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(Keep refreshing for breaking news): I've just learned that representatives for Inglorious Basterds have scheduled a phone call today this week with Universal Pictures to discuss The Weinstein Company's financial problems which are being splashed all over the media. Right now, everyone is still operating on the premise that TWC can come up with the $30 million or moreo marketing money budgeted for Inglorious Basterds. But that was before news came out that The Weinstein Company is on the brink (amid rumors the end could come in August) intenwsified by last week's bad news that TWC has hired a financial advisory firm to restructure. 
The deal for Inglorious Basterds had always been a 3-way financial partnership among Quentin Tarantino, The Weinstein Company, and Universal. But a worst case scenario was always considered by Quentin's people: What if TWC which has domestic didn't have the resources to market and/or release the movie? Universal has foreign. Would it pick up the North America as well? Meanwhile, Universal is the distributor of the valuable domestic DVD rights on behalf of the 3-way partnership. But now I've learned that Genius may kick up a fuss.
That's not all. Film financing sources tell me that, at one point, The Weinstein Company had scheduled for release the movie All Good Things for July 24th. This would have been the indie's first pic out since February. 
But now TWC will be pushing that film to the 4th quarter, which prompted talk that TWC "doesn't have the P& A to release it" and "is are worried about the financial results of its distribution". Not so, says an insider with the production. It won't be delivered until fall "for reasons having nothing to do with the Weinsteins". Of course, this info was relayed to me after the Weinsteins placed a call to someone connected to the pic. I'm told "the movie is really strong. We just needed more time to complete it." Groundswell Productions financed the movie but is depending on TWC for marketing and distribution.
TWC also had scheduled Shanghai, a $50+ milllion production, for release on September 4th. One of my sources explains, "They will push that film to another date in the distant future." There is also word internally that they may push off Youth In Revolt, currently scheduled for October 30th, into the distant future. What this all means is that TWC is "hoarding whatever cash they have left to be able to release Inglorious Basterds," a film financer analyzes. Tarantino's film is scheduled for release August 21st.
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Blah blah blah, Harvey sucks, blah blah blah.
The whole company seems cursed. Did Harvey piss off an old Gypsy woman at some time?
Basterds has some excitement behind it, but could go either way, becoming either a company saving blockbuster, or a mega-turkey like Grindhouse. And none of the rest of TWC’s slate seem all that capable of setting the box office on fire.
I expect the vultures to swoop in, buying up any TWC assets with any value left at fire sale prices, and a lot sooner than you expect.
The Weinstein Company is in financial distress… and the crowd goes wild…!
How is their movie version of the musical NINE being affected by all of this? It’s supposed to go out in November and, based on the stature of people involved (Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, and Judi Dench being directed by Rob Marshall), I would imagine it’s likely to be a big Oscar contender. Given Marshall’s success with CHICAGO, it might grow into a financial hit, too. Are they going to hold to its date?
Wow! How the once mighty have fallen. If I were them I would go crawling on hands and knees back to Disney and ask for their old job back.
Clearly TWC was unprepared to compete with the big boys, they tried to come off as a major studio right from the very start and now they’re floundering. They should’ve gone the old school New Line route, focusing on producing movies for as little as possible.
BRILLIANT
You know the Pitt film is going to give TWC a huge cash flow to put out their other films, end of story
It is a win win
People don’t remember (esp the Weinstein brothers) that when they ran Miramax in the early 90s before Disney bought them they we’re NOT financial geniuses swimming in cash. Most of their movies squeaked by but it was still a struggle to open a film. Basically, when I worked there around ‘92, the company was on the brink. One day I came into work and nobody was there. It turns out the power was shut off and nobody told me not to come to work that day (that was recounted in Biskind’s book I think). Miramax flourished only with Disney’s open check book pretending to be a huge success… in reality, the Wein Bros overspent and took huge bonuses despite losing money at the end of the day (a reason why Michael Eiser got rid of them eventually).
Not sure why people are saying Basterds could go either way- People in Cannes hated the film and the release date is not a strong one for commercial films.
Weinstein has been out of cash for a while. No one will go near them. Stick a fork in it- done.
