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The normally can't-shut-him-up Harvey Weinstein was supposed to give the keynote "Indie Present And Future" interview at Dow Jones/Nielsen's Media and Money Conference in NYC being held today. The agenda read: "Harvey will bring his unique perspective to discuss and answer some of the most interesting questions facing the industry including: How does a stand-alone Indie film player find its stride amid a global credit crunch, the rise of digital media and the competition of much bigger rivals? And what is Weinstein's view on the future of the film business and his company?" But Harvey cancelled at the last minute because he had "a personal matter abroad that he needed to attend to", according to a spokesperson. Instead of the main man behind The Weinstein Co speaking, his brother Bob and COO Lee Solomon are filling in (to presumably talk about Harv in the third person). Hmm, could the problem be the subject matter Harv was supposed to opine about? So all of the above begs the question, Does The Weinstein Co even have a future?
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I used to look at the Weinstein Brothers with awe…
I used to look at Harvey with contempt. Now I look at him with pity.
“I used to look at the Weinstein Brothers with awe…”
I still look at them with awe. I’ve never seen anyone who can make money disappear so fast.
Their 90’s Miramax days were fantastic. They gave in and sold their souls. They make garbage just like all the other guys now. I though Harvey would have been stronger than that. Guess not.
I give it a year, if that. His experienced staff all left. I have no idea who to even call there anymore. Its a mess.
HARVEY AND BOB HAD THEIR DAY
BUT THEY SOLD MIRAMAX FOR BIG PAY
TO THE MOUSE THEY WERE SUCKED
NOW THEY ARE ROYALLY FUCKED
AND THE PEOPLE ALL SHOUT HOORAY!
For as much as Harvey and Bob Shaye hate each other, they’ll soon share the same fate!
Zack & Miri will do well for him, as will The Reader, Nine, and they’re covered on Tarantino’s new one, which may well be a hit too…the company just turned three years old from start-up.
The next eighteen months will see the official folding of:
Weinstein Co.
Yari Film Group
Capitol
I’m still surprised indie producers will still do business with him considering his track record. He’s now more famous for buying up promising indie films, sitting on them, sometimes for years, so that any interest or momentum earned by their festival run is lost, and then dumping them straight to DVD, on other distributors, or in a token theatrical run before the discount bin.
I’m also surprised that Weinstein’s been asked to talk about anything other than running a once promising business into the ground. If he didn’t have such a bad reputation for walking all over people, I’d feel pity for his situation. But he dug his own hole, and shouldn’t complain that the dirt’s rolling back in if he won’t climb out because he’s still digging it deeper.
I wonder if his “personal matter abroad” turns out to be a holiday. That would be his sort of stunt, making enemies where none need be made.
It’s too bad. These are all the guys including Yari who make or made real movies. I only go see stuff the Mark Cuban’s 2929 makes. He’s the best. The guy hasn’t sold his sold. What is so sad is Harvey has enough money to keep making or at least trying to make quality movies like Miramax of the 90’s. Instead his caught in the bowels of Spiderman and Ironman. Harv…you were once a leader. Now you are a follower and following right into the garbage disposal with the rest of the junk. Sure you make bigger bucks but the product sucks and you will be remembered for the crap and not the good. So sad. What a waste.
He’s nothing now, but you have to give him props for the incredible string of critical and box office hits from the 90’s. Miramax was unparalleled during that time, although they buy a few of those best picture nominations (Chocolat anyone?).
I LOVE Harvey. His rampaging ego has finally fucked him up, but good.
First, he THOUGHT he could sell his company to Eisner, use Disney’s money & screw Eisner in the process. You don’t make a deal with the devil and think you can get the best of him. As we used to say in grammar school, “What a dipshit!” If someone else owns your company, you’ve got no power at all. You don’t have to have a Harvard MBA to realize this. Only, Harvey didn’t.
There are times when Harvey exhibits room temperature I.Q. Talk about one’s ego getting in the way of reality!
So Harvey & Bob had to leave all their golden films to the mouse house. AND the names of their mother and father (MIRAMAX) to Eisner. Happy, boys? Got enough money, NOW??
Today, Harvey’s sweating bullets, lying through his teeth, and praying he has a few hits – financially & artistically speaking.
Should we feel sorry for the loud-mouth slob? Nobody in their right mind should. I, and many, many others here (as well as in Europe) hope he winds up sharing the fate of that other ass, Ovitz.
As far as making movies – who the shit cares about him? It’s pretty obvious his best days are behind him and he’s lost the touch.
There are enough talented people in this town to take up the slack.
Nice to see Harvey being seen for who he TRULY is… a money-pinching scumbag.
It is kind of funny reading from the haters. H.W. is a person you should never count out. He has had some bad pics over the last few years, but would you bet your life that another one of his pics won’t win an oscar, or that he wont have a film that will gross a few hundred million, or that he won’t have a film with a cast you would kill for etc etc etc??? Not to many people on the planet you can say that about.
@ realworldperson:
True, true, but he came up with the idiotic idea to boil down LOTR from a proposed two-flick saga to just one film when the costs for filming in NZ was $150 million. Granted, LOTR was considered an unfilmable property at the time, which New Line (wisely) picked up and invested in. The thing is that I really don’t get why he got producers’ credit in all three films, when Miramax dropped LOTR from their film lineup during early stages of pre-production.
And his company Miramax essentially bought Oscar nominations (and wins) during the mid-’90s and early ’00s. When a film like the vastly overrated “Chicago” wins for Best Picture (along with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Queen Latifah), you know there’s some sort of studio involvement at work during nomination season.
Is Bob really the victim here since Dimension was really a low budget hit factory in the late 90s and early 200s. After he abandoned his post there the shingle hasn’t had nearly the same success.
The fact that they are not putting any money into the marketing of ‘Hurricane Season’ and re-cutting it for time shows they are running out of money fast and need. Too bad.
As someone who is very familiar with these awful excuses for human beings, the Swinesteins are getting their much deserved payback. There is no possible way they can recover from the damage already done. Genius is a worthless stock and they have royally screwed their investors and hedge fund buddies. As their finance deal is based on broken down deliveries of cash, their next chunk of cash from their fund will be delayed or unavailable. They’re betting on a crap Kevin Smith movie to being in the dollars? Are you kidding me? Kevin Smith’s movies have ZERO value outside the USA, so no big foreign money on this. Comedies are always worth less in foreign markets, especially movies made for an “ultra small niche” market like ZACK and MIRI or FANBOYS. With the P&A dollars they’re pouring into ZACK, there is absolutely no way this film will turn a profit. Of course Bawb and Hawv will deny it. In the good old days they would force films like this down a foreign distributors throat by including it with a package of pictures which usually had a PULP or CHICAGO in it. Now they have no product which equals no leverage. Nobody has to buy this crap now. Someone please look for a spit big enough to put these pigs on. They’re ready to be cooked.
Say goodnight to the bad guys. See you in film hell.