Word: weinstein
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...spot is that certain quality that's unique to British filmmaking. "Successful British films have always been culturally specific in some way, but are completely universal in the way they tell their stories," says Colin Vaines, executive vice president of European production and development for U.S. studio the Weinstein...
...feverish first six days of the festival. Sons of Rambow, a British comedy about a boy's obsession with the movie First Blood, sold to Paramount Vantage for just under $8 million; ThinkFilm picked up the astronaut documentary In the Shadow of the Moon for $2.5 million; the Weinstein Co. paid $4 million to win a heated bidding war for the John Cusack drama Grace is Gone, prompting the indie film company's head, Harvey Weinstein, to tell the Hollywood Reporter, "F--- it. I'm good at this. It's fun." We're pretty sure Cusack was happy about...
...slot. Only The Departed is an old-fashioned studio movie. Iwo Jima, released by Warner Bros., was made for a miniaturized $15 million. The other three entries were sponsored by the art-house subsidiaries of major companies: Paramount Vantage for Babel, Fox Searchlight for Sunshine, Disney's (not the Weinstein brothers') Miramax for The Queen. This verifies the trend last year, when four of the films nominated for Best Picture were "indies...
...time Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail Breslin made it to the Weinstein Company party at the Beverly Hilton's Trader Vic's restaurant, two hours after the ceremony ended, the 10-year-old actress had handed off her teeny heels and even teenier purse (which had nothing in it) to her agent. Sunshine's cast went home trophy-less so the only thing that survived on Breslin's arm was a stuffed monkey. "This is George," the actress said, introducing her plush date. Plenty of stars with whinier companions no doubt envied Breslin's choice...
...being disconnected in 24 hours. Pressed for time and unable to reach anyone at AOL, I went against my better judgment. The fraud began within minutes. "The number of ways bad guys can convince you to give them your financial information is limited only by their imagination," says Andrew Weinstein, an AOL spokesman, who says AOL blocks 7 million attempts...