Audiences are more and more interested in action/cheap-thrill-packed sugar-coated blockbusters; that are upbeat and engaging without necessarily featuring award-winning recognizable movie stars and/or screenplays/story-lines.

This shows that most people care less about 'quality-acting/story-lines' and more about 'entertainment' (a bunch of standard funny quips/quirks/one-liners, explosions/jumps/stunts, a little comedic/touching-but-detached/reserved(no weeping or grand gestures) romance/family-love in the back-drop and a happy ending)

"In 2009, the biggest grossing films in America were, in this order, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (robots); Harry Potter and The Magically Dull Franchise (wizards); Up, a computer animated film about a computer-animated depressive; The Hangover (starring who?); and Star Trek (aliens). Then came The Twilight Saga: New Moon (vampires); Monsters vs Aliens (self-explanatory); Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (read the title, fool); X-Men Origins: Wolverine (superheroes); and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (computer-generated midgets and a real midget in Ben Stiller).

What do these films have in common? Credits? Cameras? Marketing budgets? Well, yes. But the interesting factor they share is: they either have no recognisable stars, or the stars who do appear are not the major selling point. These films are either cartoons, ready- packaged-and-sold sequels, or are peopled with relative unknowns. No one goes to Harry Potter to admire Michael Gambon's wig. Name the heroine of New Moon? No. You can't. "Bella" doesn't count."^[1]

1. ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/08/film-celebrity-wilting

Audiences are gripped by entertainment without the 'Britney spears' super star tag reeling them in.

With stars getting faker and faker(Porcelain/bleached/capped/crowned teeth, standard flat tummies & spray-on-tans are fairly customizable) it is easier to make stars(eye-candy) out of nobodies with/with-out talent.

What people want to see is engaging magical visuals, expensive entertainment, a celestial experience, grand massive explosions/eruptions/worlds; C.G.I game story-lines/formats not necessarily featuring superstar actors/acting.

And that is what they get to see.

Movie stars are getting more and more dispensable/replaceable. A star can be made just as soon as s/he can fall.

Low-budget means lower pay for big actors but actors need to be onscreen to continue making money which means to survive they'll have to compromise on salaries and be less selective on scripts. Everyone wants to be an actor, the market is getting fairly competitive and big stars always fade with age and time in this business.

The real power is in Production/Direction/now-writing/Companies/Casting-crews/Studios/paparazzi/Tri-star/Pixar/Turner classic/universal studios/Walt Disney and the rest.