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Harvey Weinstein Finally Sells MySpace For Millionaires
8:40AM Ryan Tate | Weinstein Company is selling its exclusive social network for rich people to a Swiss heir, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. At last, circumstances have forced the company to do what it should have done years ago. More »
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Harvey Weinstein Is Sad, Senile, Barely Surviving The Next Big Thing
7:30AM Foster Kamer | Or so goes today’s lacerating NYT piece on The Weinstein Company’s fate, “The Weinsteins Scamble to Regain a Golden Touch in Hollywood.” Like old Miramax films, it’s juicy, exciting, illuminating, and troubling. It also lays their survival strategy bare. More »
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The Weinstein Fire Sale Begins
12:33AM John Cook | Have the Weinstein brothers done anything lately that doesn’t signal a desperate need for cash? Now Bob Weinstein, the less violent and insane half of the pair, is trying to unload his Central Park West duplex for $US34 million. More »
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Is Harvey Weinstein Broke?
1:43AM John Cook | The Weinstein Company keeps throwing out signs of having absolutely no money. The latest is a report that the company may have lost the rights to produce a sequel to Sin City. More »
Kevin Smith Sells Out The Weinsteins In Latest ‘Zack and Miri’ Lament
6:00AM STV | Any director worth a damn has faced it: Flop Grief, that five-stage process that varies by studio and box-office disappointment but never gets any easier. Especially if you’re Kevin Smith.
How Many Wrong Buttons Can The NY Times ‘Push’?
3:00AM Kyle Buchanan | Remember Push: Based on a Novel By Sapphire, the wild Mariah Carey/Mo’Nique starrer that lit up Sundance (and took home three awards)? Lionsgate took our advice and bought it, and now things have gone haywire.
Weinsteins Unleashing ‘Basterds’ in Late-August Dumping Ground
3:28AM STV | A note taped to Defamer HQ’s door greeted us this morning — not an eviction notice as we feared, but rather just another Weinstein news dump announcing Inglourious Basterds‘ [sic] eyebrow-raising late-summer ‘09 release date. More »
Up to 24 Laid Off in New Weinstein Co. Purge
8:47AM STV | Apparently not encouraged by the spit-take and crotch-veil buzz surrounding its forthcoming releases, the struggling Weinstein Company axed “roughly two dozen” employees this afternoon. The New York Post reports that human resources broke the news to the staffers — about 11% of the Weinsteins’ workforce — in a purge related not to the studio’s ongoing money woes, but rather a bit of bearish anticipation of the fast-approaching recession. Still, we’re as shocked as you are: The Weinstein Company has a human resources department? More »
Broke Weinsteins and Stoner Burnouts Join Forces For 2009 Breakthrough
5:23PM STV | The successful Cheech and Chong reunion tour has found precisely the messiah you’d expect to bring the pot-culture icons to the wider audience that slipped away from them almost 30 years ago: The Weinstein Company. Harvey and Bob today announced they are clearing space on their cluttered basement shelf for The Cheech and Chong Concert Movie, which the brothers acquired for worldwide theatrical, DVD and TV release in 2009. And the really funny thing? This may turn out to be their most profitable release of the year. More »
