Yesterday, Forbes has released their annual rankings of the World’s Most Powerful Celebrity List. This annual compilation of the 100 most influential celebrities ranks them according their monetary earnings, press coverages, social hits and web researches which makes them a powerful force/influence in today’s celebrity world.
Included in the list are Robert Pattinson, Twilight author Stephenie Meyer and Kristen Stewart. Rob is ranked the highest among the three, at #50, followed by Stephenie Meyer at #59 and Kristen Stewart at #66. Here is what they have to say about each of them:
Pay
$17.0 mil
Category
Actors
Pay Rank
86
Web Rank
7
Press Rank
37
TV/Radio Rank
53
Social Rank
68
Everyone’s favorite vampire may be on the verge of becoming a true movie star. Pattinson earns most of his money from the Twilight films where he stars as Edward Cullen. But he’ll break out of the Twilight rut with next year’s Like Water for Elephants, based on the popular novel and costarring Reese Witherspoon.
Pay
$40.0 mil
Category
Authors
Pay Rank
48
Web Rank
32
Press Rank
59
TV/Radio Rank
85
Social Rank
87
Meyer didn’t release a new book in 2009 but she still lands on our list thanks to the almost rabid fans who devour everything to do with her successful Twilight series. She has reportedly sold over 100 million copies of her vampire novels and the film versions have so far earned $1 billion at the box office.
Pay
$12.0 mil
Category
Teen stars
Pay Rank
92
Web Rank
9
Press Rank
53
TV/Radio Rank
62
Social Rank
69
The 20-year-old Stewart is now recognizable to teens around the world as Bella, the human caught between a vampire and a werewolf in the Twilight series. The movies have so far earned $1 billion at the box office and made Stewart a star. She stretched her wings this year with the indie film The Runaways where she played Joan Jett.
Forbes also posted a feature storyon the power of the Twilight Saga. According to them, this newcomers to the list have been catapulted into fame and mainstream media, thanks in large to the success of the books and movies.
Here is an excerpt of their article:
That success helped Meyer earn $40 million this year, ranking her 59th on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list. Last year, thanks in part to her non-Twilight book The Host, Meyer ranked 16th with $50 million. Her newest book, a spinoff of the Twilight series titled The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, should bump her up the list again next year, especially since the story’s released is timed to coincide with the third Twilight film, Eclipse, which hits theaters June 30.
And Eclipse should be a blockbuster; it’s expected to make $75 million during its opening weekend alone, according to Exhibitor Relations. The series is already one of the most profitable in recent movie history. The first two Twilight films cost a reported cumulative $90 million to produce and have earned $1.1 billion at the box office. That’s helped turn tiny Summit Entertainment into a growing film studio. Summit is also behind films like Oscar-winner The Hurt Locker, Knowing and Furry Vengeance.
To read the rest of the article, click on the link above.
In other news, Taylor Lautner may not have made it into the list but he was included in Forbes’ 17 Stars To Watch List. This list looks at the 17 celebrities who may be included in the Most Powerful List next year.
Lautner actually managed to make millions of Twilight fans forget about Robert Pattinson as they swooned on Team Jacob. Now Lautner is the go-to man for upcoming action franchises like Stretch Armstrong, for which he’ll receive a reported $7.5 million. With the final installment of the Twilight series being broken into two movies, Lautner has a chance to earn big next year.
British rockers Muse was also included in the list.
Already a hit in their home country, English rock band Muse is finally breaking through to the American mainstream. Their tour in support of their record The Resistance will continue through the end of 2010, and the band’s song Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever) was the first single released from the soundtrack to Eclipse, the next installment of the juggernaut Twilight saga.
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