Posts Tagged ‘The Weinstein Company’

The Weinstein Company Purchases BLUE VALENTINE at Sundance; Might Also Land THE TILLMAN STORY

Posted: January 29th, 2010 at 12:04 pm

While some may have thought The Weinstein Company was down for the count, Harvey Weinstein has finally pulled the trigger at Sundance as his company purchased director Derek Cianfrance’s relationship drama Blue Valentine - which stars Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams - for just over $1 million. Also, according to Variety, TWC is close to landing the documentary The Tillman Story, which is about former NFL player Pat Tillman and the cover up by our government after he died.

While I haven’t seen The Tillman Story, the buzz in Park City is the film is really good.  But I did see Blue Valentine and it’s fantastic.  You know how everyone always says how good someone’s performance is?  Trust me when I say, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams are amazing in this film, which is about the beginning and ending of a couple’s relationship.  Director Cianfrance cuts back and forth during the movie and he uses bright colors and film for the beginning of the relationship, and close-ups with the Red camera for the end.   It’s a great way to show the difference in time.  With how good the movie is, it’s no surprise it landed a distributor.  More from Sundance soon.

Fox Promises That Robert Rodriguez’s MACHETE Will Indeed Be a Feature Film

Posted: January 25th, 2010 at 12:45 am

It may be that longest lasting impact of the double feature b-movie Grindhouse on film culture is interlude of five fake trailers between Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror and Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof.  One of the standouts was the Rodriguez-directed Machete, starring Danny Trejo as a Latino with a vendetta who is outfitted mostly in leather and cutlery  Somehow, that trailer is set to be adapted into a real, legitimate feature film (no, really) through what I imagine to be a series of wacky circumstances.  To add to the mayhem, Rodriguez assembled a bizarrely amazing cast including Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson, Jeff Fahey, and Michelle Rodriguez.  Oh, and Robert De Niro(!).

Now Deadline confirms that this is not an elaborate hoax, but something that will eventually hit theaters, as 20th Century Fox outlasted five other studios to distribute the film domestically.  More, including an embed of the glorious original NSFW trailer, after the jump:

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Hits DVD and Blu-Ray on December 15th. No Word Yet on Inglourious, Inevitable Future Editions

Posted: October 20th, 2009 at 6:28 pm

While we already knew that The Weinstein Company would be releasing “Inglourious Basterds” before the end of the year in order to circumvent the expense of sending out screener copies to critics (studios send out screeners at the end of the year for films they think can garner some awards buzz), today the specs have landed online and I’m impressed that we’re not getting a bare-bones DVD but a healthy amount of special features.

However, you won’t find any deleted scenes and since the version that hit theaters in August is different than what was screened at Cannes, it would be out of the question to assume we’ll be getting another edition sometime next year.  That being said, how long have be waiting for “Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair?”  I’m perfectly happy with the current cut of IB (just as I’m happy with both volumes of “Kill Bill”) and if I have to do a double dip, so be it because this DVD/Blu-Ray looks like it gets the job done.  Hit the jump for the full specs.

HALLOWEEN 3D Scares Up a 2010 Release Without Rob Zombie

Posted: August 30th, 2009 at 3:11 pm

It would seem the Weinstein Company is growing antsy in the wake of an under-performing opening weekend for “Halloween II,” Rob Zombie’s latest entry to the rebooted franchise. IMDb reports the slasher has come in with $17.4M thus far, putting it well behind “The Final Destination” and “Inglourious Basterds,” which is in its second weekend. Apparently, this figure is enough to merit a sequel, but not with horror powerhouse Rob Zombie at the helm. More details after the jump.

The Weinstein Co. Partners with the UFC to Promote INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

Posted: July 5th, 2009 at 9:47 pm

To say that the Weinstein Company has a lot riding on the success of Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” would be an understatement.  TWC is broke and they need a hit - badly.  In fact, their money troubles are so bad that Harvey and Co were said to be “hoarding whatever cash they have left to be able to release ‘Inglourious Basterds’”.  So, what kind of ingenious yet thrifty marketing scheme has The Weinstein Company come up with?  Besides printing a ton of posters, I mean.  How about a tie-in with the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s Saturday pay-per-view event?  Find our more after the jump…

Quentin Tarantino’s INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Could Have 25 Percent Less Nazi-Killing

Posted: June 9th, 2009 at 9:34 pm

Since every person who saw Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” at Cannes didn’t immediately ejaculate all over themselves (a standing ovation would have been far less messy), it looks like the Weinstein Company and Universal are sending QT back to the editing room to chop out about forty minutes of 2 hour and 40 minute movie.  Not a lot of people know this, but Americans are incapable of paying attention to anything for longer than two hours.  Even two hours is pushing it but you try to make an American watch something for 120 minutes and 1 second and that American’s head will explode.  Just ignore the fact that all but one of the top ten all-time highest-grossing films of all-time are over two hours long.  Of course, when you chop out a significant chunk of a movie, you can then sell the whole movie again to audiences as an “Unrated” edition!  Hurray!

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