Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

I DID IT

The Weinstein Company and Miramax -- the studio the Weinstein brothers founded and then sold -- announced a gigantic partnership deal on Thursday (via The Hollywood Reporter), agreeing to create sequels of the smash hit films that the Weinsteins produced for the studio before starting their new production company.

A number of big films are set to see second installments added to their canon: 'Shakespeare In Love,' 'Bad Santa,' 'Swingers,' 'Rounders,' 'Bridget Jones's Diary,' are some of the most famous names to be in line for the part two treatment.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317198/

Shakespeare in Love 2? Oh yay

Will Hard with a Vengeance

Iambic Boogaloo

there's already a second bridget jones movie

Shakespeare in Love 2: Havana Nights

this time it's versonal

Crying Game 2?

there's already a second bridget jones movie

Please don't remind me.

Reindeer Games 2: Blood Sleigh

Rounders: Legacy

Chocolat 2: The Squeakque

Good Will Hunting 2: Open Season

would watch a bad santa sequel

Bad Santa 2: The Baddening

still lolling at "Iambic Boogaloo"

What's next? Henry 5?!

Rounders 2: What Goes A Rounders Comes Back A Rounders Again

Seriously, Dude, Where's My Bard?

Shakespeare In Love 2: Rotten In Denmark

Just finished Peter Biskind's Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. (Awful title.) Was actually published only a couple of months before the event that started this thread--he gives no indication that that's around the corner. Anyway, as someone who's mostly ignorant about the business end of things, I now know more about these people than I ever wanted to know, and I'm amazed a single movie ever gets made.

Hello.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harvey-weinstein-lawyers-battling-ny-times-new-yorker-potentially-explosive-stories-1045724

boom

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html?smid=tw-share

This is...something.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/05/us/statement-from-harvey-weinstein.html

I want to buy the movie rights

— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 4, 2017

that statement really keeps you guessing huh

how the fuck can his lawyer let him make that statement.

He's always been an asshole of the highest order.

the odds of decades worth of actors, actresses, directors, fellow producers, or any number of people not knowing about this stuff seems to me next to nil.

Lisa Bloom, one of Weinstein’s attorneys who specializes in sexual harassment cases, adds that she has been advising him on “gender and power dynamics” for the past year, calling him “an old dinosaur learning new ways.” She adds that she’s “explained to him that due to the power difference between a major studio head like him and most others in the industry, whatever his motives, some of his words and behaviors can be perceived as inappropriate, even intimidating.”

http://catholicap.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/skd229428sdc.jpg

so this guy's got presumably top dollar lawyers and crisis management teams working for him and... that's his statement?

"not used to this new day and age when leveraging your power to coerce young women eager to get a foot in the door into sleeping with you isn't cool. i'm workin' on it. also fuck the NRA and Trump, right guys?!"

oh i forgot about the Jay-Z quote from 4:44

HEY GUYS LETS SHOW HOW CULTURALLY AWARE I AM

Weinstein told NYT he "sincerely apologize[s]" for his behavior, is going on leave.
His lawyer tells Hollywood Reporter he is suing us.

— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) October 5, 2017

wow what a total POS

that "apology" reads like a horrendous parody

Harvey the Hutt

surprised it wasn't written in crayon a la tarantino scripts

Speaking of, can't wait for the Tarantino statement. Oh wait I can.

Maybe he can direct the movie.

I posted on this thread 12 years ago jesus christ

lol the I DID IT thread has to do with Harvey's penchant for smoking cigars indoors in CA and not giving a fuck

BREAKING: Weinstein's lawyer gave Manhattan DA 0K after he declined to file sex assault charges against Weinstein https://t.co/LIKNFRWAUv

— David Sirota (@davidsirota) October 5, 2017

bad week for Cyrus Vance, jesus christ

also apparently being a DA in NYC is lucrative as fuck!

People are just tripping over themselves to give him money because they like him so much!

Well, yeah. Straight shooter, that Vance.

btw I thought I posted on this thread like 12 years ago noting what an asshole AND misogynist Harvey was and is, but I couldn't find it via search. Because back then I knew someone at Miramar who complained about this exact shit.

