The fact thatTop Gun : Maverick(2022 ) gross more than$1 billion at the box officeall but proves thatTom Cruisehas the power to fill film theater rear end even in the streaming era . And according to a new sight , he ’s better at it than any other worker in Hollywood .
The top three is a telling snapshot of the kind of worker that can pull back hoi polloi to movie dramaturgy these days — namely , older ( and predominantly whitened ) gentleman’s gentleman with celebrated Hollywood career . The medium age of the integral top 20 is 57.5 , per Belloni ; and just four actors are in their forty , including Leonardo DiCaprio ( eighth place ) , Kevin Hart ( 10th ) , Ryan Reynolds ( 13th ) , and Chris Hemsworth ( 20th ) . The only three womanhood to make the top 20 have also been in the commercial enterprise for decades : Julia Roberts ( 6th ) , Sandra Bullock ( 12th ) , and Angelina Jolie ( 18th ) . extremely advertise recent outrage do n’t seem to have had an effect on the great unwashed ’s fandom , either , considering thatWill Smithand Johnny Depp both land in the top 10 .
The survey itself might be partly responsible for for the age skewing . In aninterviewon Belloni ’s podcastThe Town , Ray Subers , NRG ’s senior vice president of theatrical scheme , break that while they polled a “ nationally representative sampling ” of multitude between 12 and 74 year old , they were “ reasonably heavy - weight down older in this study . ” Younger stars performed much good among younger respondents . Tom Holland and Zendaya , for exercise , were 39th and 47th in the overall study , severally , but tenth and 14th amongGen Zersalone .
That said , the data seems to support the theory that today ’s box office appeal is less about actors than established IP , fromsuperheroestoSuper Mario . Names like Cruise , Hanks , and Roberts can still get masses in theatre because their personal brands as motion-picture show megastars were cemented back when that was n’t the compositor’s case .
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