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EXCLUSIVE: In his first move back into the movie business since the implosion of The Weinstein Company, former TWC co-chairman Bob Weinstein has launched Watch This Entertainment. The shingle is a boutique development and production company that will develop to produce two to three films per year, with a primary focus…

Nearly a year after first taking the much-accused Harvey Weinstein to court, Paz de la Huerta has today added the Walt Disney Company, its former CEO Michael Eisner and current CEO Bob Iger plus Bob Weinstein and Miramax to a revised version multi-claim version of the complaint – and Disney wants out ASAP. “Defendant…

EXCLUSIVE: Despite being on the job for barely over a week, Harvey Weinstein's newest and latest defense lawyers won’t be asking a New York state judge for another delay in the start of the Oscar winning producer's rape trial. Led by recently hired Chicago attorneys Damon Cheronis and Donna Rotunno, the once again…

UPDATE: Former Weinstein Company co-chairman Bob Weinstein has weighed in on the lawsuit filed yesterday by ex-HR exec Frank Gil, who claimed he was fired by Weinstein and David Glasser in retaliation for doing an internal investigation at the behest of Harvey Weinstein to discover who internally had leaked…

After decades of being joined at the big-screen hip, Harvey Weinstein and his brother and longtime business partner Bob Weinstein split in late 2017 as accusations of sexual assault and harassment piled up against Harvey Weinstein. However, the brothers were still linked in the courts. But that state of affairs for…

The producers of the film Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (aka Sin City 2) are suing The Weinstein Company, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein and David Glasser, alleging the distributors pushed a similar movie during the time they should have promoted the Sin City sequel. The suit, filed in Los Angeles…

Already looking at a potential life sentence in his criminal case in New York and new probes by the Los Angeles County District Attorney into sexual assault allegations on the West Coast, Harvey Weinstein now also faces the likelihood of a federal trial on sex trafficking claims. “Plaintiff has plausibly alleged that…

UPDATED, 12:39 PM: An associate producer on the former Weinstein Company series Marco Polo has filed an amended complaint charging sexual and physical abuse by Harvey Weinstein. Alexandra Canosa’s filing Monday in New York Supreme Court (read it here) details further abuse at the hands of the disgraced mogul, charging…

As Bob Weinstein attempted to calm employees fears about the company’s financial health, Deadline hears that the uncertainty of future employment has people at The Weinstein Co. looking for the exits. The same happened at Relativity when they were on the brink of bankruptcy. Weinstein wrote his employees today: Dear…

2ND UPDATE with bankruptcy details: Sources said TWC will move quickly into 363 bankruptcy, likely by March 15. It is expected to follow the orderly bankruptcy procedure that MGM went through several years ago, because there is no shortage of bidders that want these assets. Those bidders will begin meeting tomorrow in…

EXCLUSIVE: All it took today to snatch the assets of The Weinstein Company back from a bankruptcy plunge was a 12-hour negotiating session, fueled by a common goal between New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the remaining TWC board members Tarak Ben Ammar, Lance Maerov and Bob Weinstein, and Maria Contreras-Sw…

BREAKING: David Glasser is hitting back. After being vilified in the press by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and subsequently fired for cause last Friday night by The Weinstein Company’s Bob Weinstein and board members Tarak Ben Ammar and Lance Maerov as the trio presses for a completion of the sale of…