Forbes have come up with a list of the 10 most profitable actors in Hollywood at the moment, now don’t confuse this list with the most paid actors because this is based on how much money the movie studio makes back for every dollar they paid the actors.
10. Sarah Jessica Parker, $17
When it comes to Sex and the City movies, Sarah Jessica Parker is a great investment. In other movies, not so much. Her 2009 film Did You Hear About the Morgans earned an anemic $85 million at the global box office. Compare that with her two Sex and the City movies, which have earned a total $705 million.
9. Nicolas Cage, $17
Cage makes our list mostly thanks to the 2009 film Knowing, which earned a healthy $184 million on an estimated budget of $50 million. The budget was able to stay low because the producers went with Cage over someone who would have cost much more like Will Smith or Johnny Depp.
8. Johnny Depp, $18
Depp is the rare actor on our list who earns more than almost every actor in Hollywood but still manages to offer a good return on investment. That’s because his films do phenomenally. Alice in Wonderland has earned $1 billion. Public Enemies brought in $215 million. As long as he continues to be a major draw overseas and his films keep performing, Depp will continue to get one of the highest paydays in Hollywood.
7. Meryl Stree, $21
The actress (2008′s most profitable actress) proves again and again that age and gender do not determine box-office draw. Mamma Mia earned $610 million at the global box office. It’s Complicated brought in $220 million. As soon as Streep starts earning the same as her male peers, she’ll likely work her way off of our list.
6. Jennifer Aniston, $21
Another woman on our list: Jennifer Aniston (2007′s most profitable actress). The star makes a surprising appearance in sixth place with a $21 return for every $1 she is paid. (She’s tied with Meryl Streep.) Although one of her included movies, Love Happens, was a huge flop, He’s Just Not that Into You and The Bounty Hunter (with $136 million at the global box office on an estimated budget of $40 million) actually did well.
5. Cate Blanchett, $27
The actress has played the female lead in two recent high-grossing films: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Robin Hood (which brought in $310 million despite a weak opening). In both cases she earned significantly less than her male costars, which is why Blanchett makes our top 10 list while Russell Crowe and Brad Pitt do not.
4. Robert Downey Jr., $33
It wasn’t so long ago that Downey (2008′s most profitable actor) was a Hollywood pariah because of his drug and alcohol problems. That helped shrink his quote when he started his comeback in 2008 with the first Iron Man. Since then he’s starred in some of the highest-grossing films of the past few years, including Sherlock Holmes ($517 million) and Iron Man 2 ($622 million) while his payday has stayed relatively low.
3. Daniel Radcliffe, $61
The Harry Potter movies are the kind of high-budget films that would usually hurt an actor on this list unless he was earning under $10 million total. But Radcliffe lands in third place (with a $61 return for ever dollar he earns) because the films earn so much money. The entire franchise has so far brought in $5.4 billion at the global box office making his growing salary seem like a drop in the bucket.
2. Anne Hathaway, $64
For the sake of our return on investment list, being a woman in Hollywood is a good thing. They tend to earn less so when their films hit, they offer a good return. Hathaway lands so high on our list thanks to Alice in Wonderland. For every dollar she earns studios earn $64 off of her films. Most of that payback is coming from Alice. The Disney 3-D film was a gigantic hit earning $1 billion at the global box office, and Hathaway earned much less than star Johnny Depp. But she also benefits from 2009′s Bride Wars, which was a modest hit earning $115 million at the global box office on a low estimated budget of $30 million.
1. Shia LaBeouf, $81
LaBeouf tops our list for the second year in a row thanks to his relatively low-paid work in high-earning films like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and the second Transformers movie. As his box office grows so will his quote, which means it will be harder for him to stay at the top of our list unless his films earn proportionally more money. When LaBeouf starred in the first Transformers movie in 2007, Viacom’s Paramount Studio was able to pay him under $5 million. It had to bump that up considerably for the second film (which earned $833 million in 2009), but LaBeouf still isn’t earning $20 million upfront to star in a picture.
As a result, he offers a great return on investment. For every $1 studios spend on the 24-year-old actor his films return an average $81 of profit. For our list this year LaBeouf also benefits from the fourth Indiana Jones film, which earned $790 million in 2008. George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford split the bulk of the profits from that movie leaving LaBeouf as a profitable costar. As the actor’s fame (and box-office earnings) increase he’ll be able to demand more for each film which will hurt his return on investment number unless the films are gigantic blockbusters. That could be the case with the next Transformers movie. LaBeouf was able to ask for more money upfront but because the movie is being filmed in 3-D, it should earn even more than Transformers 2.
source: Hollywood’s Best Actors For The Buck [Forbes]
These days most actors are only in the business to make a quick dollar and get famous, but there are some who actually still care and enjoy acting. Cinema Blend have come up with a list of 20 actors who do care and deserve your support.
Ricky Gervais
In 2004, The Office became the first British sitcom ever to win a Golden Globe for Best Comedy. They never filmed another episode. Three years later, despite reported requests to guest star from Madonna, Brad Pitt and Will Ferrell, Ricky Gervais decided not to film another season of Extras. Walking away from a starring role on a major sitcom just as it becomes most profitable is almost unheard of, doing the same thing twice is either a sign of lunacy, a testament to just how much he really cares or an almost superhuman belief in his own abilities as a comedian. Decades ago, people said the same thing about Bob Newhart, more recently, they’ve said it about Dave Chappelle. I haven’t the slightest idea what the truth is, but that’s pretty damn good company to be in. Ricky Gervais deserves your support because he left two brilliant, critically-adored television shows of his own creation to do a movie lampooning God. Then he followed it up with a sentimental dreamedy about growing up in England. It’s as if he’s deliberately killed all momentum he had, cocksure he could rebuild again at any time of his choosing. We’ve yet to see the best out of Ricky Gervais, and when it comes, Cinema Blend will be the first in line to say I told you so. We’ll probably end up sharing credit with Barry from EastEnders.
Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen is a smolderer. He opens those intense, I-know-how-to-build-my-own-kitchen eyes, and he wins my girlfriend over every time. Obviously, I want to hate him because anyone that ruggedly handsome has to be despised on principal alone, but like Paul Newman and his absurdly delicious salad dressing, there comes a day when you just have to admit a dude’s alright. Viggo Mortensen could have gone the way of Eric Bana, it certainly would have been expected by this writer, but since The Lord Of The Rings climaxed, he’s done nothing but take intense borderline indies and one movie about horses. Turns out that’s excused because he’s reportedly just real into horses. I would write a movie about polish sausage if someone paid me, a man can’t change who he is. Viggo Mortensen is a character actor at heart, he’s a method, no-restraint genius who looks like a mechanic, crossed with zoo keeper, crossed with a brooding former model turned emotionally-tortured bad boy. I need to stop holding that against him. If not for my own credibility, so he won’t steal my girlfriend and kill me with his bare hands in my sleep on his way to winning at least three Oscars before he’s done.
Bill Murray
Bill Murray doesn’t have an agent. He has an answering machine. Leave him a message and if he likes your movie, he might call you back. Most likely he won’t. I suspect Bill Murray cares about life more than he cares about movies. He spends his days on drunken golf outings or eating lunch with Anthony Bourdain. When he chooses a movie it’s only because he thinks it’ll enrich his life to do it. Maybe it’ll enrich yours too. He’ll show up on set when he feels like it and when he arrives, he’ll be everything you could ever hope Bill Murray would be. He’ll hang out at crack jokes, he’ll entertain the crew between takes. When someone turns the camera on, he’ll give it his dead pan all, he’ll elevate every scene he’s in, he’ll make your movie better than it ever could have been if you’d cast anyone else. Then he’ll wander off back to his life, randomly tending bar in Austin and doing whatever it is that Bill Murray does with his endless weekends. He’d like to win an Oscar, he probably should have gotten one for Lost in Translation. But he doesn’t care about pleasing his fans, he won’t do anything just because you want him to. He’ll only do it if he wants to. Bill Murray mostly he cares about life and while you’re cashing paychecks for doing movies about giant robots, he’ll be out there living his.
Kate Winslet
I think Kate Winslet would be better off if she made more movies like The Holiday. That opinion, along with many others, is why I’m not necessarily a writer you should support. For all the laurels I’ve rested on, all the middle-of-the-road, audience-pleasing editorials I’ve delivered, I could never be Kate Winslet. Conventional wisdom dictates one should take roles which further her career, monetarily or critically, Kate Winslet has spent the last decade and a half taking movies like Little Children and The Reader which have merely reinforced her reputation as a woman more interested in achieving than pleasing. There’s nobility in that aim. Only the virtuous would sacrifice manufactured emotion for brutal honesty. That’s why I’m willing to sacrifice Michael Caine, who was originally going to be on this list. 20 actors is more search friendly than 21. Kate Winslet is better than that. That’s why she gets her own paragraph.
Crispin Glover
I’m pretty sure I get Crispin Glover about thirty percent of the time. That’s about twenty percent higher than most people and twenty percent less than Crispin Glover gets himself. Maybe. The how’s-and-why’s of the most honestly, happily eccentric man in show business are too confounding for a single paragraph. There was his Letterman appearance where he fired a roundhouse kick at Dave’s head, his republishing of a book about rats with CIA-style blackouts, his asking the director to remove all of his lines in Charlie’s Angels. The outlandish idiosyncrasies are enough to make OCD-patients look benign. He’s either accidentally stumbled upon that genius level of insane a few people have every generation or he’s carefully calculated an intentionally eerie public persona, the likes of which haven’t been topped since Nero. Lou Reed, on his most desperately anti-social day, skewers toward mass appeal projects twenty percent more than Crispin Glover. It’s like he carefully measures out just enough rope to almost hang himself and then climbs further up the tree. Peeping Toms, one-armed bellhops, Andy Warhol, these are the men Crispin Glover puts life into. He’s a personification of the mystery box, a creepy, off-putting Knave of Hearts lurking behind door number three. I can support that, at least thirty percent of the time.
Morgan Freeman
Wanna know what Morgan Freeman is up to right now? He’s narrating Through The Wormhole on the Discovery Channel. Let’s take a second to think about that. Morgan Freeman, a beloved actor with his handprints at the Chinese Theater, is doing the voice work for a little-seen basic cable documentary series. It’s certainly not because he can’t get work or because he’s somehow now incapable of acting, Morgan Freeman is still at the height of his cinematic power and influence, which is why he’s narrating one of the most fascinating programs on the origins of life I have ever seen. Maybe Through The Wormhole shows up without Freeman’s involvement, in fact, it likely does, but would Discovery be running highly-rated marathons of it? I seriously doubt it. Morgan Freeman invokes an aura of legitimacy. Even when he does absolute shit like Evan Almighty, it never really tarnishes his ability, probably because he never stoops or panders, grovels or lowers himself to embarrassment. All the greats, Joe Dimaggio, Ted Williams, they struck out too, but they did so with class, with a confident, I’ll-get-you-next-time grin. Don’t believe me? Then go ahead and stamp your forms, sonny. I doubt Morgan Freeman gives a shit.
Michelle Williams
Michelle Williams made a movie about walking around town looking for your dog, and it was one of the best movies of 2008. If there’s a great movie you’ve never heard of, odds are she’s in it. She could do blockbusters, where she’d invariably be cast as some superhero’s girlfriend. She’s pretty enough, she’s talented enough, and she’s well known enough. I’m sure Marvel wishes they could get her in The Avengers. They can’t. I doubt they’d even ask. Michelle Williams isn’t in it for the glory, or the money, or even accolades. She’d have to be in movies people are likely to see, to get any of those. I’m left to assume that she works because she genuinely likes acting, and chooses her roles accordingly. She’s quietly perfect in everything she does. When she’s in an ensemble you may not even notice her, because she’s so good she’s simply that character. She’s famous, but when you see her you’ll almost never think “hey that’s Michelle Williams”. Even though you’ll never notice, everything is better with her in it, and if it wasn’t already good she wouldn’t be in it anyway. Got a lost dog? A midget in need of a friend? A gay husband in need of a confidant? Got a quiet, incredibly smart movie which probably won’t sell tickets but really should be seen anyway? Give Michelle Williams a call.
