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Quentin Tarantino Hops Aboard the Cloris Leachman Comeback Train!

5:20AM Kyle Buchanan | The Weinstein Company today announced that Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic Inglorious Bastards has begun principal photography, and the accompanying press release was notable for two reasons. First, the official announcement spells the title as “INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS,” aping the misspelling on the title page of the widely-leaked (and poorly spelled) script; does this mean that the film will goose-step into theatres bearing the same appellation? Still, there was one other tidbit tucked into the end of the film’s cast roundup that we’re shocked to find wasn’t the subject of its very own, trumpet-blaring announcement: More »

Weinsteins Set New Standard for DVD Oblivion

6:11AM Defamer Hollywood | With interests including Halston, A Small World and, well, the Weinstein Company, the post-Miramax Weinstein brothers have proven their uncanny ability to diversify, crash and burn as well as any moguls this side of Charles Keating. No reversal of fortune is complete, however, without a boutique DVD label and a few classics freshly extracted from Harvey Weinstein’s TiVo: The Miriam Collection, named after the brothers’ mother, launched in late January with the release of one of the last great epics not previously available on DVD, Anthony Mann’s El Cid. More »