‘Primetime’s Robert Pattinson Has Remade the Movie Star Formula

Between Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, and Tom Holland, 2026 has been a marquee year for many of Hollywood’s biggest names, with each star landing multiple totemic movies in the same calendar year. What connects them, besides fame and acclaim? Sharing screentime with Robert Pattinson, who is having perhaps the most stellar 2026 of all. Despite having already starred in and excelled in The Dramaand The Odyssey, the actor still has two wildly anticipated films on this year’s schedule: he is set to appear in the end-of-year’s most seismic cinematic event, Dune: Part Three, and at the end of September, Pattinson will officially make his case for an Academy Award for his buzzy performance as Chris Hansen in Lance Oppenheim‘s Primetime. We are watching the perfect blueprint of how to be a movie star in 2026 unroll in front of our eyes, and his success in parlaying his earlier mainstream success to elevate smaller projects should be the formula for future stars.