With The Weinstein Company recently finishing a megapact deal with Disney that will promote the hell out of “Nine” all over every possible media space you can think of, it seems they still wants one more thing from the studio.
Remember Miramax, the little studio who pretty much changed the industry game entirely in the early 1990s (and infamously hoodwinked the Academy into believing “Shakespeare In Love” was a better Best Picture movie than “Saving Private Ryan”)?
Well Bob, who along with his brother Harvey sold the studio to Disney back in 1993 for $70 million, and left in 2005 to form The Weinstein Company, wants the name of the company they founded in 1979 back in their hands now that that little company left to its own devices in recent years is folding (or at least being drastically diminished)
Good luck to them. Until Bob and Harvey are ready to fork over a ton of cash — which given their tenuous cash flow problem which had many predicting bankruptcy no more than four or five months ago — it’s not likely to happen anytime soon. Though maybe the megapact deal show that Disney & Harvey will at least not completely butt heads, at least not in their first initial meeting (probably…). And maybe the going-rate for Miramax will be a song?
