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BY STEFANIE REDDING

ANCHOR LAUREN ZIMA

The opening weekend numbers are in for Katherine Heigl’s latest romantic comedy, ‘One For The Money’ -- and the Hollywood Reporter says ..

“One for the Money opened No. 2 on Friday with a better than expected $4.1 million. If business holds, the Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment pic should gross $11 million to $12 million for the weekend.”

Although the movie is doing better than expected in its opening, will those numbers hold?

Rotten Tomatoes reports the film has only a 3 percent approval rating from critics overall.

A writer for the New York Daily News says Heigl is “miscast.”

“Heigl tends to imbue her characters with an off-putting mix of insecurity and abrasiveness ... She’s too movie-star glam, too stiffly prissy, and too lacking in any affection for Stephanie [the main character] herself.”
              
This is the latest critical flop for Heigl, after ‘Killers’ and ‘Life As We Know It.’ Now, Heigl tells MTV she wouldn’t mind reprising the role that helped make her famous -- Izzie on Grey’s Anatomy.

“I’ve thought about this a lot actually. I would love it if Izzie came back and actually having really just sort of gotten to the next level. She was always one step behind and struggling with her career.”

But critics point to that same prissyness the New York Daily News noted in its ‘One For The Money’ review -- saying how Heigl left the show may make it impossible for her to come back. EW reports:

"...a source close to the show tells EW that a return trip doesn’t look good for Heigl, who once memorably said in 2008 that she did not put her name in for Emmy consideration because she did not feel she was given material to justify it. (She also complained to David Letterman that the 17-hour work days were 'cruel and mean.')”

And New York Magazine has some career advice for Heigl.

“She needs to stay away [from the limelight] for a while, come back with a film worth seeing, and be given extremely detailed talking points to promote it. She has to prove herself as a human being and an actor.”