Faces to watch out for in 2011

Here are a few of the names you should look for on movie posters in 2011. None of them are unknowns, but all have a good line up of films planned for 2011 that shows why they are big Hollywood stars.

Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman is certainly being adaptive this year. At the start she will play a ballerina on the edge  in the Oscar worthy and critically acclaimed ‘Black Swan’ and then she will delve into different roles for different audiences. She becomes Ashton Kutcher’s love interest  in chick-flick ‘No Strings Attached’, an astrophysicist in Marvel’s comic film ‘Thor’ and finally the warrior princess in male directed fantasy comedy ‘Your Highness’. None of these roles seem to be similar, so Portman will finally be showing her acting diversity and hopefully proving to Hollywood that she can be box office gold.

 

Steven Speilberg

When Steven Spielberg releases two films in a year you can guarantee a few things: there will be a happy ending; one film will be heavy while the other is light; and he will push the boundaries of filmmaking.

In 2011 Spielberg will release ‘War Horse’, a film adaptation of the emotional child’s story of a horse in World War 1, and ‘The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn’ in which he will create an entire 3D film using Avatar motion-capture technology. Both films will have an impact this year.

 

Matt Damon

One male actor to look out for this year is Matt Damon who is hitting 2011 with no less than five film releases.  Damon is known for being picky with roles but to his credit as he often chooses meaty, interesting ones. He will narrate a documentary ‘Inside Man’, which is about the financial crisis, play a reluctant psychic in the new Eastwood film ‘Hereafter’, a cowboy with a lisp in the Cohen brother’s ‘True Grit’, a politician in thriller ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ and then to round it all off a scientist in star studded ‘Contagion’. Now that’s a workload to rival Oxford!