Despite a timely mea culpa from the 50-year-old Basic Instinct star, the company ultimately pulled its Chinese ads.
She has also signed up to appear in a sequel to Basic Instinct - which does not involve Eszterhas.
Films under threat if a strike takes place include Basic Instinct 2, Indiana Jones 4 and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.
Director Mahesh Bhatt's most recent effort, Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aagaye (Your Memory Comes Back to Haunt Me), is a copy of Basic Instinct.
When it "rebrands" in 2005, Earl envisions guest rooms tricked out with beds featured in such films as Basic Instinct, and a 7, 000-seat auditorium for movie premieres attended by droves of publicity-hungry stars.
But Eszterhas says he is out to celebrate Stone, not put her down, and also includes a lurid description of how they had sex "stoned out of our minds" after the release of Basic Instinct.
And still to come, if it ever gets produced, is Sacred Cows, with a script by the unblushing Joe Eszterhas, writer of Basic Instinct and Showgirls, about a President caught in sexual congress with a cow.
In 1992 he starred opposite Sharon Stone as the corruptible cop in Basic Instinct, and the following year he put in a great performance as the paranoid defence worker losing his way at the end of the Cold War in Falling Down.
And they may not follow every issue and know exactly what is going on, but their basic instinct is let's give everybody a fair shot and let's make sure everybody does their fair share, and let's make sure everybody is playing by the same set of rules.
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It is particularly associated with a dependence upon sexual activity, our most basic animal instinct, hence the reduction in the sex-drive and a return to a childlike, innocent self-awareness during recuperative states.
But Labour MP Keith Vaz accused the commissioner of showing a lack of "basic policing instinct" over his handling of the affair and said he "seemed to have no regret for anything that has happened".
The fight or flight instinct is one of our most basic survival tools.
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