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Hollywood’s rising stars
New stars are the lifeblood of Hollywood, and at least a dozen hopefuls are aspiring to get top billing in 2010.
Here are the faces to watch this year:
LAUNCHING OFF HITS
As the stars of the rebooted “Star Trek,” Chris Pine and Zoe Saldana are set to reprise their roles as Captain Kirk and Uhura in sequels.
This year tests their ability to be fan favorites when they step out from under the venerable franchise’s umbrella.
Saldana, who also has the cachet of starring in “Avatar,” the year’s biggest movie and a global hit, will be seen in “The Losers.”
Pine co-stars with Samuel L. Jackson in a terrorism thriller, “Unstoppable.”
Robert Pattinson is this generation’s romantic idol, thanks to “The Twilight Saga,” while his co-star Kristen Stewart has achieved global notoriety as well.
This year will see each trying to show their versatility outside the human/vampire love story.
Pattison’s choice is “Remember Me,” while Stewart stars in the Sundance Film Festival-premiering “The Runaways,” as ’80s punk rocker Joan Jett.
“The Hangover” was the summer’s sleeper smash, and for handsome Bradley Cooper the chance to finally step into the spotlight. First up for Cooper: The newly reworked “The A Team,” with Liam Neeson and Jessica Biel.
This “A-Team” also stars Sharlto Copley as Howling Mad Murdock. Sharlto who? you wonder. He is the South African producer-turned-actor who starred in last summer’s other sleeper smash, the sci-fi thriller “District 9,” as a man contaminated with alien DNA.
Christoph Waltz is at the top of everyone’s list to win the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his brilliantly devious portrait of a Nazi killer as charming scoundrel. Waltz, a veteran Austrian stage and TV actor, is now getting the Hollywood buildup as well and co-stars in “The Green Hornet,” due next December.
NEW DISCOVERIES
British actress Carey Mulligan is another Oscar hopeful, thanks to her star-making turn as a teenager in 1961 learning about life and love in “An Education.”
Even if Mulligan doesn’t win a Best Actress trophy, she’s already got a booming career. This year sees her co-starring with Keira Knightley in the thriller “Never Let Me Go” and opposite Shia LaBeouf in Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street 2.”
Australia’s Sam Worthington seemed to emerge from the Outback as the Next Big Thing, thanks to being plucked to star in “Avatar” and then “Terminator 3.”
Happily for Worthington, “Avatar” scored and he will get a chance to step into Russell Crowe’s and Gerard Butler’s tunics as the sword-wielding hero of “Clash of the Titans.”
TV TRANSFERS
Not all stars emerge from hit movies; television has become a fertile field for new discoveries.
Jon Hamm has created plenty of sizzle in “Mad Men” and he’s hoping to get a bounce from “The Town,” directed by and co-starring Ben Affleck.
Miley Cyrus has made a name for herself on record charts, the Disney Channel and in the tabloids, but her hit 3-D concert movie doesn’t assure film stardom. Cyrus will try for that golden ring with “The Last Song.”
From starring as Blair Waldorf in “Gossip Girl,” Leighton Meester hopes to expand her range and her celebrity with the psycho thriller-chiller “The Roommate.”
Here are the faces to watch this year:
LAUNCHING OFF HITS
As the stars of the rebooted “Star Trek,” Chris Pine and Zoe Saldana are set to reprise their roles as Captain Kirk and Uhura in sequels.
This year tests their ability to be fan favorites when they step out from under the venerable franchise’s umbrella.
Saldana, who also has the cachet of starring in “Avatar,” the year’s biggest movie and a global hit, will be seen in “The Losers.”
Pine co-stars with Samuel L. Jackson in a terrorism thriller, “Unstoppable.”
Robert Pattinson is this generation’s romantic idol, thanks to “The Twilight Saga,” while his co-star Kristen Stewart has achieved global notoriety as well.
This year will see each trying to show their versatility outside the human/vampire love story.
Pattison’s choice is “Remember Me,” while Stewart stars in the Sundance Film Festival-premiering “The Runaways,” as ’80s punk rocker Joan Jett.
“The Hangover” was the summer’s sleeper smash, and for handsome Bradley Cooper the chance to finally step into the spotlight. First up for Cooper: The newly reworked “The A Team,” with Liam Neeson and Jessica Biel.
This “A-Team” also stars Sharlto Copley as Howling Mad Murdock. Sharlto who? you wonder. He is the South African producer-turned-actor who starred in last summer’s other sleeper smash, the sci-fi thriller “District 9,” as a man contaminated with alien DNA.
Christoph Waltz is at the top of everyone’s list to win the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his brilliantly devious portrait of a Nazi killer as charming scoundrel. Waltz, a veteran Austrian stage and TV actor, is now getting the Hollywood buildup as well and co-stars in “The Green Hornet,” due next December.
NEW DISCOVERIES
British actress Carey Mulligan is another Oscar hopeful, thanks to her star-making turn as a teenager in 1961 learning about life and love in “An Education.”
Even if Mulligan doesn’t win a Best Actress trophy, she’s already got a booming career. This year sees her co-starring with Keira Knightley in the thriller “Never Let Me Go” and opposite Shia LaBeouf in Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street 2.”
Australia’s Sam Worthington seemed to emerge from the Outback as the Next Big Thing, thanks to being plucked to star in “Avatar” and then “Terminator 3.”
Happily for Worthington, “Avatar” scored and he will get a chance to step into Russell Crowe’s and Gerard Butler’s tunics as the sword-wielding hero of “Clash of the Titans.”
TV TRANSFERS
Not all stars emerge from hit movies; television has become a fertile field for new discoveries.
Jon Hamm has created plenty of sizzle in “Mad Men” and he’s hoping to get a bounce from “The Town,” directed by and co-starring Ben Affleck.
Miley Cyrus has made a name for herself on record charts, the Disney Channel and in the tabloids, but her hit 3-D concert movie doesn’t assure film stardom. Cyrus will try for that golden ring with “The Last Song.”
From starring as Blair Waldorf in “Gossip Girl,” Leighton Meester hopes to expand her range and her celebrity with the psycho thriller-chiller “The Roommate.”
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