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{{quote|''"Would it have been faster to say who ''isn't'' in this movie? Jesus, it's like the [[Super Smash Bros.]] of Hollywood!"''
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Any show, movie, etc., where the majority of the lead roles are played by name actors. They don't have to be A list. B, C, and even D will do, although in that case, relying on their talents is preferable to relying on their names. If the character list is ''[[Loads and Loads of Characters|really]]'' big, this can spill over into supporting roles as well.

In the days of the studio system, this was easy to do, but once actors' salaries started rising, this practice gradually declined. Compare the casts at the beginning of the [[Disaster Movie]] Era with those at the end of it.

These days, you'd either need a lot of money to pull this off, convince the actors that this is just a fun breather film or be willing to settle for loads of [[cameo]]s. The exception is animated films, where stars are willing to get paid a lot less just to do voice work.

A good way of being able to tell if it is an all star cast is by an examination of the theatrical poster, if it has more than five names listed on it it is usually ''big'' names.

Compare [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]], [[Celebrity Voice Actor]], [[Dream Team]].

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* The Cornelius Ryan books ''[[The Longest Day]]'' and ''[[A Bridge Too Far]]'' both became films with all-star casts:
** ''[[The Longest Day]]'' (1962) - Paul Anka, Richard Burton, Red Buttons, [[Sean Connery]] (pre-Bond, and a very small role), Mel Ferrer, Henry Fonda, Leo Genn, Jeffrey Hunter, Alexander Knox, Roddy McDowall, Sal Mineo, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, George Segal, Rod Steiger, Richard Todd,<ref>who's actually playing the Captain he served under on D-Day</ref> Robert Wagner (again, pre-fame) and [[John Wayne]], in addition to a number of French and German/Austrian actors who were already household names in their own countries, including future Bond villains Gerd "Goldfinger" Frobe and Curd "Stromberg" Jürgens.
** ''[[A Bridge Too Far]]'' (1977) - Dirk Bogarde, [[James Caan]], [[Michael Caine]], [[Sean Connery]], Edward Fox, Elliot Gould, Gene Hackman, [[Anthony Hopkins]], Hardy Krüger, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford, [[Laurence Olivier]], Maximilan Schell, Liv Ullmann, Denholm Elliott and minor roles for John Ratzenberger and Garrick "Biggs"
* ''How The West Was Won'': [[Jimmy Stewart]], Karl Malden, Debbie Reynolds, [[Gregory Peck]], Henry Fonda, Lee J Cobb, Carroll Baker, George Peppard, [[John Wayne]], Richard Widmark, just to name a few.
* ''[[Ocean's 11]]'', its [[Ocean's Eleven|remake]], and the Steven Soderbergh-directed sequels.
* ''[[It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]''. The tagline was "Everybody who's ever been funny is in it!"
* ''[[Rat Race]]''.
* ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' features, among others: [[Samuel L. Jackson]], [[John Travolta]], [[Uma Thurman]], [[Bruce Willis]], Ving Rhames, Eric Stoltz, Harvey Keitel and [[Christopher Walken]].
* The 1964 film ''The Yellow Rolls-Royce'' featured [[Ingrid Bergman]], Rex Harrison, [[Shirley MacLaine]], Omar Sharif, Alain Delon, Art Carney, George C. Scott and Jeanne Moreau.
* ''[[The Towering Inferno]]''
* ''[[The Poseidon Adventure]]''
* Many Muppet films from ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'' onwards have a variation: the Muppets themselves are the stars, but most of the human supporting characters and cameos are name performers. And the first three films even work in cameos from ''[[Sesame Street]]'' characters!
* The ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'' movies got gradually more into this as they went on, until the [[Continuity Reboot]].
* ''[[Dark Knight Trilogy]]'' became probably the best modern use of this. Like Pixar, he was concerned with casting talent over name. It just happened that a lot of the talent cast were seasoned name actors. Scarecrow and Two-Face probably had the least famous actors cast in the major roles, but again, it was their talent.
* Likewise, the ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'' films. Easier to do than Batman due to [[Loads and Loads of Characters]].
* ''[[Asterix]] at the Olympic Games'' had many name actors (in addition to cameos by various sports stars, and quite a big role for Michael Schumacher), and some critics say, nothing else.
* Most adaptations of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', in part because there are so many characters to work with and most don't appear onscreen for extended periods of time.
* ''Bobby'': Harry Belafonte, Emilio Estevez (also directed), [[Laurence Fishburne]], [[Heather Graham]], [[Anthony Hopkins]], Helen Hunt, Ashton Kutcher, [[Shia LaBeouf]], [[Lindsay Lohan]], William H. Macy, [[Demi Moore]], Sharon Stone, Nick Cannon, [[Christian Slater]], [[Martin Sheen]], Joshua Jackson and [[Elijah Wood]].
* Several [[Agatha Christie]] adaptations, such as ''[[Murder on the Orient Express]]'' (1974).
* Murder mystery spoofs ''Murder by Death'' and ''[[Clue (film)|Clue]]'' had starry casts of their own.
* ''[[Casino Royale 1967]]''.
* ''The Greatest Story Ever Told'' (1965) is an interesting case: most of the A and B-list actors are in supporting and cameo roles, many because they asked to be in the film in some capacity. Most infamously, [[John Wayne]] [[Narm|appears as a Roman centurion at the crucifixion.]]
* ''[[Gosford Park]]'' has quite an impressive cast: [[Harry Potter (film)|Dame Maggie Smith]], [[Harry Potter (film)|Michael Gambon]], [[The English Patient|Kristin Scott Thomas]], [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Tom Hollander]], [[Emma|Jeremy Northam]], [[A Mighty Wind|Bob Balaban]], [[Cruel Intentions|Ryan Phillippe]], [[Stephen Fry]], [[Kelly Macdonald]], [[King Arthur|Clive Owen]], Dame [[Helen Mirren]], [[Cranford|Eileen Atkins]], [[Equilibrium|Emily Watson]], [[Hamlet|Alan Bates]], [[Richard E. Grant]], and Sir [[Derek Jacobi]]. And those are just SOME of the characters.
