Abraham agrees, arguing that A-list stars serve as a kind of insurance policy for nervous executives simply looking to maintain their jobs.
"A-list stars are looking for roles with immediate emotional pow, " says Jack Ofield , communications professor and filmmaker at San Diego State University.
It cost a little more than half what "After Earth" took to make and has an ensemble cast with no A-list stars, meaning few people in Hollywood expected the thriller to be the weekend's biggest new film.
An analysis of small, dim "red dwarf" stars - which make up a majority of stars in our galaxy - shows that 6% of them host such a planet.
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While the message began its voyage to the cosmos--a 24, 000 year trip to M-13, a cluster of stars in the constellation Hercules, to be exact--visiting dignitaries listened over a loudspeaker while each bit played as a short, high-pitched tone.
Still, the banged-up Yankees, missing a cadre of ailing All-Stars, didn't have an easy time scratching out two wins after Houston rolled to a 9-1 rout Monday night.
Still, the banged-up Yankees, missing a cadre of injured All-Stars, didn't have an easy time scratching out two wins after Houston rolled to a 9-1 rout Monday night.
No other chain with multiple properties managed 100% but the gap is closing: Montage Resorts also has three U.S. properties (a fourth North American location, in Cabo, is not ranked by the guide) and barely missed perfection with two 5-Stars and a 4-Star.
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You can buy a stars-and-stripes-decorated statuette of the Liberty Bell with an eagle perched on it.
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But then this is the man who faced Mikkel Kessler in the Millennium Stadium and Bernard Hopkins under the bright lights of Las Vegas while watched by a sprinkling of A-list Hollywood stars and millions around the world.
At a moderated conversation between Mehta and Sir Salman in the previous edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, the two key figures behind the film revealed that they had originally approached A-list Bollywood stars for the key roles.
Mr Gerbeau wants to develop the Dome site into a world-class visitor centre capable of attracting stars like Michael Jackson or sporting events like a Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson fight.
The movie, set in a crime-ridden Detroit of the future, stars Joel Kinnaman as a police officer who is brutally murdered and then revived as a crime-fighting cyborg by an evil corporation developing new technologies for law enforcement.
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Through the 1950s it would be the home of the greatest team in Europe, winning the continental championship each year from 1956-60 under the leadership of Argentine Alfredo Di Stefano, who headed a cast of world all-stars.
Models learn to prance down a mini-catwalk, while pop stars belt out tunes on a Lilliputian stage.
All told, the clothier is now dressing a dozen prime-time stars, an astonishing marketing coup done entirely on the cheap.
Two decades ago, the Jays were the toast of baseball, with a roster of All-Stars put together by Hall of Fame general manager Pat Gillick that won back-to-back World Series titles in 1992 and 1993.
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Hollywood will always spend more for a sequel to a successful movie--stars of the original have more leverage to demand bigger paydays, and studios heads feel, with some justification, that a sequel is a safer box office bet.
Astronomers think there are thousands of fledgling stars in 30 Doradus, a significant fraction of the original generation of stars, packed into a 600-light-year-wide nebula.
The Hubble Space Telescope recently spied a cluster of young blue stars surrounding a rare mid-weight black hole that suggests the black hole was once at the center of a dwarf galaxy.
This time-hopping and time-wasting adventure stars Emilio Estevez as a race-car driver and Mick Jagger as the high-tech body snatcher who plunks Estevez out of a car wreck and sends him eighteen years into the future.
On opening night, the premiere of Cecil B DeMille's The Kings of Kings - a biblical extravaganza - drew thousands to Hollywood Boulevard for a glimpse of the stars and the spectacle.
We can point out examples that make us think they are off their rockers -- perverted anime series, wacky pop stars, a moody economy -- but you know what?
NASA-funded astronomers have located two planets located within a dense cluster of sun-like stars.
Astronomers using the Kepler telescope found the first known double-star planet just last September Kepler-16, a gassy oddball orb the size of Saturn that circles a pair of stars 200 light-years from Earth, like the planet Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films.
Astronomers using the Kepler telescope found the first known double-star planet just last September Kepler-16b, a gassy oddball orb the size of Saturn that circles a pair of stars 200 light-years from Earth, like the planet Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films.
And Spurs owner Peter Holt, 58, a Vietnam hero--Silver Star, three Bronze Stars, Purple Heart--who before rehab in 1981 had a long history of alcohol abuse.
The second, Kepler-35b, orbits a set of twin stars about 5, 400 light-years away.
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As the Suwanee Quintet sang gospel tunes, Brown -- decked out in a black leather jacket with stars and stripes down the sleeves -- grabbed the microphone and added his signature screech to applause from the crowd.
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