Harvey Weinstein

On Tuesday night a small but achingly cool-looking crowd gathered outside the Chelsea West Cinema for the premiere of Control. The film profiles the life of Ian Curtis, frontman of beloved late-70's British post-punk band Joy Division, who committed suicide at age 23 on the brink of international stardom. It’s the full-length feature debut from Anton Corbijn, revered rock photographer, and was all the talk at the Cannes Film Festival last May, currently whipping the U.K. into hot lather for its debut on October 5th (it will open here October 12th at the Film Forum).  read more »

The Weinstein Bros. are in talks with a slate of Hollywood song-and-dance types to star in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, Nine.

According to Variety, The Weinstein Company is negotiating with Penelope Cruz, Catherine Zeta Jones, Sophia Loren, Javier Bardem and newcomer Marion Cotillard (who recently played Edith Piaf in the highly-praised biopic, La Vie En Rose) to appear in the adaptation.

Bardem follows Raul Julia in the role--Julia played director Guido Contini, who, in the musical inspired by Fellini's 8 1/2, must juggle his many lovers and his career; Antonio Banderas played the role in the revival.

Loren would play Contini's mother, who appears in the musical as a ghost.

Michael Tolkin is writing the screenplay; Rob Marshall will choreograph; and Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston, who did the original book and music and lyrics respectively, are executive producers.

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After two months in business, Socialista, the exclusive West Side Highway club with a Marxist motif owned by former Bungalow 8 doorman Armin Amiri, is already expanding.

“We’re putting in a screening room there,” movie mogul Harvey Weinstein told The Transom on June 11. “Come down any time!” (Thanks, sir, but we don’t get out much.) Mr.  read more »

The bold-faced names are coming out for two Democrats: Hillary Clinton and... Jerrold Nadler.

Christina Aguilera is going to be performing at a June 7 fund-raiser for Hillary that's being organized by Ron Burkle and Harvey Weinstein, among others, at Capitale on Grand Street.
And tonight, Julianne Moore and Cynthia Nixon will be at the Hudson Theatre to honor Nadler for his 30th year of public service and his 60th birthday.

Also expected to be there, according to the invitation, are Eliot Spitzer, Andrew Cuomo and John Conyers, who chairs the House Committee on the Judiciary.