Harvey Weinstein

Shortly afterwards, following a bidding war that remains the subject of a legal battle involving Harvey Weinstein (who claims that he entered a verbal contract to buy it), the film was sold to the distributor Lionsgate. Oprah Winfrey and...

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...to that show's repeating champ Alec Baldwin. REUTERS • Sharon Waxman says Disney should return the Miramax name to founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein. The boys named their new company after their parents Miriam and Max in 1979 and sold it to...

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• Their company may be ailing, but Weinsteins are ready to make a play to get their name back. The Wrap reports that Harvey and Bob are preparing a pitch to Robert Iger to buy back their old Miramax brand now that Disney has all but...

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...neighborhood of Manhattan, where it had been a major presence for two decades, Miramax was, of course, the house that Harvey and Bob Weinstein built, and the fact that they chose to build it in New York City had tremendous meaning. As the...

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...experience in movies when his screenplay for "Boondock Saints" became a sensation in the late '90s. A bidding war ensued and Harvey Weinstein, then of Miramax, took in Duffy as his next Quentin Tarantino or Kevin Smith. The two tangled,...

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...says. "After 20 minutes, everybody that they felt needed to be in the room was in the room. I don't think (Weinstein Co. principal) Harvey Weinstein was there, but maybe some of his people were. The agents gave me the thumbs, and then we...

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...put the movie honcho in the middle of the action. "Matt's job was half P.R., and mostly politics," Weinstein said. With Hiltzik's contacts, Weinstein threw a star-studded fundraiser for the first lady at his home on Martha's Vineyard, with...

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...and future titles from Weinstein Books," and the companies will jointly develop book ideas. Harvey Weinstein says that'll be a snap: Weinstein said he expects to use his contacts to bring in leading authors as well as political and...

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...a lot of money, which I don't think you have." I laughed and said, "I think I have ten times more than you do." Then he bought the website, and proved to Weinstein that he wasn't some unimportant poor person. Who's laughing now, Weinstein?

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...just hang out on Facebook, which Metcalfe's law teaches us is exponentially more useful anyway. Not that Weinstein suddenly realized any of this; he's cutting his losses only now that circumstances have forced him to, and probably at a...

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