Tom Hanks
More than anything else, this list is a celebration of risks. It’s an ode to the men and women who try new things, carve their own paths and make us alter the way we see movies; why is why, at first glance, Tom Hanks seems a bizarre fixture amongst the Viggos and Kate Winslet’s. There’s something intuitively safe about Tom Hanks. One big budget film a year in which he plays a loveable good guy tearing at the audience’s sympathies. But like a wise father who knows when its time for discipline and when it’s time for ice cream, Tom Hanks is only safe because he’s consistently proven for two decades that he knows what he’s doing. Ask people what their favorite Hanks movies are and not only will you get different answers, you’ll get different genres. Philadelphia is a legal drama about AIDS. Saving Private Ryan is a horrifying World War II picture. That Thing You Do, my personal favorite, is a disposable piece of early 60s nostalgia. Cast Away, The Green Mile, Catch Me If You Can, Bachelor Party, hell even You’ve Got Mail has its ardent supporters, me included. Tom Hanks may not stray us too far from our comfort zones, but right now, at this moment, he is the only actor in Hollywood who still carries a legitimate seal of quality. This paragraph was written in the USA and is Hanks-approved.
Edward Norton
I’ve never played Clue with Edward Norton, but I’m almost positive he takes notes on the questions other players ask, just like I’m positive he buries players for cutting across the middle, argues like a woman scorned and consistently orders the best thing on the menu. Edward Norton is the type of guy who despises second place performances and phoned in efforts with every ounce of his will power. One could argue he simply fights for the sake of fighting, obsesses for the sake of obsessing, his difficult-to-work-with reputation would probably speak to that, but I honestly believe he’s just life-or-death invested in everything he does. You can’t partially commit to paying a skinhead, nor can you obscure your own identity behind a mask for an entire movie because it somehow selfishly helps you. Edward Norton cares, probably too much. He’s the guy who corrects the teacher when he’s misinformed, even when he knows it’ll get him kicked out of class. What’s worse being a tedious failure or a disliked genius? I don’t know. Let me rewatch Primal Fear before I answer that.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Lewis spent eight months learning and training for his character in The Last Of The Mohicans. This is not unusual in itself—the training—even the guys in The A Team went to Army Boot camp. But the performances of Daniel Day-Lewis are different from that of Bradley Cooper not simply because of Day-Lewis’ clearly superior acting or his ability to mold dialogue (which are obviously not part of Bradley Coopers will-be-handsomer-than-thou schtick), but in the choosing of characters and the projects he picks. This becomes obvious with only one glance at Day-Lewis’ Filmography. While the man has been on the radar since the mid eighties and has been given leads since ’88, when he played in Philip Kaufman’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, in the last twenty years, he has acted in nine films. Nine, yes the same number, yes, there’s a joke in there somewhere, but we’re not finding it so let’s move on. Suffice to say, we should support Daniel Day-Lewis, because if we don’t, he might actually have to take his first role for a paycheck in decades. I hear Phil’s character needs a father in The Hangover 2.
Julianne Moore
Do you remember Julianne Moore in The Fugitive? I do, and I saw that movie once, probably five years ago, played on cable with commercials. And it’s not just her hair (that would clearly cause members of South Park to riot), it’s not her height, her lissom lack of curves, or even her charming smile. It’s not the role she plays in the film—she’s a doctor who helps Harrison Ford’s character in a modestly important part. There’s something more important than a striking appearance in Moore’s portrayal of Doctor Anne Eastman. She’s memorable, and whether her convincing acting was the entire culprit or whether her body language and facial features played a part is an entirely beside-the-point argument, because on the merit of this role in The Fugitive, Spielberg cast her as a lead in The Lost World without an audition. Then, P.T. Anderson had to actually court her repeatedly for his film Boogie Nights. I’d like to present a few more points of evidence. Ms. Moore has often and repeatedly taken roles that would offer her more interesting parts over more money, although she has had successful box office hits. Her recent foray The Kids Are All Right exemplifies this. She once said, “I don’t understand fame without content.” And if there is anything a movie watcher should support, it’s content over fluff. Julianne Moore has taken the acting world into two hands and triumphed. And maybe, just maybe, Julianne Moore could be the one ginger South Park residents could love.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is 29 years old. In acting years, this is the equivalent to Julianne Moore appearing in the made for tv-movie Money, Power, Murder. It’s Pacino before The Godfather, Spacey before Glengarry Glen Ross… it’s Costner while his scenes were being deleted from the Big Chill. I know, I know, the opposite argument could be applied to this paragraph—that many actors begin youngish careers and are successful. What separates Joseph Gordon-Levitt from these other young career seekers is his choice of roles. He’s not picking roles blindly, he’s not an “if you find a fork in the road, take it” kind of guy, but he’s also not simply an obscure-indie-loving, “I took the road less traveled by,” kind of guy. By straddling two worlds, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is able to have his cake and eat it too. Which means we get to see him play fresh characters across the board, from Brick to The Lookout, from (500) Days of Summer to Inception. Even when he chooses big budget films like G.I. Joe, he still feels Downey fresh. Pretty clean for a kid who began his career doing peanut butter commercials.
Jet Li
Jet Li is on this list because he isn’t Jackie Chan. Both once had an unmatched talent for brilliant action sequences. Earlier in his career and right up through the 90s, Jackie Chan made better movies than Jet Li. He just did. Jackie had better stunts, Jackie has a sense of humor. Jet Li simply has the ability to kick ass. But in the new millennium, as they both got older and the stunts got harder to do, Jackie Chan sold out. He stopped doing his own stunts and lied about it. He started doing horrible, Hollywood babysitting movies, just for the paycheck. And while early in his career Jet Li was never as good as Jackie Chan, later in their careers he’s the one who didn’t sell out. Instead of using his fame to get big paychecks doing terrible movies, Li used it to fund passion projects like Hero and the beautiful martial arts history movie Fearless. When he does do a big Hollywood movie, he tries to pick something interesting. His movies aren’t perfect and neither are his choices. But even though he’s older and the stunts that made him famous are getting harder to do, Jet Li hasn’t sold out. Jet Li will never be as fun to watch as Jackie Chan, he’d never be able to pull of a real acting role like Jackie’s in The Karate Kid. Jet Li’s idea of slumming it is doing a ridiculously fun movie like The Expendables or being the best thing about a bad Mummy movie. Jet Li will never be a babysitter and his work, while far from perfect, is almost always worth the price of admission.
