Weinsteins look to stay with Disney
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The brothers who founded and run Disney Corp.&#39;s Miramax Films unit are sticking together, The New York Post is reporting. Harvey and Bob Weinstein now hope to work things with out with Disney, and stay within the Disney fold, the report stated.
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For brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein, these may be the best of times and the worst. Their Miramax Films is mounting what could be its strongest slate of Oscar contenders in years, led by "The Aviator," yet the pair also could soon lose their jobs with Disney.
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The Weinstein Co., the film and TV company run by media moguls Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob Weinstein, has reached an agreement that would allow striking Hollywood writers to return to work for the company, a company spokesman said on Thursday.
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The Weinstein Co., one of Hollywood's largest independent filmmakers, said Thursday it expects to reach a deal with striking Hollywood writers that would allow the company to resume production.
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Michael Eisner, the veteran chief executive of Disney who has been the subject of a mounting campaign of vilification by rebel shareholders, will leave the company when his contract ends in September 2006.
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Walt Disney Co's  board of directors said on Tuesday it planned to find a replacement for Chief Executive Michael Eisner by next June and then search for a new chairman, setting out a timetable for a change of leadership at the company after more than a year of shareholder protests.
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Bob and Harvey Weinstein's studio reaches a deal with striking movie writers to allow it to resume working.
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The Walt Disney board should find a new chief executive to replace Michael Eisner as soon as possible, dissident former directors Stanley Gold and Roy Disney said today.
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Miramax Films is gunning for Oscar gold next year. But the honor and prestige coming from award-winning movies may not be enough to save the jobs of company founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein.
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The Walt Disney Co.  board of directors on Tuesday said it expected to find a chief executive to succeed Michael Eisner by next June and would consider both outside executives and Disney President and Chief Operating Officer Bob Iger for the position.
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The Weinstein Co., the film and TV company run by sibling media moguls Harvey and Bob Weinstein, has reached a deal to allow striking Hollywood writers to return to work for the studio, a company spokesman said on Thursday.
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Walt Disney Co. DIS.N dissident  shareholders Roy Disney and Stanley Gold on Monday said CEO  Michael Eisner, who last week said he would step down in two  years, should be forced to leave by early next year.
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The Weinstein Co., one of Hollywood's largest independent film producers, says it expects to reach a deal with striking Hollywood writers that will allow the company to resume production.
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The Walt Disney Co. is hoping a  fractured fairy tale that swaps Manhattan for a magic kingdom,  a divorce lawyer for a prince, and roaches and pigeons for  wholesome forest creatures will turn into its newest film  franchise.
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The movie industry is following the ongoing saga at Miramax Films as the co-founders, the Weinstein brothers, try to renegotiate their deal with The Walt Disney Company.
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The Weinstein Co. has  optioned film rights to develop and produce Tom Folsom&#39;s  nonfiction Mafia book, &quot;The Mad Ones: Crazy Joe and the  Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld,&quot; with its Weinstein  Books division nabbing North American publication rights.
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Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner said he expects to leave the board when he steps down as CEO in 2006, ending speculation that he would switch roles and become chairman of the company.