| May 11, 2008 |
| Big upload night :). All photo pages updated. |
| June 13, 2007 |
| Photo page updated. New photos from the last events added. |
| March 15, 2006 |
Actress Sharon Stone will attend the world premiere of the Basic
Instinct sequel in London tonight.
The star has reprised her role as icepick-wielding killer Catherine
Tramell after 14 years.
The scene from the first film in which Stone uncrossed her legs has
gone down in movie history.
And Stone, now 48, has promised even more nudity and “kinky stuff”
in the sequel, Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction.
British actor David Morrissey, best known for playing Chancellor
Gordon Brown in The Deal, is her co-star. The 41-year-old replaces
Michael Douglas, who appeared in the original.
The world premiere takes place tonight in Leicester Square.
The film is set in London and Morrissey plays a psychiatrist
assigned to evaluate Tramell following the mysterious death of a
sports star – played by former footballer Stan Collymore.
Hollywood actors Benjamin Bratt and Kurt Russell had been linked to
the role, but Stone chose Morrissey, declaring him “funny and
talented and sexy”. |
| February 1, 2006 |
| Amazing update in Basic Instinct 2
section. 67 new screenshots!!! |
| December 5, 2005 |
| Several new promo screenshots
from "Basic Instinct 2" added! |
| December 1, 2005 |
| Photo page updated. Screencaps from "City of lost gold" added.
"Premiers", "nude", "photoshoots" and "other" pages updated with new
photos. |
| May 11, 2005 |
Sharon Stone's basic maternal instinct is taking over again. The
actress has adopted a second baby boy, according to publicist Cindi
Berger Wednesday. The child was born to "unknown and unrelated
parents in Texas" on Saturday.
The 47-year-old Basic Instinct star has christened the tyke Laird
Vonne Stone.
"Mommy and her boys are over the moon," Berger's statement said.
Stone adopted her eldest son, Roan, in 2000, when she was still
married to ex-husband Phil Bronstein. The couple split in 2003. Roan
turns five on May 22.
The actress, who received an Oscar nomination for Casino, took a
break from shooting Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction in London to
welcome the newborn. The long-in-the-works sequel to 1992's Basic
Instinct finally started rolling after Stone dropped her lawsuit
against producers of the film. It is due out in March 2006.
Stone, whose last big-screen credit was the 2004 bomb Catwoman, will
appear later this year in two indie projects, the Jim Jarmusch
comedy Broken Flowers with Bill Murray and the Nick Cassavetes drama
Alpha Dog with Justin Timberlake. |
| Feb 14, 2005 |
Sharon Stone's new basic instinct: helping victims of the
tsunami disaster. The actress is ready to do her best "We Are the
World" rendition, joining forces with socialite music producer
Denise Rich to produce the all-star charity single "Come Together
Now."
The duo are cowriting the single and enlisting the voices of a slew
of rock, pop and country superstars to lend their pipes. Among the
participants: Aretha Franklin, Lindsay Lohan, Natalie Cole, Wyclef
Jean, Peter Gabriel, Patti LaBelle, Lionel Richie, Mya, JoJo, Gavin
DeGraw, Bryan McKnight, Kelly Price and Paulina Rubio. While Stone
is new to the music biz, she is no stranger to charity. Just last
month, the 46-year-old Basic Instinct star offered up $10,000 of her
money at the World Economic Forum for malaria-related health efforts.
Within minutes, she had collected $1 million from the rest of the
well-heeled crowd. As for Rich, she has penned "Candy" for Mandy
Moore and "Don't Waste Your Time," a Grammy-nominated tune sung by
Aretha Franklin.
Stone and Rich will look to stand out in what is becoming a
mini-industry of A-list tsunami relief songs. The star-studded, if
slightly amateurish, rendition of the classic Beatles song "Across
the Universe," from Sunday's Grammy Awards, with vocal turns by Bono,
Stevie Wonder, Norah Jones, Alicia Keys, Velvet Revolver, Tim McGraw,
Steven Tyler and Brian Wilson is now available for download on
iTunes. According to Apple, all proceeds from the 99-cent download
cost of the song will go to the Southeast Asia tsunami relief
efforts. Then there's the charity cover of Eric Clapton's "Tears in
Heaven," featuring the likes of Elton John, Gwen Stefani, Josh
Groban, Rod Stewart, Velvet Revolver, Ozzie Osbourne and Andrea
Bocelli also in the works. That project is helmed by Sharon Osbourne
and American Idol grump Simon Cowell. Clapton, who wrote "Tears in
Heaven" after the death of his 4-year-old son in 1991, gave his
permission to use the song as his contribution to the efforts.
