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What she wants now are clothes to go with her heels. When she realized that all her favorite dresses were vintage Halston, she phoned her friend the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, and they became investors in the Halston company, along with private-equity firm Hilco Consumer Capital, the majority shareholder. Although Mellon has promoted TV and movie product placement for Jimmy Choo with considerable enthusiasm, there's a chance to go further with Halston: she hopes Weinstein will supply the biopic. "A movie turns a brand into a household name. Fashion magazines reach a million, but this...
...rock concert film capped by a live performance, because Moore was in the house! And he couldn't find a more receptive crowd than Toronto. The audience at the public screening I attended was every bit as rapturous as the ones in the movie; and when Harvey Weinstein, the indie mogul titan who's made a few enemies over the years, stood up, he too was greeted with all cheers, no boos. For Moore's part, he's given the love back to Canadians at least since 1995, when he made his only fiction film, the war satire Canadian Bacon...
...Industry eyes were therefore watching closely last month when Harvey announced that the brothers' new venture, the Weinstein Company (TWC), would oversee a $285 million fund for the production and distribution of roughly 30 "Asian films" in total - that is, movies made in Asia, by Asian filmmakers, or about Asian subjects. The move is expected to help the Weinsteins make important savings at a time when North American box-office takings are flattening out and production costs are on the rise. (The Weinsteins' five-month-old Grindhouse cost $53 million to make, according to the brothers, but has earned just...
...Weinsteins even inspired an online petition to Disney, signed by 14,000 movie fans demanding that the brothers "cease the act of altering Hong Kong films." "If you do this and that for different audiences," says Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi, "you lose the whole raison d'être of your cultural mark. There's a certain energy or stamp or mark on a film that says 'this is a Hong Kong film.'" And not just those. Last year, French director Luc Besson publicly criticized the Weinstein's handling of his animated feature, Arthur and the Invisibles: "They changed...
...their defense, the Weinsteins can point to considerable success with Asian productions. In fact, if you name an Asian hit in the West, the brothers are probably responsible in some way. Chungking Express, Farewell My Concubine, and half of the eight highest-grossing American showings of Asian pics, including Zhang Yimou's Hero, were released under their auspices. Harvey Weinstein also claims a genuine penchant for Asian films, picked up, he says, through his friendship with kung fu-movie fan Quentin Tarantino...