Seems like Brad Pitt, at age 62, isn't doing as many films as he used to.

His only hits this decade were F1 last year and BULLET TRAIN in 2022.

BABYLON bombed back in 2022 and he did that movie WOLFS with George Clooney in 2024 that wasn't released in theaters but went straight to Apple TV.

There is going to be a big changing of the guard in Hollywood pretty soon. This is a normal cycle that occurs as major actors start to age out and the new young turks switch into the establishment stars. Typically, the male actors have a longer shelf life than the female actresses. That has somewhat changed, as many of the older ladies have taken to headlining streaming shows. However, the romantic leading men and action stars still get to hold on well passed their expiration date.

Now it looks like this time there will be a bigger than usual gap because so many of the best-known actors are older than you would think, while there are as yet few young actors ready to take their place. Here is an incomplete list of the ones I thought of breaking, at 46:

Al Pacino 86
Robert De Niro 82
Sylvester Stallone 79
Arnold Schwarzenegger 78
Samuel L. Jckson 77
Liam Neesom 74
Pierce Brosnan 73
Tom Hanks 69
George Clooney 65
Johnny Depp 63
Tom Cruise 63
Brad Pitt 62
Keanu Reeves 61
Robert Downey Jr. 61
Vin Diesel 58
Jason Statham 58
Will Smith 57
Hugh Jackman 57
Edward Norton 56
Matthew McConaughey 56
Matt Damon 55
Dwayne Johnson 54
Ben Affleck 53
Idris Elba 53
Bradley Cooper 51
Leanardo DiCaprio 51
Pedro Pascal 51
Cillian Murphy 50
Ryan Reynolds 49
Jason Momoa 46
Chris Pratt 46

And the heirs apparent:
Ryan Gosling 45
Chris Evans 44
Chris Hemsworth 42
Austin Butler 34
Tom Holland 30
Timothee Chalamet 30
Jacob Elordi 28

I'm sure I missed a lot, but the point is, just like Robert De Niro, and Jack Nicholson and Warren Beaty before him, many of these actors are either going to retire or move into supporting roles, while younger actors take their place.

So this weekend the big opening movie is Spielberg's "Disclosure Day". According to advance reviews it is the best Spielberg film in a decade. Only I'm not quite sure if that means it's going to be great, or that he hasn't directed a good movie in ten years. Personally I think he's done better as a producer than a director in the later part of his career.

Nevertheless, "Disclosure Day" is being lumped into a "Close Encounters" and "E.T." vibe, which I find too sweet by half these days. If you really want to believe the aliens among us conspiracies, at least go for "They Live". That movie, starring Rowdy Roddy Piper, is a guilty pleasure of mine, especially because I got to meet the man at a signing a few years before he passed. Friendly guy.

"Disclosure Day" cost somewhere between 150M - 190M and its biggest competition is probably "Obsession" and "Backrooms", which both could have been made on an iPhone. Emily Blunt alone will not add much excitement. The following week "Toy Story 5" hits. "Disclosure Day" has a small window to make a lot of money and predictions are tepid at the moment. I think it will ultimately come up short and do better on streaming than in theatres.

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Here are the Top 10 of the year domestically as of today. Not sure where Disclosure Day will be on the list after this weekend:

1) SUPER MARIO GALAXY
2) MICHAEL
3) PROJECT HAIL MARY
4) DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2
5) OBSESSION
6) HOPPERS
7) BACKROOMS
8) STAR WARS MANDALORIAN
9) SCREAM 7
10) GOAT

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Originally posted by Tommy C:
Here are the Top 10 of the year domestically as of today. Not sure where Disclosure Day will be on the list after this weekend:

1) SUPER MARIO GALAXY
2) MICHAEL
3) PROJECT HAIL MARY
4) DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2
5) OBSESSION
6) HOPPERS
7) BACKROOMS
8) STAR WARS MANDALORIAN
9) SCREAM 7
10) GOAT

I didn't know Hoppers did that well, nobody talked about it. I recently watched it on Disney+ and thought it was wonderful.

Hoppers grossed 166 M in the U.S. and 372 M worldwide. Pretty good.

So far it is the # 2 "kids" film of the year, behind Super Mario Galaxy.

"Michael" is about to pass a worldwide gross of 900 M, and it is still going.

Who would have guessed ?