Are Timothée Chalamet, Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell the new Leonardo DiCaprio, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Cruise? Studio executives are certainly hoping they are, with Hollywood betting on them and stars like Zendaya and Paul Mescal to carry slates and save the box office. The Hollywood Reporter compiled a list of the 10 young movie stars that are taking the industry by storm and are at the top of studios' most-wanted lists - A.K.A. the new A-list.
00:00Are Timothee Chalamet, Sidney Sweeney, and Glenn Powell the new Leonardo DiCaprio, Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Cruise?
00:06Studio executives are certainly hoping they are, with Hollywood betting on them and stars like Zendaya and Paul Meskel to carry slates and save the box office.
00:15The Hollywood Reporter compiled a list of the 10 young movie stars that are taking the industry by storm and are at the top of studio's most wanted list, aka the new A-list.
00:30Up first, Austin Butler.
00:34Despite memeable moments about his Elvis accent and his hairless look in Dune Part 2, he's managed to cultivate an all-too-rare movie star mystique.
00:42Since his Oscar nomination for Elvis, Jeff Nichols tapped him for The Bike Riders out June 24th, and Darren Aronofsky chose him to lead his next film, Caught Stealing.
00:52One agency partner told THR, everybody wants him to be the lead of everything.
01:00Next is Timothee Chalamet.
01:03No other actor can boast leading two live-action films that were box office successes in the past year.
01:08December's Wonka brought in $632.3 million, and March's Dune Part 2 crossed $700 million.
01:16Currently, he's filming a Bob Dylan biopic.
01:18One producer told THR, Timothy is the most proven of the new A-list.
01:22You alright?
01:25Yeah, I've got a flat tie.
01:27Salt-Burn solidified Jacob El-Lorty's movie star potential after his breakout role in Netflix's The Kissing Booth film franchise, and his portrayal of Nate Jacobs in HBO's Euphoria.
01:37He's currently filming Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, and made his Cannes competition debut in Paul Schrader's O Canada.
01:43I'm our dad though, actually.
01:45Sorry, man, I just thought about it.
01:46That's okay.
01:47Next on the list is Paul Meskel, whose star power will be tested with the November release of Gladiator 2.
01:53One executive told THR, every filmmaker loves Paul Meskel, but audiences don't yet know who he is.
01:59Following his debut in Hulu's Normal People in 2020, the actor shied away from traditional Hollywood ventures and opted instead for Festival Fodder, which led him to an Oscar nomination for Aftersun.
02:11Surrender.
02:11Jenna Ortega parlayed her success in the Netflix series Wednesday into a lead role in the forthcoming Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, which sees her team back up with Wednesday director and executive producer Tim Burton.
02:24The actress's upcoming slate includes a film with Taika Waititi, as well as the A24 dark comedy Death of a Unicorn, with Wednesday season 2 also on the horizon.
02:34Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is your savior speaking.
02:38Glenn Powell put in his time, slowly climbing Hollywood's ladder as an actor, producer, and writer.
02:44After years of smaller parts and projects like Hidden Figures and Expendables 3, the charismatic star won over audiences in the 2018 rom-com Set It Up.
02:52Then came Top Gun Maverick and Devotion.
02:55Still, it was the one-two punch of his festival darling Hitman, which he co-wrote, and the rom-com Anyone But You that thrust him onto the A-list.
03:03Thank you. That was really nice.
03:07Happy to.
03:07Speaking of Anyone But You, 26-year-old Sydney Sweeney has over 50 professional credits, more than nearly everyone else on this list.
03:15After garnering buzz and Emmy noms for both Euphoria and The White Lotus, she quickly catapulted to star status and launched her own production banner, 50-50, in 2020.
03:25And while not every recent move that she's made has panned out, they are all calculated.
03:29She signed on to the ill-fated Madame Web in order to get in good with Sony, which made Anyone But You, and is handling her upcoming Barbarella remake.
03:37Sorry. I'm gonna go for a walk.
03:41Florence Pugh's breakout role came in the indie Lady Macbeth in 2016, which she followed with an Oscar nomination for Greta Gerwig's Little Women and the A24 horror hit Midsommar, proving both her critical and commercial appeal.
03:54She went on to hold her own in ensembles like Oppenheimer and Dune Part II.
03:59Plus, she's one of the few new A-listers making a full court press with Marvel, appearing in Black Widow and the forthcoming Thunderbolts, where she will be at the top of the call sheet.
04:07Remember me.
04:14Furiosa star Anya Taylor-Joy has established herself as a sharp actress since breaking out in the horror film The Witch.
04:20General audiences most likely know her from the popular Netflix series The Queen's Gambit, but she has since turned down big TV projects in favor of a theatrical career.
04:29Her work in Furiosa shows she can do action, and she'll stay on that path with the upcoming feature, The Gorge, and the genre thriller, Sacrifice, in which she'll share the screen with Chris Evans.
04:40I'm not a nun. I'm not your mommy.
04:42I'm just asking that you love me no matter what.
04:44What am I, Jesus?
04:46And last, but certainly not least, is Zendaya.
04:49Executives note that the closest comparison for her current status is 90s-era Julia Roberts.
04:54After starring in two Disney Channel television shows, Spider-Man Homecoming launched Zendaya at the box office, followed by the musical hit The Greatest Showman.
05:02Then HBO's Euphoria set her up for her current rise.
05:06While three Spider-Man films kept her in theaters in regular intervals, Zendaya landed Dune and Dune Part II, further cementing her star status.
05:14Most recently, she starred in and produced Challengers.
05:17For much more on this story, head to THR.com.
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