It's probably pretty hard to make it work when you husband is in jail for being a convicted rapist. It's going to be a while until she is clear again, warm up the Campbell's Soup cans.

I guess no conjugal visits then

Or do rapists even get those?

Weird convo!

It's going to be a while until she is clear

She stood by him all through the trial... I wonder if "The Church" advised her to cut bait now that there's an actual conviction

Mars Volta’s Cedric’s wife was one of the victims. Have been following this story through his Instagram and “good” (weird way to put it) for his wife and him to have this kind of resolution.

Seems likely that 'The Church' is directly culpable in this kind of thing, or at least discouraging reporting to police

Oh for suuuuuuuuure

curious to see if 'the church' ultimately disavows him as insufficiently clear. probably depends on which stance costs them (more) money

I don't know WTF is up with Mcgowan but her brain appeared to break after Weinstein and she got hypercritical of #metoo accusers despite being one herself.

my suspicion is she felt betrayed by those in Hollywood who were dismissing her and not believing her, writing her off as crazy, the media trying to dig up dirt on her before the dam broke on HW, and it kinda fucked her up. why she is now saying things about other accusers is weird though. she's just doing the same thing others did to her.

My guess as well. During the height of the pandemic she was lashing out at a lot of people for different reasons, but it was all unhinged nonsense. She's really in need of help and I hope she gets it and it works, but otherwise it's probably best to ignore her.

https://www.avclub.com/julia-ormond-sues-disney-miramax-and-caa-in-harvey-we-1850901339

Ormond says that, in the aftermath, she informed her agents, Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane (who now serve as co-chairmen of CAA), about what had happened; she says the pair “cautioned her from speaking out and did not protect her.”

Ormond is suing CAA for negligence and breach of fiduciary conduct, and the formerly Weinstein-run Miramax (and its owners at Disney) for negligent supervision, with her lawyers writing in the suit that “The men at CAA who represented Ormond knew about Weinstein. So too did Weinstein’s employers at Miramax and Disney. Brazenly, none of these prominent companies warned Ormond that Weinstein had a history of assaulting women because he was too important, too powerful, and made them too much money.”

Hope they get taken for everything

jonathan majors fired by marvel

Good

not surprised. his defence seemed to be 'she did it first' which, uh, does not fly, dude. guy's career is cooked now, I think. He was a good actor but the second this situation happened there was an onslaught of follow on reports that he'd been an abusive, smug asshole for years.

Vin Diesel Accused of Sexual Battery in Lawsuit by Former Assistant

Crazy Days and Nights’ Gossip Blogger Unmasked—by Furious Ex-Mistress
https://archive.ph/2024.02.07-174114/https://www.thedailybeast.com/crazy-days-and-nights-blogger-unmasked-as-john-nelsonby-ex-mistress-cassandra-crose

The anonymous author of the notorious Hollywood gossip blog Crazy Days and Nights inadvertently revealed his identity to a Florida court last year in the fallout of a messy extramarital affair that wouldn’t be out of place in one of his website’s famed “blind items.”

Crazy Days and Nights (often abbreviated as CDaN) is infamous for publishing sensational and inflammatory claims about unnamed celebrities with little regard for accuracy. In fact, the blog admits in a disclaimer that some material might be “products of the author’s imagination” and last year settled a defamation lawsuit with Diana Jenkins of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

But some items have their footing in reality. CDaN’s lead blogger, who uses the pseudonym “Enty Lawyer,” has been credited with beating major publications to the punch on several major stories—including Harvey Weinstein’s predations—and developed a certain mystique among the mainstream media, QAnon-style conspiracy theorists, and ordinary celeb-watchers.

Though a handful of profiles about Enty Lawyer have been published, they were written under agreements to keep his identity secret. But The Daily Beast has confirmed that the dirt-slinger behind Crazy Days and Nights is licensed California attorney John Robert Nelson, who in 2018 ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a progressive Democrat. It’s unclear whether he currently practices law or ever practiced entertainment law as his moniker suggests.

