Plus: Tartan films find a home, and Harvey tries to find Quentin a sugar daddy.
As Variety commends audiences for their, um, smarts (oh, puns), the Weinsteins make an intelligent move of their own.
Who knew web-only content was subject to MPAA approval? Does the MPAA know how easy their archaic oversight laws are to circumvent?
The Variety headline: “Production Resumes on [David O'Russell's] Nailed,” which had been shut down due to the production company’s failure to pay union fees last week. The real story: ThinkFilm, and its financial backers, Capitol Films, are having trouble paying the bills. Not only did Alex Gibney threaten a bankruptcy lawsuit after a promised bonus [...]
A bunch of actors (including Natalie Portman, Ethan Hawke, Hayden Christensen, and Olivia Thirlby, aka The Other Broad From Juno) will direct segments of the omnibus feature, New York, I Love You.
As part of a gambit to make the kids aware of The Love Guru, his first movie in roughly forty years, Mike Myers will [...]
March 27, 2008 – 10:45 am
I’m not totally convinced that this is not a joke, but the Huffington Post claims that the Weinstein Company is going to start running this TV ad for Under the Same Moon today. The immigration drama broke the record for the biggest opening for a Spanish-language film in the States last week, and essentially became [...]
Hollywood is sad, and the producers of FANBOYS are mad. Also: Christine Vachon meets Fidel Castro.
January 29, 2008 – 12:00 pm
In the latest bit of uh-oh from the Weinstein Company, Wong Kar Wai’s latest has been shuffled further down the calendar.
January 11, 2008 – 8:34 am
The Writers Guild of America have called off their annual awards show, ostensibly because they’d rather not lavish free praise and attention on studio product whilst in the middle of an agonizing labor war with the studios. They still plan to announce the winners in their three categories on February 9.
The Weinsteins have finally hammered [...]
December 31, 2007 – 9:48 am
With one day left in the year, let’s make sure to beat that “Bergman and Antonioni were the last of the Great Film Auteurs” dead horse one last time.
