Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner may be the youngest A-list actors in Hollywood, but the three are out-earning almost all of their peers! Vanity Fair released their list of the 40 highest earners in Hollywood last year and the Twilight trio finished at numbers 9, 13 and 15. The funny thing is that Taylor out-earned his costars and Kristen made more than boyfriend Rob!

Also laughing her way to the bank was Jennifer Aniston who, at number 18, out-earned both Angelina Jolie and ex hubby Brad Pitt!

James Cameron tops the list with a cool $257 million while Johnny Depp comes in second with a very distant, but in no way shabby, $100 million.

Take a look at some of the top earning actors below!

• 2. Johnny Depp — $100 million ($40 million Alice in Wonderland, $35 million Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, $20 million The Tourist, $5 million old film revenue)
• 5. Leonardo DiCaprio — $62 million ($59 million Inception, $3 million old film revenue)
• 7. Adam Sandler — $50 million ($25 million Just Go with It, $20 million Jack and Jill, $3 million Grown Ups, $2 million old film revenue)
• 9. Taylor Lautner — $33.5 million ($12.5 million The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, $12.5 million The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, $7.5 million Abduction, $1 million old film revenue)
• 10. Robert Downey Jr. — $31.5 million ($15 million Sherlock Holmes sequel, $12 Iron Man 2, $3.5 million Sherlock Holmes back-end, $1 million old film revenue)
• 11. Will Smith — $29 million ($20 million Men in Black III, $5.5 million The Karate Kid back-end, $3.5 million old film revenue)
• 13. Kristen Stewart — $28.5 million ($12.5 million The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, $12.5 million The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, $2.5 million On the Road, $1 million old film revenue)
• 15. Robert Pattinson — $27.5 million ($12.5 million The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, $12.5 million The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, $1.5 million Water for Elephants, $1 million old film revenue)
• 18. Jennifer Aniston — $24.5 million ($10 million Just Go with It, $8 million Wanderlust, $6 million Horrible Bosses, $500,000 old film revenue)
• 20. Nicolas Cage — $23.5 million ($7.5 million Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, $7 million Trespass, $6 million Drive Angry, $1 million The Croods, $2 million old film revenue)
• 21. Angelina Jolie — $23.5 million ($19 million The Tourist, $2.5 million untitled Bosnian-war drama, $1 million Kung Fu Panda 2, $1 million old film revenue)
• 22. Sandra Bullock — $22 million ($20 million The Blind Side back-end, $2 million old film revenue)
• 26. Owen Wilson — $19.5 million ($8 million Hall Pass, $8 million The Big Year, $2.5 million Cars 2, $1 million old film revenue)
• 27. Vince Vaughn — $18. 5 million ($17.5 million The Dilemma, $1 million old film revenue)
• 28. Daniel Craig — $18 million ($6 million Cowboys & Aliens, $6 million The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, $5 million Dream House, $1 million old film revenue)
• 29. Vin Diesel — $18 million ($15 million Fast Five, $3 million old film revenue)
• 30. Ben Stiller — $18 million ($15 million Tower Heist, $1 million The Big Year, $2 million old film revenue)
• 31. Steve Carell — $17.5 million ($15 million Crazy, Stupid, Love, $2.5 million old film revenue)
• 33. Katherine Heigl – $16 million ($15 million One for the Money, $1 million old film revenue)
• 34. Shia LaBeouf — $16 million ($15 million Transformers: Dark of the Moon, $1 million old film revenue)
• 35. Tom Cruise — $14.5 million ($12.5 million Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, $2 million old film revenue)
• 36. Reese Witherspoon — $14.5 million ($12 million This Means War, $2 million Water for Elephants, $500,000 old film revenue)
• 37. Hugh Jackman — $14 million ($9 million Real Steel, $2 million Butter, $1.5 million Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, $1.5 million old film revenue)
• 40. Eddie Murphy — $13 million ($7.5 million Tower Heist, $4 million Shrek Forever After, $1.5 million old film revenue)

This means Taylor managed to out-earn major stars including Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Will Smith — and he’s just 18-years-old! Also Kristen Stewart, at just 20, made more money than any other female actor in 2010. That is pretty impressive — and she certainly deserves it for all the hard work she does!

Who is your favorite top earner?

-Chris Spargo

Everything James Cameron touches becomes virtual movie magic. From Titanic to Avatar he’s got what it takes to win Oscar gold and is hoping to make Cleopatra his next blockbuster hit!

When you hear the name James Cameron, 56, you think A-list movie director. He has worked with the best in the business and has a knack for picking projects that rake in the big bucks. Next on his wish list? According to our sister side Deadline: Hollywood, it’s an adaptation of Cleopatra: The Life by Stacy Schiff. At the helm to play the Queen of the Nile is none other than Hollywood bombshell, humanitarian and mother of six, 35-year-old Angelina Jolie.

It’s the perfect role for Angelina who has expressed a deep interest in portraying one of the most famous women in all of history. This wouldn’t be the first time Angelina played a Queen. She took on the role of Queen Olympias in Alexander.

“I would be honored” to play Cleopatra in an upcoming new biopic,” she told reporters at the Salt premiere. “I haven’t done a historical epic of that nature and she’s always been fascinating to me because I feel like, as much of her story has been done big, it’s never been done accurately. But there’s a lot that would have to come together for that to work.”

With Angelina and James attached to the project, it is almost certain to do well in theaters. Nothing is set in stone yet, but we have a feeling it’ll will be a project we’ll continue to follow.