* In a slight inversion of this, the main characters of ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'' included Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Eli Wallach and Robert Vaughan—but at the time the film was made, only Yul Brynner was really an established star.
* ''[[The Great Escape]]'', starring Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn. Oh and of course Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasence, James Garner and many more...
* Just about every adult in the ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' films is played by a renowned British character actor. Try to find a decently-budgeted, British movie made within the last twenty years which ''doesn't'' include at least one actor who appeared in the ''Potter'' series. In fact, actor [[Bill Nighy]] once quipped that the reason he cameo'd as Rufus Scrimgeour in the sixth film was that he didn't want to be the only actor in England to not appear in a ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' film.
* Several pop/rock musicals of the 1970s went out of their way to bring in as many music and/or movie stars as possible, even if many of them only got one song/scene as a result: see ''Tommy'', ''Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'', and ''The Wiz''.
* ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' plays this trope for blues musicians.
* To most of the world, Baz Luhrman's ''[[Australia (2008 film)|Australia]]'' stars [[Nicole Kidman]] and [[Hugh Jackman]], supported by a bunch of nobodies. Inside Australia itself, it is considered an amazing star-studded extravaganza, where even tiny roles are filled by locally-renowned stars such as Bruce Spence and John Jarrat.
* Many British costume dramas fulfil this trope to the letter, though occasionally the names are unknown in Hollywood but considered major stars in Britain.
** The 2005 version of ''Bleak House'' starred, among others, Gillian Anderson, Denis [[Star Wars|"Wedge Antilles"]] Lawson, Charles Dance, Alun Armstrong, Pauline Collins, Ian Richardson and Anne Reid.
** The 1995 version of ''Pride and Prejudice'' has [[Colin Firth]], Alison Steadman, Julia Sawalha and Emilia Fox.
** The 2007 ''[[Cranford]]'' has Dame [[Judi Dench]], Simon Woods, Michael Gambon, Imelda Staunton, Julia Sawalha, Philip Glenister and Eileen Atkins.
* ''[[True Romance]]'' manages to cram [[Christian Slater]], Patricia Arquette, [[Brad Pitt]], Dennis Hopper, [[Christopher Walken]], [[Gary Oldman]], Val Kilmer, and Tom Sizemore into its cast, with James Gandolfini, [[Samuel L. Jackson]], [[Saul Rubinek]], Chris Penn, and Bronson Pinchot playing backup.
* Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare films:
** ''[[Hamlet]]'' threw in a bunch of [[Flash Back|flashbacks]] and [[Imagine Spot|imagine spots]] in order to have more parts to cast stars in. Apart from Branagh himself: [[Derek Jacobi]], Julie Christie, [[Kate Winslet]], Timothy Spall, Billy Crystal, [[Robin Williams]], [[Brian Blessed]], Gerard Depardieu, John Gielgud, [[Judi Dench]], Charlton Heston, Jack Lemmon, and Sir Richard Attenborough.
** ''Much Ado About Nothing'' has (besides Branagh himself) Emma Thompson, [[Denzel Washington]], Michael Keaton, [[Keanu Reeves]], Robert Sean Leonard, and [[Brian Blessed]].
** ''Henry V'' has [[Derek Jacobi]], [[Judi Dench]], Emma Thompson, Robert Stephens, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm, [[Christian Bale]] and [[Brian Blessed]].
* The remake of ''[[The Stepford Wives]]''.
* ''[[Mars Attacks!]]!'' is an almost ridiculous example. [[Jack Nicholson]], Glenn Close, Annette Benning, [[Pierce Brosnan]], Danny De Vito, Martin Short, [[Sarah Jessica Parker]], [[Michael J. Fox]], Rod Steiger, Tom Jones as himself, Jim Brown, Lucas Haas, [[Natalie Portman]], Sylvia Sidney, [[Pam Grier]], [[Jack Black]], Paul Winfield, Christina Applegate, Joe Don Baker, [[Frank Welker]] voicing the Martians.
* ''[[Love Actually]]'' has been described as heaven for Anglophiles.
* Suprisingly, both of the [[Steve Martin]] ''[[Pink Panther]]'' films are dripping with name talent: Martin himself, Kevin Kline, [[John Cleese]], Andy Garc? Lily Tomlin, Jean Reno, Beyonce Knowles... in fact love interest Nicole Nuveau is probably the only major character played by a non-name.
* Paul Thomas Anderson's earlier movies. ''Boogie Nights'' and ''[[Magnolia]]'' both feature large casts with lots of big names. Some of the supporting players (John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle, and most notably Phillip Seymour Hoffman) have even become bankable (or at the very least, highly respected) leading men since.
* ''Basquiat'': Jeffrey Wright, Benicio Del Toro, [[Gary Oldman]], Dennis Hopper, Willem Dafoe, David Bowie (as [[Andy Warhol]]!), Claire Forlani, [[Christopher Walken]], Courtney Love, [[Parker Posey]], and Tatum O'Neal. For the character-actor inclined among us, there's also Michael Wincott, Rockets Redglare, Michael Badalucco and a cameo from pre-name Sam Rockwell.
* [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s ''[[Bram Stoker's Dracula|Bram Stokers Dracula]]'' does sport an amazing array of big names. [[Gary Oldman]] as the Count is just the tip of the iceberg. [[Anthony Hopkins]] plays vampire slayer Van Helsing, with [[Winona Ryder]] as Mina Harker, and [[Keanu Reeves]] as Jonathan Harker (a part that Coppola planned to give [[Johnny Depp]] before the studio intervened). The supporting cast has Cary Elwes, [[Tom Waits]], [[Richard E. Grant]], Billy Campbell, and a brief appearance by a VERY nude [[Monica Bellucci]].