Another piece on TWC and another chance or everyone to bash them. Don’t get me wrong they can be and often are horrible people. I know enough people to have dealt with them first hand to know that. I also know a lot of good and decent people work for them and those people don’t deserve to be unemployed. So bitch about the brothers if you must but don’t root for their failure. Someday they will be gone or retired but hopefully good people will keep the company living and employing people.
Does that mean Rob Zombie’s “H2″ will get a direct-to-DVD release instead? One can only hope.
Perhaps TWC should have focused on small budgeted projects as opposed to those costly mid/upper-range films. Alá Miramax.
The reason why Grindhouse failed is because they utilized a costly marketing/distribution approach that didn’t follow suit with the genre the film catered to. They should have released the film on a very limited number of screens with actual arthouse theaters and I guarantee the film would have made more money running for a year as opposed to the 3 week stint on 3000+ screens that it premiered on. Plus the $50m+ marketing campaign behind it was foolery. Again, going big isn’t what that film needed. It needed a small independent approach that catered to the midnight movie crowd (just like the great midnight money making ventures of El Topo, I am Curious Yellow and Eraserhead – which took four years to become successful).
To be honest the failure of TWC doesn’t surprise me. We all know Harvey is a loveable prick (depending on your POV) but he put the cart before the horse on this outing.
If Harv really is waiting for Basterds to save the day, he’s far more deluded that anyone thought…After riding on a wave of industry denial and audience forgiveness for the last 10 years, Emperor Q is going to to be found shivering and naked in the flickering scratchy (added in post) glow of one hell of a turkey. Bubb bye Harv…
This is a perfect time for a studio to figure out how to market a film on a limited budget. Just let the hype build through Twitter. Or put out a deluxe DVD with the release.
Basterds is going to bomb hard.
Older audiences will feel QT’s postmodern depiction of WWII was disrespectful and younger audiences will feel cheated by the misleading advertising that tries to sell it as a Pitt-anchored action movie when in reality it’s just another self-indulgent ensemble gab-fest by the pompous would-be auteur.
The film really could be the end of the Weinsteins. It will most certainly mark the end of the business association between them and the guy who should’ve stayed behind the video store counter.
Roger Ebert has been the biggest champion around for this self-important creep and even he didn’t walk away from the Cannes screening having anything terribly complimentary to say.
Harvey you putz! Its easy to be a bigtime player when you have deep pockets. Should have never broke off from Disney you douche. You deserve this.
I’m still mad about what he did to Project Runway…
Didn’t Harvey loose a lot of weight? That’s were the problems started. It’s fat karma coming back to bite him.
What goes around comes around… He had it coming!
don’t most of your idiots get it?
harvey and bob may be this, they may be that, but their success is crucial to there being and indie film biz.
if these guys fail, how much harder do you think it gets to get funding let alone indie distribution.
there used to be a saying “as gm goes, so goes america” harvey and bob were / are the same thing.
now if they go as gm has, life just got harder for all of us without studio deals (99%).
At Sundance Harvey was trying to talk his way into one of the parties — to no avail. It wasn’t lost on anyone who saw the spectacle unfold how the tides had turned in the last half-decade. As for Inglourious Basturds, the film was complacent. Perhaps a strong producer could force QT to trim it into something audiences will recommend to their friends, but a producer that strong could certainly have gotten himself into that party at Sundance — so I’m not holding my breath that Harvey will meet with any success against the ego that is QT. I predict medium business on the opening weekend, quickly losing position to whatever idiot comedy is coming out the next week.
What might this mean for The Alchemist project? Word on La Croisette, from Paulo Coelho’s own mouth, was that Harvey has promised him a script ‘in three months’ and production by year’s end (this after HW took a year to find a writer, apparently hating every pitch he heard and terrified of the book’s legions of fans). None of that sounded realistic to an ear actually in the business, of course, but I wonder if the project’s going forward at all, or if HW was blowing smoke up Coelho’s arse.
I mean, I guess this is the obvious thing to say but, isn’t this karma for recutting every single movie that comes across their path? They’ve had a few high-profile successes, but everyone knows that they butchered all the rest.
karma !
