Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

Sounds like they're still annoyed with themselves at missing the LOTR gravy train. ;-)

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

ok

More allegations against Dan Schneider, this time from Lori Beth Denberg.

https://consequence.net/2024/05/lori-beth-denberg-dan-schneider/

Schneider was head writer on All That throughout the four seasons in which Denberg appeared, and the interview with Business Insider details an alleged event shortly after Denberg’s 19th birthday in which Schneider asked for a meeting, then began showing the actress clips of pornography on his computer. Denberg claimed that the “grand finale” of footage showed a woman performing oral sex on a donkey.

Neil Gaiman (although be warned that the site that broke the allegations of is apparently a TERF-y podcast:

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/07/03/exclusive-neil-gaiman-accused-of-sexual-assault/

Darrin Bell, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist (Candorville) arrested, accused of possession of child sex abuse videos. Apparently they were AI-generated.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pulitzer-prize-winning-cartoonist-arrested-alleged-possession-child-se-rcna188014

A woman who identified herself as Bell's wife said Thursday afternoon in a brief telephone interview, "Pray for me and my children."

Dark.

a weird new world with AI - essentially this was a victimless crime, but a crime nonetheless

How many real children’s photos were combed to create those images? We know how AI works.

I haven’t even read the article and Im already. 🤮

That was the basis of a surprisingly dark weekend update bit a week ago

shannon sharpe

Wesley Lowery

https://www.cjr.org/feature-2/wesley-lowery-sexual-assault-journalists-attest-experiences.php

Not totally on topic, but Kevin Costner and his production company are being sued by a stuntperson over an unscripted rape scene in Horizon 2 that was filmed without an intimacy coordinator present.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kevin-costner-lawsuit-horizon-2-unscripted-rape-scene-1236231181/

“stuntperson for an unscripted rape scene” is an absolutely insane combination of concepts

On and on

https://www.stereogum.com/2311039/jared-leto-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-nine-women/news/

jfc

Thirty Seconds To Mars are scheduled to launch a tour in Kazakhstan later this month

his behavior is so typical and disgusting but this is just a weird surprise

lol i noticed that too

Kazakhs deserve better imo

Boy that Tron sequel is going to be fun! *dies*

i was at negative zero enthusiam for that fkn thing anyway so

Jeremy Renner apparently sent unsolicited dick pics and then threatened to call ICE on a chinese filmmaker: https://www.irishstar.com/culture/entertainment/jeremy-renner-ice-yi-zhou-36206011

charming

Creed III and Ant-Man star Jonathan Majors is shooting his first movie in four years as cameras roll this week in South Carolina on an untitled action film from The Daily Wire and Bonfire Legend.

Kyle Rankin (Run Hide Fight) is directing from his own screenplay. The title, plot and other cast are being kept under wraps for now, but the story is said to be in the vein of ’80s and ’90s action movies Red Dawn and Toy Soldiers, which were both about groups of teenage boys who had to band together to defeat invading enemies.

Ben Shapiro (The Ben Shapiro Show) and Dallas Sonnier (Bone Tomahawk) are producing for The Daily Wire and Bonfire Legend, respectively. Travis Mills (Frontier Crucible), Lillian Campbell (The Pendragon Cycle), and Sydney Aucreman (Terror On The Prairie) are also producing.

benny’s lifelong grudge against hollywood for rejecting him becomes more evident every year

As awful as Ben Shapiro is, I don’t think working with him is punishment enough for beating your girlfriend

this is going to get the most unhinged Arm0nd White rave when it's released

sad lol

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html

I was trying to find a thread to post that in, but wasn't sure this was the right one. The details are awful.

damn that is a harrowing read. awful

but wasn't sure this was the right one

I think this works as a catch-all thread for men doing really awful things

Maybe it was the company he kept.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/C%C3%A9sar_Ch%C3%A1vez_with_John_Giumarra_and_others_ending_CA_Grape_Strike.jpg

I actually get the March 31st holiday off work, as do many in the West

They should switch it to Dolores Huerta Day

it is insane (and so horribly familiar) what these women have had to endure just to get any kind of acknowledgement… like, it becimes a bargaining thing that it would take too much get justice,as if it’s a bridge too far, but just for us to SEE them has taken all of this anguish

it’s fucked

and my god, carrying all of that in ~this~ movement?

sorry if i’m stating the obvious, it’s glib to say “it’s a lot” but jfc

yeah this quote from Huerta is heartbreakingly familiar

“I carried this secret for as long as I did because building the movement and securing farmworker rights was my life’s work,” Huerta wrote. “The formation of a union was the only vehicle to accomplish and secure those rights and I wasn’t going to let Cesar or anyone else get in the way.”

sorry for multiposting but messing w DOLORES HUERTA alone is enough to crack my heart open

i need to log off

Also that she dl gave away the babies and now she’s 96
It’s devastating

Sorry for that rogue dl

Here's a gift link if anyone needs it. Terrible story and also it's good that it has finally come out — although certainly raises the possibility of other unknown abuses.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UFA.XK70.m3MWWWFO7y4H&smid=url-share

Well that was quick:
California legislative leaders are moving to rename Cesar Chavez Day as Farmworkers Day in light of sexual abuse allegations against the late labor leader.

but it will still be on his birthday? not sure

yeah Sacramento city mayor already working on renaming Cesar Chavez park as of yesterday

there’s also a statue but no indication of what they’ll do w that yet

i have heard that a lot of schools are struggling to know what to do re a potential name change. it's so sad and depressing, everything about it.

yeah there's parks and streets and schools all over the place with his name

(but there's still also a lot of Jefferson Boulevards and things despite what we now know about him)

yeah it’s really hard to comprehend the level of this & the impact it’s going to have on so many corners of life.

when i moved here from Aus I knew zero abt Chavez, but living in Sacramento you really cannot avoid knowing about him & his legacy, his name on schools, parks, statue, public holiday, let alone often meeting ppl even in casual life, not just government, who worked w the movement or knew him, it’s wild

I'll have to ask my old boss about this. She worked on UFW campaigns in the '70s, and I know she was around Chavez some. She's always talked about him glowingly, I'm going to guess it's a shock to her. But who know what people know or hear rumors of and don't say anything about, because of "the movement."

yeah exactly

he's almost become a secular saint in the west, can't count how many times I've seen him depicted in murals as a kind of Latino Moses

definitely

yeah i was kind of thinking he’s at MLK levels in these parts, maybe