* Subverted by time, but in 1983, ''The Outsiders'' was a pretty big deal, what with C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, [[Tom Cruise]], [[Leif Garrett]], Tom Waits, a twelve year-old Sofia Coppola, S.E. Hinton herself as a nurse and Diane Lane as Cherry Valance!
* The movie adaptation of the musical ''[[Nine (theatre)|Nine]]'': The lead male role was originally offered to Javier Bardem, who turned it down and was subsequently replaced by Daniel Day-Lewis, thus providing perhaps the only instances were NOT putting Javier Bardem in your movie was the better choice. It also stars [[Marion Cotillard]], [[Penélope Cruz]], [[Judi Dench]], [[Nicole Kidman]], Kate Hudson, Sophia Loren, and... Stacy Ferguson of the [[Black Eyed Peas]] (aka Fergie).
* The ''Scream'' movies certainly count, particularly the second one, which features performances by Jada Pinkett-Smith, Omar Epps, Liev Schreiber, Courtney Cox, [[Sarah Michelle Gellar|Buffy Summers]] herself, David Arquette, Timothy Olyphant, Portia de Rossi, and of course Jamie Kennedy.
* ''Scream 3'' has well known actors in even the relatively small roles (Carrie Fisher, Patrick Dempsey, Lance Hendrikson, [[Kevin Smith]], Parker Posey, Jenny McCarthy, [[Patrick Warburton]]) along side the already star-studded main cast.
* And then there's ''The Shootist''. When word got out that [[John Wayne]] was doing what everyone assumed would be his final movie, people were nearly begging for parts. Wayne personally selected [[Lauren Bacall]] for the female lead, with Ron Howard and [[Jimmy Stewart]] in the two main supporting roles. Presumably the director was too scared of John Carradine to ask him to leave. Harry Morgan shows up for two scenes, Scatman Crothers for one. Richard Boone and Hugh O'Brian were also smuggled onto the set. Ricky Nelson is also shown briefly in flashback (actually a clip from a previous film).
* ''[[Robin Hood]]: Prince of Thieves''. * Deep breath* [[Kevin Costner]], [[Morgan Freeman]], [[Alan Rickman]], [[Christian Slater]], Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael McShane. Less highly billed were [[Brian Blessed]], Michael Wincott, and [[Sean Connery]] (in a cameo that [[One-Scene Wonder|stole the movie]]).
* The ''[[Night at the Museum]]'' films.
* ''[[Mamma Mia!]]!'' starred [[Meryl Streep|Sophie Zawistowska]], [[James Bond]], [[Harry Potter (film)|Molly Weasley]], [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Bootstrap Bill Turner]] and [[Pride and Prejudice|Mr Darcy]].
* ''[http://rinkworks.com/movieaminute/m/thinredline.shtml The Thin Red Line]'', because Terrence Malick spent 20 years away, and almost any male in Hollywood wanted to be a part of his new movie. Many (Gary Oldman, Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Sheen...) even had to be cut!
* ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' has many famous faces, and others who became famous after the movie (such as [[Vin Diesel]], [[Lost|Daniel Faraday]], and [[Firefly|Malcolm Reynolds]]).
* ''[[Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme]]'' is practically filled with name talent, most of them in cameos: Shelley Duvall (the female lead), Cyndi Lauper, Bobby Brown, Woody Harrelson, Little Richard, Howie Mandel, Cheech Marin... In fact, protagonist Gordon seems to be the only major character to be played by a nobody (albeit in a role that was turned down by Jim Varney).
* ''[[The Expendables]]'': [[Sylvester Stallone]], [[Jason Statham]], [[Jet Li]], Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]], [[Dolph Lundgren]], [[Randy Couture]], Terry Crews, [[Charisma Carpenter]], and cameos by [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] and [[Bruce Willis]]. Most of the trailers didn't even show any hint of the premise - [[Rated "M" for Manly|listing the male leads with brief shots of them in action was enough]]. The sequel will include [[Chuck Norris]], [[Jean-Claude Van Damme]] and Liam Hemsworth.
* The ''[[Hairspray]]'' musical movie. [[High School Musical|Zac Efron]], [[Christopher Walken]], [[John Travolta]], [[The Amanda Show|Amanda Bynes]], [[Queen Latifah]], [[Batman Returns|Michelle Pfeiffer]], [[Enchanted|James Marsden]]... in short, every major character, with the ironic exception of the main charcter, played by Nikki Blonsky.
* ''[[Anaconda]]'', with Jon Voight, Owen Wilson, [[Jennifer Lopez]], Ice Cube, Eric Stoltz, Kari Wuhrer, and a cameo by Danny Trejo, with only one or two other actors in the whole thing.
* If music videos are eligible, then [[Michael Jackson]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3V-7DEAgdc "Liberian Girl"] which was literally just all his famous friends walking around a set talking and waiting for Michael to show up to the video shoot while the song plays in the background. That's the whole point.
* [[Johnny Cash]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlN9jdQFSc "God's Gonna cut You Down"].
* The little known superhero move ''[[The Meteor Man]]'' features a wide list of famous African-American actors.
* The 1994 remake of ''[[The Little Rascals]]'' showcased tons of cameos of well known child and adult actors.
* [[Kevin Smith]]'s ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'' certainly counts. Not counting Jason Mewes and [[Kevin Smith]], you have Shannon Elizabeth, [[Eliza Dushku]], [[Will Ferrell]], [[Ali Larter]], [[George Carlin]], Chris Rock, Jamie Kennedy, [[Mark Hamill]], Carrie Fisher, Deidrich Bader, Alanis Morrissette, Seann William Scott, [[Judd Nelson]], Jason Biggs, James Van Der Beek, [[The Daily Show|Jon Stewart]], Tracy Morgan, directors Gus Van Sant and [[Wes Craven]], Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson returning as Dante and Randal from ''[[Clerks]]'', Adam Corolla cameos in a deleted scene, and Jason Lee, [[Ben Affleck]] AND [[Matt Damon]] all pulling double duty. Hell, Marvel Editor-In-Chief [[Joe Quesada]] even cameos as a horny pizza delivery guy!
