Depp and 8 other stars who can't wait for 2013 to be over
USINFO | 2013-12-26 11:58
Think you've had a bad year? Well, you aren't alone. Some of Hollywood's biggest names have experienced 12 months of creative frustration they would prefer to completely forget. We've picked 10 of the most disheartening, but there is some good news around the corner for these famous faces. A number of these favorites are on track to completely turn things around in 2014. The others? Let's just remember 12 months is a long time in the entertainment bubble and anything can happen.
 
Review part of 2013's historic year in entertainment in the embedded story gallery below.

Naomi Watts

What sucked in 2013: Watts started the year off great. She earned her second Academy Award nomination for "The Impossible," what followed was not so great. A week after she got an Oscar boost, her mom/son/romance switching drama "Adore" earned horrible reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. In fact, HitFix even interviewed her in Park City about the film and you can certainly tell she wasn't thrilled to be there. She fared no better during the second half of the year when her Princess Diana biopic "Diana" earned even worse reviews than "Adore." The British drama was so bad it bombed on both sides of the Atlantic.

What could turn things around in 2014: Anything has to be better than 2013. Next year Watts appears opposite Melissa McCarthy and Bill Murray in "St. Vincent De Van Nuys," Alejandro González Iñárritu's comedy "Birdman" alongside Emma Stone and in Noah Baumbach's new dramedy "While We're Young" with Ben Stiller and Amanda Seyfried.


Johnny Depp

What sucked in 2013: Depp was taking a huge chance playing an American Indian let alone the traditional caricature Tonto in Gore Verbinski's "The Lone Ranger," but it turned out worse than he could have ever imagined. "Ranger" got terrible reviews - not that much of a shock - but Depp's starpower couldn't stop it from being one of Walt Disney Studio's worst financial performers in the past 5 years.

What could turn things around in 2014: Reuniting with Rob Marshall (eke!) for the musical "Into the Woods" and a key role in Wally Pfister's directorial debut "Transcendence." Oh yeah, he's also agreed to reprise his role as the Mad Hatter in "Alice in Wonderland 2." The later won't help his reputation, but could help his box office impact.
 


Will Smith

What sucked in 2013: Smith avoided all common sense and made a film with M. Night Shyamalan which also starred his son. "After Earth" turned out to be comically terrible and one of the biggest bombs of the year.

What could turn things around in 2014: Like a number of the stars on this list he made an end of movie cameo in "Anchorman 2" hoping that hyped comedy good karma might rub off on his own career (can't hurt). His next real role, however, is in Akiva Goldman's unseen dramatic fantasy "Winter's Tale." He's currently filming the comedy "Focus" from the directing team behind "Crazy, Stupid, Love."
 


Josh Brolin

What sucked in 2013: Poor Josh Brolin. Many of his choices seem like good ideas on paper, but then something inevitably goes wrong in production. In January, his period thriller "Gangster Squad" landed with a thud after a re-shoot delay because of the Aurora, Colorado shooting the summer before. In February, his personal life took a sad turn after he and his now former wife Diane Lane filed for divorce after almost 10 years of marriage. The split was official at the end of November at the exact same time is thriller "Oldboy," a remake of the original Korean cult classic, earned horrendous reviews and was one of the biggest bombs of the year. In September, his highly anticipated Jason Reitman thriller "Labor Day" earned mixed reviews at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals.

What could turn things around in 2014: "Labor Day," now out of the bubble of awards season (mostly), opens at the end of January. He stars in "Sin City A Dame to Kill For" in August and has a key role in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Inherent Vice" which is expected later this year. If "Vice" is half as good as any of Anderson's last two films Brolin may finally be on an upswing
 


Vince Vaughn

What sucked in 2013: Vaughn reunited with his "Wedding Crashers" co-star Owen Wilson for "The Internship" but whatever magic they once had on screen was replaced by tons of Google product placement. DreamWorks Studios by all accounts tried to make a quality flick with "Delivery Man," but audiences haven't wanted a story like this for almost a decade.

What could turn things around in 2014: Vaughn reprises his role as Wes Manstooth with a quick, but funny cameo in "Anchorman 2." He's also reuniting with his "Delivery Man" director for the indie "Business Trip" alongside Dave Franco and Sienna Miller. So, whether things will really turn around next year remains to be seen.
 


