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The Weinstein Fire Sale Begins
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 $34 million. More » -
He's Broke, Son
The Weinstein Company's Money Problems: Officially Bad
Things at the House of Harvey haven't been going well, and now it's reported that they've brought in a financing firm to restructure their debt, and figure out how to cover the boat's holes before it fills with water. More » -
last chances
It May Be Too Late For Harvey Weinstein to Save Himself
It's a big day for Harvey Weinstein: Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds had its first public screening today at Cannes. The movie is shaping up as a make-or-break proposition for the Weinstein Co., which can't shake rumors that it's insolvent. The Wrap suggests that it's too late anyway. More »
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By John CookComment by BookishLookish: Looks like Harv has lost a bit of weight actually. Is that new bride making him do some homework? 9 Responses | Other threads
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pic of the day
What Sunshine Is To Flowers, Smiles Are To Humanity
[Film mogul Harvey Weinstein attends a party in New York last night for the book The Skinny: On Losing Weight Without Being Hungry; pic via Getty.]
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Comment by stanhalen: Once again, can you imagine the look on the Hollywood starlets face when she found out she had to blow... 8 Responses | Other threads
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deathwatch
Is Harvey Weinstein Broke?
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 » -
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Project Runway Deal Signed, Harvey Weinstein Returns to Bashing NBC
Harvey Weinstein's gracious-in-defeat couldn't last long. After paying off NBC to take his Project Runway to Lifetime, the mogul had "personally" congratulated the network. Now, he's calling NBC chairman Ben Silverman a big naked-arm-wrestling homo. More » -
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Sweetie, I Promise to Make You the Next Mira Sorvino! Both of You!
[Harvey Weinstein leaving the Waverly Inn with "Gossip Girl" stars Blake Lively and Penn Badgley; image via INF] More » -
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Netscape Billionaire to Wed Supermodel This Weekend
Giving geeks everywhere hope, Jim Clark, cofounder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, is marrying swimsuit model Kristy Hinze this weekend on Richard Branson's Necker Island — also the site of Google founder Larry Page's nuptials.
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Mariah Carey's Mustache Still Not in Theaters Soon
More speculation today surrounds the whereabouts of Precious (née Push: Based on a Novel by Sapphire), the celebrated, Benjamin Bratt-terrifying drama that won last month's Sundance Film Festival before tumbling into bidding-war lawsuit limbo. More » -
beautiful awards
Harvey Weinstein's Non-Comeback Comeback
He lost a million-dollar bet, all but liquidated his company and endured a late, vicious backlash against a film that nobody even thought would reach the Oscars. And he won. That's why he's Harvey Weinstein. More » -
gossip roundup
Octuplet Mom Might Lose House Now
A picture deal may be all that stands between octo-mom and a foreclosure,just as a clue from daughter Bee is all that stood between Anna Wintour and a new Katy Perry album. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by LowClassInk: I want to snark about the Octo-lady who lives in a shoe who has so many children she can't pay... 12 Responses | Other threads
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celeb jurisprudence
Overachieving Weinsteins Already Hit With Their Second Lawsuit Of 2009
Despite seeing the threat coming, the Weinstein Company never bothered to dodge a new lawsuit from the surviving half of Sam & Dave — the allegedly uncredited sources for last year's bomb Soul Men. More » -
push
'Get Your Hands Off My 'Push' Baby!': A Defamer Timeline
Sundance darling Push is at the center of a bitter tug-of-war, with The Weinstein Company filing multiple suits against Lionsgate and Cinetic, the company that brokered the deal, alleging fraud and breach of contract. More » -
beautiful awards
Harvey Weinstein Hopes You're Still Scared of Him
Entertainment Weekly's recent article on The Reader's Oscar chances featured a funny/sad quote by Harvey Weinstein, in which he compared himself to Billy the Kid. It's been a popular quote! Because it's very silly. More »
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oscars
Harvey Weinstein Critically Wounds Four In Oscar Gunplay
It didn't take much imagination to see Harvey Weinstein wielding the whip hand two weeks ago when theSlumdog Millionaire backlash commenced. At least not as much imagination as Harvey summoned to deny it. More » -
