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Empty Desks, Fire Sales, and Other Signs of the Weinstein Apocalypse
3:50AM STV | There aren’t a lot of wheels left to fly off at the Weinstein Company, where as many as five executives are now expected to have made their exits by the end of the year. Add on the news that its previous Oscar hopeful The Road is officially shelved until 2009 while Bob Weinstein reportedly invests upward of $US60 million in straight-to DVD releases for next year (a market he badmouthed as recently as last week), and your Weinstein DeathWatch countdown may have just acquired new, accelerated momentum. Watch the casualties mount after the jump.
Is Downtrodden Weinstein Company Paying to Play at New Showtime?
2:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Disgruntled as its recent self-esteem plunge has made us, no one could realistically suggest that the Weinstein Company is what you’d call “circling the drain.” Maybe “studying the drain,” or even “pawning the drain,” if today’s latest Harvey newsflash is to be believed: The Weinsteins have locked up a deal with Showtime as the premium-cable outlet for 95 films over seven years. Starting in 2009, the agreement covers both Weinstein Company and Dimension Films releases, including the so-hot-no-one-will-claim-it Inglorious Bastards and Rob Marshall’s musical Nine.
