With Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Will Smith flopping, what next for Hollywood?

Independence Day director Roland Emmerich sent shockwaves through Hollywood when he declared that the film's star Will Smith was “too expensive and too much of a marquee name” to star in the sequel, scheduled to come out in 2015. Emmerich had previously declared that it would be impossible to do a sequel without Smith. The about-turn, announced while Emmerich was promoting his new film, White House Down, this week, is part of a changing of the guard in Hollywood that has seen Smith, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt lose some of their cachet...  The last action heroes: Have Tom Cruise, Will Smith and Brad Pitt lost their mojo? - Features - Art - The Independent