Sharon Stone discusses her failed Barbie pitch in the ’90s, saying that executives “didn’t think Barbie should be powerful.” Barbie was easily the biggest movie of the year; not only generating $1.4 billion worldwide but dominating pop culture discourse for months on end. It was a fitting conclusion for a project that had spent decades … Read more
The Oscars are done for another year and Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy are newly minted Oscar winners for Oppenheimer! Overall, it was an expected and welcome result, with Oppenheimer also taking home Best Picture, while Poor Things star Emma Stone won a second Oscar, in a surprising, but well-earned result. Overall, it was the … Read more
Disney has put the live-action remake of The Sword in the Stone on hold. The 1963 animation had been expected to follow the likes of Cinderella, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘The Lion King’ in being turned into a live-action blockbuster by the media corporation but now, according to Damsel director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, the … Read more
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo says that Disney’s live-action adaptation of The Sword in the Stone has been put on hold. Disney CEO Bob Iger recently revealed that the studio has secretly “killed a few projects” that they didn’t think were strong enough. Could one of those projects have been the live-action adaptation of The Sword in … Read more
Stone signed on as a producer of “Poor Things,” making her, Margot Robbie and Bradley Cooper the three actors who got Best Picture nominations this year for the films they starred in. It’s a hat she’s been wearing a lot lately, forming Fruit Tree, a production company co-founded with her husband Dave McCary. Over the … Read more
Emma Stone ate 60 Portuguese tarts on the set of Poor Things and it made her “really want to puke”. The 35-year-old actress has been nominated for an Oscar for her role as Bella — who is essentially an infant in an adult’s body who goes about discovering the world — and Stone has opened up about … Read more
Emma Stone is in talks to join her The Favourite and Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos on the Save the Green Planet remake Emma Stone first worked with director Yorgos Lanthimos on his 2018 film The Favourite – which went on to rack up ten Oscar nominations, including one for Stone’s performance in her Supporting … Read more
Actress Sharon Stone was put under police watch while O.J. Simpson was being chased down the freeway in 1994. In the ongoing pursuit of O.J. Simpsons as he – as a passenger – headed down the Los Angeles freeway towards his home, there was a lot for watchers to take in. And there were a … Read more
Sharon Stone was “laughed” at by studio executives when she pitched a Barbie movie in the 1990s. The Basic Instinct actress recalled how film chiefs poured scorn on her idea for a film about the iconic toy doll and is grateful for the changes that have happened in Hollywood that led to Margot Robbie’s hugely … Read more
During a recent interview with Variety, Oscar winner Emma Stone shared an update regarding the current development status of Disney’s highly-anticipated Cruella 2. Stone also expressed her desire to work on the sequel. “Hopefully sooner, rather than later,” Stone said. “There’s a work in progress kind of thing going on. Yeah, yeah. We’ll see… She’s … Read more