'Potential'
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
A lot of Cameron Diaz's money comes from two franchises, Shrek and Charlie's Angels.
Yeah. I liked that third list -- what was it, average box office? Because it basically tops out with a bunch of LotR stars....
....and then some other people.
Also because, thanks in no small part to LotR, Hugo Weaving is much higher on the list than Keanu.
Murphy if you count Shrek.
You can't count Shrek as an Eddie Murphy Movie. I mean, it's (a) a cartoon, (b) Mike Meyers, (c) Eddie Murphy. I think in that order, box-office-wise.
think this ought to be sorted by franchise. The Star Wars movies aren't high earners because of Samuel L. Jackson.
Yep. Star Wars also puts Carrie Fischer at #27.
You can't count Shrek as an Eddie Murphy Movie.
The reason I made it as fast as "if" is because he's (annoyingly?) Eddie throughout the whole thing. If you watched it for your Mike Meyers fix, you're likely to be more disappointed than if you watched it for Murphy.
However, franchise.
(a) a cartoon
I can only presume it was voice-over work that put John Ratzenberger in the top ten of that first list.
The people who seem to be most capable of opening a movie separate from their franchise - or making a franchise of their own, would be Hanks and Cruise. Eddie Murphy used to be in that elite. As did Arnold and Harrison Ford.
And Julia Roberts has famously been the only female star in Hollywood for a while now. People (apparently) go to her movies for their Julia fix.
I think Nicole Kidman is moving into that realm, but she couldn't pull an audience for Stepford Wives or Birth.
If you watched it for your Mike Meyers fix, you're likely to be more disappointed than if you watched it for Murphy.
But you've already paid your $10.
But you've already paid your $10.
Unless you already know something about it before you buy a ticket.
or making a franchise of their own, would be Hanks and Cruise.
I repeat, Carrey.
The people who seem to be most capable of opening a movie separate from their franchise - or making a franchise of their own, would be Hanks and Cruise.
And Julia Roberts has famously been the only female star in Hollywood for a while now.
It really is a very short list.