Harvey Weinstein

  • Good Morning, Oscar: September 16

    As Harvey Weinstein juggles his Oscar contenders, the best-actor race gets crowded.

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  • Is This a Wrap for Tarantino?

      Is this a wrap for Quentin Tarantino?   That may sound bizarre, given the bluster Harvey Weinstein was spewing last weekend, but let’s examine the facts. Everyone has been proclaiming that Tarantino’s new, WWII monstrosity, which opened to an “unheard-of" $37.6 million, his “biggest opening to date.”   But wait a minute —  …

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    Peter McAlevey

  • Weinsteins Sell ‘Basterds’ to the Masses — Cool!

    Say what you like about Harvey Weinstein. But when it came to marketing “Inglourious Basterds,” he hit it out of the park. The movie beat even the highest box office projections by more than $10 million. That’s worth a closer look. Here are the raw elements: A period film. Mainly in French and German. With…

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  • Weinstein on Tarantino Cutting ‘Basterds’

    “Read my lips: That is nuts. Please don’t even write that, it’s insanity.”

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    GQ

  • Weinstein, Tarantino Ride Into Battle at Cannes

    Deja vu … Harvey and Bob hit town with rumors of funding woes, and “Inglourious Basterds” could put them on firm ground.

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    Weinstein, Tarantino Ride Into Battle at Cannes

  • Coming Soon: A Sneak Peek at Some of TWC’s Upcoming Releases

    ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ Rob Zombie’s ‘H2’ set for end-of-summer release.

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    Wrap Staff

  • ‘Reader’ Controversy? Or Harvey Weinstein looking for attention?

    The makers of the Oscar-nominated film, “The Reader,” issued a statement on Friday defending the film from what they called “fringe criticism” that it is a Holocaust denial film. What’s going here? “Fringe” people writing on “the fringe” – that would be author Ron Rosenbaum (“Explaining Hitler”) on Huffpo and Rod Lurie (“The Contender”) on Slate…

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  • ‘The Reader’ Oscar credits issue resolved

    Contentious issued resolved by Academy’s Producer Committee

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  • Don’t Cough in Hollywood

    I interviewed Bob Shaye, the co-chairman of New Line, at length last week for a story in today’s Business Day section of the Times. In the piece, Shaye addressed numerous rumors swirling around Hollywood about his studio, and revealed a fairly big piece of news: that he was in a coma for six weeks in…

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