Why film stars are getting older - and what it tells us about Hollywood's new struggle

In an age of safe-bet franchises, reboots and sequels, young talent is being squeezed out of the limelight The movie star is dead. At least according to the group of disgruntled sales agents, production executives and Hollywood insiders that spoke to the industry paper Variety during the Cannes film festival. The argument goes that, while there are plenty of veteran stars still busily creaking out commercially tempting film fodder, there are precious few equivalently bankable talents from the ne...