* ''[[Black Hawk Down]]'': [[Josh Hartnett]], Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana, William Fichtner, [[Sam Shepard]], Jason Isaacs, Orlando Bloom, [[Tom Hardy]].
* Possibly because it's a [[Biopic]] incorporating several [[Real Life]] all-stars, ''The Life and Death of [[Peter Sellers]]'' had [[Geoffrey Rush]] in the title role, with [[Emily Watson]](as Sellers' first wife), [[Charlize Theron]](as Britt Ekland), Stanley Tucci(as [[Stanley Kubrick]]), John Lithgow(as Blake Edwards), [[Stephen Fry]](as a medium Sellers frequently consulted), and Miriam Margolyes(as Sellers' mother) in the key supporting parts. Steve Pemberton and Edward Tudor-Pole had minor roles as his fellow [[The Goon Show|Goons]], and Heidi Klum appeared in a cameo (as Ursula Andress).
* A New York production of ''[[The Seagull]]'' featured [[Meryl Streep]] as Irina, Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Konstantin, [[Natalie Portman]] as Nina, Kevin Kline as Trigorin, [[Christopher Walken]] as Sorin, Marcia Gay Harden as Masha, Stephen Spinella as Medviedenko, Debra Monk as Polina, John Goodman as Shamraev and Morena Baccarin was Nina's understudy.
* ''[[Glengarry Glen Ross]]'' features Jack Lemmon, [[Al Pacino]], Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, and Jonathan Pryce. Every single actor is a name.
* The HBO miniseries version of ''[[Angels in America]]'', with (among others) [[Al Pacino]], [[Meryl Streep]], Patrick Wilson, Jeffrey Wright, and Emma Thompson.
* ''Species'': Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker, Marg Helgenberger, and a very young Michelle Williams.
* The 1956 film version of ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'' featured David Niven and [[Shirley MacLaine]] in the lead roles, and many cameos by celebrities, such as Marlene Dietrich, [[Buster Keaton]], [[Peter Lorre]], Edward R. Murrow, Cesar Romero and [[Frank Sinatra]]. This was back when [[The Cameo|cameo appearances]] were still a big deal.
* The 1942 anthology film ''Tales of Manhattan'' features Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, [[Charles Laughton]], Edward G. Robinson, Elsa Lanchaster and Cesar Romero.
* The underknown British gangster flick ''The Hit'' stars [[John Hurt]] and Terrance Stamp, features Jim Broadbent in small role, and marks the first film role of [[Tim Roth]], who received a BAFTA nomination for Most Outstanding Newcomer to Film.
* ''Judgement At Nuremberg''. Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, [[Hogan's Heroes|Werner Klemperer]], [[Judy Garland]], [[William Shatner]], and Montgomery Clift.
* ''[[Troy]]''. Orlando Bloom, [[Brad Pitt]], Eric Bana, Brian Cox, Brendan Gleeson, Sean Bean, and Peter O'Toole. Seriously, it's incredible the star power in it.
* The 1995 adaptation of ''[[Sense and Sensibility (film)|Sense and Sensibility]]'', starring such British powerhouses as [[Emma Thompson]], [[Alan Rickman]], [[Kate Winslet]], Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Greg Wise, Imelda Staunton, and [[Hugh Laurie]].
* ''[[Armageddon]]'' : [[Bruce Willis]], [[Ben Affleck]], [[Liv Tyler]], Billy Bob Thornton, Owen Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan, [[Steve Buscemi]], [[Keith David]] and William Fitchner.
* ''[[Hook]]'': [[Robin Williams]], [[Dustin Hoffman]], [[Julia Roberts]], and Bob Hoskins in the major roles. Dame Maggie Smith has a minor role. Phil Collins, a [[Retroactive Recognition|then-unknown]] named Gwyneth Paltrow, David Crosby, and Glenn Close (in drag) make cameos, while [[George Lucas]], Carrie Fisher, and [[Jimmy Buffett]] play extras.
* The 2010 film ''Valentine's Day'' has Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, [[Julia Roberts]], [[Shirley MacLaine]], Kathy Bates, [[Jessica Alba]], Jessica Biel, [[Taylor Lautner]], [[Taylor Swift]], [[Anne Hathaway]], Bradley Cooper, and about a dozen more.
* ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' parodied this in its script, while playing it straight with the casting. [[Ben Stiller]], [[Jack Black]], [[Robert Downey, Jr.]]., Nick Nolte, Matthew McConaghey and [[Tom Cruise]] all had a great time lampooning the things that go along with this.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. [[Christopher Lee]], [[Cate Blanchett]], [[Hugo Weaving]], [[Orlando Bloom]], [[Sean Bean]], [[Ian McKellen]], John Rhys-Davies, [[Liv Tyler]], plus a reboot for Sean Astin. Oh, plus actors like Elijah Wood and Viggo Mortensen, who became A-list after the movie.
* The 1982 film adaptation of ''[[Annie]]'' cast its net wide for stage and screen stars to fill the adult roles: Carol Burnett as Miss Hannigan, Albert Finney as Oliver Warbucks, Ann Reinking as Grace, [[Tim Curry]] as Rooster, Bernadette Peters as Lily, and Edward Herrmann as FDR (who had already played that president in two acclaimed TV movies in the late 1970s).
* ''[[The Prestige]]'' is headed by Hugh Jackman, [[Christian Bale]], Michael Caine, Scarlett Johannson, Andy Serkis and David Bowie.
* ''[[The Departed]]'': [[Leonardo DiCaprio]], [[Matt Damon]], [[Jack Nicholson]], [[Mark Wahlberg]], [[Martin Sheen]], Alec Baldwin.
* ''[[Infernal Affairs]]'' contains an star-studded cast of Hong Kong actors, with [[Tony Leung]], [[Andy Lau]], Anthony Wong, and Eric Tsang.
