Do we remember the fairly-maligned Capitol Films douchebag David Bergstein? Dude has major, major balls. He owes millions of dollars to myriad investors, companies, people, etc. is under an armada of lawsuits, but his new company Pangea Media Group is somehow trying to buy Miramax (this guy really is a con artist, no joke). You have to read this entire THR piece to realize the massive extent of money he owes and how he still somehow swindles people into giving him money. It’s just unbelievable.
There are apparently over 89 debentures, or court judgments, against Capitol and his related entities, he’s been sued countless times for fraud. He’s trying to sell off in-limbo Capitol Films, “$5 a Day,” starring Christopher Walken and Sharon Stone (which is good, we saw it at TIFF 2008), and Taylor Hackford’s “Love Ranch,” starring Joe Pesci and Hackford’s wife, Helen Mirren, but some question whether Capitol even own the full rights to those films now.
The article also briefly mentions David O. Russell’s “Nailed” starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel; a notoriously chaotic production (it was shut down four times during shooting) was never finished and has not yet been released. There was once a minor, potential hint or hope the film could be salvaged (maybe). But the article states as we’ve been saying all along, the project was never finished (at least two days of scheduled filming were left that included some key scenes) and the director and all the actors have moved on. Some have suggest a severely compromised version could limp onto DVD eventually, but we kind of even doubt that will happen.