HARVEY WEINSTEIN - WILL BASTERDS ' SUCCESS SAVE WEINSTEINS? MAYBE NOT

WILL BASTERDS ' SUCCESS SAVE WEINSTEINS? MAYBE NOT

The success of Inglourious Basterds at the box office may not be enough to pull the Weinstein brothers out of their current financial troubles, the Wall Street Journal reported today (Tuesday). Their studio, it noted, had previously been producing one clinker after another, and in the case of Basterds , it co-owns the property equally with Universal, meaning it will only receive half its profits. In an interview with the Journal , Harvey Weinstein said that the success of Basterds demonstrates that they ought to focus on big, filmmaker-driven theatrical releases. He added "There are plenty of profits from Basterds . Brad [Pitt] and Quentin [Tarantino] and Universal will all get great paydays, and so will we."

25/08/2009