* Jamie Foxx's video for "Blame It On the Goose" both parodies this with its opening it and plays it straight when you realize just [[wikipedia:Blame It#Music video|how many famous people]] are in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfjtpp90lu8 video.]
* ''SD Gundam Generation Wars'' has almost every Gundam Voice Actor reprising a role for an original character. From the somewhat obscure to a well known Gundam character.
* [[Uwe Boll]]'s versions of ''[[BloodRayne (film)|Blood Rayne]]'' and ''[[Dungeon Siege]]''. Sadly, neither achieved the same goal as the rest of the movies listed here.
* The [[Continuity Reboot]] of the ''[[Spyro the Dragon]]'' series actually billed itself on its name talent, which included people like Elijah Wood, Gary Oldman, David Spade and Wayne Brady in its primary roles. Even the minor roles tended to be filled with well-known (among voice acting afficionados) cartoon voice actors.
* ''[[Iron Man]]'': [[Robert Downey, Jr.]]., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow and [[Jeff Bridges]] star in the first. Don Cheadle (replacing Howard), Scarlett Johannson, Sam Rockwell, Garry Shandling and Mickey Rourke star in the second—oh, and there's Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. This film series has the highest Academy Award count for any superhero cast.
** And considering how Marvel Studios built up the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] this way, this was inevitable for ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]''. Specifically it added Stellan Skarsgard, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Cobie Smulders, Chris Hemsworth and [[Tom Hiddleston]] to the mix. It's worth mentioning that the star power of several of them was created through appearing in the earlier Marvel films though.
* The 1978 ''[[Superman (film)|Superman]]''. Apart from the stars, there's Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford and Phyllis Thaxter, as the Kents. Susannah York, a pretty well-known British name in the '70's as his Mom. And of course, in perhaps the biggest cameo ever, [[Marlon Brando]] as his Dad, along with another cameo by Terrence Stamp as General Zod. Quite a few of these actors have received Oscar nominations.
* Anime example: ''[[Saki (manga)|Saki]]'', where majority of the seiyuu are well-known and are in a "higher tier" in terms of popularity and skill. Famous seiyuu in ''[[Saki (manga)|Saki]]'' include: [[Rie Kugimiya]], [[Shizuka Itou]], [[Jun Fukuyama]], [[Kana Ueda]], [[Ami Koshimizu]], [[Yui Horie]], [[Minori Chihara]], [[Daisuke Ono]], [[Mai Nakahara]], [[Natsuko Kuwatani]], [[Ryoko Shiraishi]], [[Yuu Kobayashi]], and [[Ryoko Shintani]].
* ''[[Queen's Blade]]'', where every female character is voiced by someone famous eg.RieKugimiya, [[Mamiko Noto]], [[Aya Hirano]]. Someone at the Anime News Network forum even described it as "its like having all the A-list Hollywood Actress starring in a porn film".
* The translation of ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'', with Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Keith David, Minnie Driver, Jada Pinkett Smith and Billy Bob Thornton
* ''Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre'' featured many well-known actors and actresses. There's [[Robin Williams]], Eric Idle, Paul Reubens, Mick Jagger, Howie Mandel, Peter Weller, Billy Crystal, and Vincent Price, to name a few. Directors of individual episodes included Francis Ford Coppola and [[Tim Burton]].
* ''[[The Quick and the Dead]]''. It's damn full of stars, including Sharon Stone as the lead, Gene Hackman as the [[Big Bad]], then [[Russell Crowe]], Lance Henriksen, [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] and Keith David.
* ''[[Inception]]'': [[Leonardo DiCaprio]], [[Elliot Page]], [[Marion Cotillard]], [[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]], [[Michael Caine]], [[Cillian Murphy]], [[Ken Watanabe]], and [[Tom Hardy]].
* The movie adaptation of ''[[RED]]'': [[Bruce Willis]], [[Morgan Freeman]], Mary-Louise Parker, [[John Malkovich]], John C. Reilly, James Remar, [[Helen Mirren]], Julian McMahon, Brian Cox, [[Ernest Borgnine]], Karl Urban and Richard Dreyfuss.
* [[The First Wives Club]]. Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Stockard Channing, Sarah Jessica Parker, Heather Locklear, Bronson Pinchot, [[Alias (TV series)|Victor Garber]], [[7th Heaven|Stephen Collins]], [[Harry Potter (film)|Maggie Smith]], Marcia Gay Harden and [[Showgirls|Elizabeth Berkeley}}]].
* ''[[Grown Ups]]'' starring [[Adam Sandler]], Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, Kevin James, David Spade, Salma Hayek and Maya Rudolph.
* A lot of Oliver Stone's movies: ''[[Platoon]]'', ''[[Wall Street]]'', ''JFK'', ''[[Nixon]]'', ''[[W]]'', ''[[Natural Born Killers]]'', ''U Turn'', ''Any Given Sunday'', ''Alexander'', ''World Trade Center'', and ''[[Wall Street|Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps]]''. Stone's films collaborators have included: [[Charlie Sheen]], Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, [[Michael Douglas]], [[Martin Sheen]], [[Kevin Costner]], [[Joe Pesci]], [[Tommy Lee Jones]], Sissy Spacek, [[Kevin Bacon]], Woody Harrelson, [[Juliette Lewis]], [[Robert Downey, Jr.]]., [[Anthony Hopkins]], James Woods, Joan Allen, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Sorvino, Ed Harris, Sam Waterston, E.G. Marshall, Larry Hagman, [[Sean Penn]], Billy Bob Thornton, Nick Nolte, [[Al Pacino]], Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, [[LL Cool J]], Colin Farrell, [[Angelina Jolie]], [[Nicolas Cage]], Maria Bello, [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]], Josh Brolin, James Cromwell, Elizabeth Banks, Richard Dreyfuss, [[Thandie Newton]], Jeffrey Wright, [[Shia LaBeouf]], [[Carey Mulligan]], and Frank Langella.
