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Pulp Fiction premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 1994, where it received the Palme d'Or.

Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino began working on the script in the fall of 1990, with the idea of creating a trilogy of stories. Avary and Tarantino completed the script in January 1993 (by which time, Reservoir Dogs had become a hit) and in February it was announced to be in production in Variety. By June, the project was in turnaround as the studio thought the script was "too long, violent, and unfilmable."

Harvey and Bob Weinstein then bought the script and Pulp Fiction would be the first film financed by their company, Miramax.

The film was a critical and commercial hit (earning more than $100 million on a budget less than $10 million), and the film was nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (John Travolta), Best Supporting Actor (Samuel L. Jackson), Best Supporting Actress (Uma Thurman), and Best Film Editing (Sally Menke). Avary and Tarantino received the film's only Oscar, for Best Original Screenplay.

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As ‘Scary Movie’ Turns 20, Marlon Wayans Opens Up About the ‘Evil’ Weinstein Regime Firing Him

"They definitely still owe us money, lots of money," Wayans says about Harvey and Bob Weinstein.

Marlon Wayans marked this month’s 20th anniversary of “Scary Movie” with a new Variety interview in which he touches upon the”evil” nature of Harvey and Bob Weinstein. The spoof comedy was produced and distributed by Dimension Films, the genre arm of the Weinstein brothers’ Miramax Films, and it was a huge win for the studio after it grossed more than $157 million domestically on a $19 million budget. Marlon Wayans co-wrote the script and starred in the film with his brother, Shawn. The duo’s older brother, Keenon Ivory Wayans, handled directing duties.

The success of “Scary Movie” launched a lucrative franchise for the Weinstein-owned Dimension that included four sequels and nearly $1 billion in grosses at the worldwide box office. All three Wayans brothers would return for the 2001 sequel “Scary Movie 2,” another financial success with $141 million on a $45 million budget, but they were shut out of their own franchise starting with “Scary Movie 3.” Wayans revealed the decision came down abruptly and he was fired by the Weinsteins behind his back.

“We read on Christmas Eve that they were going with someone else for [‘Scary Movie 3’],” Marlon said. “We probably could have sued or whatever, but part of us was like, ‘All you can do is allow us to create something new.’ I could write a book on that whole thing, honestly. They definitely still owe us money, lots of money. What they did was really bad business.”

“[The Weinsteins are] not the best or the kindest people to be in business with,” he added. “They’re very much an evil regime, I guess. They do what they want to do how they do it — and it can be rude and quite disrespectful. We couldn’t come to terms on the deal. It’s like, ‘If you don’t want to pay for the jokes, have somebody else do it.’”

Bob Zenga was a producer on “Scary Movie” before the Wayans brothers got involved and struggled to shop the script around to studios. Zenga told Variety that every studio passed on “Scary Movie” except the Weinsteins, but he doesn’t believe Dimension picked up the spoof comedy because the Weinsteins actually thought it was a good script. As Zenga said, “The Weinsteins wanted to buy it because it spoofed their franchise of ‘Scream.’ I think they didn’t want somebody else cannibalizing their movie.”

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Fahrenheit 9/11 was released on 25 June 2004, after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

Mel Gibson had originally agreed to finance the film through his Icon Productions, but dropped the film (and a planned multi-film deal with Michael Moore). Miramax (which had produced Moore's 1997 film The Big One) picked up the film, but when Disney (Miramax's owner) learned of the deal, they demanded that Miramax drop the film. Miramax refused and completed production without Disney's knowledge. Disney then refused to release the finished film and after the involvement of lawyers, leaks to the press, and more serious negotiations, Miramax owners Bob and Harvey Weinstein established Fellowship Adventure Group to distribute the film.

Fahrenheit 9/11 was the #1 movie in the US its opening weekend, earning more in 3 days than any other feature-length documentary had made in its entire theatrical run. It would go on to earn more than $200 million in the US and more than $500 million worldwide (and shown in more than 40 countries).

In 2011, Moore sued the Weinsteins for unpaid profits. The lawsuit was settled out of court.

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Bob Weinstein Wants Back Into Hollywood. Here's Why Hollywood Shouldn't Let Him

Those getting into business with the new company of a man who enabled Harvey Weinstein's alleged crimes are making a grave mistake, writes Hollywood Reporter executive editor Stephen Galloway.

On August 16, 2015, Bob Weinstein sent his brother Harvey an extraordinary letter. "Over the past 15 to twenty years I have been personally involved with the repercussions of your behavior," he noted. "There have been instances of behavior that I and [attorney] David Boies have had to assist u with in getting out of trouble." He continued: "There are other behaviors that I will not describe that u are aware of that need to be addressed. … You have brought shame to the family and to your company."

That shame, as we all know, led to the disintegration of the Weinstein Co.; the dissolution of the siblings' relationship; the prosecution of Harvey; and, it seemed, the termination of Bob's career. Now he's back. On October 11, he announced he was launching a new company, Watch This Entertainment, with plans to make two to three films per year, the first of which, an animated picture called Endangered, he'll produce with Tea Leoni.

Let me say at once that I believe in forgiveness and redemption. I believe in second chances. I believe that the actions we take at one stage of our lives are not the same as those we take at another. Still, something's rotten here.

