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...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...
...HARVEY WEINSTEIN: We were trying to say that even though we signed those contracts, good times were ahead. We needed to be independent of them for our own entrepreneurial spirit and they needed to be more corporate to maintain the strength of their company. We were a good fit, but in course it had run out. It was a fun way to end everything...
...WEINSTEIN: We got to see how they did it, and we learned a lot from their executives. We built a library during that time, and that was something we always wanted to do.... Look, we had autonomy when we were at Disney, and operated as our own company even when we were within the Disney sphere. Other than some instances where they didn?t release our films, such as Dogma and Fahrenheit 9/11, we were given freedom...