* The documentary ''America: The Story of the U.S.'' interviewed various celebrities from [[Meryl Streep]] to Bill Gates to Brian Williams to the co-founder of Wikipedia.
* [[Sneakers]] , to an almost ridiculous extent. Robert Redford as the lead, Ben Kingsley as the [[Anti-Villain]], and a supporting cast featuring [[Sidney Poitier]], [[Dan Aykyroyd]] , David Straithairn, Mary McDonnell, and River Phoenix—plus a [[One-Scene Wonder]] appearance by [[James Earl Jones]].
* The ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series sports an impressive cast, featuring Haley Joel Osment, David Gallagher, Hayden Panettiere, Jesse McCartney, Brittany Snow, [[Christopher Lee]], [[Leonard Nimoy]] and [[Mark Hamill]]. And that's not even getting into the crossover characters.
* ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' has roughly as many famous British and Irish actors as the average [[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]] movie (indeed, with much crossover between them). Throw in Peter Jackson and Cate Blanchett for good measure.
* ''[[Waiting to Exhale]]'', starring Whitney Houston, Lela Rochon, Angela Bassett, and Loretta Devine. Also features Dennis Haysbert, Gregory Hines, and Wesley Snipes (in an uncredited role). Also directed by Forest Whitaker.
* ''Shanghai'', which features a mix of big-name actors from both Hollywood and Asian cinema, including John Cusack, Chow Yun Fatt, Gong Li, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Franka Potente and David Morse.
* ''Yellowbeard'' (1983), a pirate comedy, had [[Monty Python|Graham Chapman]] in the title role, and a colorful lineup of comic and character actors supporting him: in alphabetical order, Peter Boyle, Cheech & Chong, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Marty Feldman, Michael Hordern, Eric Idle, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, James Mason, Spike Milligan, and Beryl Reid. ''And'' an unbilled cameo by  {{spoiler|David Bowie}}!
* ''[[The Faculty]]'', a strange example. Several of the adults were already well-known at the time (making a mini All Star Cast), although most of the students were relatively unknown at that point. Many in the cast have [[Retroactive Recognition|gone on to bigger and better things]]. The names include: Elijah Wood, [[The Daily Show|Jon Stewart]], Robert Patrick, [[Josh Hartnett]], [[Usher]] Raymond, [[Salma Hayek]], [[Famke Janssen]], Daniel von Bargen, Piper Laurie, [[Bebe Neuwirth]], Christopher McDonald, Jordana Brewster, Clea Duvall, [[Laura Harris]]...
* Most, if not all of [[Tyler Perry]]'s movies, have quite a bit of stars in them, even if they are just cameo roles.
* The 1988 comedy ''[[Working Girl]]'' has an All-Star Cast retroactively. The only big stars in the film at the time were [[Harrison Ford]] and [[Sigourney Weaver]], but the movie also has Melanie Griffith, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Oliver Platt, David Duchovny, Ricki Lake, Olympia Dukakis, and ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' alumna Joan Cusack and Nora Dunn, in roles of varying size.
* ''Machete'' We got Danny Trejo, [[Steven Seagal]], [[Robert De Niro]], Michelle Rodriguez, [[Jessica Alba]], Jeff Fahey, Don Johnson, Cheech Marin and [[Lindsay Lohan]].
* ''The Raven'': [[Vincent Price]] and [[Peter Lorre]] battle [[Boris Karloff]]. [[Retroactive Recognition|Retroactively]], [[Peter Lorre]]'s son is [[Jack Nicholson]]. This being a [[Roger Corman]] film, that's literally a 40% star cast.
* ''[[Eve's Bayou]]'' has [[Samuel L. Jackson]], Lynn Whitfield and Meagan Good in starring roles, as well as minor roles for Diahann Carroll and Victoria Rowell.
* ''[[Outbreak]]'' is [[Dustin Hoffman]] - assisted by Cuba Gooding Jr, and formerly married to Rene Russo who's now with Kevin Spacey - vs Donald Sutherland and [[Morgan Freeman]] (who eventually switches sides and has Sutherland arrested by Dale Dye) in trying to manage a virus brought into the country by Patrick Dempsey.
* ''[[Heat]]'': [[Al Pacino]], [[Robert De Niro]], Val Kilmer, [[Natalie Portman]], Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Ashley Judd, Hank Azaria, Jeremy Piven and [[Henry Rollins]]. In the recognizable faces category, there's William Fitcher, Wes Studi, [[Danny Trejo]], Tone Loc and Ted Levine.
* Video Game example: ''[[Mitsumete Knight]]'', then aimed by [[Konami]] as the next ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]''-like [[Cash Cow Franchise]], benefitted of such a voice actor cast: among the main heroines can be found [[Hiroko Konishi]], [[Yumi Touma]], [[Mariko Kouda]], [[Kikuko Inoue]], [[Junko Iwao]], [[Michiko Neya]], [[Yuka Imai]], [[Houko Kuwashima]], [[Shiho Niiyama]], [[Yuko Mizutani]], [[Yuko Minaguchi]], and [[Wakana Yamazaki]]; the enemy characters count [[Daisuke Gouri]], [[Takeshi Aono]], [[Nobutoshi Canna]], and [[Yasunori Masutani]] in their ranks; and the secondary characters have [[Kazuya Nakai]] and [[Hideo Ishikawa]] as well.
* ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]'', save for the [[Princess]], who is voiced by veteran voice actor [[Cree Summer]].
* ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'' features the voices of [[Jack Black]], [[Dustin Hoffman]], [[Angelina Jolie]], [[Lucy Liu]], [[Jackie Chan]], David Cross, Seth Rogen, Ian McShane, and Michael Clarke Duncan
** Any animated movie by Disney, Pixar, or Dreamworks, really.
* ''[[Ed Wood (film)|Ed Wood]]'' : [[Johnny Depp]], Martin Landau, [[Bill Murray]], [[Sarah Jessica Parker]], Lisa Marie, George "The Animal" Steele, Patricia Arquette.
