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The Weinstein Co. has been ordered to pay $2 million to settle a dispute involving the film One Chance. Director David Frankel sued the company in 2016, claiming The Weinstein Co. failed to live up to its promises of distributing the film for wide release. The film, starring James Corden and based on the true story of…

One Chance, the David Frankel-directed film about opera singer Paul Potts, will make its first performance on Yahoo Screen, an advertiser-supported online service from Yahoo. In a new wrinkle about finding an audience for a crowd pleasing film with no big stars, Yahoo has made a deal with The Weinstein Company to air…

In this special holiday edition of our Deadline Awards Watch podcast, Awards Columnist Pete Hammond talks with Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi about the making of Captain Phillips with director Paul Greengrass. Pete also talks with Taylor Swift, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter behind “Sweeter Than Fiction,” the theme…

Just call it Weinstein Premiere-O-Rama. The company launched four movies with splashy galas at the Toronto International Film Festival in the span of 48 hours (is this some sort of weird record?). That included Saturday night’s Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom World Premiere, Sunday’s North American launch of Philomena…

Myriad Pictures is handling all international rights on Miss Meadows, written and directed by Karen Leigh Hopkins. The dark satire/fairy tale stars Katie Holmes and James Badge Dale. Myriad will introduce it to buyers in Toronto. Holmes plays a sweet and proper elementary school teacher who moonlights as a gun-toting…

The Weinstein Co‘s One Chance is the rags-to-riches story of Britain's Got Talent‘s 2007 winner Paul Potts. The David Frankel-directed pic stars James Corden as Potts, the cell phone salesman who became an overnight sensation and a successful opera singer. Julie Walters, Mackenzie Crook, Colm Meaney, Jemima Rooper and…