James Franco
James Franco is not a good actor. But it’s not a lack of effort which makes him mediocre at best, merely a lack of talent. Franco compensates by making it a point to be interesting. He picks roles he has no business doing, seeks out projects that better actors might be afraid to touch, and damn his ability he’s doing them anyway. James Franco should probably try to get by solely on his James Dean good looks, he should probably go wherever that crooked smile takes him, but he’s not interested. Talented or not he’s out there doing the insane and the ridiculous. He shows up when you least expect him, playing the weirdos, the stoners, pulling off the crazed hillbilly cameo in a movie for an audience which will ultimately forget he was ever in it. James Franco does soap operas, just because it seems like fun. He finds his way into movies which, if his role were played by someone else, might have won them an Oscar. James Franco’s only real asset is that he’s pretty, but he refuses to use it. James Franco is not a good actor and many of the movies he’s been in might have been better if his role were given to someone else. But that’s not his fault, that’s not his problem. Some of those movies wouldn’t have been made at all without him. James Franco is not a good actor, but that hasn’t stopped him from giving it his all. He’s too small to play running back, too slow to hit a fast ball, too short to dunk on an NBA regulation hoop. Sure he could give it up, move to China, and have a successful career in men’s table tennis instead; but he’s out there, giving it everything he’s got anyway. James Franco should probably be Ashton Kutcher, but he’d rather be Dustin Hoffman. He’ll never get there, and I suspect he knows it, but you have to love the guy for trying.
Jeff Bridges
Jeff Bridges didn’t really like making movies at first. He did it because everyone else in his family did it, and they sort of talked him into it. But Jeff wasn’t going to stick with it, unless he really fell in love. At some point, he did. These days Bridges doesn’t do it unless he loves it. Jeff is Hollywood legacy, he doesn’t have to make movies, he chooses to make them. When he chooses one, he chooses it only because it’s something he believes in, only because it’s something he thinks you’ll believe in. Sometimes he’s wrong (The Door in the Floor) but most of the time he’s right. Every time Jeff Bridges shows up on screen there’s always reason to think and hope that this could be the next Big Lebowski, the next Fisher King, the next Tucker, the next Starman. Jeff Bridges cares about what he’s doing. He cares about the characters he’s playing. He cares about his audience. Maybe he’ll make the occasional wrong move, every once in awhile he’ll do The Men Who Stare At Goats. It doesn’t matter, the movie may be bad, but odds are he’ll still be the best thing about it. He’ll probably even make it watchable. The day Jeff Bridges stops caring is the day he stops doing it and holes up somewhere to focus entirely on his photography. It doesn’t matter what Jeff Bridges is in, rest assured that he’s only doing it because he believes it’s worth your time.
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep is so good that she’s become a cliché. She’s good in everything and everyone knows it. She’s a character actor, when you need someone to play a culinary Big Bird or the bitch from hell boss. She’s a leading lady, whenever you need someone to make out with Alec Baldwin. She has two Oscars, but she’d probably have more, except these days everyone just expects Oscar-worthy performances from her. Lately, she delivers at least one of those, almost every year. She’s done it by being good and making it a point to work with good people. These days she really doesn’t have to go through the effort. She’s Meryl Streep and if she’s attached to a project other good talent will surely follow. So she could phone it in, and let the Steve Martin carry the load. But she won’t. She’s the consummate professional. Meryl’s name on a movie poster is a symbol of quality, it means something, the way Ford used to back when Henry was still alive and the company gave a damn. The way Disney used to, before everyone found out Walt was probably a secret Nazi. The way GE used to be, back when they were all about making great toasters. Most of the names we’ve come to rely on have long since had their reputations tarnished. But not Meryl Streep. She’s still going strong.
Adrien Brody
After winning an Oscar for his work in The Pianist Adrien Brody had the hardware he needed to chart his own course. He could have carved out a career doing period dramas and kissing girls in corsets. That’s what respectable Oscar winners do. Or he could have thrown it all away for a series of big paychecks lending credibility to horrible films, let’s call that the Cuba Gooding Jr. method. Instead he decided to make movies about things he liked and Adrien Brody, it seems, loves smart quirky, genre movies. He likes brain-benders about science run-amok. He likes detective stories, and time travel and fantasies about strange other worlds. Maybe his choices haven’t always worked out, I don’t think anyone would argue in favor of The Jacket, but they’ve all come from the right place. Brody picks movies because he thinks they’re interesting, or because they’re about things he’s interested in. Whether or not that results in something good every time around, it always seems to result in something that tries. The thing is, Adrien Brody is out there trying. He’s not cashing paychecks or chasing more awards attention, he’s just doing movies he thinks he’d like to see on screen and in the process hopes that it’s something you’d like to see too. Everything Adrien Brody does at least attempts to be something bigger than the sum of its parts. It’s not the usual shlock. He could do Transformers 3, and maybe he’d make more money. He could do a Jane Austen movie, and he’d almost certainly get more respect from the cinematic snobs. But instead Adrien Brody does Splice and Adrien Brody does Predators, because Adrien Brody is doing what he loves.
Leonardo DiCaprio
As I write this, Leonardo DiCaprio has 22 film projects in development. He’s not starving for an audience; in fact, he may be one of four individuals whose films I will see regardless of whether I am interested in their content (the others being Day-Lewis, Spacey, and Cruise). I’m not choosing to write about him because I feel an urgent need for readers as individuals to support DiCaprio—he is such a prevalent icon at this point regardless of whether you liked his accent in Blood Diamond or the authenticity of his knife throwing skills in Gangs of New York. In the last decade, nearly every movie he’s made is watchable, in the sense it has some interesting shit going on, often because of DiCaprio himself (and most often because these films are good). Did you read the Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road is based on? It’s like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, only it gets more aplomb in critical circles. The reason I bring up Revolutionary Road, is because the narrative closely follows my feelings on DiCaprio. The first thirty pages are classic, filled with new and interesting narrative styles and ideas, the ideas. If you reread again there is always something new, something you missed the first time that you wouldn’t have even known how to look for. After that, the book sort of takes on its own vibe, goes in directions that aren’t reassuring or familiar, and are sometimes even unlikeable. Yet for some reason, it is still compelling, and you find yourself sucked in to the very end. This is DiCaprio’s talent, to try new things, to sometimes steer off course, to go out to sea, but to know that when he’s going, to paraphrase Chris Rock, he’s going out fucking.
