While you were reading HOLLYWOOD SPY's big spotlight on all 2012 films, I'm sure you've noticed some names repeat, some stars will be busier than others, so here's a spotlight on actors who might dominate this cinematic year. CHARLIZE THERON
After many years spent with the adoration of the audience, but without
any big hits and big films in her sleeve,
Charlize Theron could finally hit it big this year. Beside a possible second Oscar nomination for her role in
THE YOUNG ADULT, she will also have two huge blockbusters which might finally make her a profitable actress, which she deserves both with her talent, beauty and charisma: she will be a member of a spaceship crew in
Ridley Scott's sf epic
PROMETHEUS and then she will be the amazing Evil Queen in
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN and we have already seen in the trailer that she clearly dominates the film. Let us keep our fingers crossed for her.
EMILY BLUNT
Besides, Charlize, another amazingly talented and unbelievably gorgeous and charismatic actress who will star in tones of films this
year is English rose
Emily Blunt. We shall watch her in romantic drama
FIVE YEARS ENGAGE- MENT next to
Jason Segel, and then in sf action
LOOPER next to
Bruce Willis and
Joseph Gordon Levitt about cops who go back in time to catch criminals. She will go back to romance in
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN next to
Ewan McGregor, and in ARTHUR NEWMAN, GOLF PRO in which
Collin Firth and her play two people who, trying to escape their past, move into an abandoned house together.
CHANNING TATUM
When it comes to boys, the face you will be seeing most is
Channing Tatum's. He has six films released this year:
TEN YEAR, about a
group of friends who reunite ten years after their high-school graduation, HAYWIRE,
Steven Soderbergh's action packed film,
21 JUMP STREET, the remake of famous TV show this time in the big screen version,
MAGIC MIKE, which is the story of his own early days as a stripper with
Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Joe Manganielo stripping with him in it,
G.I. JOE 2: RETALIATION, the sequel to the sf blockbuster and
THE VOW, in which he will play a husband whose wife,
Rachel McAdams, loses all memory of him and their marriage after a car accident.
EWAN MCGREGOR
Our favourite English star
Ewan McGregor might also get back into track with five of his films ready to hit cinemas in 2012: the biggest will
be
JACK THE GIANT KILLER, fantasy epic in which he plays a royal guard. He will also star in above mentioned
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN and HAYWIRE. Two of his projects with interesting scripts are
THE IMPO- SSIBLE, a suspenseful and disturbing story of a family with gets in the middle of Tsunami attack in Asia, and
PERFECT SENSE, a sf film about a love story in the middle of an outbreak of a disease which leaves people without all their senses.
YOUNG STARS OF 2012
When it comes to young stars who might use a number of their projects to hit the stardom, there's
Nicholas Hoult, whom you've seen last year in X-MEN 1ST CLASS, and who will take the lead role in fantasy epic
JACK THE GIANT KILLER and in
WARM BODIES, a film about
zombies in love.
Young
Josh Hutcherson will have lead roles in
JOURNEY 2: MYSTERIOUS ISLAND and in
THE HUNGER GAMES, along with roles in
RED DAWN alongside
Chris Hemsworth and in
CARMEL as a teenager wanders into a small town where he is introduced to the art-forgery community.
Also very busy this year is
Jim Sturgess, who will have interesting roles in sf films
UPSIDE DOWN and
CLOUD ATLAS and also in
ASHES next to
Luke Evans.
JUDI DENCH
When it comes to our favourite ladies, her Royal Majesty
Judi Dench (bow immediately) will amaze us in wonderful
BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, about a group of senior people (her best friend
Maggie Smith is among them) who move to India only to find their new promised luxurious home isn't luxurious at all. She will boss James Bond around in
SKYFALL and will play Anna Marie Hoover in Clint Eastwood's J.EDGAR.
HUNKS OF THE YEAR
Two of the actors who will probably be the main hunks of 2012 are
Chris Hemsworth and
Taylor Kitsch. Chris has lead roles in
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN and in
AVENGERS, and also in RED
DAWN, in
RUSH as a formula 1 driver.
Taylor Kitsch on the other hand has the lead role of his life in sf epic
JOHN CARTER, and then also a lead role in another sf epic
BATTLESHIP. He will also be an unfortunate drug dealer in
SAVAGES next to
Salma Hayek and
Blake Lively.
zombies in love. Young Josh Hutcherson will have lead roles in JOURNEY 2: MYSTERIOUS ISLAND and in THE HUNGER GAMES, along with roles in RED DAWN alongside Chris Hemsworth and in CARMEL as a teenager wanders into a small town where he is introduced to the art-forgery community. Also very busy this year is Jim Sturgess, who will have interesting roles in sf films UPSIDE DOWN and CLOUD ATLAS and also in ASHES next to Luke Evans.
