Jon Stewart has waded into a row about the UK Labour Party blocking election candidate Faiza Shaheen from running for Parliament over her historical tweets relating to Israel.
10.05.2024 - 14:59 / nme.com
Kristen Stewart has criticised Hollywood’s attempts at promoting gender equality, saying that she thinks “it feels phony”.Speaking to Porter magazine, she gave her views on the recent efforts to get a higher ratio of female-directed films into production.“[There’s a] thinking that we can check these little boxes, and then do away with the patriarchy, and how we’re all made of it,” she said. “It’s easy for them to be like, ‘Look what we’re doing.
We’re making Maggie Gyllenhaal’s movie! We’re making Margot Robbie’s movie!’ And you’re like, OK, cool. You’ve chosen four.”Gyllenhall directed her first film in 2021, The Lost Daughter, while Robbie has become a high-profile producer, with credits including Barbie, Promising Young Woman and I, Tonya.“I’m in awe of those women, I love those women [but] it feels phony,” Stewart continued.
“If we’re congratulating each other for broadening perspective, when we haven’t really done enough, then we stop broadening.”A 2023 study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative revealed that only 12.1 per cent of major release films in 2023 were directed by women.Stewart is currently starring in the romantic thriller Love Lies Bleeding, from Saint Maud director Rose Glass. Produced by A24, it follows the relationship between a gym manager and an ambitious bodybuilder.
In a four-star review, NME wrote: “Rose Glass, who co-wrote the film with Weronika Tofilska, has delivered a brilliant noir packed with those great pulp ingredients: sex, drugs and violence.”At the Brussels premiere of the film last month, a mass walkout of more than 60 people occurred following a barrage of abusive comments. Screening organisers reported at least three instances of physical violence, with some attendees
.Jon Stewart has waded into a row about the UK Labour Party blocking election candidate Faiza Shaheen from running for Parliament over her historical tweets relating to Israel.
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Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Billy Eichner is finally getting to live out his childhood dream of a being in a major stage musical. The “Bros” star is making his Hollywood Bowl singing debut this weekend during “The Lion King‘s” 30th anniversary live-to-film concert. “We just had our first official rehearsal all together this morning,” Eichner told me Wednesday afternoon.
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Shot between his directing Alicia Vikander in “Firebrand” and Kristen Stewart in “Rosebushpruning,” “Motel Destino,” which bows in Cannes Competition on May 22, can be seen as a return by Brazil’s now most international director to his Brazilian roots. This axis between international and local, plays out in “Motel Destino” and Aïnouz insists, in now his whole career. An erotic thriller, “Motel Destino” turns on Dayana, the young wife of a roadside sex hotel owner who seduces on-the-run minor mobster Heraldo for great sex.
Tatiana Siegel Zoe Saldaña says the future of female representation in the film industry is dependent on women continuing to shatter the glass ceiling. And those who do cannot get complacent. “We need more female CEOs.
Fremantle’s Rome-based company The Apartment has boarded Karim Aïnouz’s next feature Rosebushpruning in partnership with The Match Factory, Mubi, Kavac Film and Rai Cinema.
Alex Ritman Fremantle’s The Apartment will partner with The Match Factory, Mubi, Kavac Film and Rai Cinema to produce Karim Aïnouz’s next feature film “Rosebushpruning.” Directed by Aïnouz, the film’s lead cast includes Kristen Stewart (“Love Lies Bleeding,” “Spencer”), Josh O’Connor (“Challengers,” “God’s Own Country”) and Elle Fanning (“Teen Spirit,” “The Great”). Aïnouz is directing from a script written by Efthimis Filippou (Kinds of Kindness, Dogtooth, The Lobster), which is an adaptation from Marco Bellocchio’s debut feature Fists in the Pocket.
Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures will co-release Love Me, a cosmic romance starring Kristen Stewart (Love Lies Bleeding) and Steven Yeun (Minari) that world premiered at Sundance at top of year, where it was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. Written and directed by Sam & Andy Zuchero, in their feature debut, the film is slated for a nationwide theatrical release in early 2025.
Katcy Stephan Bleecker Street and ShivHans have partnered to tak U.S. rights to the cosmic love story “Love Me,” written and directed by Sam and Andy Zuchero, and starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun. Bleecker Street will co-release the film with ShivHans Pictures, with a U.S.
Selena Kuznikov Kristen Wiig is set to present her “Palm Royale” co-star, Carol Burnett, with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gracie Awards. The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation also revealed that Tamera Mowry-Housley will host the awards, set to take place on May 21 at the Beverly Wilshire in Los Angeles.
Alex Ritman Ed Harris — recently seen starring alongside Kristen Stewart in “Love Lies Bleeding” — is getting back behind the camera to direct his own adaptation of Kim Zupan’s acclaimed novel “The Ploughmen.” Owen Teague, currently playing the lead in “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” Nick Nolte and Bill Murray have come on board to star in the neo-noir crime thriller, which will go into production in Montana this Fall. Amy Madigan and Lily Harris are also set for the film. “The Ploughmen” will mark Harris’ third feature as director after his Western “Appaloosa” and multi-Oscar nominated “Pollock.” Described being in the vein of “Hell or High Water” and “Wind River,” the film is set in the wilderness of Montana, where a strange friendship develops between a haunted young deputy sheriff and a notorious old murderer.
Lucy Liu was honored with the Gold Legend award at 2024’s Gold Gala, which was organized by Gold House and celebrates Asian and Pacific Islanders in entertainment, business, sports, and more.
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Kristin Stewart is bitterly calling out Hollywood phoniness.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Kristen Stewart recently graced the cover of Porter magazine and called out “phony” Hollywood for how it often self-congratulates itself for doing away with the patriarchy when in reality, Hollywood has just prioritized a select group of women to operate in the studio world. While progress is being made, Stewart rang the alarm by saying changes for women in Hollywood are not as broad as Hollywood might like to make it out to be. “[There’s a] thinking that we can check these little boxes, and then do away with the patriarchy, and how we’re all made of it,” Stewart said.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Michael Douglas has starred in some of the most iconic erotic thrillers ever made, from “Basic Instinct” to “Fatal Attraction,” so he knows a thing or two about crafting a memorable movie sex scene. In a new interview with The Telegraph, the actor gave his honest opinion about intimacy coordinators becoming the new normal in Hollywood when it comes to filming intimate moments on set.
Kristen Stewart is nothing if not a person with strong convictions. This is a woman who could have easily taken her fame and fortune from “Twilight” and become the biggest actor on the planet.
Whoopi Goldberg has revealed her fears that she would die after becoming addicted to cocaine, recalling one terrifying experience after taking the drug.The 68-year-old star has detailed the experience in her upcoming memoir, titled Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me. She recalls staying away from drugs after an intervention led her to rehab before she made her name in Hollywood.