Ellen Page
Ellen Page has no business being on this list. She’s only 23. She hasn’t been around long enough to earn a place on it. We didn’t want to put her on it, but her work demands it. The thing is, Ellen Page may be only 23 but she’s already been in more good movies than more famous, more well-traveled, better respected Hollywood actors twice her age. That just can’t be an accident. Sure she had a role in the mostly terrible X-Men 3, but the brilliant part of that decision is that the entire movie was so shallow and empty odds are you’ve already forgotten it. But starting with Hard Candy in 2005 she’s made it a point to show up in some of the best and most interesting movies released every year and worked with some of the best writers and directors the movie industry has to offer. Maybe it’s her unconventional look or her even more unconventional style of acting that keeps them casting her, but a lot of it, you have to think, has been up to her. It’s not just that she keeps picking good movies, but she keeps picking different movies. Movies that no one else is doing. She’s been a molested child out for revenge, a pregnant hipster, a genius prodigy, a roller girl, and a dream designer. All of that in a space of less than five years. Ellen Page is too young to be on this list, too new to have a reliable track record. But here she is anyway.
Russell Crowe
It feels like Russell Crowe has made about thirty bad movies in a row. I looked it up. In actuality, he’s made nine movies in a row worse than A Beautiful Mind. That’s ten movies in a row worse than Proof Of Life, eleven movies in a row worse than Gladiator, and twelve movies in a row worse than The Insider. That’s not to say everything he’s done since The Insider has successively debilitated like the reflexes of Mohammed Ali after Joe Frazier beat the living hell out of him in Manilla, but it has been a slow, yet steady chug down from the untouchable good graces of the American public. Twelve movies in a row worse than The Insider, yet Russell Crowe is on this list largely at my behest. I can’t fully explain it away, or excuse his choices, but I can say I still believe in Russell Crowe. I believe in him because he narrates documentaries about Robin Hood on the History Channel, because he did a fucking Western. His recent choices may not have proven fruitful but it wasn’t because they were back-up plans. This is a man who truly cares about getting other men right, getting the nuances down, getting stories he believes in made. Cinderella Man is a good movie; so too are American Gangster and 3:10 To Yuma; they can’t all be better than The Insider. But if you keep watching long enough, another one of ‘em will be.
source: 20 Actors Who Deserve Your Support [Cinema Blend]
This week, we had some really good and downright funny quotes from celebrities. We’ve got Adam Sandler talking to Conan O’Brien this week, along with John Mayer’s sex talk and who could forget Shania Twain’s “American Idol” compliment?
“I have some presence of psychological damage from the past 36 months. I have not had a woman appear in my dreams sexually without a paparazzi in the dream too.”
– John Mayer, on the negative effects fame has had on his romantic life, to “Rolling Stone”
“Any man I find, they’re going to be darn lucky!”
– Jessica Simpson, tooting her own horn at the Television Critics Association press tour
“I was very surprised and, yes, you have a beautiful bottom end.”
– “American Idol” guest judge Shania Twain, awkwardly praising Idol hopeful John Park
“I was shocked and appalled – because she only paid $30,000.”
– Fellow plastic surgery buff Joan Rivers, pointing out the real crime in Heidi Montag’s multiple surgical procedures, on “The Wendy Williams Show”
“If it gets people in the seats, yes, Zac Efron and the Twilight guy. All the Twilight guys – every one of them with their shirts off, and Will Smith.”
– Justin Bartha, joking about the rumored cast of the sequel to “Hangover”, to “Access Hollywood”
“I love people too much to cook for them!”
– Drew Barrymore, to “People”
“God bless her that she likes older guys. And some wonderful enhancements have happened in the last few years – Viagra, Cialis – that can make us all feel younger.”
– Michael Douglas, 65, on bridging the 25-year age gap between him and wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, to “AARP” magazine
“Go through my high school yearbooks – I always looked like a f– weirdo.”
– Pop upstart Ke$ha, on how her rebellious image isn’t just an act, to “EW”
“I don’t know what to say, but Meryl’s a good kisser.”
– Sandra Bullock, after lip-locking with Streep, with whom she shared best actress honors at the Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards
“Somethin’ that’s been bother me, and I think botherin’ all of America is we haven’t seen you cry yet. I’m nervous about the shooting rampage if you don’t.â€
-Adam Sandler to Conan O’Brien on “The Tonight Show”
TGIF! And to celebrate we have some of the funniest celebrity quotes this week. For starters, we’ve got Conan O’Brien, Sandra Bullock’s revenge and Channing Tatum’s penis!
“Meryl [Streep]‘s gonna win, and I’m gonna take her down. When she walks up there, you’re gonna see my heel come off, and I’m gonna be like, ‘Whoo [mimics throwing]!’ This heel is gonna take Meryl Streep. She’s gonna feel no pain after I fling that at her.”
– Sandra Bullock, planning her defense tactics if she loses the Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy or musical film this Sunday, on Tavis Smiley
“I could…leave television altogether, and work in a classier business with better people, like hardcore porn.”
– Conan O’Brien, making light of his commitment to leave The Tonight Show if NBC moves it to a 12:05 a.m. timeslot to accommodate Jay Leno, during his nightly monologue
“I gained seven pounds of love weight.”
– Newlywed Khloe Kardashian, clarifying that she’s not pregnant, to “People”
“Now my penis is fantastic! One hundred percent recovered. Put me back in the game, Coach.”
– Channing Tatum, rejoicing after his privates made a full recovery following a scalding incident on the set of his upcoming film The Eagle of the Ninth, to “Details”
“After a breakup, a friend of mine Swarovski-crystalled my precious lady. It shined like a disco ball so I have a whole chapter in there on how women should vagazzle their vajayjays.”
– Jennifer Love Hewitt, giving a sneak preview of the advice offered in her new dating guide “The Day I Shot Cupid”, on “Lopez Tonight”
“I was telling him that last night, ‘If we ever broke up … the next guy is going to have a really hard time, because your body is so amazing!’”
– Kim Kardashian, speculating on who could follow in the very buff footsteps of current boyfriend, NFL star Reggie Bush, on the Dallas-based radio show Kidd Kraddick in the Morning
“What 15-year-old boy wouldn’t want girls chasing after them all day long?”
– Tween sensation Justin Bieber, enjoying his new heartthrob status, to “People”
“I’ll take the stretch marks. I’ll take the sagging boobs. I’ll take the cellulite I can never get rid of.”