Meanwhile, several British artists, including surviving Bee Gees
Robin and Barry Gibb, ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, Steve Winwood and
Boy George are recording a charity single called "Grief Never Grows
Old." And several Asian performers, including martial arts star
Jackie Chan, worked a new version of "We Are the World" to help
victims. With the various "We Are the World"-inspired projects in
the works, the organizers of the original charity single/musical
event have just released a 20th anniversary DVD, with, yes, a
portion of the proceeds earmarked for tsunami relief. |
| Dec 14, 2004 |
Sharon Stone may consider breaking out the ice pick for this one.
The Basic Instinct vixen spiked a Beverly Hill plastic surgeon with
a defamation lawsuit Monday, accusing him of falsely telling the
press that he performed a face-lift on her.
In an attempt to, ahem, save face, Stone's legal crew filed a
complaint in Los Angeles Superior Court against Dr. Renato Calabria.
The suit cited an August Us Weekly story titled "Did Sharon Stone
Have Surgery?" in which he was quoted. Team Stone also took umbrage
with an interview Calabria gave for a September edition of In Touch
Weekly in which, the suit claims, he hints that the actress had some
cosmetic heavy-lifting done. The article does not mention Stone by
name. "Stone has never undergone a facelift in order to improve her
physical appearance," the suit asserts, adding that the 46-year-old
ex-model "prides herself not only on her acting ability and other
talents, but also on her natural physical appearance." Stone's suit
claims that suggestions to the contrary could generate negative
publicity that might have "a damaging impact on a film actress'
professional reputation [and her] ability to obtain work in the film
industry."
She is seeking unspecified damages in addition to any profits
Calabria might have earned from the allegedly "unauthorized use" of
her name and celebrity mug.
Calabria could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.
However, his attorney, Arthur Barens, says the suit is "without
factual basis." "Dr. Calabria has never told anyone that he
performed plastic surgery on Sharon. He's never taken credit for
that or sought publicity for that," Barens tells E! Online. "If one
carefully reads the suit it only refers to articles discussing
rumors that she has plastic surgery, but in none of the articles
does Dr. Calabria mention her." The attorney says that the In Touch
story in question actually features Calabria "talking about an
innovation in his profession."
"He's asked about Stone and responds that he has nothing to say,"
adds Barens. Calls to Stone's rep were not returned. But it's not
the first time Stone's gone to court to protect her assets, natural
or otherwise. The actress, who in recent years has survived a brain
hemorrhage and the breakup of her marriage to San Francisco
Chronicle editor Phil Bronstein, dropped a lawsuit last July against
the producers of a long-planned sequel to Basic Instinct after
striking a deal to reprise her role as the seductive ice
pick-wielding sociopathic Catherine Trammel. Stone, whose most
recent big screen turn was playing a villainess in the box-office
dud Catwoman has been trying to revive her flagging career.
With Basic Instinct 2 on track again and director Michael
Caton-Jones attached to helm, Stone needs all the positive publicity
possible. The film is due out in the second half of 2005. |
| Sep 10, 2004 |
Sharon Stone is finally ready to expose herself again to Basic
Instinct 2. The Hollywood Reporter says that Stone has signed on for
the project, which will now be directed by Michael Caton-Jones.
The move come just two months after the star dropped her
multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the producers of the
long-planned sequel to Basic Instinct. "Supposedly we are now back
in the process of making Basic Instinct 2," Stone told E! at the
time. "You never, ever know, but it would be fun." Now, the project,
whose backstory is probably as compelling as its plot, is finally on
track at MGM.
The original plan to showcase Stone in a sequel to the 1992 thriller,
in which uncrossing her legs turned her into a star, fell apart in a
series of spats over who would direct and star that ultimately led
to the lawsuit. In court papers, Stone claimed she had been promised
$14 million whether or not the sequel got made. Until July, it had
seemed the project was on ice. But then Stone announced she had
struck a deal with producers Andy Vajna and Mario Kassar to drop her
suit and pave the way for the sequel.
