By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, August 2012
In mid-August 2012, The Hollywood Reporter’s Kim Masters and Borys Kit filed a story indicating Kristen Stewart had been dropped from Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman sequel plans. E! News’s Marc Malkin publicly disputed the THR item.
Then
The THR Masters-and-Kit story landed in the middle of a substantial Kristen Stewart media moment. Kim Masters and Borys Kit were two of THR’s most-cited reporters — Masters with her parallel KCRW The Business hosting role, Kit as one of the trade’s leading film-development scoop reporters.
Marc Malkin, then at E! News, publicly disputing the THR item was the competing-scoop dynamic the original FishbowlLA piece tracked.
Now
Universal made The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016) — built around Chris Hemsworth’s character rather than continuing the Snow White storyline. Kristen Stewart’s subsequent career moved sharply toward auteur-driven and prestige work — Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), Personal Shopper (2016), Spencer (2021, for which she received an Academy Award nomination).
The 2012 piece reads now as a small documented moment of trade-press competing-scoop culture — about an actress whose career took a substantially more interesting direction than the 2012 franchise framing anticipated.
Original report archived on the Wayback Machine.