Last night, minutes before the world premier of the controversial new film SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden in Washington, D.C., director John Stockwell made a brief announcement to attendees: The facts in his film were not "confirmed or denied" by White House officials. When the movie's ending credits rolled down the screen 90-minutes later, that fact was abundantly clear.
If there's no such thing as bad publicity, the National Geographic Channel's decision to premiere an action film about the killing of Osama bin Laden two days before the election was a stroke of marketing genius.
During primetime on November 2nd, the National Geographic Channel will air the hotly anticipated SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden movie with a very special star: President Barack Obama.
In May, we speculated that staunch Democrat and Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was planning an October Surprise with the release of his special ops thriller SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden, a dramatization of the mission to kill al Qaeda's leader. Turns out, we were one month off: Weinstein is releasing his film two days before the election.
Sorry patriotic moviegoers, you'll have to settle for two well-financed movies about killing Osama bin Laden instead of three.
With a résumé littered with no-name or uncredited parts, failed actor Vivek Shah has finally become famous now that he'll be known as the the guy who tried to extort millions from Harvey Weinstein in an elaborate, kind of scary plot.
In the wake of the Aurora shootings, there's a conversation emerging over the amount of violence in the movie industry, and the industry's newest pacifist is also one of its most unlikely: Harvey Weinstein.
Today: Harvey Weinstein seeks guidance from a god, Queen Elizabeth and friends set sail, and D.C. gets painted.
Alec Baldwin is very sorry for saying something mean about Harvey Weinstein, more details on Bill Clinton's pornstar photo-op, and Charlie Sheen's collection of sports baubles may be expanding by one Super Bowl ring.
All the cards are in place for Hollywood producer and Democratic Party booster Harvey Weinstein to deliver a cinematic October surprise for President Obama's re-election campaign.
Harvey Weinstein made sure the vacationing jet set could watch the New York Giants clinch a playoff spot on Sunday, Nelson Mandela's daughter is the latest person not to put a fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao together, and Maureen Dowd says her dresses are nothing like the ones Jill Abramson wears.
In the wake of the David Denby ban, a look at the producer's versatile displays of temper.
Awards season has started, which means it's time for the inevitable Oscar campaigns. And you know what? That's OK.
Plus: T.I. isn't happy with un-American gays, Brad Grey buys a second second residence, and Prince William saves two Russian sailors.
Plus: Clint Eastwood comes out of retirement for a baseball movie
Plus: the trailer for the Harvey Weinstein documentary could've used his help
Plus: Diablo Cody's directorial debut gets a cast
Despite a poll showing 45% approval, he has no trouble raising money
Plus: Amy Winehouse's jailbird ex-husband might be writing a tell-all
Plus: Harvey Weinstein's stage version of 'Finding Neverland' hits a squall
Paul Rudd gets most of the dialogue, but the producer's slow burn is what registers
Also: Weiner puts his home on the market and news on Winehouse's last recording
Plus: The legal wrangling for the L'Oreal family fortune started up again in France yesterday
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