
You've seen the big stars of the year attending film premieres and gracing movie covers galore, but who's making up the next wave of stars on the rise? Our revolving feature on the Power of Film looks to the future (thanks to our STARmeter rankings) to find the next fifteen Stars to Watch in the upcoming months. Among them you'll find a man extremely hung over, a werewolf, a vampire (not from Twilight!), a new Transformers gal, and two of the stars of James Cameron's hotly anticipated new film.
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Bradley CooperThis erstwhile supporting man from both TV ("Alias") and movies (Wedding Crashers) finally broke into the leading man league with The Hangover. He was almost too well-known to make this list, but he's the quintessential example of a hardworking star just beginning a potentially meteoric rise. |
Taylor LautnerTake your Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart -- the hottest new thing to come out of the red-hot Twilight franchise is this 17-year-old one-time child star, whose werewolf-boy Jacob makes an attempt for the love of Stewart's Bella in the upcoming New Moon. |
Sam WorthingtonHe strode alongside Christian Bale in Terminator Salvation, but look for him to leap to the stratosphere with James Cameron's upcoming, cloaked-in-secret, cinematic game-changer Avatar -- oh, and the remake of Clash of the Titans, too! |
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Moon BloodgoodMs. Bloodgood also helped steal the spotlight from the big star in Terminator Salvation, and she's already been branded one of the hottest babes of summer 2009. Keep your Bloodgood boiling with her guest stints on summer TV cable hit "Burn Notice". |
Anton YelchinChris Pine and Zachary Quinto may have been the cover boys for the Star Trek reboot, but with a role in Terminator Salvation under his belt too, Yelchin is the true up-and-comer on the list of rising young male stars. |
Olivia WildeA TV babe who's made her way from "The OC" to "House, MD", Wilde hits the big screen this summer, making the cavemen go crazy in Year One. Up next: the female lead in the hotly-anticipated (at least by fanboys) Tron 2.0. |
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Zoe SaldanaShe brought a much-needed boost of feminine smarts and sexiness to the testosterone-overloaded Star Trek, and will also grace James Cameron's Avatar alongside Sam Worthington (see above), and snagged a part in the DC Comics' adaptation The Losers. |
Katie CassidyShe was the ill-fated friend of kidnapped daughter Maggie Grace in the suprise action hit Taken, and will be in the upcoming reboots of A Nightmare on Elm Street as well as "Melrose Place" on the CW. Plus: Chris Carter's top-secret drama Fencewalkers. |
Sofie VassilievaThe onetime Eloise of TV fame has grown up to a starring role alongside Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin in the summer drama My Sister's Keeper, and became an official teen hottie when she presented at this year's MTV Movie Awards. |
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Isabel LucasShe grew up on the Australian TV drama "Home and Away" but is poised to break out as the "other girl" (aka, the babe who's not Megan Fox) in the sure-to-be-summer-smash Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. |
Alexander SkarsgårdSon of Stellan, this Swedish hunk glamoured TV audiences and sunk his teeth into fame with his turn as vampire sheriff (yes, really!) Eric in HBO's hit "True Blood", and got upgraded to full-time regular for his trouble. |
CommonThis rapper-turned-actor started with a feature debut in American Gangster and graduating to roles in Wanted and Terminator Salvation. He's rumored for parts in the in-development features The A-Team and Justice League: Mortal |
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Mia WasikowskaHer heartbreaking turn as troubled gymnast Sophie in HBO's "In Treatment" seemed just a precursor for bigger things to come, as she'll carry Tim Burton's next film on her shoulders as the title character in Alice in Wonderland. |
Alexa DavalosShe went from sci-fi (The Chronicles of Riddick) and horror (The Mist) to drama (Defiance), and will now play the comely Andromeda opposite Sam Worthington (see above) in the fantastical Clash of the Titans. |
Danielle PanabakerShe's gone from playing someone's daughter or sister to becoming the newest and most compelling scream queen in years with her starring role in Friday the 13th, and will live to scream again in both The Crazies and John Carpenter's The Ward. |