Harvey and Bob’s potential demise is terrible news. This means one less Hollywood studio and more industry
layoffs. To all of you who are rooting for Bob and
Harvey’s demise- shame on you ! If The Weinstein Company goes under then it just adds to Hollywood’s current woes.
TWC allegedly spent $50 million on a period film set in China starring a frankly fat-looking Johnny Cusack? Maybe a “studio” with that kind of judgement isn’t worth saving. They could have made four horror movies for that kind of money. And Cusack’s only real success has been in horror movies, lately.
Such vitriolic commentary.
Anyone who has achieved great success as an independent entreprenuer in this business has encountered nearly insurmountable odds and has had to resort to the same, if not worse, behavior than the Weinsteins in order to triumph. Regardless of what happens to their company, they will forever have a unique place in the history of American cinema. And maybe the fact that they have achieved a legacy is what frustrates so many.
For those who only have base accusations about the brothers’ physical characteristics to hurl: let’s see you go out and try to accomplish even one tenth of what these guys have done for Indie films and American cinema as a whole.
Corey makes a very good point, in that the marketing for the film is a disaster. They’re trying to sell a movie (Pitt wisecracking and bashing in Nazi’s heads) that isn’t actually what they have in the can. That’s a big mistake … for better or for worse, you have to try and sell the movie you actually have, otherwise you lose on both ends.
Shanghai actually got good test screening reviews, with emphasis on how how great Gong li was.
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Dont quite understand how its unrelesable?
Screw Inglorious. I want to see “Shanghai”.
@Matt C, I believe Dimension is handling H2
Wow! You guys are spiteful -bastards he may deserve it but what about his employees?
Funny thing is, the film that has the potential to go the distance, relative to its cost, is the one nobody is talking about….The Road.
When you people talk about their employees aka “their slaves”, if they are qualified, they will find other work. If they are as incapable as the two fat basterds, then they should go down with the sinking ship. Are you suggesting someone should bail them out? Seriously. Blow a goat. They’ve been destroying the indie world ever since they chopped up Cinema Paradiso. Oh, Quentin can make three hour shitty features, but take out the old moviola and lose an hour of Tornatore’s masterpiece? They have done more damage to young indie filmmakers than good. Only the artists with some leverage (uber-agents) get to work a good deal with them. When guys like Arnold Rifkin did a deal with the fatman, you know his client would get a fair shake. Pity the poor artist who came in through a backdoor or had a pussy of an agent. They both got fucked in the ass by those pigs. The only thing they ever respected was FEAR. They hated Eisner, but they feared him. Because it took a real putz to know what two putzes were really about.
They are both failed filmmakers, failed husbands, failed bosses and failed humans. Every success they had, they purchased, with other peoples money and human souls. Now the world is upset because the con game is over? Wake up. These guys were the Dana Giachetto and Bernie Madoff of their era.
Good fucking riddance.
I saw All Good Things at a test screening recently and the film was not done. I’m not involved in the film, but it was really strong and Kirsten Dunst was amazing! I know it is hard to believe but that film is going to make her a real actress. I was hoping not to like it and i normally am not a fan of hers, but its really smart and well done. art house, but will be a success. I hope it gets the release it deserves by TWC or whomever.
And yes karma is a bitch but i agree with Cinefile. And karma is a bitch for all of you who write bad comments.
Everyone saying the failure of TWC will be bad for the industry overall is correct. But everyone who is saying Inglorious Basterds will most likely bomb is also correct. A nearly three hour long movie that is very talky, has big chunks of dialogue in foreign languages, and the title characters aren’t even the main characters? Add to that the anger and bad word of mouth it will generate when people go to the movie and discover it isn’t an action packed war movie starring Pitt but a talky slow moving movie in which he is a supporting character. So yes, IG will bomb and it might be bad for the Weinsteins and everyone at their company but they brought it on themselves. Truth hurts.
All of you negative commenters sit in the peanut gallery and love to throw sh*t at those who are driven and successful. What the hell have any of you accomplished besides growing up bitter and jealous.