If there's any takeaway from Ronan Farrow's Catch and Kill and Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey'sShe Said — two new books by the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who exposed Harvey Weinstein's misdeeds in all their malignancy — it's that a number of people turned a blind eye and thereby allowed his alleged crimes to continue.

There were agents, lawyers, producers and executives. There were writers, directors, journalists and publicists. There were insiders and outsiders, friends and colleagues, acquaintances and associates. And then there was Bob.

Whatever his initial protestations, it's clear from these books that he knew a long time ago that his brother was likely guilty of many forms of abuse and failed to stop him. The leaking of the above letter, while apparently an attempt to exculpate him, only makes his awareness more apparent.

From his early days at Miramax, the Weinsteins' first company, he knew bad things were going on. When an assistant abruptly quit, her father wrote threatening legal action. Bob's former assistant knew it and told the reporters — and if she knew it, he almost certainly did too.

By 2002, he knew even more. That's when journalist Ken Auletta "heard from a source about the settlements that Weinstein had paid to Zelda Perkins and [Rowena] Chiu," note Kantor and Twohey. Meeting with Auletta, "Bob Weinstein handed over copies of personal checks that he had written to pay off the two women on behalf of his brother: proof, he claimed, that no company money had been used for Weinstein's personal affairs."

His concern, in other words, was to show Miramax hadn't crossed a line with the payoffs; but in confirming he'd signed the checks, he also confirmed his involvement in a cover-up.

"Bob convinced himself that his brother's problem was sex addiction, and that no one could stop Harvey Weinstein other than Harvey Weinstein," write Kantor and Twohey. "It was a convenient, and arguably disastrous, moral choice, by which Bob justified his failure to do more."

Their wording is crucial. Did Bob Weinstein make a "moral choice"? Or did he genuinely misunderstand what was taking place?

Unfortunately, it's evident he knew a lot and knew it long before The New York Times and The New Yorker exposed Harvey's actions. Other Weinstein Co. executives were so appalled that they'd started warning employees to keep notes. Finally, in 2015, the situation got so out of hand that the board put a new code of conduct in place and Harvey agreed to a revised contract, including financial penalties if he transgressed, with "$250,000 for the first settlement, $500,000 for the second, and so on, up to a million dollars, a whole fee structure for potential future allegations."

The contract, the reporters observe, "almost read as if the company expected Weinstein to keep accumulating allegations." If so, that was both morally repugnant and ethically unjustifiable. Rather than walk away, it appears, Bob simply dug himself deeper in.

The history of the world is full of men and women who stood silent, chose not to confront the crimes of others, believed that avoidance was quite a different thing than involvement. From the horrors of the Holocaust to the predations of pedophile priests, we've seen good people turn aside, blind themselves to things they should have seen. If that's what Bob did, he can't get away scot-free; if his brother is found guilty (and he's maintained his innocence), he must bear at least a ripple of responsibility.

Without a genuine apology, without a major act of restitution, he shouldn't resume his professional life as if nothing occurred. It was wrong for him to enable his brother, and it would be wrong for others to enable him now.

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He allegedly helped cover up his brother’s sexual misconduct, and even though he has denied it, it might be too soon for Bob Weinstein to jump back into the dating pool.

One can only imagine how delighted female clients of high-end dating and introduction service The Bevy must have been when they received an email telling them that the “intensely personal” dating service had matched them with a successful, award-winning movie producer.

However, there may have been a raised eyebrow when it was revealed that the man they were being lined up with was none other than Bob Weinstein, brother of alleged rapist Harvey.

Bob doesn’t just have a creepy brother; he has himself been accused of using his powerful position in Hollywood to harass women and of helping his brother cover up sexual misconduct using secret financial settlements.

Page Six reports the younger brother of the disgraced movie mogul is using the exclusive Manhattan and Los Angeles dating service to find love, as he is friends with co-founder Greta Tufvesson Stack.

Page Six adds that one woman was “horrified” when she got sent Weinstein’s details, with a friend saying: “Just the name Weinstein made her so upset!”

Tufvesson Stack told Page Six: “Bob is a longtime personal friend of ours who we set up from time to time with our members or friends.”

Although he has not been accused of impropriety on anything like the scale of his brother, who he has condemned as a “sick and depraved” “predator” with “no remorse,” Bob was accused of making persistent and unwanted advances to producer Amanda Segel in 2016.

Segel alleged Weinstein continually asked her out to private dinners over a period of three months and only stopped after she got a lawyer involved.

She said she went on one dinner with him where he asked her age, because he didn’t want to date anyone younger than his daughter, Variety reported, and invited her up to his hotel room.

At the time, a Weinstein Company spokesperson denied the allegations and denied that Segel’s lawyer ever made contact, according to Variety.

Ronan Farrow reported in November 2017 that Bob, who had repeatedly declared himself unaware of his brother’s alleged sexual misconduct, personally paid the equivalent of about $600,000 in today’s money to settle two claims against his brother by former employees in the 1990s, when they worked together running Miramax.

Bob Weinstein admitted making the payment, but told Farrow, “I only know what Harvey told me, and basically what he said was he was fooling around with two women and they were asking for money… he didn’t want his wife to find out, so he asked me if I could write a check, and so I did, but there was nothing to indicate any kind of sexual harassment.”

Bob left the board of directors of the Weinstein Company before it was sold last year.

A friend told Page Six: “Bob is looking for someone. He wants to settle down. He’s really a family man.”