Most people will find this news boring as hell but it’s still news involving quite a lot of people featured on this site. Mitchell Gossett is switching companies, he’s switching from Cunningham Escott Slevin Doherty to United Talent Agency or UTA for short (that business card will be a lot smaller). Who the hell is Mitchell Gossett is a question most people will ask.

Well, he’s the talent agent for AnnaSophia Robb, Taylor Momsen, Victoria Justice, Demi Lovato and the big one being Miley Cyrus of course (not that the other ones are bad clients to have). So they’re all switching companies with him, once a talent agent switches agencies they can either choose to stay with the agent or to stay with the agency. All of them chose to stay with the agent which says quite a lot about the guy. Gossett is mainly known for developing young talent (more recent examples would be Kristen Bell and Hayden Panettiere) through their careers.

For the careers of the people mentioned it doesn’t really change that much; they’re still guided by the same person but it’s still worth mentioning. It clearly shows that there are influential people in Hollywood that the bulk of the general audience (so the people that just watch movies, TV Shows and read magazines and aren’t really interested in the behind the scenes) never really hear of.

If a young actress has worked with actors like Johnny Depp, Hilary Swank and Samual L. Jackson in her last four movies I would call that rather impressive. Not that many young actors manage to work with that many experienced actors, especially if you consider that she has a movie coming up with Charlize Theron. So is it who we’re talking about? AnnaSophia Robb, probably just a vague notion to most people.

Her first role in a big Hollywood movie was in the horrible remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (I liked the original, each minute of that movie was just an insult to the original), her role was rather small though and the movie was a success none the less. Her first really successful movie in which she starred was Bridge to Terabithia, I’ve heard mixed opinions about this movie. Besides the fact that Disney managed to completely screw up the marketing for the movie leaving a lot of pissed off fantasy fans. If you make a movie which is presented as by the makers of the Chronicles of Narnia and then release a trailer which shows a fantasy world you’d expect a fantasy movie.

That wasn’t the case, what people got was how a lonely boy befriends the new girl in school (AnnaSophia in this case) which completely changes his life. Turning him from a sad lonely boy into a happy one. If it then turns out that the last minute of the movie is pretty much the trailer of course you’ll get pissed off fantasy fans. If they had marketed it as what kind of movie it actually was it might have done better, despite it being a box office success. I’m just glad I saw the movie before seeing the trailer, though when I watched the trailer afterwards I wondered what movie it was for.

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Last month Hollywood Reporter put out a list called Showbiz Kids Top 25, it’s a bit slow regarding news right now so lets take a look at the list. Hollywood Reporter is a serious publication so there is some merit to their opinions. Hollywood Reporter pretty much made a list of people active in Hollywood seventeen and under who they think have the biggest chance of making it big in Hollywood in the long run. The focus of this site is the female generation in Hollywood so I’m just going to highlight those in the list.

1. Miley Cyrus
2. Abigail Breslin
3. Dakota Fanning
4. Emma Watson
5. Emma Roberts
6. Cole and Dylan Sprouse
7. Freddie Highmore
8. Kristen Stewart
9. The Jonas Brothers
10. AnnaSophia Robb
11. Josh Hutcherson
12. Madison Pettis
13. Noah Gray-Cabey
14. Mark Indelicato
15. Angus T. Jones
16. Josh Flitter
17. Kyle Massey
18. Miranda Cosgrove
19. Jamie Lynn Spears
20. Spencer Breslin
21. Keke Palmer
22. Alex Etel
23. Nat and Alex Wolff
24. Selena Gomez
25. Liam Aiken

In general there aren’t any real shockers in that list though I didn’t know some of the names. I can’t know everyone in Hollywood after all, it shows that the list was made before all of the Jamie Lynn pregnancy stuff, I doubt they would have put her on the list if it had be known before that. The top five is pretty much a shoe in on the list so there’s just not a lot I can say about this list, Hollywood Reporter did their homework. Not that I doubted them in that regard, they serve as a valuable news source to this site.

There are dozens of pointless lists on the internet during a year, most of which show up at the end the year. If you ask me I would say most of them are useless, in the end people will make their own judgement on who they think is best. So that’s why starletviews is introducing “the rising Starlets of 2007”, a list that shows who of the younger generation is climbing the Hollywood ladder. It’s extremely subjective because it was made by just one person: me. No public voting was involved to manipulate the results in any way.
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