Harvey's Tumble [Deathwatch]

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Hollywood Babble On & On #125: Random Summer Musings...
Published 7/9/2008 by Furious D (noreply@blogger.com) at The Fantastic Adventures of Furious D
1. Quentin Tarantino has finally finished his script for the remake of The Inglorious Bastards and he and producer Harvey Weinstein are shopping it around Hollywood, and it's reported that Weinstein will co-produce it with returning Tarantino producer Lawrence Bender. Now I'm a ...

The view: Is it all over for indie cinema?
Published 7/11/2008 by Danny Leigh at Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
FindingNemo Hounds of hell ... Tartan's Hamish McAlpine with friend. Photograph: Graeme Robertson In a microcosm of the credit crunch, the summer so far has seen the once-thriving world of indie film lurching into crisis: Tartan's kaput, Harvey Weinstein is having his finances publicly gossiped over , and those arthouse distributors who do remain afloat are seeing their peers routinely sink beneath the briny. So ...

Harvey Weinstein Offers Rare, Brief Tour of Where His Movies Go to Die [Weinstein Company Deathwatch]
Published 7/18/2008 by STV at Defamer
... on TWC's flagging slate, including Bob Weinstein's prediction that the $171,000-grossing John C. Reilly comedy The Promotion "may make us a few bucks" when the dust settles on home video. No rush, Bob — Wall Street and your 21-cent Genius Products shares can wait. ...

Weinstein Vs. Rudin: Handicapping Their Kate Winslet Oscar Grudge Match [Place Your Bets]
Published 9/23/2008 by STV at Defamer
... OSCARS: Rudin has Harvey's ex-Miramax miracle workers at his disposal in New York, but even if Winslet is stronger in The Reader, she'll win or lose based on the campaign that DreamWorks mounts for Revolutionary Road. Harvey's cheap ass is counting on the subsequent comparisons, of course — even he doesn't know if he'll be around to pay his own way next year. That strategy ...