{"id":584840,"date":"2026-04-15T02:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584840\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T02:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:26:08","slug":"cate-blanchett-to-star-as-martha-stewart-in-biopic-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584840\/","title":{"rendered":"Cate Blanchett to Star as Martha Stewart in Biopic Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCate Blanchett<\/a> is set to star as Martha Stewart<\/a> in the upcoming biopic \u201cGood Thing\u201d about the career of the lifestyle media mogul, Variety has confirmed. \u201cZola\u201d director Janicza Bravo will helm the project.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked about her thoughts on receiving the biopic treatment during a red carpet interview, Stewart told Variety<\/a> that she was \u201chearing rumors\u201d that something was already in the works with Blanchett in the starring role. She revealed the working title as \u201cGood Thing.\u201d The title refers to Stewart\u2019s famous catch phrase, \u201cIt\u2019s a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the 90s and early 2000s, Stewart operated at the pinnacle of lifestyle media, writing muliple best selling books and hosting her own Emmy-winning show \u201cMartha Stewart Living.\u201d The half-hour DIY and cooking program shared a title with her popular magazine, which reached peak circulation in 2002 with more than 2 million copies per issue. After her Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia conglomerate went public in 1999, she became the first self-made female billionaire in the United States.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn late 2001, Stewart found herself under legal scrutiny after she sold off her stake in ImClone Systems and avoided a loss of about $45,000. The day after her sale, ImClone\u2019s stock value fell 16%. Stewart\u2019s stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic, tipped her off to nonpublic material about the health of the stock, a fact she denied to federal investigators. In 2004, Stewart was entrenched in a highly publicized trial over the sale. She was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction and two counts of lying to federal investigators. She served five months in jail and two years of supervised release.<\/p>\n

\n\tBlanchett was last seen starring in Jim Jarmusch\u2019s family drama \u201cFather Mother Sister Brother,\u201d which won the prestigious Golden Lion award at the 2025 Venice Film Festival. The two-time Oscar winner seems like a natural fit for Stewart, often bringing a maternal, yet cutthroat fire to her roles. Blanchett can be seen next in David Zellner\u2019s sci-fi comedy \u201cAlpha Gang\u201d and Alice Birch\u2019s psychological drama \u201cSweetsick.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBravo landed on Variety\u2019s 10 Directors to Watch list in 2020 for \u201cZola.\u201d<\/a> The film earned Bravo a best film and best director Independent Spirit Film award nomination. Since then, she has directed episodes of \u201cPoker Face,\u201d \u201cIn Treatment\u201d and \u201cMrs. America.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBravo could also find herself in the Emmys conversation this season for directing the \u201cWorms\u201d episode of\u00a0\u201cThe Bear.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBlanchett is repped by CAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cate Blanchett is set to star as Martha Stewart in the upcoming biopic \u201cGood Thing\u201d about the career…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[75097,236,88,85491],"class_list":{"0":"post-584840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-cate-blanchett","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-martha-stewart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}