Nelson’s secret life came to light because of an affair he had with a Florida woman that has spawned dueling legal complaints and accusations of abusive behavior.

Not as monumental as Dril reveal

possibly the all time GOAT celeb gossip blogger for my money

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/drake-bell-sexual-assault-brian-peck-documentary-1235934302/

In 2003, Peck, 43 at the time, was arrested on 11 charges — including sodomy, lewd act upon a child 14 or 15 by a person 10 years older, and oral copulation by anesthesia or controlled substance — but the minor was not named until now.

“My name is Drake Bell and I came here today to tell my story,” Bell says during the documentary’s third episode, before detailing his close relationship with Peck, whom he met at the beginning of Season 2 of “The Amanda Show.”

At first, Bell’s father was his manager and became uncomfortable about how much time Peck was spending time with his son, so much so that he went to production and told them. “I go, ‘I don’t see anything abnormal but it just doesn’t — I don’t have a good feeling,'” he said. At the time, Joe Bell claims production told him that Peck is gay and said, “Maybe you’re just homophobic and you just don’t understand that he’s a touchy-feely guy.”

This sounds like a huge breaking story, what the fuck is "ID"?

Investigation Discovery, a true crime cable network.

jesus

Peck is named in the Open Secret documentary, he was friends w Bryan Singer.

such a sad and fucked up story, given that Drake Bell himself was later accused of preying on underage girls

seems the documentary covers not just that case but an overall abusive/toxic environment on Nickelodeon shows run by (known creep) Dan Schneider: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/drake-bell-brian-peck-sexual-assault-dan-schneider-docuseries-1235850468/

amanda bynes is widely understood to have had a mental breakdown as a result of all of this, correct?

so i just saw a photo of this guy and thought: wait is this the guy from Head of the Class?

it is! i had no idea he went on to become an abusive producer of children's programming

(this guy = dan schneider)

Huh, had no idea it was the HotC dude either!

I just looked up his picture and was like “ohhhhhh okay”

I know it’s bad form/unhelpful to conflate an actor’s personality with a character they played, but what I remember of Dennis makes it extremely tempting.

I rewatched Better Off Dead this winter, and Dan Schneider is in there as a character who is a total creep towards women.

Also, I mentioned it upthread, but Jennette McCurdy discussed Schneider's grooming in her memoir, I'm Glad My Mom Died (tw: child abuse, eating disorders).

Really feels like another shoe has been about to drop on Schneider for 10 years. Every time something comes out its always like he *massages* or he *yells* or he *makes suggestive content* but never seems to get up to any of the Bryan Singer-type stuff that could get tried in a court of law. Either theres some insane shit being held back or he was just a master at approaching the line between "creep" and "criminal" but never crossing it.

It's kind of a similar story to that of Brett Ratner*, nothing prosecutable yet but enough to completely torpedo his career forever.

*the X-Men franchise really leaned heavily on major creeps!

quinton of quinton reviews is editing a schneider video as an coda to his 43-hour long youtube series on icarly and victorious.

So the 'Quiet on Set' thing is news to me, but I have no intention of delaying my Dan Schneider video until April. I'm going to go ahead and finish it this month (or March). I'm sure there will be more specific revelations in this piece, but I frankly want to be done with it all.

— Quinton Reviews - #1 GARFIELD FAN 🎬 (@Q_Review) February 8, 2024

it is a horrible coincidence that Drake Bell’s costar shares the same last name as his abuser ie Josh Peck, Brian Peck

zero relationship between the two

but the way the article says PECK and mainly shows pics of Josh is unfortunate

This sounds like a huge breaking story, what the fuck is "ID"?

― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, March 14, 2024 11:32 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Investigation Discovery, a true crime cable network.

― peace, man, Thursday, March 14, 2024 11:35 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Included w/MAX subscription, as I just learned.

tbf I think Ratner has multiple accusations of sexual assault and other crimes, beyond anything I’ve seen about Schneider, it just doesn’t seem like charges were filed (and he’s now left the country for good)

Stuff on Mo Troper today:

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/dan-schneider-quiet-on-set-video-interview-1235855562/