Hollywood is full of celebrities, but few stars. True film 1)stardom—the power to draw huge crowds on opening weekend—has belonged to an elite few for decades. Now, 2)Dwayne Johnson and a new generation of actors are 3)jostling to join the A-list ranks. Can they do it? Here are five next A-listers introduced to you.
While Hollywood execs were desperately seeking the next leading man, this 4)scrawny kid star (Holes) was slowly maturing into the 5)Gen-Y mover of their dreams. His big film, Transformers, grossed a massive $708 million worldwide. Steven Spielberg, who executive-produced the latter, 6)took a shine to the kid, casting him in Indy 4. “He’s accessible without being soft,” says one top studio exec. “There’s a bit of an 7)edge there. I think he’s fantastic.” He’s most often compared to a young Tom Hanks, but LaBeouf has built a template closer to Cruise, lining up action 8)franchises and then injecting them with emotion. Now he just needs to prove he’s got enough 9)stamina, and good sense, to keep his career 10)ablaze without getting burned by fame or 11)sidetracked by momentary 12)lapses in judgment.
There are few actresses that everyone in Hollywood seems to love, but right now Adams is everybody’s sweetheart. “She’s a total star,” says one top talent agent. “She’s really 13)versatile. She can do comedy or drama, studio movies or weird 14)indie. She’s got it all.” After scoring an Oscar 15)nom two years ago for her charmingly 16)offbeat supporting role in the indie Junebug, Adams has proved the range and depth of her talent, 17)tackling 18)broad comedy (Talladega Nights), upscale drama (Charlie Wilson’s War), and a main-stream family musical (Enchanted). That fairy-tale film, which earned $340 million worldwide, 19)endeared her not just to girls, but to the industry. “She has the most appealing nature,” says one producer. “If Walt Disney had not created Snow White, Amy Adams would have been that person.” Now she needs to stop sharing the screen with 20)high-wattage stars and focus on becoming one herself.
Now that she’s the darling of the indie world, what other 21)shenanigans can she get into? Plenty, if she plays her cards right. “Ellen has a choice,” says one producer. “Will she be Meryl Streep or will she be a big [box office] star?” So far, Page hasn’t dropped any big hints as to which direction she’s leaning. What’s certain is that she’s not going to be some 22)bland 23)ingénue, 24)dolling herself up for fashion shoots or 25)trolling out her personal life for the 26)tabloids. She’s played a 27)mutant in the last X-Men movie. Most important, Juno’s success ($228 million worldwide) has made Page a 28)cult icon to a generation of young women. “Audiences are looking for authenticity, 29)verisimilitude,” says a top studio exec. “She has that.”
Not only has this Scottish actor grabbed 30)coveted Oscar-bait roles 31)opposite Keira Knightley (Atonement) and Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland ), but his actioner Wanted, costarring Angelina Jolie, has32)cemented him as one of the few serious actors who can headline a 33)high-octane adventure. “I can see him using Matt Damon as a career model, doing both franchise pictures as well as the big Oscar pictures,” says one agent. “And he seems to want that.” McAvoy’s neither rugged nor pretty, but is able to play both, and he looks like a man rather than a boy, which makes him ideal for romantic dramas. (It also helps that he’s able to 34)warp his heavy 35)brogue into a persuasive American accent.) “He’s not a conventional leading man,” says one studio exec, but “he’s going to have a long, interesting career.”
Could she be the next Julie Roberts? It’s a tall order, to be sure, but of all the contenders to the throne, Hathaway may have the best shot. After being launched from obscurity as the star of Disney’s $300 million worldwide-grossing Princess Diaries films, Hathaway 36)deftly left the 37)kiddie pool behind by polishing her acting 38)chops (and, ahem, baring her chest) in the R-rated, Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain. Then she held her own against no less than Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada. “Annie’s just going to keep going up and up,” 39)raves one studio exec. “She can do anything.”
在好萊塢,社會名流比比皆是,巨星卻寥寥無幾。真正的電影巨星——能夠吸引大批的觀眾在影片首映的周末到電影院捧場——這個稱號數十年一直只屬一群數十年難得一見的演藝界精英?,F在,德維恩·約翰遜和新一代的演員們正努力躋身天王天后行列。他們做得到嗎?下面就向大家介紹5位明日巨星。
正當好萊塢制片人拼命地尋找著新一任男主角的時候,這位瘦削的童星(曾出演《別有洞天》)漸漸地成熟起來,成為那些制片人夢寐以求的Y世代新動力。他出演的大片《變形金剛》全世界的票房總收入達到了7.08億美元?!蹲冃谓饎偂返谋O制斯蒂文·斯皮爾伯格第一眼就喜歡上這小伙子,讓他在《奪寶奇兵4》里面擔任一角色。一位著名的制片總監說:“他平易可親卻不陰柔。這算是他的一個優勢吧。我覺得他棒極了?!比藗兂3⑺茸髂贻p的湯姆·漢克斯,但是拉博夫的演藝模式更加接近于湯姆·克魯斯,他接下一部又一部動作片并往個中角色注入感情。現在,他只需要證明自己有足夠的毅力和清醒的頭腦,使自己的事業更加輝煌的同時又不會為名氣所累,或者由于一時的判斷失誤而變得星途晦暗。
鮮有女演員能夠為好萊塢所有人喜愛,但是現在艾米·亞當斯卻是眾人的甜心。一名頂尖藝人經紀說:“她完全就是一個明星。她多才多藝,既能演喜劇片,又能演劇情片,在主流的制片廠電影或者古怪的獨立電影里都能有出色的表現。她可以說是個全才?!?br>