These guys made some great films happen that wouldn’t have happened and basically brought independent movies to the mainstream.
And you did what?
So Harvey, how funny it is that you have sent your little buttboys over here to doctor the comments. There aren’t that many actual human beings who would back you up after all. Open up your ass cheeks and let Matt Stein out- boy’s gotta breathe, guys!
The Karma is that the same guy who made that company, Tarantino, with Pulp Fiction, has now killed it. Grindhouse was a bullet across the bough- and now IB is the coffin nail. There is NO way Harvey would have split with Universal if he had the cash.
Bye Bye Weinsteins. Contact Eisner, maybe you can work on the Bazooka Joe Movie (rotflmao)
Yap yap yap, let’s see YOU do better, yap yap yap.
Why do those fat fucks continue to produce/pick up movies when they don’t have the money to get them into theaters? I’m surprised any filmmaker not fresh from their mother’s womb would do sign on to have their pride and joy buried.
Come on Quentin, do the right thing and cut the fucker down. Save Harvey’s ass and your own as well.
Inglorious Movie Idea.
WTF, how could they greenlight the screenplay. Did they actually read it?
You can’t break the 80/20 rule. 80% of the people working in any industry have little talent in that field. They slip under the radar, suck up to the right people, happen to be in the right place at the right time, while 20% actually have a brain and do all the real work.
It takes a great studio head to know which 20% are good. But if you as a studio head are part of the 80%, then you are in trouble.
C’mon — awww — you made Bawb cry…. C’mere Bawb, don’t cry. Genius stock is still worth a B.J. from an tranny hooker.
You know that fugly film freak will be losing weight in his index finger from hitting the refresh button to see who can hate him best. Did someone teach him how to use a computer yet?
Great thread Nikki! This is so much fun. If only Harry Cohn were around to see the internet!
To the idiot who compared TWC to GM, you are not a complete buffoon. Both are going the way of the past because they produced a SHITTY PRODUCT.
Still don’t understand why losing a defective player will hurt the industry. They bury dreams, withhold salaries, lock people into deals that are career killers and manipulate the profits so fatty can stay at the Peninsula. These bozo’s make the porn industry look on the up and up.
David Linde must be having the laugh of his life right now. Wasn’t HIS idea to do a deal with dirt and dirtier.
See if there’s a extra large cell available down the row from Tony Pelicano. Wait until the forensic accountants put out the fire on the cooked books of TWC. I smell some fun…
can you hear it? listen? shhhhh? there it goes again!
was that a spacecraft traveling at warp speed?
nope, it was the non stop sounds of scott rudin laughing in a fit of hysterics.
Bwahhahahaha
PhatPhuckPhilms, what are you trying to say?
But really, good point about chopping and shelving great movies. A lot of what the brothers did amounts to pure film abuse.
As mentioned it sounds like they’re putting all their P&A eggs into the Inglourious basket. Fun script with some really nice story threads but I was surprised at the marketing. It’s emphasizing one element, and the least prevalent one at that.
Employees should be OK: TWC on a resume would look pretty good in a “You put up with that?” way.
They’ve put some good movies out, butchered a lot more, and bullied almost everyone they came into contact with. Eventually even sociopaths and soul crushers fall, and that is why so many people on this thread, and reading this thread, are celebrating.
Anyone who praises their accomplishments, and forgives them their behavior, never worked with them.
Period.
This film will assuredly bomb, no one cares about WW2 films anymore, and no one really cares to see close ups of Diane Kruger’s or Mélanie Laurent’s feet.
They have two really cool smaller movies that I’ve heard are ready to be released: YOUTH IN REVOLT and Forest Whitaker’s HURRICANE SEASON, an inspiring movie about Katrina. It sucks to see these get put off because of mismanagement and bad decisions at TWC. As a movie lover, I can’t wait to see them and hope someone finds a way to get them out there soon.
