Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the richest of them all? The answer might surprise you. In its annual list of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood, Forbes has revealed that the new Snow White herself sits atop the rankings. Come on, Kristen Stewart, there’s a reason to smile! According to the magazine, Stewart has pulled in $12.5 million for each of the last two Twilight Saga films, the same amount as co-stars Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner . Combine that figure with her turn this summer in Snow White and the Huntsman and Stewart made $34.5 million between May 2011 and May 2012. Factoring in upfront pay, profit participation, residuals, endorsements and advertising work, here is a look at the top 10 highest-paid female stars in that time period: Kristen Stewart, $34.5 million Cameron Diaz. $34 million Sandra Bullock, $25 million Angelina Jolie, $20 million Charlize Theron, $18 million Julia Roberts, $16 million Sarah Jessica Parker, $15 million Meryl Streep, $12 million Kristen Wiig, $12 million Jennifer Aniston, $11 million
Look ma, no brains! Miss Ohio Audry Bolte Says “Pretty Woman” Paints Women In Positive Light During Sunday evening’s Miss USA contest on NBC, top five finalist Miss Ohio Audrey Bolte told the judges that Julia Roberts’ character in the 1990 romantic comedy Pretty Woman is an example of a positive portrayal of women in film. Judge Marilu Henner asked Bolte: “Do you think women are depicted in movies and on television in an accurate and positive way? And please give us an example.” Bolte responded: I think it depends on the movie. I think there are some movies that depict women in a very positive role, and then some movies that put them in a little bit more of negative role. But by the end of the movie, they show that woman power that I know we all have. Such as movie Pretty Woman. We had a wonderful, beautiful woman, Julia Roberts, and she was having a rough time, but, you know what, she came out on top and she didn’t let anybody stand in her path. *sigh* Here sweetheart, have a seat and relax. SMDH Image via AP Source
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Mirror Mirror is about as postmodern as a postmodern version of a fairytale gets these days – “It’s been focus-grouped!,” the prince protests, as the princess defies tradition and sets out to save him. So why is it so very white? It’s especially jarring when Indian director Tarsem Singh ends the movie with a Bollywood-inspired dance number – it’s a Technicolor celebration of cultural diversity by a cast that doesn’t seem to have any, save a dwarf or two who barely stand out from their pack. A fairytale about a heroine named “Snow White” is always going to require imagination, or daring, in casting for diversity, but I was surprised at how little Singh and his studio bothered trying to push the envelope. Not that they’re alone – most of Mirror Mirror ’s competitors in the current fairytale fad , from last year’s Beastly to this spring’s dueling Snow White and the Huntsman , have shown very little imagination about race. (Brownie points to Catherine Hardwicke, who let Shiloh Fernandez win the affections of her Red Riding Hood last year.) In the interests of avoiding further whitewashing – and maybe seeing some updated fables with real edge – here are four ways Hollywood should rethink diversity in all these postmodern fairytales. 1. Paying lip-service to feminism is no longer enough. I love seeing movies with strong roles for women and heroines who actually get to do things. And yes, it’s great that Lily Collins’s Snow White learns to defend herself and beats Armie Hammer at flirty swordplay, and that Chris Hemsworth is going to teach Kristen Stewart how to fight the evil queen in her version of Snow White . All of this would be way more impressive if Drew Barrymore hadn’t done the same thing fourteen years ago in Ever After . If you want to be edgy, Hollywood, let’s move beyond grudging admissions that women can stick up for themselves and find something new to say about race or sexuality or all of those other Gender Studies words the Brothers Grimm didn’t have to deal with. I liked some of Mirror Mirror ’s lopsided efforts to give its dwarves separate characters – one has a crush on our heroine while another wants to help her pick out a fabulous wardrobe – but maybe the next round of big-budget Snow White movies could even explicitly acknowledge why seven unrelated men might live together in a rustic lodge and get freaked out by the appearance of a girl. 2. Stop appropriating culture without showing the people who made it. (Otherwise known as: Every rant I have stored up about Chinese tokenism in Joss Whedon’s Firefly .) The color in Mirror Mirror is amazing, but it’s not even skin-deep. For much of the movie, the brilliant costumes and set designs hide the fact that there are very few nonwhite people wearing Eiko Ishioka ’s crimson peacock dresses and gumdrop courtier costumes and black accordion stilts – which makes the final scene stand out all the more. The Bollywood homage is a fun break from tradition on one level, but it’s also deeply weird considering how little evidence there is that any non-WASPs actually inhabit this magic kingdom. Which is a missed opportunity: Like Snow White and the Huntsman , like Red Riding Hood , like next year’s Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters ( yes, really ), we are talking about stories that can be set anywhere, any time – including somewhere completely imaginary. It’s not like directors and studios have much room to hide behind the excuse of casting for “historical accuracy.” Which brings me to… 3. Think outside the casting box. I saw Mirror Mirror a few days after racists came out of the woodwork for The Hunger Games , which dared to cast black actors to play characters who were originally described as “dark-skinned.” As Anna Holmes pointed out at The New Yorker , that ugly reaction highlighted how many movie viewers expect characters to be white until explicitly proven otherwise – and Hollywood reinforces those expectations all too often, even when casting fantasies about imaginary lands where, you would think, anything goes. But no, it’s still sticking to the sidekick sidelines. The dwarves provided Mirror Mirror with pretty much its only diversity; at the very least, the movie could have included more people of color among the speaking courtiers and villagers and downtrodden castle servants. Snow White and the Huntsman , from its latest trailer , is going even more pasty-Eurocentric with its crowds of faux Crusaders. That’s not even considering the television variations; despite its modern setting and larger cast and serialized format, ABC’s Once Upon a Time has made room so far for only one regular non-white character. (NBC’s rival Grimm is doing a little bit better.) Just think what could happen if Hollywood got really radical and reconsidered how it casts its fairytale leads. In fact… 4. Dare to rethink who’s the “fairest of them all.” It could be problematic and somewhat predictable to cast a person of color as the main villain in a fairytale, especially if all of the heroes are white. (Though I think Michelle Yeoh or Angela Bassett could mop the floor with Julia Roberts.) Future fairytale filmmakers could also consider looking for a prince who’s slightly less Caucasian than Armie Hammer – he’s charming and nice to look at, but I suspect there are plenty of attractive young actors out there capable of handling a role where the heavy lifting entails imitating a puppy. But the most interesting possibility, and the one I’d most like to see the next big-budget, postmodern Hollywood fairytale attempt, would be to cast a young woman of color as Snow White or Belle or Red or any other virginal, virtuous, smart and beautiful heroine, especially if she’s a character whose beauty has traditionally been defined by the paleness of her skin. These stories have been told for centuries, and by now they’re desperately in need of some real reinvention. Challenging their most outdated assumptions about who and what is beautiful would be the easiest – and most interesting – way for Hollywood to make its next round of adaptations far more worthwhile. Maria Aspan is a writer living in New York whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Reuters and American Banker. She Tweets and Tumbls .
The latest retelling of the classic Snow White story, Mirror Mirror is out today, starring Julia Roberts as the evil queen and Lily Collins as the popular princess. It’s just one of several new takes on Snow White that have popped up in pop culture these days — Ginnifer Goodwin plays a modern interpretation of the maiden in Once Upon a Time while Kristen Stewart will bring a badass version to the big… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Twilightish Discovery Date : 30/03/2012 19:19 Number of articles : 2
Julia Roberts is perhaps one of the most recognizable women in the world. She talks about how she comes to grips with that in the new issue of Vanity Fair . The Mirror, Mirror actress and mom to twins Hazel and Finn, 7, and son Henry, 4, says her children with husband Danny Moder have no concept of fame. “On a crowded street, and somebody noticed me, and then another person noticed. Somebody said as we were walking past, ‘Oh, that’s Julia Roberts.'” “We all just kind of kept going, and then Finn turned around and said, ‘Yeah, my mom’s Julia Robinson,'” she said. “That’s what gives you perspective.” It could be Robinson, it could be Johnson, because it has nothing to do with me as a person,” says the Oscar-winner, who gained some perspective herself. Curious about what life is like for children born into famous families, Roberts talked to her Larry Crowne costar Grace Gummer, daughter of Meryl Streep. “Grace comes up and goes, ‘Gosh, it’s so sweet seeing all your kids on the set. It reminds me of when I was little, and I would go see my mom at work.'” “I asked, ‘Were you happy?’ Suddenly, I thought, here is a source of information.” “I said, ‘How old were you when you realized your mom was Meryl Streep?’ She said, ‘I think I was probably nine when I put that all together.'” “I said, ‘Were you cool with it?’ She said, ‘Yeah, it was fine. There was no trauma or anything like that.’ So hearing that was hopeful.” Roberts doesn’t just worry about the future of her three children, she’s also concerned with today’s up-and-coming actors living under a microscope. “The business is so different; you can never be that new girl that has that moment of, ‘Where’d she come from?'” Roberts tells Vanity Fair. “There’s the express elevator and there’s rehab. It’s so awful; nobody gets a fair trial-and-error period that everybody deserves and everybody needs.”
