Summer is around the corner and with it come the costly blockbusters studios rely on to balance their budgets. In this season, stars are born—and burned.
Perhaps the actor with the most to gain is Chris Pratt. The Parks and Recreation funnyman has shed several pounds and the small screen. After a surprisingly wonderful turn in last summer's hit Guardians of the Galaxy, Pratt is back playing the lead in Jurassic World, the fourth installment in Jurassic Park series which hits screens June 12th. Though his upfront fee is currently in the low seven figures, if his action-packed dinosaur flick performs well Pratt could become Hollywood's go-to leading man and see his fee rise to $10 million a movie.
Channing Tatum can already command that much, but this summer could turn him into an even bigger star. Best known for light teen flicks and action movies (Step Up, Coach Carter, the Jump Street series), Tatum is now proving his mettle as a producer. Tatum's 2012 Magic Mike was a massive hit, grossing $167 million on a $7 million budget. He is producing and starring in Magic Mike XXL, the hotly anticipated stripper sequel, and stands to see his $10M leading man fee rise if it does well.
As out-of-school students flock to the multiplexes and summer Fridays take full effect, the viewership of some films could build the career of many young actors. Perhaps the most notable: Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne, who are starring in Young Adult author John Green's newest adaptation, Paper Towns.
Wolff played one of the main parts in last summer's Fault in our Stars, and is now set to play the lead opposite model and It-Girl Delevingne. "I love Paper Towns the most of all John's books but I feel you get the same experience reading the book as watching the movie," 20-year-old Wolff recently proselytized at Manhattan's BookCon.
If the movie is a hit, which it looks set to be, he is on course to be the next Robert Pattinson, or Andrew Garfield – he is rumored to be in the running to play the next Spider-Man.
Delevingne, who last year joined Forbes' ranking of highest-paid models, is already the face of Burberry, Chanel, and Topshop. After a brief part in 2012′s Anna Karenina, Paper Towns is the first in a spate of forthcoming films from Delevingne, who is pivoting from the page to the multiplex. The 22-year-old is set to appear in London Fields with Johnny Depp, Pan with Hugh Jackman and Amanda Seyfried, and Suicide Squad, with Will Smith and Jared Leto.
Perhaps the most timely summer release is comedian Amy Schumer's. The latest season of Schumer's TV show, Inside Amy Schumer, has been celebrated for its comedy, which has tackled conventional notions of female beauty and society's treatment of sexual assault. Trainwreck, which is out July 17th, is the first movie she is writing and starring in alone as the lead. If all goes well, she could prove her mettle as a movie star and soon be one of the few women on our C elebrity 100 list, which ranks the highest earning entertainers.
Additional reporting by Madeline Berg
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