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Post by judgejosephdredd on Aug 2, 2017 17:32:20 GMT
Claire Forlani was thought to be part of Hollywood's next A-list in the late 90's after Meet Joe Black, her appearance in Mystery Men the following year was small but was made more prominent by the media -- However, the movie underperformed big time at the box office. The following year she was one of the leads in Boys and Girls with then it guy Freddie Prinze Jr. which also struggled at the box office and did very poor with critics. 2001's Anti-Trust also didn't do too hot either where she was also one of the leads. In 2003, she was Jackie Chan's co-star in The Medallion, which not only met terrible word of the mouth but also only opened at no. 5 at the box office on opening weekend in the U.S. Since then, her career's been pretty, well, 'diverse' is probably the best word to use here, from guest appearances on CSI: NY, NCIS: LA, Hawaii Five-O to one of the leads in Starz's Camelot series, being the love interest in an Uwe Boll film( In the Name of the King), and even beer commercials using a different accent. I recall hearing that a TV series was in the works with her as one of the leads opposite of Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje with Natalie Portman in a producing role but nothing ever came of an announcement.
Mena Suvari enjoyed her rise to major fame in 1999 with American Pie and American Beauty. American Pie started a franchise, while American Beauty went on to becoming a five-time Oscar winner. Continuing to be part of the American Pie franchise as well as having major parts in other films like Sugar & Spice and The Musketeer Suvari was at one point "big enough" to be the host of an episode of Saturday Night Live. As the years went on she did more supporting roles for TV and film, not many substantial, and has now started to do voice overs for cartoon shows.
Devon Sawa enjoyed some success as a leading man in successful teen films, but it was fairly short lived. His career took a nose-dive and he's never recovered, he is one of the leads in ABC's Somewhere Between so there's that I suppose.
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Post by itsthatguyme on Aug 2, 2017 17:37:50 GMT
Shia Lebeouf- he had a run ..in not sure what happened. I think it was his reputation of being difficult to work with.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Aug 2, 2017 17:47:18 GMT
Alicia Silverstone
Looking at the wiki page, and the section for awards/nominations she seemed to be the next big thing as she was awarded Best Villain, Best Breakthrough Performance, Best Female Newcomer, Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture, Best Female Performance and Most Desirable Female Actress, all within a 2 years span.
But on the other hand, she did get the Worst Supporting Actress not long afterwards for Batman & Robin, and then it seemed like her upcoming period more or less died very fast.
She went from doing music videos for Aerosmith to becoming one of the most promising young teenage actors starring as the lolita/femme fatale in the erotic/thrillers such as The Crush (1993) and The Babysitter (1995), and when Clueless (1995) came out, she seemed to hit off with both the critics and audience alike. In 1997 she got the part of Batgirl in Batman & Robin and later the same year she got the lead in the romantic/comedy Excess Baggage against Christpher Walken and Benicio Del Toro. Do not remember any other of her 90s films, but compared with Claire Danes, Keri Russell, Reese Witherspoon and other teen stars, she seeemed to never reach the same heights as of the mid 90s, and I have not seen a film with her since the awful Scorched (2003), but I almost picked up a horror film called Vamps (2012), where she is supposedly one of the leading parts.
Looking at the IMDb she seems to have done a lot of new films since 2012, but nothing that looks like they might give her a comeback of any kind. And a lot of them is voice talent related, which I think she began with as early as back in 2000-01 with the animated show, Braceface.
I remember having a huge crush and a gigantic poster of Alicia hanging on my bedroom wall, but I had to take it down as my mum was not too impressed, still I had a great VHS copy of the erotic/thriller The Crush (1993). The kind of typical early 90s thriller with a psycho female in the lead role, serving as the temptress for some naive guy who's life is suddenly turning into a living nightmare etc, but still one of the better or more enjoyable erotic thrillers of that era.
Not sure why her career bombed so sudden, as from 1992-95 she seemed to be on a great roll of success with several big MTV music videos, erotic thrillers and then hit it real big with Clueless, but after that the only film I saw of her was a rather bad crime/comedy with Christopher Walken in 97 and of course as Batgirl in Batman & Robin (1997). Which I guess was a bad move for everybody involved.
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Post by moviemouth on Aug 2, 2017 18:27:44 GMT
Shia Lebeouf- he had a run ..in not sure what happened. I think it was his reputation of being difficult to work with. From my understanding that is entirely his own fault.
You are not going to do well when you publically bash the movies you are in.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Aug 2, 2017 18:49:25 GMT
Gene Davis 10 to Midnight was to be the next Tom Cruise.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 19:00:27 GMT
Hugh Dancy. Supposedly, he was going to be the next big hot, young British thing in theaters, but that sure never happened. Had to settle for playing second fiddle to former King Arthur co-star Mads Mikkelsen.
