
Instead, it’s a who’s who of boomers and Gen-Xers like Cruise, Johnson, Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Denzel Washington, Will Smith and Julia Roberts.

Of the top 20 choices, only Chris Hemsworth was younger than 40 (and he turns 40 in August). Foto: Cortesía Universal Pictures George Clooney and Julia Roberts both feature in the top 20Īnd the answers had a very, well, mid-2000s feel to them. The kind of stars, in other words, who can – in Hollywood parlance – ‘open’ a movie. The analysis company asked moviegoers to name the five actors that would have them queuing up at their local cinema.
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The new study by National Research Group has crunched the data on audiences’ favourite movie stars – and the outcome should worry some of Hollywood’s big executives. If you were pushed to name the most bankable movie stars in the world you’d probably kick off with Tom Cruise, Dwayne Johnson, Tom Hanks, maybe Angelina Jolie, and at least one of the Chrises (probably Hemsworth).Īnd you’d be spot-on according to a new set of influential research into Hollywood’s current ranking of top 100 actors that’s come to light via influential Tinseltown blog, Puck.