Having Bob and Harvey go down is GOOD for the industry. They’re a bunch of uncreative clowns who hire filmmakers based on the quality of their work and then proceed to prevent said filmmakers from having an opinion or even a hand in the editing (and many times the shooting) of their films. These guys DO NOT respect the artists and the regular folk who work for them. Harvey flies around like the prima-donna he is, more concerned whether his DIet Coke is going to be waiting for him on the set, rather than what’s actually being shot that day. I can’t even begin to tell you the stress and anxiety they’ve put directors through. They’ve destroyed more careers than they’ve made and butchered more good films than they’ve made a handful of them better. They are toxic human beings, psychic vampires who have used and abused talent over the years and the chickens are finally coming home to roost. I have never met a single filmmaker who has had a good thing to say about them. Not one. Not one director I know has ever been satisfied with the final product of his/her film that’s come out of the Weinstein factory. I had a filmmaker say to me recently that he wishes he could step into a time machine and make his latest film that they dumped fairly recently never exist in the first place because he’s so embarrassed about what they turned it into. If there is any justice in this world, these guys will fold and never rise to fuck with the industry again. They should take their millions and exile themselves to their penthouses and beach houses, because they’ve finally destroyed their reputations in this business. When one of the most powerful agents in the business, who has always been Harvey’s ally, finally wants nothing more to do with him, you know he’s cooked his goose. Like some other poster said, if their good employees lose their jobs, they’ll land up at another company that will actually appreciate their talents and treat them with respect. These guys will never change. They believe might equals right. Too bad they have zero taste or instinct for quality. I believe Quentin was a fluke in Harvey’s life. Quentin’s talent was always going to be recognized. It may have taken a few more years, but some like Q would always rise to the top. Too bad his new film rests in the hands of someone like Harvey.
I’d like to interrupt this lovefest to ask why, if the executives who call the shots really know what they’re doing with tentpole this and franchise that, it still takes close to $40 million to launch a film.
How many movies are sitting on the Weinstein shelf that might be releasable but for the fact that they’d never earn back their P&A? Or sitting on other film companies’ shelves, for that matter.
If the studio MBAs who hold the green light switch do so much market research before a film is shot, why can’t they manage to target the same people when the film is finished rather than spend gazillions on blunderbuss marketing? If they’re so intent on reaching the 19-year-old male audience, for $40 million you could send each of them a personal letter asking them to see your movie.
In short, why is distribution so imprecise when nobody so much as rolls a camera without knowing who the audience is? Could it be — as William Goldman famously said — that nobody knows anything?
We now return to tearing Harvey and Bob a new one.
The Weinstein Company is the first to fall and MGM is going to be next. Even if they somehow manage to keep the lights on and release Tarantino’s IB it will just delay the inevitable.
Their mistakes have been right at the core of their business and it’s only a matter of when, not if.
Summit and Overture are already doing so much better than TWC ever did in a much shorter span of time.
How can anyone spend $70m+ on a film that’s supposed to look and feel like a B Movie? And Grindhouse is just the first of many examples.
And even after financing that exploitation tribute nonsense Rodriguez jumped ship anyway to swim among the big boys.
It’s sad that in this economic climate that people are loosing their jobs but that is the way of things.
I have no doubt that the Weinsteins will reappear in some form sooner or later. This time with money from some obscure European Baron for some other expensive three hour epic that no one really wants to watch but will have the Oscar bloggers chattering away regardless.
But do tell….apart from the films they may or may not have ‘in the can’ what exactly can TWC sell off in a ‘fire sale’?
It always amazes me how “Hollywood” loves it when production companies run into trouble and start grinding them into the ground, then looks around and wonders why all the jobs disappeared…
I’ve never been a big supporter of The Weinstein Company, because I find that they have no idea on how to market their films accordingly. You know damn sure that “Zack and Miri” could’ve broke at least $50 million if people actually heard about the film, and all of their films are treated the same way. Their biggest box office hit was “Scary Movie 4″ which disappointed but still made $90 million..oh wait, they split costs with Dimension so they’re not seeing much revenue either. So their only, honest to goodness hit that’s all their own was “Hoodwinked” the super low budget animated film…from 3 years ago! C’mon!
All they ever do is shuffle release dates until the film is delayed for about 1 1/2 years, then dump it in 100 theaters w/o any promotion, then whine when “the film came up short in the box office). No s***!
