Cinema analysts regularly stop, observe the past season and try to take stock of the innovations that can be exploited in the future. The personalities, but also the styles, fashions and genres, which can become pillars on which to base the box office in the following year. With a cinematic summer that began on a negative note with Furious And FallGuy who have not generated the desired revenue, it is the right time to review who the “series A” stars are, the young actors and actresses who will hopefully be able to drive the box office with their faces. Above all, they know how to do it without being tied to a single character, but jumping from franchise to franchise, from film to film.
So here’s who the Hollywood Reporter says are the young stars to keep an eye on. We divide them according to categories, invented by us.
The young stars of the dunes
The gigantic superstars gathered by Denis Villeneuve for Dunes. Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya are the two fundamental names for the studies. Timothée Chalamet recently got a “promotion” from Hollywood increasing his bargaining power. He managed to make Warner executives happy to the point of obtaining a pre-emption agreement after the successes of what for him is an extraordinary season just ended.
Both he and Zendaya have demonstrated remarkable versatility. They know how to fit into products with a wide audience such as Wonka or the saga of Spider-Manbut also to tickle the arthouse audience with appreciated performances such as that of Elio in Call me by your name or Rue in Euphoria. Unlike her colleague, Zendaya still lacks the big leading role. However, she seems interested in something else, her credit in the production of Challengers suggests that we may soon see her more active behind the camera too.
The Elvises
They both played Elvis Presley and yet Austin Butler And Jacob Elordi they couldn’t be more different. Elordi he was Zendaya’s colleague in Euphoria. The Kissing BoothSaltburn and Priscilla have consolidated his fame. We saw it in Cannes in The Betrayals (Oh, Canada) and it will be in Frankenstein by Guillermo del Toro. The attempt is to escape from the role of the impossible and/or damned beautiful to experiment with something else.
Austin Butler he already appears more complete, an actor of depth who is appreciated by the cinema of awards, great directors and commitment. Prone to difficult roles and physical transformations, Butler will soon test himself with The Bikeriders by Jeff Nichols. His career began in 2005 with a lot of TV, but has accelerated in recent years (thanks also to Jarmusch and Tarantino) such as to project him towards a bright future on the big screen.
The refined
From the first steps with Normal People, Paul Mescal has become the next big thing of the Hollywood arthouse. He has played his cards well in adult, but also popular, cinema The dark daughter (adaptation by Elena Ferrante) or in Aftersun, the actor’s beloved film-consecration. With a bit of theater as a corollary of these extraordinary years and after having moved in StrangersPaul Mescal is trying the big leap into blockbuster with Gladiator II.
Florence Pugh she is instead one of the most skilled actresses in moving from arthouse horror (Midsommar) to the arthouse blockbuster (Little Women, Don’t Worry Darling and obviously Oppenheimer beyond Dunes) and effortlessly inherit Scarlett Johansson’s scepter in the Marvel Studios universe. Versatile and constant.
Rom-coms
The “beautiful and light” Glen Powell And Sydney Sweeney they made a splash at the box office with Everyone except you and individually they are also making an excellent journey. They haven’t yet reached the point of big stars who, by themselves, drag the audience into the theater even in less powerful films. But they are becoming symbols of a couple of genres each. Both work well with romantic content. Powell, also seen in Top Gun: Maverickmoves in Hit Man by Linklater right between the action (we will also see it in Twisters) and the rom-com.
The turning point for Sweeney came from TV with the phenomenon Euphoria And The White Lotus. Born in 1997, however, he already has a career full of titles. She too was (for a very short time) in Once upon a time in… Hollywood And Under the Silver Lake. For the last few years, cinema has been weighed down by the disastrous flop of Madame Webbut the future will hold the Barbarella by Edgar Wright.
The girls of horror
There is so much horror in the careers of all these young stars. For Anya Taylor-Joy the beginning was precisely in the role of subtly revolutionary female characters for the stereotypes of scary films. Both in The Witch that in Split his characters are complex, active and enterprising. A beginning, as she says, based on her eyes. Little by little she moved across genres, always working to the max. Everything changed when The queen of chess made it known to the general public, outside the niches. Today she is the actress of dystopian science fiction in the desert (we saw her in Furious and in Dunes). What does the future hold for you as a young star loved by Hollywood?
Jenna Ortega And Wednesday, but it is also much more. He was in Insidious 2 And The babysitter. Again: here it is Scream and in X: A Sexy Horror Story. More than the idol of Generation Z, as she is now, Jenna Ortega should be remembered as a great girl of horror. Consistent with where she is currently in her image as a “teen” actress, we will also see her in the sequel to Beetlejuice, where his presence is inevitable and logical. Will he be able to give the film satisfaction at the box office?
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