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Hollywood Power Players Hosting April Fundraiser For Newark Mayor’s Undeclared Senate Race

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday March 14, 2013 @ 6:08pm PDTTags: Bob Iger, Corey Booker, Hollywood fundraisers, J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jerry Weintraub, Steven Spielberg

Cory Booker hasn’t officially said he’s running to become New Jersey’s next Senator but Hollywood is planning to shovel money into his campaign treasure chest. Anointing Booker as Hollywood’s new favorite politician, invites went out this week for a “Special Evening In LA” April 25 fundraiser for the Newark Mayor at the Beverly Hills home of producer Jerry Weintraub and girlfriend, producer Susan Ekins. The event has a marquee host list that cuts across party lines and into deep wallets. It costs $5,000 a ticket to attend the fundraiser with the money going to Cory Booker For Senate. The event is one of eight the telegenic Democrat has lined up in the next two months in anticipation of a 2014 run to replace departing fellow Democrat Frank Lautenberg in the heavily Blue state. The Beverly Hills fundraiser certainly shows that backing a potential winner cuts across party lines. Republicans like Bush family confidante Weintraub and Bruce Willis are listed on the invite but so are avowed Democrats like Jeffrey Katzenberg, who was one of the largest single contributors to Barack Obama’s reelection, Steven Spielberg and new Star Wars director J.J. Abrams and their wives Kate Capshaw and Katie McGrath.

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Showtime Orders Climate Change Docu Series Produced By James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub And Arnold Schwarzenegger

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 3, 2012 @ 10:53am PSTTags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Big Deals TV, James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub, Showtime
Nellie Andreeva

Showtime has ordered Years Of Living Dangerously, a documentary series which explores the human impact of climate change. It is executive produced by James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub and Arnold Schwarzenegger, along with Emmy-winning 60 Minutes producers Joel … Read More »

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Warner Bros Takes On Hugh Hefner Pic, Jerry Weintraub To Produce

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday March 5, 2012 @ 5:33pm PSTTags: Jerry Weintraub, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

Hugh Hefner MovieEXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is matching an iconic film subject with an iconic producer. The studio has taken over Playboy, a project about Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner, with Jerry Weintraub taking over the film as … Read More »

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HBO Picks Up Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace Film Starring Michael Douglas & Matt Damon

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 10:06am PDTTags: HBO, HBO Films, Jerry Weintraub, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Steven Soderbergh
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: Steven Soderbergh’s long-gestating Liberace feature is headed to HBO. HBO Films has greenlighted for production Behind The Candelabra, which will be directed by Soderbergh. It takes a behind-the-scenes … Read More »

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Tony Scott Boarding ‘The Wild Bunch’ While Revving ‘Hell’s Angels’ As Next Pic

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 18, 2011 @ 3:00pm PDTTags: Brian Helgeland, Chris Pine, David Ayer, Denzel Washington, Ernest Borgnine, Jeff Bridges, Jerry Weintraub, Ryan Reynolds, Scott Frank, Stephen Gaghan, Tom Cruise, Tony Scott
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline revealed this morning that Ridley Scott was returning to his sci-fi classic Blade Runner. His Scott Free partner and brother Tony Scott is also getting serious about a new version of a movie classic. Scott … Read More »

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Craig Brewer Makes ‘Tarzan’ Deal, Writing Ape Man Saga As Trilogy

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 2, 2011 @ 9:48am PDTTags: Adam Cozad, Craig Brewer, Jerry Weintraub, Julianne Hough, Kenny Wormald, Tarzan
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has locked Craig Brewer into a deal to write and direct a new installment of Tarzan. Brewer has come up with a take that tells the Tarzan story over three films. He hopes the first one will … Read More »

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Jerry Weintraub Follows In Bob Evans’ Footsteps With HBO Documentary

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 2, 2011 @ 3:58pm PSTTags: HBO, Jerry Weintraub
Mike Fleming

NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 2011 – Legendary film producer and personal manager Jerry Weintraub steps out from behind the scenes as he takes his turn in the spotlight with the feature-length documentary HIS WAY, acquired by HBO Documentary Films from Polsky Films. Directed by Oscar® nominee Douglas McGrath, produced

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George Clooney Does Jerry Weintraub Impressions After Recovering From Malaria

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 12:06pm PSTTags: George Clooney, Jerry Weintraub, Morning Joe, Video

George Clooney’s PR informs that the actor/director “is completely over the Malaria he contracted while in the Sudan during the first week in January. This was his second bout with it.” According to Clooney, “This illustrates how with proper medication, the most lethal condition in Africa, can be reduced to … Read More »

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Betty White For ‘Oh God’ Film Remake?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 12, 2010 @ 1:25pm PDTTags: Betty White, Ellen DeGeneres, Jerry Weintraub, Paul Rudd, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

betty-white-10oh-godWarner Bros and producer Jerry Weintraub have tried long and hard to mount a remake of the 1977 George Burns comedy Oh, God! I’m told Weintraub just pitched the studio a new … Read More »

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