feuds
Kevin Smith Sells Out The Weinsteins In Latest 'Zack and Miri' Lament
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. More » -
oscars
Good Fucking Riddance, 'Revolutionary Road'
In the spirit of fairness for those many times we called the Academy out for its general Oscar-nominating ineptitude, let's all commend its members' fine taste today in snubbing the utterly despicable Revolutionary Road. More » -
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5 Plots And Subplots To Watch In This Year's Oscar Race
This morning's Oscar nominations offered a desperately needed opportunity to pare this season's awards also-rans from the ranks of the contenders. Alas, it just means higher-stakes hype and drama for the lucky ones: More » -
beautiful awards
A Closer Look at the Academy Award Nominations
The Gay Superbowl nominations have been announced. Let's go category by category (well, only for the big ones) and take a look at the surprises and, if we can make such predictions, the likely winners. More »
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Comment by CodePink: I think Best Supporting Actress is gonna be the tough one to call. Viola should win. But will split the... 9 Responses | Other threads
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inglourious basterds
Weinsteins Unleashing 'Basterds' in Late-August Dumping Ground
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. -
beautiful awards
The Golden Globe Awards: Killers Of Dreams
Oh happy day, awards season has really started! The Golden Globe awards nominations have been announced, sending some hopes soaring and others to dash themselves on the rocks and die a quick death.
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Comment by hortense: Kaufman and Black will probably get nods at Oscar time when both Adapted and Original categories open up. And Lost totally... 14 Responses | Other threads
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harvey weinstein
Weinstein Co. Is Now 25% Off
Harvey Weinstein made his name trading the most emphemeral commodities of all — Oscar buzz — but it will be the harsh realities of cold, hard cash that threaten to bring him down. More »
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Comment by richardmarxhatesmyhair: I got it! Shakespeare in Love: 2 Electric Boogaloo! 3 Responses | Other threads
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Harvey Weinstein's Last, Best Oscar Hope May Be Crashing and Burning
Times continue to be tough for Harvey Weinstein and his Weinstein Company. Already suffering shrinkage and hobbling away from the shoulda-been-as-big-as-Superbad bust Zack and Miri Make a Porno, the company is now forced to watch as its big Oscar-hope flick The Reader fails to resonate with critics. Weinstein, who has been touting the holocaust tale as the film that would save his company, had waged a bitter war with producer Scott Rudin to get it into theaters in time for eligibility. Big things were hinged and waged on this, and the returns look to be diminishing. More »
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Comment by Belabras: Dude, Zack and Miri didn't do bad in theatres at all [en.wikipedia.org] 6 Responses | Other threads
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the reader
Director Stephen Daldry on Sex, Moguls and Surviving 'The Reader'
The culmination of our dedicated coverage of The Reader — from Rudin/Weinstein blow-ups to Oscar prognoses to its sexual audacity — arrived this weekend when director Stephen Daldry phoned Defamer HQ. "Sorry, I overslept," he said in his dignified brogue — a forgivable lapse under the circumstances, with his Kate Winslet film following his Billy Elliot stage adaptation by mere weeks on his late-'08 calendar. Nevertheless, we got him properly caffeinated and settled in for a rousing installment of Five Questions (plus one, just for appropriate awards-season breadth): -
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Grateful Harvey Weinstein Cultivates Fragile Mogul Peace With Scott Rudin
When we awoke this morning to discover California hadn't yet crashed into the sea, we had little choice but to acknowledge that the culturally cataclysmic worst was behind us. Another profound symbol of recovery arrived shortly thereafter, when we heard that Harvey Weinstein actually paid tribute to exiled Reader producer Scott Rudin at the film's premiere Wednesday night. -
kate winslet
Flaccid Rankings: In an attempt to rebut the cruel patriarchy of Mr. Skin's women-only list of the year's top nude scenes, The Frisky has published their own Top 10, detailing the best bare men of the year. As a commentary on this year's slim male pickings, two of the winners went nothing more than shirtless, one was onstage, and the winner was Jason Segel from Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Alas, The Reader continued its nude scene shutout. Old Harvey would have gotten Kate Winslet on this list somehow, even without a penis! The full list, after the jump: -
