Bob Weinstein

Rob Weisbach, president and C.E.O. of Weinstein Books, is leaving the company "to pursue other publishing opportunities," reports Michael Cader at industry resource Web site Publisher's Marketplace. Harvey and Bob Weinstein brought Mr. Weisbach in as head of Miramax Books back in 2005, just as they were preparing to split from Disney and form their own company. When that new company was formed, Mr. Weisbach moved into the job he has held until today.

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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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Julia Roberts finally unloads her Greenwich Village townhouse to actress Holly Hunter, according to the New York Times. Also, Bob Weinstein sells at The Beresford. $105 million! That’s the selling price for Adelaide de Menil’s 40-acre Hamptons property, according to the New York Post.

Perhaps to keep taps on her daughter, Gwynnie’s mom buys in Tribeca, according to New York magazine.

What’s "bright, shiny, brittle, show-offy, and slightly crazed...significant [and] thrilling?” It's new architecture, according to Kurt Anderson.

Despite a landmark eminent domain decision, not much is happening in New London.  read more »

Tim and Nina Zagat write an op-ed about how hip restaurants and bars can help point out the next up-and-coming neighborhood. In related news, the 2006 Zagat’s guide makes a great stocking stuffer.

-Michael Calderone

Celebrated young author James Frey must be banking on the success of his soon-to-be-released second  read more »

Hip-hop newlyweds and New York natives Kelis and Nas are feathering a Chelsea nest. The R.-and-B.  read more »

"We started the whole thing.  read more »

Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film, by Peter Biskind.  read more »

Miramax co-chairman Bob Weinstein is looking to cash out of East 66th Street-less than two years aft  read more »

Senator Weinstein? President Weinstein?  read more »

Tim Blake Nelson was in Australia acting in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line in the summer of 199  read more »

LOS ANGELES–On March 26 of the year 2000, Alan Ball, a screenwriter who came out of nowhere from s  read more »

Harvey Weinstein, the co-chairman of Miramax Films, rested his pale, meaty hand at the base of the b  read more »

Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein is a pretty sexy guy to begin with, but as a political al  read more »

Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein is a pretty sexy guy to begin with, but as a political al  read more »

Upper East SideSix-bed, 3.5-bath, 6,800-square-foot town house.  read more »

Upper East SideBOB WEINSTEIN MAXES OUT HIS FIFTH AVENUE CO-OP  read more »