So I picked up Forbes magazine today because I knew they were having something about the top earning people in entertainment. These lists really aren’t a surprise anymore; they added a top earning tweens list. Result (obviously) is that Miley Cyrus is on top of that list with an income of $25 million (together with Daniel Radcliffe but it’s well known we limit ourselves to the female side here).

She’s followed by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen with $15 million, Ashley Tisdale with $5.5 million, Emma Watson with $5.5 million, Hilary Duff with $5 million and Vanessa Hudgens with $3.2 million. On a side note (well not that much of a side note) Keira Knightley made the top earning actresses list with $32 million.

More than I’ve ever made in my life but I’m actually surprised there’s that much of a difference between them, I knew Miley was the biggest young star out there I just didn’t realize the financial gap was that big. She managed to earn more money in a year at fifteen that most people will earn in their entire lives (though all of the ones listed have made more than most people do in a lifetime).

At the end of the issue they also added a thing I didn’t really get: Good Girls, Bad Girls; Who makes more, the squeaky clean or the jailbird queen? On the good side they have Miley Cyrus, Hilary Duff and Lauren Conrad. While on the bad side they have Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan. Seems a bit pointless to me really, in the end the good side wins of course.

I keep wondering where Forbes gets these numbers from though, it’s not like they can ring up the celebrity accountants and ask for the numbers. So they’re probably very well researched estimates.

This isn’t completely official yet but it’s very likely that Keira Knightley will star in the remake of My Fair Lady; playing the lead. The movie will be made by Columbia pictures. It will stay in the same setting and it will also use the score from the original movie.

Not really a need to talk about the movie a lot other than stop messing with movie classics. I’m somewhat getting sick of remakes; in same rare cases they might work but mostly they cannot match the original. The movie has been made already so let it be.

As for Keira’s role in this; cut it with the period drama’s already. Yes I know she also has done big box office movies but lately she just seems to be doing period dramas and that gets boring. There’s nothing wrong with period dramas, they’re enjoyable once in a while but Keira just does too many of them.

Last Saturday Nickelodeon had their yearly Kids’ Choice Awards. The main difference between this and other award show is that it’s about favourites, not best. So unlike a lot of award shows where they hand out awards for the best despite the winners being decided by public votes. It’s still an internet vote so still not very reliable but more reliable than others. But it’s an award show for kids so in that light it’s alright.

The show itself was a bit surprising really; Nickelodeon has one main competitor on its market, that’s the Disney Channel. Yet one of the main acts of the night was a performance of Miley Cyrus who sang Girls’ Night Out. Nickelodeon probably likes ratings and Miley would get them better ratings than any Nickeloden backed act.

It wasn’t her best live performance to date to be honest, she sounded out of breath a lot of the time. Dancing around on stage would do that so it’s forgiveable; at least she sings live unlike a lot of other young actresses. She also took home two awards while she was there, one for favourite female singer and one for favourite female TV actress, she only got one blimp for both though.

Jessica Alba got an award for favourite female movie star, which clearly shows that this is a popularity contest. I don’t think any critic would rank Jessica over Keira Knightley who was also nominated in that category.

Hannah Montana didn’t win the award for favourite TV show, that award went to Drake & Josh. So Miranda Cosgrove beat out Miley Cyrus and Emily Osment in that one, though to be fair Drake & Josh is a Nickelodeon show so it would have been a bit strange if all awards had gone to Disney (seeing the Jonas Brothers were the favourite music group so Nickelodeon had to win something). Though Drake & Josh is also a show that ended last year which makes it a bit strange, then again those cable networks repeat everything infinitely.

Forbes Magazine released its “The 20 Top-Earning Young Superstars” this week, which basically focuses on the stars under 25 and look at how much they make. The top earners are pro-athletes so they’re of no real interest to us. In our field of interest the list pretty much starts at number five with the Olsen Twins earning $17 million each, though they didn’t actually make any money of their career in movies but of their production and clothing company.

Hilary Duff is ranked 7th with an income of $12 million, Keira Knightley is 10th with $9 million, Scarlett Johansson is 12th with $5 million, Mischa Barton is 13th with $4.5 million, Dakota Fanning is 14th with $4 million, Emma Watson is 15th with $4 million, Miley Cyrus is 17th with $3.5 million, Lindsay Lohan is 18th with $3.5 million and Mandy Moore is 19th with $3.5 million.

I just wonder, how does Forbes know what they make? I am in no position to claim that they’re wrong but income is just something that people don’t really like to talk about. Endorsement deals are also something companies tend to be vague about.

Especially looking at the example of Miley Cyrus I think she actually make considerably more than $3.5 million. In her case I just think it’s hard to keep track of everything she makes money on, seeing she makes a cut of all Hannah Montana merchandise and there’s a lot of that stuff out there. I also think she makes a fair some of money of her fan site mileyworld.com, despite the negative press. They do mention her concert tour but it seems like they’re pushing that back to next year. Which is probably explained by the timing, if they don’t count November until next year then the number is probably quite realistic. For next year the number should go up quite a bit.

Lindsay Lohan proves that even with going to rehab twice, getting DUI’s and pretty much just messing up you can still make $3.5 million a year. Though that number might have been considerably higher if she had been in successful movies.

I would really like to know where they get their numbers though.

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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