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Sharon Stone has upset high-level cinema executives in China – who have vowed to ban her films from their screens – after she made comments last week suggesting that the devastating May 12 earthquake in China could have been the result of bad karma over the government’s treatment of Tibet.

Stone, 50, made the comments about the earthquake – which has killed tens of thousands of people, and left more than 5 million homeless – on Thursday during a Cannes Film Festival red-carpet interview with Hong Kong’s Cable Entertainment News.

"I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans, because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else," Stone said.

"And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?"

Her comments have prompted the founder of one of China’s biggest cinema chains, Ng See-Yuen, to announce that his company would not show her films in his theaters, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

See-Yuen, founder of the UME Cineplex chain and the chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers, called Stone’s comments "inappropriate", and said that actors should not bring personal politics to comments about a natural disaster that has left five million Chinese homeless, according to the Reporter.

UME has branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou, China’s biggest urban movie markets.

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