I’m really sad for films like “The Road”, stuff that has a chance to either break out or at the very least gain a good enough following for some awards love, because the films are treated poorly, and everyone’s hard work is getting completely disregarded.
P.S. “Grindhouse” was doomed to fail anyways- it’s too tongue in cheek for it to become big mainstream wise.
And “Inglorious Basterds” will do alright first weekend, but you’re right folks, it’ll be like “Watchmen”- when people find out that the marketing promises a film that’s far different than what was given to them, the box office prospects will dry up quickly.
jackie brown is a misunderstood american masterpiece.
it ripens, like fine ambrosia.
with the ride editorial bushido trimming, it could be a summer score.
the weinsteins will be fine… believe me, I wish that were not the case. this industry tends to save those that “fail upward”…
I don’t know Bob and Harvey from Adam but didn’t every studio in town create a division specifically to emulate what they were doing right? Now that everyone is hogpiling Harv and Bob and these divisions are shuttered is the town and the business really better off? There are good films being made but the prevailing stuff surely represents some kind of nadir doesn’t it? I’m not going to minimize what it’s like to be mistreated by them or anyone else but dancing on graves, prematurely or not, rarely will dispense whatever humility they still have to learn.
Fuck the Weinsteins! They didn’t pay me on a signed contract for almost $150,000, and I lost my house as a result. They kept promising to pay “next week”, then just said they were “not doing it.” Signed contract. They fasely claim they never commenced us. FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! You guys think you’re tough? I will call you a ‘cunt’ to your cheap fat broke-ass face! We’ll see what you do – nothing. Pussy-ass-liars.
- another angry writer screwed by weinsteins.
Yo, writer. Sue ‘em. If you lost your house because of them not honoring a contract they can be held legally liable. Just make sure your lawyer is smarter than your fuckin’ agent.
who cares?
BASTARDS is a flop already!
Horrible reviews from Cannes. Weinstein knows.
Tarantino had gone down hill since Pulp Fiction.
Nobody is interested in him riffing off older cult movies anymore. Watch the real deals instead. Let him come up with a genuine original idea and folk might be interested. Damn he even STOLE the title from Enzo G. Castellari, what a douch bag!
I’ve been a Q fan for years (with the exception of Jackie Brown, that sucked ass).
But with Death Proof he proved he’s in it more to stroke himself and hang out with pretty actresses than to make good movies. (What was up with that 40 minute bar scene??) God, what a POS Death Proof is. Coulda made a cool 10 minute movie, instead it ran what, 2-3 hours? LOL. At least Rodriguez “got it” with Grindhouse.
Some good comments here, ‘pro’ and ‘anti’, but ‘You do better’ and ‘you’re just jealous’ type comments are just lazy and narrow-minded.
I feel bad for the weinsteins. I worked for both and tried to be loyal and helpful. In the end they also didn’t pay me over $100,000 they owed me. Afraid of their power I didn’t sue when I should have. I go to benefits where one or both are being honored and I wonder when in this world people will know how pathetic and mentally ill these guys are.It’s heartbreaking to see how messed up their kids are and how dysfunctional their families are. even good people who work for them, lawyers and accountants and personal assitants are driven to behave in ways they never would or should because it’s “the Weinsteins”…It doesn’t matter that much if their company fails, although I would personally dance a jig, because they must have had something so bad happen to them as children that they don’t recognize good people when they run into them and they have absolutely no conscience. It’s our society that doesn’t care and keeps acting like they are something special that’s the problem. They are truly as destructive and abusive as any people I have ever dealt with. It’s hurtful and crazy and they leave a path of human pain and disapointment and lots of lies in their wake. I guess once you cross that river of having no ethics you can pretty much let everything fly…
IB will surpass Land of the Lost as the biggest bomb of the summer. Next Taratino foot shot Harvey at Bob Iger’s office on his hands and knees. After IB dismal numbers I suggest Quentin dress up as Fonzie, crash Imagine’s Halloween party and give Ron Howard his resume. Correctomundo.
