2:55AM Defamer Hollywood | Amid all of Tuesday’s post-holiday hustle and bustle, we regrettably overlooked perhaps
the most profound news item of the day:
Harvey Weinstein indirectly hopped in
the Valkyrie fray at Cannes by picking up US theatrical/DVD rights to
Operation Valkyrie, a 2004 German retelling of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. It’s the same film
Tom Cruise and
Bryan Singer made (or are making, with worse accents) only to see it bumped twice to a Feb. 2009 release-date Siberia by Cruise/UA’s partners at MGM — oddly the same folks with whom
The Weinstein Company shares its own distribution deal. Small world, eh? It gets even weirder — kind of.
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