Stewart, 22, and Pattinson, 26, are making their first appearance at Cannes with two gritty and hip films that could help them break out of the velvet coffin of the blockbuster “Twilight” franchise.
Stewart plays Marylou in the long-awaited movie version of Jack Kerouac’s classic “On the Road,”and Pattinson goes way against his usual good guy type in David Cronenberg’s sexy, violent “Cosmopolis”.
“I’m looking for more,” drawls a nude Pattinson, reclining below a half-naked woman pointing a gun at him in the ‘Cosmopolis’ trailer. “Flip the switch. Show me something I don’t know.”
The supercouple smackdown, which begins Tuesday with the premiere of Pitt’s new movie, “Killing Me Softly,” is already being speculated about breathlessly in the French tabloids.
"Les Robsten ou Les Brangelina: Who will win the Palme du Couple?" asks Adobuzz, a French entertainment news site. "Let the battle begin!"
To some Cannes regulars, the idea that the sullen Stewart and her once-secret boyfriend Pattinson could rival the majestic Jolie-Pitts is laughable. Sure, they’re a real-life couple who met on the set of a movie like Brad and Angelina, but there, say detractors, the comparison ends.
“Nobody can compete with Brange,” says Lainey Lui who writes the popular and snarky Lainey Gossip website. “Every journalist I know here is going to be up at the crack of dawn to make sure to get into the screening of Brad’s film and to track them all day long. Brad and Angelina play us all so well and they continue to play us. No one else can make their kind of headline. There just isn’t this level of excitement with Rob and Kristen.”
Or is there? Another school of thought suggests that the bloom is off the Jolie-Pitt gorgeous-globetrotting-philanthropic-superstar-parents-of-six brand and that Cannes is ripe for fresh blood like Robsten. The younger couple together earned $40 million between May 2010 and May 2011 compared to the Jolie-Pitts’ combined salary of $50 million, according to Forbes magazine – and Stewart alone made more money ($34 million) than either Brad or Angelina in the last 12 months.
"Kristen and Rob are hot on their heels and have a huge and much younger fan base that Brad and Angelina would kill for," says longtime British celebrity journalist Jen Paul who now edits the European entertainment news site Bohomoth.
"Kristen especially has a massive following. Even her bodyguard has a fan page.
thewrap via Kstewangel
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