Stone will again take on the role of Catherine Tramell, the
seductive panty-eschewing, ice pick-wielding psychopathic novelist
who turned on homicide detective Michael Douglas and audiences in
the first movie. The MGM sequel was originally planned to begin
shooting in 2000, although neither Douglas nor original director
Paul Verhoeven--who had reportedly not gotten along--were on board.
At one point John McTiernan was set to direct, but he departed,
purportedly after Stone wouldn't agree to Benjamin Bratt as her
costar. A number of other leading men, Harrison Ford rumored among
them, had reportedly declined to face-off opposite Stone. There's no
word on who the male victim will be this time around.
Since Basic Instinct made her a star, Stone has gone through many
personal crisis, including a brain hemorrhage and a failed marriage,
and struggled to resurrect her career. She had an amusing guest turn
as a God-obsessed lawyer on ABC's The Practice, but her recent films
have all been duds, including this summer's Catwoman, in which she
played a supporting role of an evil, over-the hill model who
catfights with Halle Berry. (The film, coincidentally, also
costarred Bratt.) Scottish born Caton-Jones' credits include the
upcoming Shooting Dogs, based on a true story of the genocide in
Rwanda, as well as the Robert De Niro crime thriller City by the Sea,
the Bruce Willis action film The Jackal, the Liam Neeson-starring
historical adventure saga Rob Roy and the Michael J. Fox comedy Doc
Hollywood. |
| Jul 9, 2004 |
Sharon Stone is surrendering the ice pick. The star has dropped
her multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the producers of the
long-planned, as-yet-unmade Basic Instinct sequel, she confirmed to
E! Friday. Stone even hinted that the project itself was being freed
from the depths of development hell.
"Supposedly we are now back in the process of making Basic Instinct
2," Stone said. "You never, ever know, but it would be fun." The
actress' comments came as she was promoting Catwoman, the Halle
Berry-in-leather excuse in which Stone costars. The comments also
came amid a tough PR week for the actress--a week in which the
Smoking Gun ratted out Stone as both a perk-seeking diva and an
overtime-denying boss. Per the document-downloading Website, Stone's
three-year-old Basic Instinct 2 lawsuit finally was to go to trial
this month. Stone filed suit against producers Mario Kassar and
Andrew Vajna in June 2001, shortly after the sequel was scrapped by
MGM. Complaining she'd lost jobs while waiting around to reprise her
role as ice pick-wielding author Catherine Tramell, Stone sought the
$14 million she said Kassar and Vajna had agreed to pay her up front.
She said the producers orally agreed to the contract; they
maintained nothing was official. If Stone didn't get her paycheck
specifics in writing, it appears she gets her perk requests in
triplicate. As a marked-up, five-page document leaked last week to
the Smoking Gun shows, Stone requires many things during the
movie-making process, including: dibs on wardrobe and jewelry;
caterer approval (a private chef's okay, too); a first-class motor
home with such first-class amenities that "no one receives [will]
better facilities"; and a Pilates Cadillac--a piece of exercise
equipment, not an SUV.
While lengthy contract riders are the rule, not the exception among
Hollywood stars, Stone's may have become an issue if her lawsuit had
gone to trial. The producers reportedly were ready to argue her
demands were among the project's sticking points. In addition to
requesting motor homes and the like, Stone also uses her contract to
set boundaries: No cigar smoking on the set; no commercial tie-ins
involving firearms or "feminine hygiene products"; and no nudity of
the unplanned variety. (Nude scenes she's already read about, and
approved, are okey-dokey.)
It was Stone's lack of wardrobe in the original Basic Instinct that
lifted her up from costarring and B-movie roles, and helped
establish the film as a Top 10 box-office hit of 1992, with $117.7
million in domestic ticket sales. Stone was the only major Instinct
player slated to return for the sequel. Star Michael Douglas,
director Paul Verhoeven, and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas were long
ago out. Names of potential leading men were floated--Pierce Brosnan
and Harrison Ford, included--but no name ever landed.
This week, Stone told the Australian newspaper the Advertiser that
if the new movie went ahead her love/hate interest would be wrinkle
free. "Somebody should be younger," the 46-year-old Stone said in
the Advertiser. "We are discussing it now." There were no details on
the lawsuit settlement. Owing to the ever-watchful Smoking Gun,
however, there were details this week on the nearly $20,000
California labor officials ordered Stone to pay a former personal
assistant, who complained the celeb stiffed her on overtime and
vacation pay.
With legal matters settled, Stone on Friday sounded as if she was
looking forward to rediscovering her Basic Instinct. |
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