Next Star Up

A celebration of the next generation of actors ready to yield the power of the box-office. As Top Gun: Maverick bowled over audiences this weekend, it raises the question not of which movie stars are left that could battle for eyeballs (although that one did come up) but who would be ready to take on the spot that Tom Cruise has positioned himself for so well in calculated ways. Sure, there have been misfires and we are prisoners of the moment but Cruise gets the moments and reasons we’d show up for a movie. Although an easy opinion may be that there’s nobody else around to carry on a legacy, there are those with the resume, chops and charisma to carry on the legacy.