Aimee Curran

Little known fact: James Cameron and his wife stay green by making yogurt from the milk they get from their own goats! Check out his hands-on tutorial HERE!

We knew James Cameron was a talented director, but we never realized he could potentially have a career in stand-up comedy! The 55-year-old ‘Avatar‘ director confided to Hollywoodlife.com last night exactly how he and wife Suzy Amis maintain their green lifestyle….by milking goats!

“We have goats and the kids milk the goats. We make our own yogurt [and] milk,” James told us April 22 at the Global Home Tree VIP reception in Los Angeles, while simultaneously showing off his milking movements.

Watch the video to witness this Oscar-winning director showing off a goofy side of himself we’ve never seen before. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

–Kirstin Benson

–Reporting by Allison McNamara

After reading this list of the past year’s top earners… you might consider changing careers!

Parade has finally released its annual list of celebrity earnings from the past year, and it looks like Taylor Swift and Kristen Stewart both need to invest in bigger wallets! They each made more than $15 million — clearly it pays to be involved with Taylor Lautner — but which young starlet earned more?

It was a close race, but Taylor wins with $17.2 million against K-Stew’s very impressive $16 million. Come to think of it, this is a huge victory for Kristen. To make almost as much as Taylor, who’s been a hugely successful musician a lot longer than Kristen’s been a well-known actress, is quite a feat. Well done, K-Stew!

Here’s what other celebs took home in the past year, according to Parade:

1. Tiger Woods: $110 million
2. James Cameron: $50 million
3. Stephenie Meyer: $50 million
4. Ellen DeGeneres: $35 million
5. Jay Leno: $32 million
6. Johnny Depp: $25 million
7. Lindsey Vonn: $3 million
8. Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi: $2,200

Chin up, Snooki! You’re just getting started.

Do YOU think Justin should take his considerable talents to the big screen?

James Cameron, take note! Now that teen pop sensation Justin Bieber has already conquered the music world, he’s ready for a career in acting!

The 16-year-old dished to Barbara Walters on her weekly Sirius XM radio show, Here’s Barbara, that he’d “for sure” love to become an actor. “I’ve done some acting. I was on this TV movie called School Girls on Nickelodeon. And I was involved with True Jackson on Nickelodeon,” explained Justin, who just released his second album My World 2.0.

We’re totally on board with this whole acting thing (the more Bieber the better, right?) — but now all he needs is a fabulous leading lady! Any takers?

–Kirstin Benson

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While the fellas focused on football, the ladies piled into theaters for the romance drama starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried — in a big big way!

Who would have guessed the only thing to muscle Avatar from the top of the box office after 7 weeks, was sentimental tearjerker Dear John? The drama starring heartthrob Channing Tatum, 29, and Amanda Seyfried, 24, catapulted to the #1 spot with $32.4 million over the weekend, pushing Avatar down to #2 for the first time in nearly two months, with only $24 million.

Box office analysts agree, the focus on the Super Bowl left all those sports widows who weren’t slaving over 7-layer dip and hot wings to entertain themselves and that they did! The film, an adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel about a soldier who falls in love with a college student, had a built in female audience of nearly 84 percent with many of them under 21.

The long-distance love story may be at the top but don’t count out the James Cameron sci-fi epic, it still has legs and managed to crush the rest of the weekend’s competition including fresh release From Paris With Love, the John Travolta spy drama eeked out a paltry $8 million to round out the top 3.

Did you hang in and check out the big game or did you slip out for some romance with Channing and Amanda?

Get More on Channing & Amanda:

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Get excited! Avatar: 2 is definitely going to happen…and you can definitely expect a whole new slew of alien creatures to join the Na’vi

James Cameron may not know exactly when it’s going to happen, but he swears up and down that a sequel to his Golden Globe-winning science fiction flick, Avatar, is going to happen in the near future. Don’t sit around waiting with bated breath though — it took the 55-year-old director 14 years alone to make the first one a reality!

“We always planned there would be [a sequel] in a very broad sense,” James told HollywoodLife.com exclusively at the Producer’s Guild Awards in Los Angeles Jan. 24. “In fact,” he added, “we joked about it when we were making the movie. Every time we had a design or some creature we couldn’t figure out where to put, we’d say, ‘We’ll put it in the sequel.’ Or when the actors would say an idea we’d tell them to hang on to the idea to use in the sequel.”

Fun! New creatures? As long as they don’t go by the name Jar-Jar Binks, we’re totally on board.

Whether it was the booze, the tight quarters in the Beverly Hilton ballroom, or the LA rain, last night was full of OMG & TMI moments!

For sure the biggest zinger of the night, host Ricky Gervais mocked Mel Gibson‘s 2006 DUI arrest when he introduced Gibson as a presenter, saying, “I like a drink as much as the next man … except when the next man is Mel Gibson.”

By any measure, the biggest TMI moment was James Cameron making not one but two references to his bladder function. The first time was when he accepted the award for best director (“I have to take a leak something fierce”) and then he made yet another reference to peeing when he got the award for best picture.

Mariah Carey’s boobs. That’s all I had to say.

Taylor Lautner telling E!’s Giuliana Rancic that he loves the Olive Garden. Taylor, HollywoodLife loves you, but you’re a star now! Surely you could embrace PF Chang’s!

Back to Ricky Gervais: When he jabbed Paul McCartney about the reportedly $50 mil he paid out to ex-wife Heather Mills after their divorce,the crowd definitely had a “Whoa” moment.

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