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Harvey Weinstein has a perfect ending in mind for Miramax Films, the company he and his brother Bob were forced to leave behind in 2005 when they departed the Walt Disney Co. after 12 colorful years. In Harvey's final scene, the two snag back the name from the media giant, which has turned Miramax into a déclassé, financially diminished Mouse brand. Harvey, the brash movie mogul who helped spin the low-budget indie-film trade into a booming business, doesn't need more wealth. And he's not pushing for another Academy Award. He won the hardware...
...boys had good reason to celebrate. They got not only an estimated $130 million in goodbye bucks but also fabulous parting gifts: shared distribution rights to completed pictures, brother Bob's lucrative Dimension Films label, sequel rights to (and split proceeds from) 15 movies, including Scary Movie, Scream and Spy Kids. The Weinsteins had both capital and content--starting anew but not a start-up, says Bob...
Over the past year, the brothers seem to have made more big deals than big movies. "Our meetings used to be about acquiring films. Now they're about acquiring companies," Bob recently told Harvey, only half-joking. They got 70% of publicly traded home-video label Genius Products in exchange for licensing the DVD rights to Weinstein movies--a "pretty radical" move, says Genius chairman Stephen Bannon. Genius distributes material from World Wrestling Entertainment, Discovery Kids and ESPN and in November signed an exclusive rental agreement with Blockbuster. Other affiliations include ownership of a small arts and entertainment channel with...
...Harder They Come, the first-ever Jamaican-produced feature film, introduced reggae to a global audience; of bone-marrow cancer; in St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica. The movie--which featured songs like You Can Get It If You Really Want and Many Rivers to Cross--helped pave the way for Bob Marley's international breakthrough and launched the career of singer Jimmy Cliff. Its sound track was recently placed on TIME.com's list of 100 best albums in history...
...industry dreams up novel weight-loss schemes to entice the ever plumper U.S. population, nearly two-thirds of which is overweight. The new crop of diet books recommends everything from treating meals as mood medicine to eating dinner for breakfast. Here's a sampler. The Best Life Diet By Bob Greene...