– Jessica Alba, taking the bad with the good for the miracle of pregnancy, to “Self”
“I know music. I know entertainment. I know eyeliner.”
– Idol runner-up Adam Lambert, on “Fuse TV”
“I am like Mariah Carey f—-d up right now.”
– George Clooney, referencing the singer’s tipsy award show speech as he took to the podium at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards
I was looking around for interesting images the other day, and happened upon one of my favorite pictures of Anne Hathaway (which is on this list). The most noticeable feature of the picture is the incredible side boobage that seems to leap from the image and scream “gaze upon me in all of my glory, for I am side boob.”
What is it about the side boob that is so appealing? Is it the hint of what lies just out of reach? I tend to appreciate a good side boob more than a great under boob image, although some men (and women) may disagree.
Even Peter Griffin of Family Guy appreciates a flash of side boob:
Regardless of your boob preferences, most mammary aficionados like myself will have to agree that boobs are mounds of beautiful goodness no matter what side or angle they are viewed from!
So without further ado, I present to you my choices for the top ten celebrity side boob images of all time.
#10 Elisha Cuthbert
Elisha Cuthbert played the hot porn star with a heart of gold in The Girl Next Door and also played as Jack Bauer’s daughter Kim in the awesome series 24.
#9 Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Connelly starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond and Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind. She is without a doubt one of the most beautiful women on the planet. Well, I don’t doubt it, at least.
#8 Emma Watson
Emma Watson is best known for playing Hermoine in the Harry Potter series. Who would have thought she’d grow up to be so gorgeous?
#7 Brooke Burke
Brooke Burke was the host of Wild On! and Rock Star, and won season 7 of Dancing with the Stars. She’s also ridiculously hot.
#6 Joanna Krupa
Joanna Krupa is a model who also loves animals and blah blah blah, PETA ads, look, boobies!
#5 Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway began her career in the 1999 TV show Get Smart before appearing in the Disney films The Princess Diaries (1 and 2) and Ella Enchanted. She then decided to let it all hang out in Havoc before starring in The Devil Wears Prada opposite Meryl Streep (who will not be appearing on this list).
#4 Eva Mendes
Eva Mendes first hit my radar when she starred in Training Day with Denzel Washington, and since then I will pretty much watch any piece of crap (ahem… Ghost Rider) that has her in the credits.
#3 Christina Aguilera
Beautiful songstress Christina Aguilera has gone through a dozen different looks, from pinup model to sexy bad girl to transvestite, but the picture above is the look I like best on her. By that I mean naked.
#2 Angelina Jolie
I struggled long and hard (heh) before deciding to make this picture of Angelina Jolie number two. I like her so much more as a person than I do the person I picked for the first place spot, but this isn’t my “top ten nice celebrities that do cool shit for poor people and adopt enough children to start their own country”. It’s all about the side boob.
#1 Katherine Heigl
My number one choice for this post is this picture of Katherine Heigl. I think the only thing I’ve ever seen her in was Knocked Up, where I thought she must be the sweetest woman ever. Judging by reports from costars and anyone else that has had the misfortune to spend more than five minutes working on a film or Grey’s Anatomy with her, however, she can be a complete bitch.
Oh well, that is one fantastic side boob.
So there you have it, folks. My top ten greatest celebrity side boobs ever. Or as Kanye West would say “OF ALL TIME!”
Think you know of any that should have been included here? Let me know in the comments below!
We all know that the likes of Angelina Jolie and Cameron Diaz earn the most money in Hollywood, but they aren’t always the names that bring in the big money for studios.
Forbes have put together a list of 10 women in Hollywood who make the studios a big return for every dollar that they are paid. When coming up with this list they counted actresses who have been in at least three movies in the past five years, they didn’t include animated movies because who goes to see a cartoon based on who is voicing it?
10. Hilary Swank
In addition to earning two Oscars, Swank has proven herself to be a good investment with movies like P.S. I Love You. The romance (which cost an estimated $30 million) earned $157 million at the worldwide box office. Swank is expected to earn yet another Oscar nomination for her upcoming film Amelia, in which she plays the iconic aviator Amelia Earhart. For every $1 Swank was paid, her films earned an average of $23.
9. Anne Hathaway
The 26-year-old actress is one of the youngest on our list. Hathaway earned a Best Actress nomination for her work in Rachel Getting Married last year but because the movie only ever opened on 390 screens, we didn’t include it in our survey. Instead she makes the list for movies like Get Smart, which earned $230 million at the worldwide box office. For every $1 Hathaway was paid, her movies earned an average of $23.
8. Cate Blanchett
Like many of the women on our list, Blanchett likes to mix big budget fare with smaller art house movies. She appeared in all three Lord of the Rings movies but earned an Oscar nomination for her performance as one of the Bob Dylan characters in I’m Not There. She lands on our list mostly due to her work in last year’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. For every $1 Blanchett was paid, her movies earned an average of $23.
7. Hallie Barry
Berry has been mostly out of the spotlight lately, but her work as Storm in three X-Men movies helps land her on our list of actresses with the best return on investment. Her most recent movie, Things We Lost in the Fire, was a flop, earning only $8.5 million at the box office, but that didn’t stop her from making our Top 10 list. For every $1 Berry was paid, her movies earned an average of $23.
6. Jennifer Aniston
The most successful of the former Friends stars, Aniston is a regular on the red carpet and in the tabloids, where her romances are endlessly speculated about. Recently she’s had some pretty successful movies too. He’s Just Not That Into You and Marley & Me helped improve her ROI, which had been slipping due to duds like Rumor Has It. For every $1 Aniston was paid, her movies earned an average of $26.
5. Meryl Streep
Streep earns a bigger paycheck than most women on our list, but thanks to the massive box office of last summer’s Mamma Mia ($610 million), she also offers a good return on investment. Her latest film, Julie & Julia, came out too late to make our list but the movie’s $96 million in earnings (so far) should help her remain one of Hollywood’s most desirable actresses. For every $1 Streep was paid, her movies earned an average of $27.
4. Natalie Portman
Thanks to her work in the new Star Wars movies, Portman has appeared in some of the highest-earning films of all time. But she ranks on our list because of movies like The Other Boleyn Girl, which earned $78 million at the worldwide box office. Like many of the actresses on our list, Portman appears in her fair share of art films, like 2007′s little-seen Paris J’Taime. For every $1 Portman was paid, her films earned an average of $28.