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Harvey Weinstein Fails to Nab 'Mr. Skin' Top 10 Berth For Nude Kate Winslet
Poor Harvey Weinstein just can't catch a break for The Reader! So far, his pushy campaign to ready the film for awards glory has resulted in the loss of both Scott Rudin and a million-dollar bet, and now his efforts have resulted in further ignominy: Kate Winslet's very naked performance was denied a spot on Mr. Skin's Top Celebrity Nude Scenes of 2008. Could this be an Oscar precursor? Let's hope not, considering who came in first: -
harvey weinstein
Up to 24 Laid Off in New Weinstein Co. Purge
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 » -
deathwatch
Sharks Circling, the Weinstein Co. Starts to Shrink
Whenever he's had a glaring problem in his business, Harvey Weinstein — legendary manipulator of the press — has always been a master at deflecting attention away: No Oscars recently? Just look at how much money the lowbrow genre films his brother Bob have been raking in! No big genre successes? Well, look at our home video business! The home video business is struggling? Well, we've got an Oscar film coming up! The cycle can be repeated over and over, but financial facts always trump spin. And today, the Weinstein Co. laid off 24 of its employees, 11% of its total staff, according to the New York Post, in what will only provide more chum in the water for those not-so-quietly rooting for the final downfall of the Weinsteins. More »
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Everyone From Runway Now Suing Harvey Weinstein
When it moved Project Runway from Bravo to Lifetime, Weinstein Company transformed the latter cable network from overearnest television for spinsters into something more chic and cheeky, or so some people said at the time. Weinstein Company was promptly sued by Bravo parent NBC Universal, which won an unexpected victory in court and impounded the show. Lifetime has been stewing, bitterly, and yelling at its cats, like a spurned mistress, and now Lifetime has decided it's going to sue Harvey Weinstein's company, presumably for being a slimy jerk who said the divorce was final when really he wasn't even separated yet. This makes 2008 the year of total meltdown for Weinstein: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by unclevanya: The thing is, after all these lawuits are concluded, PR is still going to air on Lifetime. It's now down... 2 Responses | Other threads
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school girls
Harvey Weinstein On 'Project Runway' Enemy Jeff Zucker: We Were Totally Not BFFs
That whole Project Runway lawsuit, between the Weinstein Company and the television conglomerate they dissed, NBC/Universal, is never going to end. Well, not if Harvey Weinstein and NBC head brass Jeff Zucker can't play nice. The New York Times did a little status update for the lawsuit this morning (basically everything is the same: jilted ex-lover doesn't want to let the fashion design show go to its new middle-aged girlfriend Lifetime, because of first refusal contracts, allegedly) that brings up some bitchy new details about their relationship. Basically, Zucker thought the two honchos were besties that he'd never screw NBC over, but Weinstein says nuh-uh: More »
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cheech and chong
Broke Weinsteins and Stoner Burnouts Join Forces For 2009 Breakthrough
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 » -
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Fergie Retrofitted With Crotch-Veil In New 'Nine' Promotional Photo
After we covered the first promotional photo from Nine last week, this follow-up email from the Weinstein Company seemed simple enough: "Attached is a high res version of the shot you put up on the site Friday. Do you mind replacing it with this one?" Sure, we thought. After all, who wouldn't want a closer look at the film's eclectic cast, which includes Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson, Judi Dench, and Fergie's labia? Strangely, though, one of those performers appears to have gone missing thanks to an industrious Weinstein Co. photoshop. Check out the shocking evidence, after the jump! More » -
gossip roundup
Kirsten Dunst Launches Elections Investigation
- While you were merely voting and watching television or whatever, Kirsten Dunst was personally investigating the voting process, in North Dakota. She was asking America why it's terrible at voting, and hoping the answer has nothing to do with movies. [Daily Star]
- Oprah Winfrey on Obama's speech, post-cry: "I was so, so, so excited and then just sort of a calm came over me." [Insider]