Ryan Reynolds

What sucked in 2013: Reynolds year actually didn't start off so bad. He voiced a character in the surprise DreamWorks Animation hit "The Croods." Fast forward four months later, however, and he had back to back bombs "R.I.P.D." (which even Universal dumped as much as you could for a July release) and DWA's "Turbo" (which was a huge miscalculation by the Katzenberg crew).

What could turn things around in 2014: Reynolds is looking for indie films to put his career back on track. He finished Atom Egoyan's thriller "The Captive" alongside Scott Speedman and Rosario Dawson; the comedy horror flick "The Voices" with Anna Kendrick and Gemma Arterton is in the can and will premiere at Sundance next month; and he's currently filming Tarsem Singh's "Selfless" which currently has a Feb 2014 release date.
 


Lilly Collins

What sucked in 2013: Collins has pretty much and a very up and down career, but 2013 was mostly down. Her two indies "Stuck In Love" and "The English Teacher" were barely seen upon limited released and she chose the wrong Young Adult franchise with the bomb "Mortal Instruments: City of Bones."

What could turn things around in 2014: Um, TBD. She's in the indie romance "Love, Rosie" alongside Sam Claflin, but it doesn't even have a U.S. distributor.
 


What sucked in 2013: This was supposed to be Carrey's comeback year. Boy was it not. Even with a cast featuring Steve Carell, Steve Buschemi, James Gandolfini and Olivia Wilde, "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" turned out to be one of the biggest comedy misfires of the decade. Carrey actually was fantastic as Colonel Stars and Stripes in "Kick-Ass 2," but the veteran comedy star not only scuttled his own participation in the action flick by disowning it due to violence concerns (overblown compared to many films in the rest of the marketplace), he effectively helped destroy a marketing and PR campaign Universal expected him to be a big part of.

What could turn things around in 2014: Like Vaughn and Smith, he also appears in the star-studded finale of "Anchorman 2." His big hope? The long awaited "Dumb and Dumber To" which a growing legion of fans have been waiting almost 20 years for.
 


Arnold Schwarzenegger

What sucked in 2013: Schwarzenegger decided to focus on returning to the big screen after completing two terms as governor of California. The past 12 months may have proved that wasn't such a smart idea. Outside of some unexpectedly positive reviews, January's "The Last Stand" came and went without much success at the box office. He re-joined "Expendables 2" captain Sylvester Stallone in October's "Escape Plan," but even Summit Entertainment that thriller had little chance of success.

What could turn things around in 2014: He's completed the horror flick "Maggie" with Abigail Breslin, but it doesn't even have a U.S. distributor at the moment. He appears alongside an intriguing cast in David Ayers' "Sabotage" this April and then returns for one last (we hope?) go around with the "Expendables 3" crew in August.
Of course, there's also that "Triplets" and "Legend of Conan" projects that were announced, but we'll believe those two movies are happening when the cameras actually start rolling.

 


 Shia LaBeouf

What sucked in 2013: Most of 2013 wasn't really that bad for LaBeouf on screen. Robert Redford's "The Company You Keep" was released in the Spring following a Toronto Film Festival debut the September before and did respectable art house numbers. "Charlie Countryman" was a huge dud at the box office, but the Sundance 2012 premiere was certainly a valiant effort for LaBeouf, the filmmaker and co-star Evan Rachel Wood to do something different. Where things really went bad was anytime he attempted to do anything offscreen. In February, he dropped out of the Broadway play "Orphans." He then shared his E-mails with the rest of the cast (who stayed) that were mostly plagiarized from Tom Chiarella's piece "What is a Man?" from Esquire in 2007. Things turned bizarrely worse over the past month when the former "Transformers" star became the center of another plagiarism scandal for his short "Howard Cantour.com" which was first seen at Cannes in 2012 and released online just a week ago. The problem is that the entire short seems to be lifted from Daniel Clowes' "Justin M. Damiano" 2007 comic book series and when LaBeouf apologized he seemed to be lifting his apology from an entry on Yahoo Answers. It's almost become a crash and burn of epic proportions.

What could turn things around in 2014: Well, LaBeouf appears in Lars von Triers' well-received "Nymphomaniac" which will be released in two parts in the U.S. in 2014. He's also close to finishing production on David Ayers' WWII tank action thriller "Fury" which also stars Brad Pitt and Logan Lerman. Needless to say, the events of the past week will make it difficult for any studio to want to put LaBeouf anywhere near the press or an open microphone for the foreseeable future. He'll have to hope the quality of his performances help the public slowly forget the 27-year-old's indiscretions.

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