3. Rachel McAdams
Thanks to films like The Notebook and this year’s The Time Traveler’s Wife, McAdams is quickly becoming the go-to actress for romantic movies. Despite her rising profile, McAdams still commands a relatively modest paycheck. This winter she’ll star opposite Robert Downey Jr. in an update of Sherlock Holmes. For every $1 McAdams was paid, her movies earned an average of $30.
2. Jennifer Connelly
February’s He’s Just Not That Into You helped several actresses, including Connelly, with their ROI numbers because each star took a pay cut to appear in the ensemble comedy, which earned $177 million at the worldwide box office. Connelly’s work in The Day The Earth Stood Still and Blood Diamond helped her take second place. For every $1 Connelly was paid, her films earned an average of $41.
1. Naomi Watts
The 41-year-old Australian actress first made her mark with 2002′s The Ring. The low-budget horror film earned $250 million at the worldwide box office and put Watts in demand. For the most part the actress has kept a low profile, appearing mostly in artsy fare like last year’s Funny Games. But thanks to 2005′s King Kong, her average return on investment is the best in Hollywood. For every $1 Watts was paid, her films earned an average of $44.
It’s that time of again, when we all (or most of us) read articles like this and then think of our bank accounts and cry ourselves to sleep, because Forbes have just released Hollywood’s Top-Earning Actresses.
Brad Pitt must do something good to women because Angelina Jolie tops the list while his ex wife Jennifer Aniston is right behind her.
Most of Angelina’s money came from the $341 million that her movie Wanted made, plus she got a chunk of money from her next movie, Salt.
As for Jennifer’s money, her film Marley & Me made abotu $244 million, she gets money from being the spokesperson for SmartWater, she got money for her next film The Baster and of course she still rakes in cash from Friends residuals.
The top 15 list looks like this:
1: Angelina Jolie – $27 million
2: Jennifer Aniston – $25 million
3: Meryl Streep – $24 million
4: Sarah Jessica Parker – $23 million
5: Cameron Diaz – $20 million
6: Sandra Bullock – $15 million
6: Reese Witherspoon – $15 million
8: Nicole Kidman – $12 million
8: Drew Barrymore – $12 million
10: Renee Zellweger – $10 million
11: Cate Blanchett – $8 million
12: Anne Hathaway, $7 million
12: Halle Berry, $7 million
14: Scarlett Johansson, $5.5 million
15: Kate Winslet, $2 million
According to Forbes, The Top 10 women earned a combined $183 million compared to $393 million for the Top 10 men. And they said sexism was dead?
Relive the funny, silly – and sometimes TMI! – things the stars let slip at the Globes…
“I’m so sorry Anne, Meryl, Kristin – oh God, who’s the other one?”
– Kate Winslet, accepting the Globe for best actress and naming her fellow nominees Hathaway, Streep and Scott Thomas – but momentarily forgetting Angelina Jolie.
“Hello? Hello? Mama talking! Mama talking!”
– Jennifer Lopez, shushing the crowd as the night’s first presenter. She gave the prize of best supporting actress to Kate Winslet (The Reader)
“Ru, I’m very proud of you and I love you. And don’t hunch. Shoulders back!”
– Demi Moore, mothering daughter Rumer Willis – this year’s Miss Golden Globe – from the stage before announcing the best supporting actor winner (Heath Ledger)
“I still have a cold. It’s not the other thing it used to be.”
– Presenter (and later winner) Colin Farrell, referencing his less-sober days while sniffling onstage
“I’m just wondering if this mercury poisoning is contagious.”
– Mark Wahlberg, teasing Entourage star – and recent mercury victim – Jeremy Piven, while on the red carpet with NBC’s Tiki Barber
hat was your favorite quote of the night? Are there any that you feel should have been on the list, but were not included?
Parade magazine have come up with a list of 10 actors, who they believe are America’s Favorite Stars, the list features the usual people you would expect:
#1 Will Smith
Will Smith seems to glide from success to success without much effort. He’s a big presence. When he walks into a room, you know he’s there. In addition to hits like Ali, Men in Black, and Hancock, he cares about family and affecting the future.
Committed to the charity Malaria No More, he has traveled to Africa with his family to witness the devastation the disease can cause. “I think a large part of why I’ve been successful is that I have, essentially, a white-collar career with a blue-collar mentality,†he says. “I can never really relax. I’m always waiting to see what’s next. It’s always, ‘OK, something different is gonna happen here.’â€
Next month he stars in the drama Seven Pounds. “I believe that the guy who works the hardest generally wins,†Will says. “ Nelson Mandela once told me that when he was in prison, he was able to watch one American film every six months. He said our films are about hope and what the world should be. He told me to keep doing exactly what I’m doing, because there’s a struggle somewhere that I’m helping. I got really inspired by that.â€
#2 Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks is so likable, we’d follow him to the moon. In fact, we already did in Apollo 13. Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, Saving Private Ryan, and Big are other Hanks movies you watch over and over on DVD. “To me, this isn’t work—to go off and pretend to be somebody else,†he says.
“I couldn’t believe when they paid me $285 a week to act, much less the raises I’ve received since. I shouldn’t be called the nicest guy in Hollywood. I should be called the luckiest guy, because I still can’t believe it.â€
#3 Reese Witherspoon
Some people bully their way to success. Reese Witherspoon rose to the top with “please†and “thank you,†the hint of a Southern drawl, and a winning smile. Legally Blonde put her on the map; Walk the Line won her an Oscar.
Now she’s a mom of two and a successful producer. “I try to be that person who can look in the mirror and be OK with myself,†she says. “I feel a certain responsibility to represent women who pay the bills, take care of the children, and try to have a fulfilling life themselves. I constantly feel like I’m striving to do better.â€
#4 George Clooney
Clooney can kid about himself better than anybody. He’ll joke about turning Dr. Ross on ER into everybody’s fantasy guy. He’ll joke about wearing the Batsuit. But he does take some things very seriously. He’s passionately committed to bringing attention to the tragedy in Darfur. He’s determined to make worthy films like Good Night, and Good Luck and Syriana, as well as blockbusters.
