EXCLUSIVE: 101 Studios has optioned rights to the Christopher Byron book Skin Tight: The Bizarre Story of Guess vs. Jordache. The company will package a series around the epic, no-holds-barred Designer Jeans War that erupted between two immigrant Sephardic Jewish families. It pitted the Jordache Jeans empire launched…
EXCLUSIVE: Longtime Fox publicity executive Heather Phillips has been hired to be Chief Communications Officer and Head of Global Publicity for 101 Studios. She will oversee the new studio's corporate communications division and lead the publicity strategy for its upcoming state of film and TV releases and overall…
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 upstart 101 Studios has hired Michele Newman to be Executive Vice President of Finance and Strategy, Laurent Ouaknine to head U.S. Distribution, and Ennis Hensley to head International Sales & Distribution.
"Michele, Laurent and Ennis bring with them a wealth of experience that will help 101 Studios become the…
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…
Financiers Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, Marc Leder, Marvin Peart, Dan Schryer and East West Bank have partnered with CEO David Glasser and COO David Hutkin to launch of 101 Studios, a new global entertainment studio headquartered in Century City.
101 Studios has announced that it lined up more than $300 million to acquire…
We’re finally getting some reaction, if not explanation, about the abrupt announcement last night that the board of directors of The Weinstein Company is moving the beleaguered company towards a bankruptcy filing because the cash flow derived from the sale of Paddington 2 rights to Warner Bros has run out.
The board…
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…
BREAKING: The board of directors of the beleaguered The Weinstein Company has just sent a statement announcing they’ve fired COO David Glasser for cause.
The board declined to elaborate on this simple statement: “The Board of The Weinstein Company has unanimously voted to terminate David Glasser for cause.”
The…
EXCLUSIVE: The allegations of sexual harassment and rapes against Harvey Weinstein has led to an unrelenting onslaught of nasty press for those left behind at The Weinstein Company following the firing of Weinstein by the board of directors. After being hit hard by a Variety article this morning over a business deal…
