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Weinsteins Announce Completion of $490 Million Equity Investment

The Weinstein Company announced today that it has completed its $490 million private placement of equity. the company said this afternoon that it is working with a number of strategic, financial and individual investors, including GLG Partners, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Perry Capital, Quinta Communications S.A., SOFTBANK Corp., TF1 S.A., WPP, a Mark Cuban investment company, Vivi Nevo, and a Todd Wagner investment company, among others. Among its board are Dirk Ziff (Chairman of Ziff Brothers Investments), Tarak Ben Ammar (Chairman of Quinta Communications S.A), Mathilde Krim (a biomedical scientist and leader in the battle against HIV/AIDS world...

Roky in the U.K.

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Idle Worship: Greg Whiteley's "New York Doll"

"Rock history," as we know it, fueled by the obsessiveness and stunted adolescent Romanticism of its worse (and more numerous) chroniclers, basically consists of a heap of cliches so rancid that even calling them out for their rottenness has become a bit hackneyed. The druggy, self-important musicia...

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Dispatch from Brazil: "2 Filhos de Francisco" Blazes the Brazilian Box Office With Hopes for Oscar

The selection process is frustrating and often bewildering, but the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is still the holy grail for international films looking to break into the North American market. Sure, it has its flaws, but what other award offers more mainstream exposure for those fi...

Extravagasm 2005

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