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Director Andrew Jarecki ("Capturing the Friedmans") has cut a deal to get the domestic theatrical rights to his feature debut "All Good Things" from the Weinstein Co. and is looking for a new U.S. distributor for the movie. "All Good...
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Ovation TV, a small independent cable channel based in Santa Monica that is devoted to arts and culture, wants to stand up and bid for Miramax Films. Miramax's movie library of sophisticated and Oscar-winning titles such as "Shakespeare in Love,"...
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Andrea Wong, chief executive of Lifetime for nearly three years, is leaving the network. Her contract was due to expire in April. The shake-up comes less than six months after a corporate restructuring that lumped Lifetime into the A&E Television...
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Weinstein Co. had a busy Sundance. The production company has sealed a deal for "Blue Valentine," a dark drama about a failed marriage starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, and is near a deal for "The Tillman Story," a documentary...
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A movie about a high school basketball team that rose above the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina -- a film that starred an Oscar winner -- got caught up in Hurricane Weinstein and was quietly dumped into video stores by the...
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The Weinstein Co. is pushing back the release of its sequel to its surprise animated hit "Hoodwinked." Originally set to premiere the weekend of Jan. 15, "Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil" now will debut in February at the earliest. David...
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The Weinstein Co. has struck a deal for all international rights with the Film Department, the production company founded by Mark Gill and Neil Sacker. The two-year deal will commence with "Law Abiding Citizen," the Jamie Foxx - Gerard Butler...
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Looks like it's not a small world after all for the Weinstein Co. The film and entertainment company, which has been shedding staff in the wake of restructuring its operations, is selling its majority stake in aSmallWorld.net -- a social...
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Last week, we briefly reported on the legal blow dealt to Harvey Weinstein's efforts to distribute "Precious, Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire," the darling of the Sundance Film Festival that follows the brutal life of a young Harlem...
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In the latest shake-up at the struggling Weinstein Co., theatrical chief Tom Ortenberg is leaving the production company. Ortenberg, whose official title was president of theatrical films, spent just nine months at the company, which has struggled under a heavy...
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Some good news for the beleaguered Weinstein Co. as it has sold the rights to "Inglourious Basterds" to Time Warner's basic cable network TNT. Though terms were not disclosed, typically these deals are based on a percentage of the box...
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"Halloween II" may not have won the box office this weekend, but Weinstein Co. is taking a lesson from the movie that did as it prepares a sequel for next summer. The independent studio's co-Chairman Bob Weinstein said today that...
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Now that "Inglourious Basterds" has taken in an impressive $38.1 million in its opening weekend and looks like it's going to be a huge hit, the Weinstein Co. should be poised to collect a nice check from CBS Corp.'s pay...
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Women, it turns out, were the surprising key for "Basterds" this weekend. While an audience that's 58% male would seem lopsided for many pictures, Weinstein Co. Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein said it was much better than he had expected and one...
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"Inglourious Basterds" has given the Weinstein Co. a much-needed jolt, opening to a very strong studio-estimated $37.6 million. That's far and away the biggest opening for director Quentin Tarantino, as well as the highest first-weekend gross for a movie in...