Scarlett Johansson better brush up on her Disney trivia. The actress and SodaStream spokeswoman has been tapped to star in the live action reboot of “The Jungle Book” alongside “Most Beautiful Person in the World,” Lupita Nyong’o, the New York Daily News reports. Johansson, 29, is being considered for the role of Kaa the python,…
Starbucks is in advanced talks to buy 10 percent of Israeli home soda machine company SodaStream, an Israeli business daily reported. Shares of SodaStream jumped more than 10 percent following the report Wednesday in Globes. The newspaper said that an announcement of the purchase, at a company value of $1.1 billion, is expected “soon.” Starbucks…
Uh oh. Turns out we’ve all committed a major faux-pas when it comes to Scarlett Johansson. And no, it’s not questioning her political correctness over the SodaStream debacle. In an interview for the April cover of Glamour, the 29-year-old actress complained that she really, really hates it when the media calls her ScarJo. “I associate…
Actress Scarlett Johansson said she does not regret her decision to become a spokeswoman for the Israeli company SodaStream. Johansson told the British newspaper The Observer that she was aware before she signed on to work for SodaStream that the manufacturer of home soda makers operates a factory in a West Bank settlement, which is…
(JTA) — Scarlett Johansson, fresh out of her SodaStream battles, declined to attend this year’s annual American Israel Political Affairs Committee policy conference. She’s in Paris, picking up an honorary Celeste award and promoting her latest releases,. She kept appearing at the conference though, after a fashion. Johansson featured prominently in AIPAC’s showcase of Israel’s…
Mazel tov, ScarJo! Scarlett Johansson, the Jewish actress and SodaStream spokeswoman, is pregnant with her first child with fiancee Romain Dauriac, a source confirmed to E! News. The pair were spotted at the 39th Cesar Film Awards 2014 in Paris on Friday (no baby bump yet!) Johansson went public about her relationship with the French…
It may not the best timing for convening 14,000 supporters of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington. And it’s not just because another snow storm is bearing down on the nation’s capital or because participants will have to make a tough choice between showing their support for Israel and watching their favorite Hollywood stars walking the…
Actress Scarlett Johansson said in her first interview since the SodaStream blowup that she is not “a role model.” “I don’t see myself as being a role model,” she said in an interview published Thursday in Dazed and Confused magazine, adding that she “did not want to step into those shoes.” Johansson did not directly…
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