The Weinstein Company's The Reader was a surprise nominee for Best Picture and Best Actress.
The Weinstein brothers also got a nod for Blue Valentine (Michelle Williams for Best Actress).
Yet the movie is now at the center of a well-documented legal battle between Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company.
"The Weinstein deal gives us bigger and better product, " says Marc DeBevoise, a senior executive at Starz Digital Media.
Despite signing a feature-film deal with the Weinstein Company, Showtime is banking on its gritty original series to attract viewers.
Dimension is a unit of The Weinstein Co, which Weinstein and brother Bob launched in 2005 after they left Miramax Films.
Starz CEO Chris Albrecht, who is considering several of the Weinstein Co.
He joined forces with Mexican financier Alex Garcia and The Weinstein Company in New York to set up a Latin American Film fund.
The Weinstein Company also helped finance The Fighter (which Paramount distributed).
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The brothers left Disney to start The Weinstein Company in 2005.
RADiUS-TWC, a division of The Weinstein Company, bought the rights to the fact-based drama on Tuesday night and now plans to release it in the autumn.
Universal also distributed two of the Best Picture Nominees: A Serious Man, through its Focus Features division, and Inglourious Basterds in a partnership with The Weinstein Company.
The Weinstein Company decided on Monday that it would release the film unrated after the MPAA refused to lower the R rating it gave the film last month.
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The French film, from director and writer Michel Hazanavicius, is being distributed in the U.S. by The Weinstein Company who are, of course, famous for their ability to win awards.
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To counter the MPAA's decision, the film's distributor, the Weinstein Company, is sending it out as unrated, a tactic that will gain access to some theater chains but not to others.
Buyers were quicker on the draw last year, when Magnolia Pictures picked up "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" before the film's premiere, and the Weinstein Company acquired "The Bully Project" (which became "Bully").
With the might of The Weinstein Company, which orchestrated The Artist's successful awards campaign, the film has been selected to represent France as a potential nominee for best foreign language film at next year's Academy Awards.
In 2008, Bravo parent company NBC Universal sued the Weinstein brothers for breach of contract, claiming it had been denied the right of first refusal to keep the Emmy- and Peabody-winning show on one of its networks.
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and RADiUS-TWC, the new multi-platform distribution label from The Weinstein Company, announced today a multi-year output deal for a slate of great new films that U.S. Netflix members can watch instantly beginning in early 2013.
"Last year, though, people weren't talking about 'Bully, '" the festival's chief creative officer, Geoffrey Gilmore, said of the documentary, which has been the focus of a recent ratings battle between the Weinstein Company and the Motion Picture Association of America.
The second is Mikey Weinstein, the avenging angel of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, who says he may file a federal lawsuit to stop the development of the Spiritual Triage game.
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The abuse of power inherent to Weinstein's action was exposed in all its ugly irony on Sunday when the media revealed that Weinstein himself is under criminal investigation for illegally employing a foreign worker in his home.
In openly undermining the Knesset and the government, Weinstein is behaving in a manner that is contrary to the law.
The group outbid Bob and Harvey Weinstein who founded the studio back in 1979 and named it for their parents, Max and Miriam.
The role of producer Harvey Weinstein, who backed the movie's US release and masterminded its highly successful awards campaign, should not be underestimated either.
Along with studies of the brain, Dr Weinstein wrote a number of papers on the practical uses of psychiatry.
In the event, the Court never considered the petition because Weinstein told Netanyahu that due to his own "ethical" misgivings, he would refuse to defend Galant's appointment.
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