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Brent Lang of The Wrap just doesn’t get it. Plain and simple. In his provocatively-titled piece ‘Zac Efron and the Incredible Shrinking Teen Idol Stars‘, Land submits that the newest generation of young stars (Zac Efron, Robert Pattinson, Miley Cyrus, etc) have disappointed at the box office even as the numbers he uses fail to bear that out. Once again, a pundit has fallen into the classic trap: Because a movie star’s latest movie has failed to match up with his or her all-time best performances, said actor’s star must be fading. But it fails to take into account two obvious factors: not every film an actor makes is identical in appeal and marketability, and a star cannot be expected to top their previous best every time out of the gate.
As I’ve said any number of occasions, movie stars are worth certain paydays for certain projects.
The absurd idea that a small intimate drama starring a given actor should be expected to perform as well as a crowd-pleasing genre picture is asinine. In fact, such expectations actually discourage actors from stretching or trying artier or more challenging works.
Sure Remember Me ‘only’ made $55 million worldwide (on a budget of just $16 million), but that means that $55 million worth of tickets were sold completely on the shoulders of one Robert Pattinson (quick, raise your hands if you saw that one for Pierce Brosnan or Chris Cooper….?).
Thus, quite obviously, Robert Pattinson shouldn’t be getting paid nearly as much for Remember Me as he did for Twilight Saga: Eclipse. He didn’t, so the film’s box office should not be judged on the same level.
Pattinson and Efron could spend their entire careers doing rip-offs of, respectively Twilight and High School Musical. The fact that they are instead making more challenging pictures, and still posting decent returns, means that they are absolutely bankable names on a reasonable budget
Star power isn’t opening something that is already highly appealing to a mass audience that has the benefit of your name on the poster. Star power is scoring a reasonable or better opening weekend for a film that has nothing to offer except your name on the poster. On that scale, Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, and Robert Pattinson are genuine movie stars.
This article is edited to only include Rob’s portion, but the full article is here huffingtonpost!
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Robert Pattinson lopped off his signature mane without sacrificing one iota of sex appeal; Adrian Grenier bid farewell to his signature curls—and introduced us all to his baby blues.
PACT with STARS is a collection of artwork from international celebrities including Robert Pattinson, Roger Moore, Quentin Blake, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Kirk Douglas, Michael Caine, Frederick Forsyth, Neil Sedaka, Arfi Lamba, Christopher Plummer, Zoe Wanamaker and many, many more. To commemorate International Missing Children’s Day the charity Parents & Abducted Children Together invited celebrities and dignitaries from around the world to decorate an image of a balloon – the symbol of International Missing Children’s Day.
The result is an exciting collection of sketches, illustrations and collages revealing the hidden talent of film stars, writers, sportsmen, politicians, businessmen, and artists. The original cards are being auctioned at http://bit.ly/FindKids where you can pick up an original piece of artwork from your favourite celebrity. If you miss out on bidding for the original, why not buy the whole collection in this beautiful book celebrating the event.
It is in full colour and has contributions from over 100 celebrities.
All proceeds go to PACT to continue its work with missing and abducted children. (postage and packing is at cost).
PACT is Parents and Abducted Children Together; our mission is the protection and retrieval of children who go missing for whatever reason.
Thank you for your support.
You can buy the book HERE at PACT’s page on ebay-UK
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Victoria Justice is the cover of Teen Vogue and she talks a bit about Rob
Ideal on-screen romances: ‘Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Nicholas Hoult and Danny DeVito.. Rob Pattinson is hot. Who wouldn’t want to make out with him? He’s so understated cute.’
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Here are some new pics of Robert Pattinson at the Eclipse Premiere.
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During her show on BBC1 Fearne gets her oil paints out and starts working on a celebrity portrait and you have to guess who she’s painting.
Today she painted of picture of Robert Pattinson.
Check her other “Twarts” at BBC Radio 1
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Thinking of Rob 