- Jessica Alba was impressed that John McCain dealt with racial issues in his concession speech; Harvey Weinstein called Obama's win "a great day for America;" Obama Girl Amber Lee Ettinger "burst into tears" when the race was called for Obama. As though she had a choice. [R&M]
- It's not an entirely happy morning in America: Lesbian heiress Courtenay Semel lost her allowance. [P6]
- Miley Cyrus is already gearing herself up to just say "NO" to unreasonable posing requests from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Including anything involving bedsheets. [Entertainment Weekly]
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By Ryan TateComment by dado: Terry Semel uttered the words which are synonymous with the death rattle..."don't you know who I am?" 1 Responses | Other threads
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kate winslet
'Reader' Trailer Drops as Kate Winslet Craves Oscar in 'Vanity Fair'
The Reader may still require a month's worth of round-the-clock editing under armed guard, but the Kate Winslet drama has at last yielded a trailer to remind us that there is an Oscar-hopeful under all those layers of Harvey Weinstein-Scott Rudin ego-crisis. And like last week's not-embarrassing Valkyrie teaser, the preview assures us that its prestige creds are in place, thus setting the table for the next phase of its awards campaign, "Getting Winslet to Say Anything Positive About It At All." Though the Rudin loyalist spends most of her time in a new interview with Vanity Fair promoting her and Leonardo DiCaprio's Revolutionary Road, there is the modest admission that "you bet your fucking ass" she wants an Oscar this year: More » -
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Shellshocked Weinsteins Find New Enemy in the 'Zack and Miri' Aftermath
The only words you'll hear more than "It's your fault" today at Weinstein Company HQ: "It could have been worse," the unofficial new TWC battle cry after Zack and Miri Make a Porno opened over the weekend to a disappointing $10.7 million. Indeed, it probably will be worse — Universal and Lionsgate accused the Weinsteins of inflating their gross by as much as a million dollars, and just for fun, another potential lawsuit threatens the brothers' follow-up this week. So who is to blame, anyway, and what's next? More » -
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Zack and Miri Opening More Kevin Smith Than Judd Apatow
The early returns on Zack and Miri Make A Porno aren't what Harvey Weinstein was hoping for. After fighting over how explicit the film's promotional materials and title could be, the Seth Rogen-Elizabeth Banks romantic comedy didn't explode at the box office this weekend. The film netted an underwhelming projected $10.6 million even after a really slow Friday night opening. It looks like all the free publicity and feel-good endings in the world couldn't turn a frog into an Apatovian prince. More »
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stoner verite
What Judd Apatow Did To Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith wants what Judd Apatow has. Using elements of the New Jersey director's brilliant comedies Clerks and Chasing Amy, Apatow built a foul-mouthed comedy empire where Smith's films always fell short of major box-office success. As the film opens this weekend, does Zack and Miri Make a Porno belong to Kevin Smith, or Judd Apatow? More »
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Could The Word 'Porno' Destroy Weinstein's One Hollywood Hope?
The Weinstein Co. has a few issues at the moment. Including—but not limited to!—the hasty departure of top executives; an ongoing struggle with Bravo over Project Runway, the company's strongest TV property; and a consistently weak outlook for Harvey Weinstein's myriad businesses. The one thing Weinstein's investors really have to look forward to is the possible success of the company's upcoming Kevin Smith/ Seth Rogen flick, Zack And Miri Make A Porno. But has the Weinstein Co. managed to screw up the film's prospects before it's even released? More » -
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Weinsteins and Bravo Plot Second Season of 'Project Runway: The Lawsuit'
The Weinsteins are continuing their world-record pace for industry alienation this week, now leveling a lawsuit against Bravo alleging the network deliberately sabotaged season five of Project Runway. It's roughly the 22nd chapter in this year's tortured history between the brothers and Bravo's parent company at NBC Universal since the pair attempted to sneak PR off to Lifetime (a judge issued an injunction against the move last month following Bravo's own suit), yet wielding all the climactic juice that last week's season finale seemed to lack. Which is exactly the problem, according to Harvey and Bob. More »
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