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Weinstein Company Hires Top Lawyers to Take on MPAA

According to the MPAA, The King’s Speech is just as terrible for your children as Saw VII. The British period piece’s R rating (which is due to one scene in which the king swears while trying to rid himself of his stutter) has stirred up controversy over a ratings board that’s tough on language and sexuality but soft on gory violence, and The Weinstein Company has hired a team of top lawyers as it prepares to appeal the rating....  read more

Robert Rodriguez's (No Longer Fake) Machete to Be Releaed By Fox

Robert Rodriguez’s Machete has gone from a fake trailer to an in-joke action flick to a hot property, as 20th Century Fox swooped in and nabbed the movie away from The Weinstein Company for a reported $9 million....  read more

The Road's Release Date Gets Pushed Back...Again

In the movie business, every time a film's release date is moved back, industry confidence and media support for the project drops at least a little bit....  read more

As Inglourious Basterds Looms, The New York Times Zeroes in on the Weinstein Company

Tomorrow (Aug. 21) brings the release of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, the movie widely to believed to be one of the Weinstein Company’s last chances to maintain solvency. In a dubious bid to put to rest the breathless speculation about the company’s future, legendary producers Harvey and Bob Weinstein granted astonishing access to a writer for The New York Times, including exclusive interviews, screenings of their upcoming movies and admittance into production meetings, among other things. ...  read more

The Weinstein Company May Not Have the Cash to Market Inglourious Basterds. But Does it Even Matter?

The word this week is that The Weinstein Company, the mini-major studio founded after Bob and Harvey Weinstein finally parted ways with Miramax (and Disney) in 2005, is apparently on the brink of financial ruin. Originally touted as a maverick venture on par with the creation of Miramax in 1979, the studio was erratic from the start, and it quickly became clear that its future was rocky at best....  read more

Anne Hathaway to play Judy Garland on screen and stage

If Hollywood’s embrace of Anne Hathaway as a marquee star was ever in question, it isn’t now. The actress has been tapped to play Judy Garland in both screen and stage versions of Get Happy, the 2001 biography of the late star. ...  read more