* ''[[Grand Hotel]]'', which had Greta Garbo, John and Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, and Jean Hersholt.
* ''Dinner at Eight'' (1933) had Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, [[Jean Harlow]], Wallace Beery, Billie Burke and Jean Hersholt.
* ''[[Noises Off]]'' starring [[Michael Caine]], Carol Burnett, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Marilu Henner, Julie Hagerty, Denholm Elliot, Mark-Lynn Baker and Nicolette Sheridan.
* The 2007 movie version of ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (film)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' boasted [[Johnny Depp]], [[Helena Bonham Carter]], [[Alan Rickman]], [[Timothy Spall]], and Sacha Baron Cohen.
* [[Pani Poni Dash!]] has both dubs as this. The Japanese version has the whole class of 1-C as this already, even Sayaka Suzuki's vocie actress, who's next sucessful role wouldn't be until the infamous [[Yosuga no Sora]] anime.
** While the dub version for class 1-C had notable VA's such as [[Hilary Haag]] and [[Monica Rial]], it did have 3 notable breakthrough debuts for [[Melissa Davis]], [[Brittney Karbowski]] and [[Maggie Flecknoe]].
* There is a [[Disney Channel]] Original Movie called ''Dadnapped'', featuring [[Emily Osment]], [[Kickin It|Jason Earles]] and Moises Arias from [[Hannah Montana]], [[Jennifer Stone]] and David Henrie from [[Wizards of Waverly Place]], and Phill Lewis from [[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]].
* ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' has some of Western Animation's most famous voice acting names as well as some lesser-known but still-recognizable voices, including but not limited to: [[Tom Kenny]] as Raimundo and Hannibal Roy Bean ([[Man of a Thousand Voices|and many other characters]]), [[Jeff Bennett]] as Clay and Master Monk Guan, [[Tara Strong]] as Omi, [[Grey DeLisle]] as Kimiko, Wayne Knight as Dojo, Danny Cooksey as Jack Spicer, [[Maurice LaMarche]] as Master Fung and Tubbimura, [[Jason Marsden]] as Chase Young, [[Jennifer Hale]] as Katnappe, [[Kevin Michael Richardson]] as Pandabubba, and even [[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.|Susan]] [[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee|Silo]] as Wuya.
* ''[[Dog Days]]'': Has [[Norio Wakamoto]], [[Nana Mizuki]], [[Yoko Hikasa]], [[Yui Horie]], [[Tetsuya Kakihara]], [[Kana Hanazawa]] and more.
* The French comedy ''Papy fait de [[la Résistance]]'', down to the extras. The tagline said that it had cost more than the Normandy landings.
* ''[[Damages]]'' has Glenn Close, Ted Danson, William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Campbell Scott, Martin Short, Lily Tomlin and John Goodman as part of the regular cast at one point or another along with up and comer Rose Byrne. That roster is enough to make the one off [[Stunt Casting]] guest list of some series blush.
* The 1964 concert film ''The T.A.M.I. Show'' had a lineup of the biggest musical artists at the time perform one right after another on the same stage including: Chuck Berry, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, [[Marvin Gaye]], Lesley Gore, Jan and Dean, [[The Beach Boys]], The Supremes, [[James Brown]] and the Famous Flames and [[The Rolling Stones]]. A young Teri Garr is even one of the go go dancers in the back.
* ''[[Small Soldiers]]'': [[David Cross]], Jay Mohr, [[Denis Leary]], [[Kirsten Dunst]], and Phil Hartman all appear live, plus [[Tommy Lee Jones]], Frank Langella, [[Ernest Borgnine]], Jim Brown, [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]], [[Christina Ricci]] and all three members of [[Spinal Tap]] (Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer) do voice work.
* ''[[Corpse Party]]'' (a Horror [[PSP]] [[Visual Novel]]) has the following: [[Hiro Shimono]], [[Rina Satou]], [[Yuuichi Nakamura]], [[Asami Imai]], [[Eri Kitamura]], [[Miyuki Sawashiro]], [[Tomokazu Sugita]], [[Satomi Arai]], [[Ikue Ohtani]] and more.
* The cast list of 2011 [[The Film of the Book|film]] ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film)|Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]]'' boasts [[Gary Oldman]], [[Colin Firth]], [[Tom Hardy]], [[John Hurt]], Toby Jones, [[Mark Strong]], [[Benedict Cumberbatch]] and Ciaran Hinds, not to mention [[Konstantin Khabensky]] who's very well known in Russia. The star power is almost blinding.
* ''[[Deadwood]]'' has a pretty blinding cast for a TV show - Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Powers Boothe, John Hawkes, Brad Dourif, Keith Carradine, Jeffrey Jones and Titus Welliver, with Brian Cox, Stephen Tobolowsky and Garret Dillahunt appearing as guest stars.
* In the 2011 film ''[[Contagion]]'', [[Matt Damon]], Gwyneth Paltrow, [[Kate Winslet]], [[Laurence Fishburne]], Jude Law, and [[Marion Cotillard]] all play large roles. On top of that, there are several [[Hey, It's That Guy!]] moments, including [[Demetri Martin]], Bryan Cranston, John Hawkes, Enrico Colantoni and Elliot Gould.
* ''[[Kanon]]'''s english dub has [[Chris Patton]], [[Brittney Karbowski]], [[Jessica Boone]], Melissa Davis, Maggie Flecknoe, Tiffany Terrell, [[Greg Ayres]], Natalie Arneson, Joanne Bonasso, [[Caitlin Glass]] and [[Colleen Clinkenbeard]]. The latter two being [[FUNimation]] actors certainly surprised people that they would be featured in an [[ADV Films]] release.
* The song and video for "Bed Rock" by [[Lil Wayne|Young Money]] features everybody in the Young Money group(and a few others) including [[Lil Wayne]], [[Nicki Minaj]], [[Drake]], Birdman and Lloyd.
