Sharon Stone Movies Banned In China
Sharon Stone, who last year was a guest of the Shanghai International Film Festival, now faces a boycott of her films in China after she suggested the devastating May 12 earthquake there could have been the result of bad “karma.”Stone’s remarks, made at the Festival de Cannes on Thursday, pondered a link between the earthquake — which has killed more than 65,000 people — and China’s treatment of ethnic Tibetans and their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, whom she called “a good friend.”
“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans, because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else,” Stone said in a brief red carpet interview with Cable Entertainment News of Hong Kong. “And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”
Her remarks triggered anger across the Chinese-language media and were called “inappropriate” by the founder of one of China’s biggest urban cinema chains, who said his company would not show the Hollywood veteran’s films.
Ng See-Yuen, founder of the UME Cineplex chain and the chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers said that actors should not bring personal politics to comments about a natural disaster that has left 5 million Chinese homeless.
UME has branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou, China’s biggest urban movie markets.
Cinemablend says:
If you’re Chinese and you’re bummed that you may not be able to see the latest from Sharon Stone… don’t be. Consider yourselves lucky. Sharon Stone hasn’t made a good movie in years, and I wish someone over here in America had done this years ago. Maybe it would have saved me from Basic Instinct 2. Besides, China’s big on banning things. They ban everything, and if they ban this it’ll be the first time they’ve actually banned something for what might be considered a non-evil reason. I’d call this huge progress. Let freedom ring.
Largely ignored by the Chinese press were the 50-year-old actress’ closing remarks in the interview at Cannes. Stone said she cried when she got a letter from the Tibetan Foundation asking her to help the quake victims.
“Sometimes you have to learn to put your head down and be of service, even to people who aren’t nice to you. That’s a big lesson for me,” Stone said.
50 Cent to lose muscle for role in ‘Streets of Blood’
50 Cent who launched his acting career with 2005 film ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’, will co-star with Sharon Stone and Val Kilmer.
50 Cent has been mocked by friends after being told that he must slim down for his role in forthcoming movie ‘Streets of Blood‘, before filming starts shortly.
The US rapper, who will play a policeman in the movie, has been instructed to prepare for filming by starting a new aerobic exercise fitness programme.
“To lose some of 50 Cent’s hard-earned muscle his trainer has incorporated aerobic routines into his training schedule, but he is getting a lot of grief from his mates.”
Val Kilmer, Dylan McDermott, Sharon Stone and Brian Presley will also star in the movie.
Val Kilmer and Sharon Stone in ‘Streets of Blood’
Val Kilmer and Dylan McDermott will take the lead roles in police drama ‘Streets of Blood.’
The pair play cops struggling to cope with the chaos in New Orleans in the wake of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina.
Sharon Stone, 50 Cent and Brian Presley also star.
The movie will be directed by Charles Winkler, son of Oscar-winning producer Irwin Winkler, from a script by Eugene Hess.
The eight-week shoot is scheduled to begin next month.
The 10 Least Sexy Nude Scenes In Movie History
10. Angelina Jolie in “Beowulf”
Remember when all those crazy RESTRICTED “Beowulf” trailers of naked Angelina Jolie leaked to the internet, and just as everyone who never thought to type “Angelina Jolie Gia” into Google was preparing to go nuts, we soon learned that “Naked Angelina Jolie” actually meant “Naked Dragon Woman Thing From Rejected Pixar Film?” It’d be like if a movie came out billing “Pamela Anderson FINALLY gets naked!” and everyone dumb enough to be excited by it was treated to a CGI’d Pam Anderson-voiced unicorn character with rainbow-colored boobs. Which reminds me, I forgot to Netflix “Beowulf.”
9. Sharon Stone in “Basic Instinct 2″
Perhaps the most necessary sequel in cinematic history (besides “The Whole Ten Yards”), “Basic Instinct 2″ is a gripping, powerful tale about the inevitability of human aging and the overwhelming nature of denial. Sharon Stone is thoroughly convincing as the never-acclaimed lead actress who foolishly equates credibility with being naked a whole bunch of times, but her doctored, leathery flesh merely symbolizes the hopeless pursuit of eternal youth. Unfortunately, I feel like the critics didn’t fully appreciate this biting, cautionary tale.
