Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Stone akaonekwa mumafirimu matatu akabudiswa muna 2009. Yokutanga yacho yaiva yakatarisana naMatthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner naMichael Douglas muMark Waters' Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. Yakasununguka yakavakirwa paCharles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, iyo comedy yerudo ine iye achitamba mweya unotambudza waimbova mukomana wake. Maonero aiita vanotsoropodza firimu racho akanga asina kunaka, kunyange zvazvo rakanga riri kubudirira mune zvokutengeserana. Bhizimisi rake raiva nemari yakawanda gore iroro raiva Ruben Fleischer's $102.3 million-grossing horror comedy film Zombieland, umo anoratidzira pamwe chete naJesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson naAbigail Breslin. Mufirimu, akaonekwa semunhu anonyengera uye akapona zombie apocalypse, mune basa iro Empire's Chris Hewitt akawana kuti "zvakanyatso nyorwa". Mukudzokorora kwakanaka zvikuru, mutsoropodzi weThe Daily Telegraph akanyora kuti: "[T] iye Stone anovimbisa zvikuru... [ndi] bhisikiti rakaoma rinoratidzira aura yokuva akachenjera kupfuura makore ake". Kuburitswa kwekupedzisira kwaStone muna 2009 kwaive Kieran naMichelle Mulroney's Paper Man, mutambo wemitambo uyo wakaodza moyo vatsoropodzi. Stone akapa izwi reAustralia Shepherd muMarmaduke (2010), mutambo kubva kumutungamiriri Tom Dey, uyo wakavakirwa paBrad Anderson's-refu-kumhanya comic strip yezita rimwe chete. Kubudirira kwake kwakauya gore rimwe chetero nebasa rinotungamira muEasy A, mutambo wechidiki wakatungamirwa naWill Gluck. Yakanyatsovakirwa paNathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 nhoroondo yerudo The Scarlet Letter, iyo firimu inotaurira nyaya yaOlive Penderghast (Stone), mudzidzi wepachikoro chepamusoro uyo anobatanidzwa mukuseka zvepabonde zvepabonde mushure mekunge runyerekupe rwenhema rwuri kutenderera kuti iye ari kuita zvepabonde. Stone akaverenga chinyorwa chirongwa ichi chisati chaitwa kuti chigadziriswe, uye akachienderera mberi nemaneja wake apo tsanangudzo dzekugadzira dzaive dzichipedzwa. Akawana manyorerwo acho "akasiyana zvikuru uye akasiyana nechinhu chipi nechipi chandakanga ndaverenga kare", achitaura kuti akanga ari "anonakidza uye akanaka". Apo Stone akawana kuti firimu racho rakanga ratanga kubudiswa, akasangana naGluck, achitaura kushingaira kwake kweprojekti. Mwedzi mishomanana gare gare,...  Mubvunzo: Stone akasangana naani apo firimu racho rakatanga kugadzirwa?
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