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 2, 2017 19:02:55 GMT
Timothy Bottoms after The Last Picture Show. Christopher Walken after The Deer Hunter. He's had a long and successful career but he never became the charming leading man he seemed destined to be after playing Nick.  |
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Post by theravenking on Aug 2, 2017 19:08:02 GMT
Claire Forlani was thought to be part of Hollywood's next A-list in the late 90's after Meet Joe Black, her appearance in Mystery Men the following year was small but was made more prominent by the media -- However, the movie underperformed big time at the box office. The following year she was one of the leads in Boys and Girls with then it guy Freddie Prinze Jr. which also struggled at the box office and did very poor with critics. 2001's Anti-Trust also didn't do too hot either where she was also one of the leads. In 2003, she was Jackie Chan's co-star in The Medallion, which not only met terrible word of the mouth but also only opened at no. 5 at the box office on opening weekend in the U.S. Since then, her career's been pretty, well, 'diverse' is probably the best word to use here, from guest appearances on CSI: NY, NCIS: LA, Hawaii Five-O to one of the leads in Starz's Camelot series, being the love interest in an Uwe Boll film( In the Name of the King), and even beer commercials using a different accent. I recall hearing that a TV series was in the works with her as one of the leads opposite of Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje with Natalie Portman in a producing role but nothing ever came of an announcement. I used to have a bit of a crush on Claire Forlani growing up. She was a real beauty. Shame about her career. I wish her role in The Rock would've been larger. |
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Post by mysterioman007 on Aug 2, 2017 19:08:50 GMT
Jude Law...though I couldn't understand why Hollywood wanted us to like him so much.
Same with Jeremy Renner. Both still have decent careers, but they won't ever really be box office draws as a lead actor, IMO
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Post by theravenking on Aug 2, 2017 19:21:41 GMT
Barry Pepper. Great things were predicted for him after Saving Private Ryan, he had smaller parts in some successfull movies like Enemy Of The State, The Green Mile and We Were Soldiers but I guess Battlefield Earth had a lasting negative impact on his career.
Chris Klein. Some people thought that after American Pie he could become a succesfull leading man. Hell, I remember Premiere magazine thought he had a higher chance of becoming an A-lister than Jake Gyllenhaal (LOL!). Rollerball pretty much put an end to all these hopes.
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Post by mysterioman007 on Aug 2, 2017 19:28:58 GMT
Oh, Chris Klein and that Street Fighter movie...one of the worst performances I've ever seen.
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Post by kuatorises on Aug 2, 2017 19:29:26 GMT
I don't know why, but for a while people were calling for Armie Hammer to be the next Batman. I'm not even sure what that was based on, because he hasn't had much for career at all, let alone a successful one.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Aug 2, 2017 19:38:40 GMT
Brandon Routh
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Post by jakesully on Aug 2, 2017 19:39:36 GMT
Taylor Kitsch . He had TWO massive bombs in 2012 (John Carter & Battleship) . He was basically set up for failure imo . I still like the guy and consider John Carter to be a lot of dumb fun . Also I think he was good in Friday Night Lights (TV series) , Savages , The Bang Bang Club, and Lone Survivor. He's still getting some steady work so thats good . Hopefully he'll have another chance at a leading actor role. I know Hollywood is courting Channing Tatum for the Gambit movie (if it ever happens) but Kitsch was pretty good as Gambit in X Men Origins : Wolverine and I'd welcome him to reprise the role. Plus, he 'd be way cheaper than Channing Tatum.
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Post by DSDSquared on Aug 2, 2017 19:49:39 GMT
Wasn't Tyler Lautner supposed to be the next big thing? That guy cannot act AT ALL.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Aug 2, 2017 20:01:45 GMT
Well... where did Edward Nortons career go?
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Aug 2, 2017 20:03:27 GMT
Taylor Kitsch . He had TWO massive bombs in 2012 (John Carter & Battleship) . He was basically set up for failure imo . I still like the guy and consider John Carter to be a lot of dumb fun . Also I think he was good in Friday Night Lights (TV series) , Savages , The Bang Bang Club, and Lone Survivor. He's still getting some steady work so thats good . Hopefully he'll have another chance at a leading actor role. I know Hollywood is courting Channing Tatum for the Gambit movie (if it ever happens) but Kitsch was pretty good as Gambit in X Men Origins : Wolverine and I'd welcome him to reprise the role. Plus, he 'd be way cheaper than Channing Tatum. Yeah, he was fine as Gambit. No reason not to give him the chance. Messed up. It wasn't HIS fault that John Carter and Battleship flopped. That was the directors fault. |
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Post by sdrew13163 on Aug 2, 2017 20:31:57 GMT
I don't know why, but for a while people were calling for Armie Hammer to be the next Batman. I'm not even sure what that was based on, because he hasn't had much for career at all, let alone a successful one. George Miller's Justice League movie that was scrapped a few days before filming began had Hammer as Batman. |
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Post by darkknightofgotham on Aug 2, 2017 22:01:33 GMT
Sam Worthington.
Starred in big hits like Avatar, Clash of the Titans, and Terminator:Salvation.
Hasn't done anything big since then.
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Post by Reggie_Stration on Aug 2, 2017 22:13:57 GMT
River Phoenix, sadly.
Shia LaBeouf
I'm sure more was expected of Elijah Wood post-LOTR
Henry Thomas
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