't know if she can turn things around now. I think they may have gone too far. Its just been one disaster after another with her. I agree with HCH her mom is a big part of the problem along with her father. They're so fucked up themselves how could she have gone long without screwing everything up too? I also agree with the fact that she seemed fine until she got into the Paris crowd. Thats right about when Lindsays slutty side emerged in the public eye. Its been downhill ever since.

oooh white oprah wont like knowing that her meal ticket is about to expire.

TIME TO WHORE OUT THE NEXT LOHAN MONEY MAKER I MEAN CHILD.

i was surprised to learn there were 4 of them! she probably doesn't even remember the name of her oldest.

pshh, i'd do it. look at how many more rolexes and sports cars joe simpson has gotten to buy since tapping into the avril dollars with daughter #2.

Lindsay is the eldest child.

Her mother wants to do a reality show with the others. I guess from what I read Lindsay called her from rehab and begged her not to. She doesn't want her mother to fuck them up too!

Hahahaha, she's now "that cunt". You know ORANGE (ahem, I got you B) Oprah needs to maintain her 20-something wardrobe so she can get into Hyde and shake her never-was-a-Rockette-ass.

Oh god, Joe Simpson is so disgusting. Does Ashlee turn a profit still?? I'm thinking those Simpson bitches have seen better days.

On a sidenote, LLo has a brother who is older than her, I think, and without sounding like Ruth Price in an oriental bathhouse, he looks like one nice piece.

**DL22 understands that "oriental" is offensive.

I SHAGED DEM BOTH BEFOOR AND DAT IS AKCHULLY TROO

Really? I think Lindsay's skin is horrific... I don't think she's worn sunblock a day in her life.

Shes dont Drew Barrymore, shes Lindsey Lohan who fucked up a good thing.

no it's not, those are just the freckles, she has freckles in all her body like every red head does.

But it's more than that, I'm talking about the Marilyn body, the Taylor eyes, the photogenic face, the cupid bow lips, look at this:



it's just gorgeousness.