I guess Harvey won’t go around bragging to Asian buyers/sellers at AFM that he’s the most “winningest” producer anymore. Poor Harv, he’s still living in the past. But for what it’s worth he can be very charming and convincing when he needs you. But promises promises turned into nothing but lies lies in my personal dealings with him. So I’ll join the others on here in telling you, “RIP, you fat fuck.”
Dumb ass Jay Leno made a comment to the late Helen Kushnick(his manager at the time), after he found out about her ‘tactics’ that she used that helped make him a STAR, as he WON the ‘Tonight Show’. Jay it was reported, said something like: “Helen..why are you treating people so bad?”. Upon which Kushnick replied – “Just eat your steak Jay, dont worry about what I did to the cow.” Get it yet? I’ve hated Jay ever since. She won and Beat Letterman out. Is Jay that damn stupid? ALL studio business is HARDCORE. Why the hell do people ‘blast’ Harvey and his brother? Do you know what it REALLY takes to run a studio? Go back and read “Dark Victory” about MCA. Then wakeup. I truly believe that people bash the brothers because your ‘lucky’ to work up close and see what they do. So you see whats really going down. Its like that and WORSE at the majors. If your ass worked at a MAJOR studio and you were hanging with REAL BIG DOGS, you’d see things that only satan would approve of. You would have jumped out the window along time ago, the things you would see and hear. I hate it when the AVERAGE person(average industry person) gets around someone who truly means BUSINESS(studio boss). The two DONT mix. Because your a ‘worker bee’. You cant ’stomach’ what that King Bee has to do to get the job done(but you want a paycheck right?). The King Bee has to kick ass. Dont fool yourself.I know. God bless them for sticking around for a few more rounds in the business. You AVERAGE suckers quit whining about the people who make this world turn. Love you Nikki…its only BUSINESS.
Wow. Procrastinating while having a deadline to catch and just by coincidence i ran into this this page and read all those comments about this Weinstein brothers.
Apparently a lot of people see them as the most evil things since Saddam Hussein or Idi Amin for that matter.
I’m curious; is it only that they don’t pay people or is there more going on, are they operating torture rooms?
And to that person that still gets a 100.000$ from them and is too afraid to sue them;if those brothers are such broke ass bastards, what power do they have?
And face it; we the people working in film and television are also idiots for letting ourself eing treated like that. Only because we are so desperate to work in the creative business and so we let people like the Weinstein Brothers have their way. Because we’re afraid someone else will have the big break. Stop whining, start a collective against exploitive bastards and draw a line. I myself made a promise to my self; i will not work for free nor work below the for me reasonable rate. Even if there are other idiots who will get my job because they are willing to go far below the day rate. I will not, never. In that cse i rather clean toilets with pride. No fucking creative job is gonna make me give up my selfrespect.
Hey, I gotta question for everybody:
Is it possible to make it in show business without being a grade-A jerk, backstabber, crook, or all of the above, kind of like how the Weinsteins are talked about on this website? My dream is to become a director like James Cameron, Ridley Scott, and Michael Mann, and I want to own my own production company like The Weinstein Company so that I can distribute films like the Weinsteins. But, it seems to me you can’t get a big name for yourself in the movie biz unless you are an atrocious human being, kind of like how the Weinsteins are talked about on this site.
Seriously, everybody who works in showbiz, who comments on this feed, tell me, is it really possible to make it in show business by being an ethical human being who wants to be an artist, first and foremost? I feel like my ideals are turning out to be lies when I read this website, no offense to Nikki Finke LOL. I just want to make beautiful films without being a loser.
Thanks,
Ian
Listen, kid. It’s more like this– If you don’t have to do it, then don’t.
If you can imagine yourself leaving the business, then take some good advice: Leave the Business.
This thing we do, we do it because we’re compelled. And unless you are compelled, don’t do it. Nobody can tell you either way. Either you own it or you’re a civilian.
The choice is simple. If you can take in all of this beautiful nightmare for its good, its bad and its ugly and smile for more every time your teeth get kicked in, you’ve got nothing to fear. On the other hand, if not, then do yourself a favor and don’t look back.