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While a major element of the Weinstein Co. bankruptcy proceeding — a petition to change it from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 — was postponed again Monday, two major claims have been settled. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Mary Walrath approved the settlements, one involving Viacom and the other between Weinstein Co. lender AI…

Spyglass Media Group, the independent production and distribution outfit launched this week by Gary Barber and Lantern Entertainment, has tapped Barber’s former MGM colleague, Cheryl Rodman, as its Chief Legal Officer. She will oversee legal matters and business & legal affairs for the company, including corporate…

Former MGM CEO and Spyglass principal Gary Barber and Lantern Entertainment have joined forces to form Spyglass Media Group, an independent outfit, which will blend new film and TV projects with the Weinstein Co. assets. Strategic investors include Eagle Pictures, the largest independent distributor in Italy, and the…

STXfilms’ release of Lantern Entertainment’s The Upside will cross the $100 million milestone Tuesday at the domestic box office, becoming the Burbank-based studio’s second release to do so in its nearly five years of operations. Bad Moms grossed $113.2M in 2016. The Upside is Kevin Hart’s sixth starring feature to…

EXCLUSIVE: Following Weinstein Co.’s Kevin Hart-Bryan Cranston movie The Upside going to STX in a distribution deal, another former TWC title is being rescued. Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures are co-acquiring domestic rights to Australian director Anthony Maras’ Hotel Mumbai prior to the pic’s world premiere at…

EXCLUSIVE: The most prominent of the Weinstein Co. leftover titles The Upside is landing with STX Entertainment, who is partnering with Lantern Entertainment to handle worldwide distribution on Neil Burger’s remake of the French hit The Intouchables. We heard that others were circling to distribute this title…

EXCLUSIVE: We are hearing reports that Argentinean filmmaker Damian Szifron has been moved off of Warner Bros.’ The Six Billion Dollar Man. The movie, which is set for release on May 31, 2019, was set to go before the cameras in two months. We understand that Szifron was pulled from the project over creative…

The Weinstein Company has formally responded to one of the class-action lawsuits facing the company, saying co-founder Harvey Weinstein acted alone and that in some instances the statute of limitations had run out on the claims. "Virtually all of the alleged conduct about which plaintiffs complain in the complaint was…

While the Weinstein Company deals with a few internal matters, it has pulled three films from their 2018 release dates — likely in anticipation of the company changing hands. Robert De Niro-Christopher Walken starrer The War with Grandpa had been set for February 23, Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart’s The Intouchables…

2nd Update: Paramount Network president Kevin Kay continued to expound on the cable channel excising its upcoming series Waco and Yellowstone from its producer the Weinstein Co. in the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s sex scandal last fall. “What happened there, what Harvey did is disgusting and disheartening. When we read…

EXCLUSIVE: Paddington 2 is going to Warner Bros., the home of the pic’s producer David Heyman. Warner Bros. made the news official in a press release this morning. Weinstein originally possessed domestic rights on the StudioCanal movie. The news today confirms what Deadline originally reported, that WB was one of the l…

Dimension’s horror film Polaroid is no longer opening over the Thanksgiving holiday. On October 4, the day before The New York Times broke its exposé on Harvey Weinstein’s history with sexual harassment, the studio dated the Lars Klevberg-directed horror film for November 22, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Amid…