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New Moon, the movie that is the sequel to Twilight, opens this week starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson and the new film increases the role for Taylor Lautner. All were relatively unknown young actors and now some of the success of those types of unknown stars has Hollywood thinking twice about using A-list actors, according to one report.

Twilight & the New Moon Movie's Young Actors (Image: Splash News)

The buddy comedy flick The Hangover, with its cast of barely known actors, reaped a stunning $459million in global box office, for example. The rise of TV drama, the reality television industry with its instant celebrities and unknowns-turned-celebs, and the convergence of all media is doubtless contributing.


Two other low-budget movies cited in a report include District 9, which featured space aliens and even the relatively low-budget The Twilight Saga: New Moon, were cited in a Reuters report along with the rise to stardom of the Twilight series' Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.

"Nobody says that a big wonderful movie needs to be expensive, it's just that that's been the trend, and perhaps the trend is misguided," said University of Southern California cinema professor Jason Squire.