Uptown Girls RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Peppard: Georgina Chapman; Harvey Weinstein; Sarah, Duchess of York Dallas Morning News, TX - 1 hour ago By ALAN PEPPARD / The Dallas Morning News Buying front-row seats to the upcoming Fashion at the Park at NorthPark could mean your shot at a movie deal. ...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008 | Entertainment
British Daily Mail columnist Allison Pearson is being sued over for an undelivered manuscript of a chick-lit novel for Miramax, who also had the film rights, reports the Telegraph. (Miramax also paid...
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
So: Miramax is suing Daily Mail columnist and chick-lit novelist Allison Pearson, alleging that in 2002 they gave her an advance and a two-year contract to produce a new book, on which they’d own the movie rights. To give some perspective: the deal was brokered during the Harvey Weinstein era, and Miramax now alleges that they haven’t even been able to get Pearson to return their calls since 2006––a...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
It's been such a rough couple of years for Harvey Weinstein. The movie mogul has seen disappointment at the box office, his MySpace for millionaires continues to flatline, the value of its video...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Photo: Getty Images According to Variety , expeditious director Quentin Tarantino is currently in talks with Universal to finance and distribute (along with the Weinstein Company) his long-delayed, nowhere-near-done WWII movie, Inglorious Bastards , which he's repeatedly promised to complete in time for next May's Cannes Film Festival. Vulture buddy Nikki Finke says the deal's already done , despite...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Remember how yesterday we told bloggers they should insist on getting paid because "someone is making money off your work and your content?" That argument applies to the creative side of pretty much...
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been forced to withdraw his name from contention for the 2008 Emmy Awards for his work on PROJECT RUNWAY - because the reality TV show listed too many producers. The Miramax boss took his name off the nominations list after the team behind the programme was told they had gone over [...]
The Media Mob (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Harvey Weinstein has finally— finally! —started a blog. The former co-chairman of Miramax and current head of The Weinstein Company has written a post for Portfolio 's newest blog, the hiply titled Playas , which will be guest edited by celebrities and executives. (No, it's not about beaches en Mexico .) According to a press release, Mr. Weinstein will be writing for a week. In his link-free and comment-disabled...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Weinstein Company head Harvey Weinstein is blogging away at Portfolio in a perfect storm of terrible news that we are required to cover. He is mad at you for going to Batman instead of some bullshit...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Filed under: Animation , Drama , Exhibition , The Weinstein Co. , Home Entertainment , Movie Marketing , Cinematical Indie If Harvey Weinstein didn't exist, someone would have to invent him. One week his garbage gets recycled into source material for The Village Voice , the next he and his brother Bob cut a 95-film, multi-year deal with Showtime and resurrect Scream . And then he gives a wide-ranging...
Defamer (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Relief swept Defamer HQ today as we can finally close the book on the long, tortured saga of Fanboys, the terminal-cancer by-way-of-Skywalker-Ranch buddy comedy whose scissoring (and presumed...
Defamer (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
What will the world do when it no longer has Harvey Weinstein to kick around any longer? This isn't a rhetorical question, either — at least it doesn't feel that way after the latest in a...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Page Six today brings news of a faaabulous bash in St. Tropez on the yacht of Denise Rich, the Clinton pal and wife of disgraced financier Marc Rich. And to help her bring out the real stars to her...
StyleCritics (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Georgina Chapman is a 32-year-old former model who is a codesigner for fashion label Marchesa, as well as an actress. Harvey Weinstein is a 56-year-old who cofounded Miramax and Weinstein Co. film production companies, and is known to have a nasty temper. Next to Harvey Weinstein’s Shrek-like looks, Georgina Chapman looks like a modern-day Cinderella. [...]
