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more about #defamer more comments → limber: "In some way, I'll figure out later, we can claim this was a moral victory. " Never give up! Never surrender! more » bess marvin, girl detective: well there's your problem. titantic as the worst film ever made? talk about non-funny hyperbole. more » Mike Jahn: I don't know if I can take one more SciFi iteration of the Hero's Quest. Didn't Joseph Campbell die? That said, I will probably embrace the movie for... more » phlox✔: Avatard!!!! more » drunkexpatwriter: I just saw a sneak preview of it and it is beyond amazing. I've never seen anything even visually close to it. The entire audience was silent during ... more » kithkin: I'm hoping 3 is Kristen Bell but Christina Applegate makes sense too. But really! Veronica Mars! more » manchops: Okay. So where's the apology for your item "Why do they keep putting Sandra Bullock in Movies?" you ran a few months ago? Ummm, because she's the hig... more » LolpantsofArabia: I'm still going to see it tomorrow. And I still expect it to suck. more » KikiCanuck: If you can patent sex positions, I think that Kenan Thompson should think about doing it for The Jabberwocky. more » KikiCanuck: I'm not sure whether I am more disturbed by the idea of Avatar not sucking, or by the adoption of the Royal We in this post. more » cpjones: I still have no desire to see it. more » Baroness: "..our dread on memories of Titanic — which we still hold was the worst film ever made .." If you honestly think that Titanic was literally the wor... more » Niko Bellic: It looks like the trailers for Avatar are set to become the worst trailers in the history of trailers. There is not a single person who liked the tra... more » Mo MoDo: Somebody drank the blue colored Kool Ade. more » BullfightsOnAcid: Richard, I really thought your Avatar bashing was very extreme. Defamer has always been full of cynicism but you were dancing on the Avatar grave befo... more » -
#socialnetworks
Harvey Weinstein Finally Sells MySpace for Millionaires
Weinstein Company is selling its exclusive social network for rich people to a Swiss heir, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. At last, circumstances have forced the company to do what it should have done years ago. More » -
#regrets
Harvey Weinstein: Sad, Senile, Barely Surviving The Next Big Thing
Or so goes today's lacerating NYT piece on The Weinstein Company's fate, "The Weinsteins Scamble to Regain a Golden Touch in Hollywood." Like old Miramax films, it's juicy, exciting, illuminating, and troubling. It also lays their survival strategy bare. More » -
#stoopsale
Is Harvey Weinstein Selling His Worthless Junk For Fast Cash?
Guest of a Guest has a tip that Harvey Weinstein is trying to sell the Weinstein Co.'s stake in A Small World, a useless "Facebook for millionaires" that the company stupidly invested in three years ago. More » -
#momentsoftruth
Harvey Weinstein's Last Stand
Inglourious Basterds premiered last night in Hollywood, and will open nationwide next weekend. The Weinstein Company is in full PR mode, because August 21 is the weekend that will make or break Harvey Weinstein. More » -
#collapses
The Weinstein Fire Sale Begins
Have the Weinstein brothers done anything lately that doesn't signal a desperate need for cash? Now Bob Weinstein, the less violent and insane half of the pair, is trying to unload his Central Park West duplex for $34 million. More » -
#hesbrokeson
The Weinstein Company's Money Problems: Officially Bad
Things at the House of Harvey haven't been going well, and now it's reported that they've brought in a financing firm to restructure their debt, and figure out how to cover the boat's holes before it fills with water. More » -
#deathwatch
Is Harvey Weinstein Broke?
The Weinstein Company keeps throwing out signs of having absolutely no money. The latest is a report that the company may have lost the rights to produce a sequel to Sin City. More » -
#precious
Mariah Carey's Mustache Still Not in Theaters Soon
More speculation today surrounds the whereabouts of Precious (née Push: Based on a Novel by Sapphire), the celebrated, Benjamin Bratt-terrifying drama that won last month's Sundance Film Festival before tumbling into bidding-war lawsuit limbo. More » -
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#projectrunway
How Will The 'Project Runway' Show At Fashion Week Make It Work?
Typically, Project Runway rolls into Fashion Week with a huge swath of catchphrase-aspiring designers already cut. However, ongoing legal battles are forcing the new, still-delayed season to employ some subterfuge for Friday's big show. More » -
#push
'Get Your Hands Off My 'Push' Baby!': A Defamer Timeline
Sundance darling Push is at the center of a bitter tug-of-war, with The Weinstein Company filing multiple suits against Lionsgate and Cinetic, the company that brokered the deal, alleging fraud and breach of contract. More » -
#feuds
Kevin Smith Sells Out The Weinsteins In Latest 'Zack and Miri' Lament
Any director worth a damn has faced it: Flop Grief, that five-stage process that varies by studio and box-office disappointment but never gets any easier. Especially if you're Kevin Smith. More » -
#feuds
How Many Wrong Buttons Can The NY Times 'Push'?
Remember Push: Based on a Novel By Sapphire, the wild Mariah Carey/Mo'Nique starrer that lit up Sundance (and took home three awards)? Lionsgate took our advice and bought it, and now things have gone haywire. More » -
#oscars
'Milk,' 'The Reader' Flunk Wide-Release Test
It sounded like a good idea at the time: Hide your awards-hopeful in the major markets, then let it fly into wide release with as much Oscar-nomination momentum as possible. Alas. More » -
#inglouriousbasterds
Weinsteins Unleashing 'Basterds' in Late-August Dumping Ground
A note taped to Defamer HQ's door greeted us this morning — not an eviction notice as we feared, but rather just another Weinstein news dump announcing Inglourious Basterds' [sic] eyebrow-raising late-summer '09 release date.
