Hillary Clinton supporter Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut off contributions to congressional Democrats unless House Speaker Nancy Pelosi embraced his plan to finance revotes in Florida and Michigan, three officials familiar with their conversation said.
A martial arts dream team -- Jackie Chan and Jet Li -- won the weekend as their movie matchup "The Forbidden Kingdom" debuted at No. 1 with $20.9 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein married British designer Georgina Chapman at his waterfront Connecticut estate Saturday night before a star-studded crowd that included Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Cameron Diaz, Renée Zellweger and Naomi Watts – and topped it off with a grand fireworks display.
Tony Blair, who barely two weeks ago handed over the reigns of power as Britain's prime minister to Gordon Brown, is planning a surprise visit to Allen & Co.'s annual media mogulfest at this mountain playground later in the week, Fortune has learned.
MARKETS: Business is Back! April was such a charm! And here we are in May and the beat goes on. Like this on Wednesday: "Orders to U.S. factories surged in March by the largest amount in a year..." (Business is back!) TWX and YUM earnings were tasty and so we have another record for the Dow, crossing (Jordan) 13,200 for the first time. What was really nice to see was that the NAZ and S&P outpaced the Dow, because so much of the rally recently was big stocks outperforming (and playing catch up really with) the rest of the market. Finally the folks who've been saying that big caps looked cheap are looking smart.....Third time's a charm with Cablevision, right? Dolans are paying out $36.26 a share. Can you believe they originally offered $27 last fall? Good for the board to get up, stand up, get up for your rights!....Hey what are you doing this weekend, The (Kentucky) Derby or BRK's annual meeting? Hard to do both, trust me.....
On a cold January night, Giuseppe Cipriani steps out of a Rolls-Royce and into the side entrance of what once was the Bowery Savings Bank. His family converted this ornate 1923 building opposite Gr...
It's the time of year when Hollywood has one eye on the box office and the other on a certain 13 1/2-inch-high golden boy and all of his similarly gold-plated buddies.
FIRST-TIME VISITORS to Wall Street often stand in front of No. 23, the once-fabled House of Morgan, and stare up at the tall, cramped columns of the New York Stock Exchange across the way, or down ...
First-time visitors to Wall Street often stand in front of No. 23, the once-fabled House of Morgan, and stare up at the tall, cramped columns of the New York Stock Exchange across the way, or down the six blocks to the East River, turning over in their minds the vastness of the fortunes made and lost in that short stretch of real estate.
Hillary Clinton supporter Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut off contributions to congressional Democrats unless House Speaker Nancy Pelosi embraced his plan to finance revotes in Florida and Michigan, three officials familiar with their conversation said.
A martial arts dream team -- Jackie Chan and Jet Li -- won the weekend as their movie matchup "The Forbidden Kingdom" debuted at No. 1 with $20.9 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein married British designer Georgina Chapman at his waterfront Connecticut estate Saturday night before a star-studded crowd that included Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Cameron Diaz, Renée Zellweger and Naomi Watts – and topped it off with a grand fireworks display.
Tony Blair, who barely two weeks ago handed over the reigns of power as Britain's prime minister to Gordon Brown, is planning a surprise visit to Allen & Co.'s annual media mogulfest at this mountain playground later in the week, Fortune has learned.
MARKETS: Business is Back! April was such a charm! And here we are in May and the beat goes on. Like this on Wednesday: "Orders to U.S. factories surged in March by the largest amount in a year..." (Business is back!) TWX and YUM earnings were tasty and so we have another record for the Dow, crossing (Jordan) 13,200 for the first time. What was really nice to see was that the NAZ and S&P outpaced the Dow, because so much of the rally recently was big stocks outperforming (and playing catch up really with) the rest of the market. Finally the folks who've been saying that big caps looked cheap are looking smart.....Third time's a charm with Cablevision, right? Dolans are paying out $36.26 a share. Can you believe they originally offered $27 last fall? Good for the board to get up, stand up, get up for your rights!....Hey what are you doing this weekend, The (Kentucky) Derby or BRK's annual meeting? Hard to do both, trust me.....
On a cold January night, Giuseppe Cipriani steps out of a Rolls-Royce and into the side entrance of what once was the Bowery Savings Bank. His family converted this ornate 1923 building opposite Gr...
It's the time of year when Hollywood has one eye on the box office and the other on a certain 13 1/2-inch-high golden boy and all of his similarly gold-plated buddies.
FIRST-TIME VISITORS to Wall Street often stand in front of No. 23, the once-fabled House of Morgan, and stare up at the tall, cramped columns of the New York Stock Exchange across the way, or down ...
First-time visitors to Wall Street often stand in front of No. 23, the once-fabled House of Morgan, and stare up at the tall, cramped columns of the New York Stock Exchange across the way, or down the six blocks to the East River, turning over in their minds the vastness of the fortunes made and lost in that short stretch of real estate.
Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the brothers who recently left Miramax, the successful movie studio they founded, have raised $230.5 million as a move towards opening a new studio, according to a published report.
Hollywood has a formula for summer blockbusters: Spend an ungodly sum in hopes of making a whole lot more. But ROI-wise, nothing beats the low-budget sleeper that rakes in hundreds of millions. Thi...
Hero, Crouching Tiger and House of Flying Daggers -- Chinese martial arts movies have been making some breathtaking moves on the international cinema circuit in recent years.
After 15 years of churning out some of Paramount Pictures' biggest hits, producer Scott Rudin is shifting his movie company to rival Walt Disney Co. (DIS), where he is expected to help reinvent the company's specialty unit, Miramax Film Corp., the Los Angeles Times reported in its Tuesday editions.
Stocks are poised for a strong start Wednesday ahead of economic reports as portfolio managers adjust their holdings in the closing days of the quarter.
Hollywood's favorite obsession of late has been speculating about the future of the movie world's odd couple: Harvey Weinstein and Michael Eisner. Everyone knows that the Miramax chief, like Pixar'...
Amid Disney's previous objections, Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" is scheduled for release next week. But the movie that criticizes the Bush administration's policies in the wake of the September 11 attacks faces another challenge.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore's documentary critical of President Bush, and linking him with powerful Saudi families, including that of Osama bin Laden, is sparking the latest fight within Walt Disney Co.
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore said the Walt Disney Company has blocked distribution of his new film critical of U.S. President George W. Bush.
You've probably heard of Miramax's notorious boss, Harvey Weinstein, but chances are you've never heard of his Newmarket counterpart, Bob Berney. Come Oscar night, that may change.
Peter Biskind's new book, Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film (Simon & Schuster, $26.95), ought to carry an R rating, if not an NC-17. A lively, sprawling, ...
It's that time of year again, when the tables that groan under their own weight are not just actuarial. Many of us enter this season as lean as Dick Grasso and waddle out the other end as plump as ...
Every once in a while a young actress comes along who seems to have everything: good looks, talent, a killer smile. She appears on the cover of, say, Vanity Fair, wearing very little, next to a hea...
Edgar Bronfman Jr. threw a party in June commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Four Seasons restaurant. Donald Trump was invited. Barry Diller too. It made all the gossip columns; Liz Smith bur...
This year was a big one for the Weinstein brothers, co-founders of Miramax. Harvey Weinstein saw the Best Picture Oscar go to the studio's sand epic The English Patient and reaped praise as the new...
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