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After endless eulogies about the death of the movie star were written in the wake of the overwhelming success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, recent years have proven that reports of their demise were greatly exaggerated.
In Dune: Part Two alone, there are four actors — two women and two men — that can be considered as being at the forefront of Hollywood’s next generation of movie stars: Zendaya, Florence Pugh, Timothee Chalamet, and Austin Butler.
Or the recent rom-com smash Anyone But You, which racked up over $200 million off the backs (well, faces and bodies) of Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney.
Add in Anya Taylor-Joy headlining Furiosa, Jenna Ortega landing Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Paul Mescal starring in Gladiator 2, and Jacob Elordi recently playing Elvis and you have the ten actors that Hollywood believes are the next generation of household names, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
For clarity, here are all ten actors: Zendaya, Anya Taylor-Joy, Florence Pugh, Jenna Ortega, Sydney Sweeney, Timothee Chalamet, Austin Butler, Glen Powell, Paul Mescal, and Jacob Elordi.
Studio slates are undoubtedly still dominated by franchise installments, but executives are looking for star vehicles, again. Albeit these vehicles may come in the form of remakes or reboots of left-of-center IP from library rich studios.
Says one top exec, ‘Hollywood spent too long making franchises the star rather than building up the next generation of talent. We haven’t incentivized writers to create star-creating vehicles.” [via The Hollywood Reporter]
Of the actors on this list, the one with the newest movie is Taylor-Joy, as Furiosa hits theaters today — Friday, May 24. Earlier this month, Zendaya starred in Challengers, which earned her some of the best reviews of her carer.