Is the old-fashioned Hollywood movie star making a comeback?
This year we've seen Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum and Brad Pitt drive modest, non-franchise star vehicles to unlikely box office success, their presence endearing otherwise mediocre films to audiences presumably longing for a return to adult movies in the age of Disney-Marvel dominance.
And then there's Tom Cruise, whose stardom – albeit tethered to the shiny fuselage of a legacy franchise – continues to defy Hollywood's laws of career gravity.