Ladies and gentlemen, we present… Cofron ? Onlookers spotted Zac Efron and Lily Collins dining together at Los Angeles eatery STK on Saturday, with one witness telling People they arrived together ” holding hands .” On the scene for a birthday party in honor of one of Zac’s friends, Efron and Collins “had a drink at the bar together and then joined the birthday crew on the patio,” the insider adds, while sources say the actor then continued his evening at Lexington Social House. Efron most famously dated Vanessa Hudgens for many years, while Collins was linked to Abduction co-star Taylor Lautner throughout most of 2011. She’ll next be seen opposite Julia Roberts in Mirror Mirror . [Photos: WENN.com]
He is the champion, our friends. Adam Lambert will join iconic band Queen on tour this summer, both sides announced this week, a development that follows the singer’s 2009 American Idol finale performance with original members Brian May and Roger Taylor; as well as their teaming up again at the MTV European Music Awards in November. “The intention is to pay tribute to [late singer Freddie Mercury] and the band by singing some f-cking great songs,” Lambert tells Great Britain’s The Daily Star. “It’s to keep the music alive for the fans and give it an energy that Freddie would have been proud of.” Lambert, of course, admits that he has no intention of replacing Mercury, who passed away from AIDS in 1991. “That’s impossible,” he said. “The way I’m choosing to view it is that it’s a great honor and one I’m in no way going to shirk.” Adam and the group will tour in May and stop at Knebworth in England, where Queen played their final gig with Mercury in 1986.
Rachel Weisz looks unreal in her new ad for L’Oreal. SO unreal, in fact, that Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) believes she looks unnaturally stunning and thus, the ad has been pulled from the UK. Photoshop enhancements in beauty and fashion images are SOP, but some UK officials have been doing their part to put an end to airbrushing in excess. The ad for L’Or
Sam Raimi ‘s Evil Dead reboot , which begins filming in New Zealand this spring, has found a new star to fill the shoes of original Ash Bruce Campbell , so to speak: 22-year-old British-born actress Lily Collins , who’ll next be seen playing Snow White to Julia Roberts’ evil queen in Tarsem’s fairytale adaptation Mirror Mirror . Let that sink in, Evil Deadites… deep breaths… now hit the jump for more details. According to Bloody Disgusting, Collins — last glimpsed, rather unfortunately, looking lovely on the lam with Taylor Lautner in Abduction — will lead a cast of five pretty young things who hole up in a cabin in the woods with a Book of the Dead. BD reports that Collins’ character Mia is a rebooted version of Ash; after a recent struggle with drugs, she and her pals head to the woods so she can detox but, of course, demonic possessions muck up the retreat. On board to direct is Fede Alvarez, discovered by Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures after his Uruguayan sci-fi short Panic Attack earned him notice, with a screenplay co-written by Rodo Sayagues and Diablo Cody . So while Raimi and Campbell are onboard as producers, this Evil Dead will be created by voices new to the franchise, clearly aimed at a new generation of fans. In which case, are you ready for a new lady Ash — one who’s as fair than them all? The Evil Dead reboot is set to hit theaters on April 12, 2013. • We’ve Discovered Who Plays The Lead In ‘The Evil Dead’ Remake — Meet The New Ash! [Bloody Disgusting]
