Discussions over Jennifer Lopez's Las Vegas residency have reportedly come to a halt.
There's been a halt in talks for a big J.Lo residency on the Las Vegas Strip in early 2023, says New York Post. Seems sales for her latest album and summer tour aren't doing great.
Lopez had been discussing playing 90 shows worth $90 million at the 5,200-seat Park Theater at the MGM Grand, reported The Post.
This is Her ... Now
That all changed when her album "This is Me ... Now" became her poorest-selling yet. Also, as per Variety, 7 gigs on her tour - in Cleveland, Nashville, Raleigh, Atlanta, Tampa, New Orleans, and Houston - were quietly canceled due to dodgy ticket sales.
About a third of the 19,500 seats for J.Lo's T-Mobile Arena show in Vegas on July 20 are still unsold. A source informs The Post that MGM execs are worried seeing J.Lo "not performing well on the road" and are "very jittery."
"It's pretty unusual to have a bad tour and then go to Vegas," the source is cited saying.
The $1 million-per-show rate was estimated based on J.Lo's highly-acclaimed, 130-show residency at Planet Hollywood's Zappos Theater. Its final show in 2018 broke a venue record of $1.17 million, making J.Lo the quickest artist on the Strip to sell $100 million worth of tickets.
J.Lo raked in about $500K per show for that two-year run, says The Post. That's the same cost that MGM pays Mariah Carey, and what Caesars Entertainment used to pay Celine Dion for her two residencies at Caesars Palace. It's also less than half the current Marie MGM is splurging on Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga.
Adele's residency record stands tall with a $2 million per show at Caesars Palace, wrapping up on June 15.
Feelin' So Bad
An initial, unconfirmed report in February from Britain's The Mirror claimed the deal with J.Lo was $800K per residency show. But when Resorts World partnered with Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) for $875K per show, MGM had to up their bid to stay in contention.
However, as per The Post's source, a J.Lo residency is now worth around $600K-$650K for a much lower number of gigs.
Neither Lopez's nor MGM's reps responded to queries about the negotiations.
The report arrives at a rocky time in J.Lo's personal life, with rumors her marriage to Ben Affleck is also on the rocks. The celebrity couple got hitched at the Little White Chapel in Vegas just under two years ago, having split in 2004. (If we're being technical, they never formally got divorced but it wasn't an active, ongoing relationship.)
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