It's A Girl Thing: Tween Queens and the Commodification of the Girl's Tween Market

A few years of research, thoughts and adjustments that all led to a completed film which, framed by the structure of a faux interactive website for tween girls, looks closely, and critically, at the tween market's evolution and the role of Disney and Nickelodeon's tween queens (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Miley Cryus, Miranda Cosgrove, Kiki Palmer, Selena Gomez, and more) in the market's explosion.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen Are Top Earners Under 21




Sisters Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen have topped Forbes magazine's first-ever "Hollywood's Top Earning Stars Under 21" list. The 20-year-old twins earned an estimated $40 million last year from their retail empire to beat Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe to the top of the new rich list.

Radcliffe, who is currently wowing theatre fans in London by baring all onstage in "Equus," earned an estimated $13 million in 2006 to come in second. Actresses Lindsay Lohan, Dakota Fanning and Amanda Bynes rounded out the top five on the new list.

Young Hollywood's Top Earners:

1. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
2. Daniel Radcliffe
3. Lindsay Lohan
4. Dakota Fanning
5. Amanda Bynes
6. Hayden Panettiere
7. Vanessa Anne Hudgens
8. Abigail Breslin
9. Tyler James Williams
10. Joanna "JoJo" Levesque

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