The Weinstein Company News
Five Minutes of Nicole Kidman as 'Grace of Monaco' is Not Enough: The Weinstein Co. Underwhelms With Their Cannes Preview
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Coming off a banner year thanks to "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Django Unchained" netting over $100 million each domestically and three Oscars (two for "Django" and one for "Silver"), The Weinstein Company sailed into Cannes this year eager to kick off a follow-up via their annual slate preview.
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Yuen Woo Ping Directing 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2'
7:18 PM 5/16/2013 by Binh Ngo
Legendary action choreographer Yuen Woo Ping is directing the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon sequel, The Weinstein Company announced today. Titled Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon II - The Green Destiny, the movie will begin production in March 2014.
Cannes: Weinstein Company Eyes Judi Dench Pic 'Philomena' In First Big Bidding Battle Of Festival
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Cannes buyers had plenty of screenings to choose from today but the hottest movie on the Croisette right now is Philomena — or at least the seven minutes that were shown to buyers this morning. This is the Stephen Frears-directed movie that stars Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and is the true story of an Irish woman who searches for the illegitimate son she gave up for adoption in the U.S.
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James Ponsoldt To Write 'Pippin' For The Weinstein Company
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This is one of two projects Mike Fleming Jr told you about last month that paired the scribe with The Weinstein Company. The other has James Ponsoldt writing and directing Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, the upcoming novel by Matthew Quick, whose Silver Linings Playbook was an Oscar-season hit for Weinstein.
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Naomi Watts To Play A Russian Hooker
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Naomi Watts is in talks to star in Ted Melfi's "St. Vincent De Van Nuys" for The Weinstein Company, Chernin Entertainment and Crescendo. Bill Murray plays a cantankerous guy who becomes a chief influence on an angelic 12-year old boy whose hardworking single mother (Melissa McCarthy) foists child care duties on the guy.
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Watch: First US Trailer for Weinstein Company's 'The Grandmaster'
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Just this past February, The Weinstein Company picked up Wong Kar Wai's visually stunning and kung fu fighting riddled film The Grandmaster. The film is slated to arrive in August, and now the marketing for the U.S. release of the film has arrived. It doesn't offer much more than the previous trailers for the film from its 2012 release in China, but it does have some more gorgeous shots of that rain fight with Tony Leung as Ip Man, the legendary martial arts grand master who trained Bruce Lee, looking like a real bad ass.
3 weeks 4 days ago via theothersenhman
Shane Salerno's JD Salinger Biography Eyes Global Windfall
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EXCLUSIVE: It took Shane Salerno eight years and $2 million of his own cash to make his JD Salinger documentary and book. It’s paid off quickly: The Weinstein Company landed worldwide rights to the movie and will release it during Oscar season September 6, it will air on PBS’ American Masters in 2014, and Simon & Schuster scooped up the 700-page Salinger biography from Salerno and David Shields.
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'Fruitvale' gets a new title: 'Fruitvale Station'
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The Weinstein Company has tweaked the title to Sundance grand jury and audience award winner "Fruitvale." The crowd-pleasing drama will now be known as "Fruitvale Station."
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Weinstein Co. Sets James Ponsoldt To Script 'Pippin,' And Write/Helm New Novel By 'Silver Linings Playbook' Author
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EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company is doubling down on Matthew Ponsoldt, the writer/director of The Spectacular Now and Smashed. TWC has made two big deals with Ponsoldt. He’ll script a movie adaptation of the venerable musical Pippin, and he’s also been set to adapt and direct Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, the upcoming novel by Matthew Quick.
4 weeks 3 days ago via donnieyen
Cannes: Weinsteins' 'Grace Of Monaco' To Screen Footage; Whither The Studios?
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We’re six days from definitively learning the Cannes Film Festival lineup while hopefuls await a call from fest chief Thierry Frémaux in the hours just preceding Thursday’s announcement. Of the high-profile possibilities, we reported last month that Nicole Kidman-starrer Grace Of Monaco would not be ready, and while that intel remains correct, I’m now hearing that footage from the film will turn up on the Croisette.
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