Buzz Feed recently published an article on how Oscar and Tony Award-winning actor Denzel Washingon became Hollywood's most realiable movie star. Despite starring in some movies that weren't as impressive as American Gangster or Inside man, Washington consistently remains to be one of Tinseltown's most bankable stars.

According to the online publication, Washington can be dubbed as the '$20 million movie star' since the films he's starred in over the last 13 years rarely opened under $20 milion. Moreover, his superb acting skills always satisfies moviegoers whether it's action or drama.

Buzz Feed wrote: "This kind of career was the stock-in-trade for male movie stars like Robert Mitchum, Jimmy Stewart, and Gene Hackman. But as American mainstream movies have become less and less about great acting and more and more about great action, the great actors of today — most of them Washington’s peers, many of them fellow Oscar winners — have floundered where Washington has succeeded."

Meanwhile, his latest action comedy buddy-cop movie with Mark Wahlberg titled 2 Guns impressively did well at the box office and with film critics. NY Daily News reported that 2 Guns raked in $27.4 million in its weekend debut, outperforming The Smurfs 2 in ticket sales.

Based on a dark graphic novel series by Steven Grant, 2 Guns tells the story of a DEA agent and a naval intelligence officer who failed to infiltrate a drug cartel and are now on the run against the authorities. Neither of them knew that each was an undercover agent until their identities were compromised. Both are forced to work together against the authorites and the gangsters in order to survive.

Eonline reported that "film critics are raving about the actors' (Washington and Wahlberg) chemistry and whiz-bang repartee."

2 Guns will hit Australian theatres on Oct 24. Watch the trailer below:

In addition, Washington highly anticipated return to Broadway happens in 2014, starring in a revival of Lorraine Hansberry's landmark drama A Raisin in the Sun.

A Raisn in the Sun was first produced in 1959 and tells the story of a black American family's struggle to emerge from poverty and look for a better life for themselves.

In 2004, Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs starred as Walter Lee Younger, the role that Washington will portray in its Broadway revival next year.

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