Says Clooney: “My father has always inspired me. He said, ‘Don’t wake up at 65 and think about what you should have done.’ The great lesson is that you get a sort of credit card for being famous, and I’ve thought a lot about spending it in the right instances, for people and causes I can help.â€
#5 Meryl Streep
She has an uncanny ability to transform herself into every character she plays, from a tragic heroine in Sophie’s Choice to the silly star of Mamma Mia! And she always seems to be enjoying herself—and embracing life. “Anybody who picks acting as a profession is bathed in insecurity,†she says.
“Even when you’re young, you think you’re not beautiful enough or you’ll never work again or ‘ I don’t know what I’m doing.’ I’ve had those feelings. People gave me a lot of confidence early on and encouragement to keep going. Each project I take is different—it intrigues me or makes me angry or tickles me in a new way.â€
#6 Brad Pitt
Brad’s striking looks and love life make headlines, but he’s also a good guy, more down-to-earth than seems possible. He picks challenging movie roles like Babel or Fight Club. Next: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
“You need a game plan,†he says. “You either succeed because people want you to or you stay around because you make them let you. I try to stay dedicated to my work. If I were to dwell on any of the fame and celebrity stuff, I’d make decisions for the wrong reasons. I look at my kids and realize that they will inherit this world. So, if you’re going to throw your weight around, use it to make the world a little bit better.â€
#7 Julia Roberts
The star of Pretty Woman has a megawatt smile that still works its charm. Onscreen, she can be one of the guys (see her with Clooney and Pitt in the Ocean’s movies) or a sassy fighter (Erin Brockovich). Offscreen, she’s a mom who took time off to raise her babies.
“Mustering up enough self-esteem to say, ‘I want to be an actor,’ was a big turning point,†she says. “I also said, ‘I can’t wait to be a mom.’ No five-year plan for me—I’m on the five-minute plan. I enjoy my life. You can’t be joyfully participating in the day if you’re thinking too much down the road.â€
#8 Johnny Depp
What a grand joke that Johnny Depp—the handsome rebel of Edward Scissorhands and Sweeney Todd—is now known for his riotous, rum-soaked (and moneymaking) Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean.
The dad of two says: “My kids opened my eyes. I feel as though some great fog was lifted. Now I do what I want, without compromise, and try to maintain dignity and integrity. People like to think I’m a brooding, angry, rebellious guy. I’m not any of that. I’m not trying to be anything other than what I am.â€
#9 Jennifer Aniston
Aniston has a way with a comic line that makes America want to hug her, take care of her—and look just like her. We’ll always think of her as Rachel, the favorite pal on Friends. Jennifer often is called today’s Mary Tyler Moore, because she shares the same endearing style.
“I was always the class clown with a lot of ideas,†she says. “I didn’t map out my life, and I still don’t. Can’t you tell? I consider myself a spiritual person. I sometimes feel like I am guided. I trust in life, I really do. I get asked all the time, ‘What’s next?’ and the fun is that I’m wondering too!â€
#10 Patrick Dempsey
In addition to playing Dr. McDreamy on the TV hit Grey’s Anatomy, Dempsey is the romantic hero in movies like Enchanted and Made of Honor.
“I’ve just about achieved some perspective on everything that’s happened,†he says. “I’ve worked hard to get to this point, so I don’t worry that ‘I don’t deserve this.’ I’m grateful for every opportunity. I just want to do it right.â€
10. Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling
You didn’t think we’d write a list of our favorite movie couples without mentioning these two, did you? Tender, passionate, and deeply romantic, McAdams and Gosling in “The Notebook†simultaneously break our hearts and give us reason to believe in love. We’d be thrilled to see them together again on-screen and in real life.
9. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal
Sadly, we know this is a coupling we won’t ever get to see again, but since this is a fantasy list after all, we couldn’t pass up the chance to gush about these two together. Watching Heath and Jake roll around in the hay in “Brokeback Mountain†proved to us that guy-on-guy action? So effing hot.
8. Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon
They weren’t a romantic couple, but in “Thelma and Louise,†the mother of all chick flicks, Davis and Sarandon reignited Girl Power and proved that sometimes the deepest love is platonic in nature.
7. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes
On their own — or with other people — neither of these two thespians are the most likable on our list, but together, as they were in the 1996 remake of “Romeo and Juliet,†they’re totally captivating. Gone are all signs of the pretensiousness we’ve come to expect from Danes in her more recent movies, and DiCaprio’s over-acting is diluted to tolerable measure with his co-star’s sweet subtlety.
6. Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman
Sure, they played a couple in the middle of a divorce and nasty custody battle in the 1979 film, “Kramer vs. Kramer,†but the tenderness between them — not to mention the amazing Academy Award-winning acting — is something we need more of today. Plus, they’ve both had such impressive careers in the nearly 30 years since, we think there’s a great chance to catch lightning in a jar again if these two were to ever reunite on-screen.
5. Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray
Le sigh! Has there been a more bittersweet love story in recent cinematic history than between these two in “Lost in Translation� While we love Bill Murray is nearly anything in which he appears, Scarlett Johansson’s luster just isn’t as shiny without him by her side. Together, they have a chemistry that is more kindred spirit than hot passion, a connection we yearn to see more of in this day of gratuitous sex overload.
4. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
So iconic as a couple, they don’t even need last names, but as Mr. and Mrs. Smith in the 2005 movie of the same name, the sexiest couple alive proved to viewers exactly why they belong together. The chemistry between them is palpable, and watching them together, most of us don’t know whom to envy more — her for getting to kiss him, or him for kissing her.
3. Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne
They steamed things up together in the 1993 Tina Turner biography, “What’s Love Got to Do with It?â€, earning Bassett an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, and Fishburne his first Oscar nomination. Fishburne has stated about Bassett: “An electrifying thing happens when the two of us work together. I haven’t experienced it with anyone else.†We experience it, too, Laurence. And we want more.
2. Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp
Surely there’s enough water under the bridge for these two, who broke their engagement in the early ’90s, to reunite on the big screen again. They were perfectly sweet and enchanting together in the 1990 movie “Edward Scissorhands†and the sight of those big, soulful eyes they both share is enough to elicit a deep sigh from even the most stoic.
1. Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey
Forget Kate and Leo; we want to see Kate and Jim together again. “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind†is one of the few movies we’ve seen Jim Carrey in that hasn’t made us want to claw our eyes out. In fact, Carrey was downright charming, something we’re pretty sure he needs Winslet to pull off. So, what are they waiting for?
