Harvey Weinstein

"Project Runway" Set For Fashion Week Despite Woes

NY Post | Posted 02.27.2009 | Entertainment


THE next season of "Project Runway" may never make it to TV, but producers plan to film the big, New York Fashion Week finale anyway. Taping of the ...

Happy Holidays Hollywood!

Ariston Anderson | Posted 01.19.2009 | Entertainment


Ariston Anderson

Just how much is the credit crunch going to affect Hollywood? Film elite like Sir Ben Kingsley, Penelope Cruz, Gus Van Sant, Dennis Hopper, Darren Aronofsky and others weigh in.

Milk Robbed of Globes

Chris Goldberg | Posted 01.14.2009 | Entertainment


Chris Goldberg

Sean Penn nails it in Milk (even the Queens accent, which I can personally attest to as a Sunnyside resident). The movie is nearly flawless. It puts most biopics to shame.

Harvey's Back! Weinstein Company Gets 8 Golden Globe Nominations

Hollywood Reporter | Steven Zeitchik | Posted 01.12.2009 | Entertainment


When Harvey Weinstein landed scattered awards nominations during the past few years, some -- especially Weinstein himself -- touted a comeback. This ...

Cindy Adams Wins $10,000 Bet From Harvey Weinstein

NY Post | Posted 01.08.2009 | Entertainment


Harvey Weinstein sure bets a lot. From the end of Cindy Adams' column in Monday's NY Post: Nov. 8, 2007, Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" opened. In...

Making "The Reader": Translating Love And The Unspeakable

New York Times | Posted 01.07.2009 | Entertainment


The Germans have a word for it: Vergangenheitsbewaltigung -- more or less, "coming to terms with the past." It's not an easy concept to translate into...

Reading Between the Lines in The Reader: When is Abuse Not Abuse?

Thelma Adams | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment


Thelma Adams

The Reader? It's goodish. And Kate Winslet is, as ever, brilliant. And it has Nazis, which elevates it on the Oscar nom scale. But it doesn't fully address the fact that Michael is a victim of abuse.

Weinsteins Cutting 11% Of Workforce

NY Post | Posted 12.22.2008 | Entertainment


The Weinstein Co. is laying off about 11 percent of its workforce as the sickly economic environment further invades Tinseltown, The Post has learned...

"Project Runway" Frozen On Catwalk Amid Legal Tangle

New York Times | Posted 12.20.2008 | Entertainment


LOS ANGELES -- At a time when audiences are shrinking for almost every type of television program, it stands to reason that producers and network exec...

Celebrities On Election Night (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 12.06.2008 | Entertainment


Bold-faced names gathered on election night at parties around the country. In Chicago Oprah joined in the celebration in Grant Park. Viewing parties i...

Producer Scott Rudin Quits "The Reader"

LA Times | Posted 11.10.2008 | Entertainment


The LA Times reports producer Scott Rudin is leaving "The Reader," a film with Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes: The Oscar winning producer, who has bee...

NBC Wins "Project Runway" Lawsuit, Prevents Show's Move To Lifetime

AP | Posted 10.28.2008 | Entertainment


LOS ANGELES — The reality fashion show "Project Runway" will not be able to strut its stuff on the Lifetime TV channel, a judge ruled Friday. A...

An Old Quentin Tarantino And Harvey Weinstein Phone Call About Robert De Niro's Ego Released

NY Post | Posted 10.27.2008 | Entertainment


ROBERT De Niro was such a big pain during the making of the 1997 movie "Jackie Brown" that then-Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein had to calm down direc...

Harvey Weinstein Blogs! (Now Stop Seeing Those Superhero Movies)

Portfolio | Posted 08.01.2008 | Entertainment


There have been a number of recent articles accusing me of not focusing on films like I did when I was running Miramax. It's simply not the case. Dur...

Harvey Weinstein, Jeff Zucker Spar In Court Over "Project Runway"

AdWeek | Steve McClellan | Posted 07.26.2008 | Media


NEW YORK Jeff Zucker, president and CEO of NBC Universal, and Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of The Weinstein Co. (TWC), offered colorful and conflicti...

Harvey Weinstein Caught On Tape: Hear The Resentment

Gawker | Posted 07.11.2008 | Entertainment


CLICK THROUGH TO LISTEN Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has always resented the fact that peers made more money than him with what he deemed to be infer...

Weinstein Brothers Are Broadway Bound

Variety | Gordon Cox | Posted 06.28.2008 | Entertainment


After years as a featured player on the legit scene, Harvey Weinstein is stepping into a leading role. The Weinstein Co. -- a minority co-producer on...

Clinton Backer Weinstein Threatens Pelosi Over Revote

CNN | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics


In a heated phone call with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late last month, Hillary Clinton supporter Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut off campaign mone...

Harvey Weinstein Remembers Teacher And Friend Anthony Minghella

The Times | Harvey Weinstein | Posted 04.19.2008 | Entertainment


The memories are so vivid; snatches of conversations like pieces of movies - instructive, adventurous and always humorous. "Opera? Me? Never happen,"...

"Project Runway" Ditches Bravo For Lifetime, NBC Sues To Keep Hit Show

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 04.15.2008 | Media


Reality hit "Project Runway," the foundation of Bravo's transformation into a reality-based power network, is jumping ship in favor of women's network...

Weinsteins Start Upscale DVD Label

Hollywood Reporter | Thomas K. Arnold | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


Bob and Harvey Weinstein have already made their mark on Hollywood. Now, the former Miramax Films chiefs are bent on leaving their imprint on the DVD...

Harvey Wants Another Rambo Flick

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


just got off the phone with Harvey Weinstein whose Weinstein Co is co-distributing Rambo with Lionsgate, and he's remarkably bullish on Sly Stallone's...

Weinstein Strikes Deal With Guild Writers

New York Times | MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


The Weinstein Company, one of Hollywood's biggest independent film companies, has completed a separate agreement with striking writers, according to H...

Weinsten Expected To Make Deal With WGA

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


The Weinstein Co., one of Hollywood's largest independent film producers, says it expects to reach a deal with striking Hollywood writers that will al...

Bon Jovi Entertains A-List Masses On St. Barts' Yacht

Fox News | Roger Friedman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


The real party down in expensive, tony, and apparently cold St. Bart's this year was on December 30th. The location was Microsoft co founder Paul Alle...