* ''[[The Thief and the Cobbler]]:'' [[Richard Williams]], director of the film, went to great lengths to secure not only the greatest voice cast of all time for a cartoon (Vincent Price, Donald Pleasance, Anthony Quayle to name a few) but also the greatest team of animators:
** himself. Richard not only directed, he drew quite a significant chunk. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|His crowning scene is Zig-Zag's card shuffling display for the One-Eyes]].
** [[Noteworthy Disney Staff|Art Babbitt]], responsible for Zeus and the Chinese mushrooms in ''[[Fantasia]]'', and infamous for organizing the 1941 strike against [[Walt Disney]]. For ''Thief'' he drew King Nod and the vulture Phido.
** [[Noteworthy Looney Tunes Staff|Ken Harris]], number one animator in the Chuck Jones unit [[Looney Tunes|during production on the original golden-era batch of Warner Brothers cartoons]]. Ken's animation of the Thief is similar to his work on Wile E. Coyote.
** Emery Hawkins, who worked for '''every single''' cartoon studio that existed in Hollywood between the 30s and the 50s. It is not exactly known what he animated on ''Thief'' (many animation buffs guess he drew [[Deleted Scene|the ogre-prince who isn't in the Recobbled Cut]]).
** [[Grim Natwick]], responsible for [[Krazy Kat]], [[Betty Boop]], [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]] and [[Mr. Magoo]], and was in fact 90 years old when he tackled the drawings for the Mad Witch.
** For many of these actors and artists, ''Thief and the Cobbler'' was their final film; they poured in every ounce of blood and sweat they had left.
* By [[Disney Channel]] TV-movie standards, 2008's ''Dadnapped'' features [[Emily Osment]], Jason Earles and Moises Arias from [[Hannah Montana]]; [[Jennifer Stone]] (voice only) and David Henrie from [[Wizards of Waverly Place]]; and Phill Lewis (Mr. Moseby) of [[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]] in roles.
* The movie ''New Year's Eve'' has [[Halle Berry]], Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, [[Abigail Breslin]], [[Ludacris]], [[Robert De Niro]], Josh Duhamel, [[Zac Efron]], Cary Elwes, Katherine Heigl, Alyssa Milano, [[Sarah Jessica Parker]] and many more.
* ''Think Like a Man'', [[Based on an Advice Book]] by Steve Harvey called ''Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man'', stars Taraji P. Henson, [[Meagan Good]], [[Kevin Hart]], Gabrielle Union and [[Chris Brown]].
* ''The Stolen Jools'', a 1931 crime spoof that featured cameos from the likes of Edward G. Robinson, Joan Crawford, [[Buster Keaton]], [[Laurel and Hardy]], the [[Little Rascals]], Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and about 30-40 other big name actors.
* ''13'', the American remake of ''13 Tzameti'', features a surprising number of recognizable faces: [[Jason Statham]], Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, Ben Gazarra, Alexander Skarsgard, 50 Cent, ''Dexter'''s David Zayas, ''[[Entourage]]''{{'}}s Emmanuelle Chriqui and MMA fighters Don Frye and Forrest Griffin.
* [[Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!]] has an '''All-Star Cast''' of Japanese seiyuu working together on an Eroge and its subsequent anime adaptation.

==  Music ==
* This is the entire point of a posse cut in hip-hop. Some well-known examples:
** "Scenario" by A Tribe Called Quest & Leaders of the New School
** "Flava in Ya Ear (Remix)" the original was by Craig Mack, but the remix featured the breakthrough verse of [[The Notorious B.I.G.]], as well as one of the first by [[Busta Rhymes]].
** DJ Khaled is known for these; some examples are "All I Do is Win", "We Takin' Over", and "Out Here Grindin'"
* The intersection of films and songs is of course concert movies, and [[Martin Scorsese]]'s ''The Last Waltz'', which documented and celebrated the last performance of [[The Band]], assembled a murderer's row of talent. Aside from the group themselves, there were performances from [[Eric Clapton]], [[Joni Mitchell]], [[Neil Young]], Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Dr. John, Paul Butterfield, and Bobby Charles ([[What the Hell, Casting Agency?|Neil Diamond]] too, but we don't like to talk about him)--and of course, a set by [[Bob Dylan]], who brought [[The Band]] to prominence as his backing group before they went solo. Oh, and just for completeness sake, the last song adds in [[The Beatles (band)|Ringo Starr]] and [[The Rolling Stones|Ron Wood]] as backing musicians.
* This trope is the Raison d'être of the [[Supergroup]], which assembles a group of famous musicians (or members of famous bands) and draws in fans with the promise of awesomeness by amalgamation. A special mention needs to go to [[The Traveling Wilburys]], who assembled an utterly unbelievable amount of talent (to quote its own trope page," [[Bob Dylan]]. [[Roy Orbison]]. [[Tom Petty]]. [[The Beatles (band)|George Harrison]]. [[Electric Light Orchestra|Jeff Lynne]]. Holy Shit.")-- and then released the entire thing under a [[Stage Name]], with no reference to who they really were, because they were doing it to have fun and work with each other.
* [[Chickenfoot]] is composed of [[Joe Satriani]], [[Van Halen|Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony]] and [[Red Hot Chili Peppers|Chad Smith]].
* This is a staple of the [[Charity Motivation Song]] genre, as seen in "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and "[[We Are the World]]", and the charity benefit concert, as in the case of Live Aid.
* [[Kanye West]]'s ''[[My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy]]'', especially on All of the Lights.

==  Theatre ==
* ''[[wikipedia:8 (play)|8]]'', a play which recreates the Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial about the legality of gay marriage in California, features an incredible cast of [[George Clooney]], [[Martin Sheen]], [[Brad Pitt]], [[Kevin Bacon]], [[Christine Lahti]], [[Jamie Lee Curtis]], [[Yeardli Smith]], [[John C Reilly]], [[George Takei]], [[Jane Lynch]] and more.{{context|reason=Live theatre often has different casts depending on where and when it is staged. Which run had this cast list?}}

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