Exclusive: Barry Avrich, the filmmaker behind over 35 documentaries including The Last Mogul, Filthy Gorgeous: Bob Guccione and Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project (2011), has pulled his latest doc from TWC and said he’s planning to re-edit and re-release the Unauthorized doc in light of the current scandal. Following allegations of rape and sexual assault from scores of women against Weinstein, Avrich said, “When I announced that I was making a high profile film…...
- 11/3/2017
- Deadline
Canadian filmmaker Barry Avrich, 52, always has had a passion for documentaries about difficult men. He has profiled subjects including Rolling Stones promoter Michael Cohl, writer Dominick Dunne and famed Canadian lawyer Edward Greenspan and now is working on a film about the Bronfmans. A particularly tough subject was Lew Wasserman, the legendary McA chairman. "He put his hand on my shoulder with his thumb in my neck," recalls Avrich, "and said, 'The film won't be made, whether I'm alive or dead.' " But Avrich persisted, and three years after Wasserman's 2002 death, he premiered The Last Mogul
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- 5/4/2016
- by Barry Avrich
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Level 1 Entertainment, which had set Michael Steinberger’s wine counterfeiting Vanity Fair article A Vintage Crime as a dramatic feature, is being rebottled. The story will be told as a documentary to be helmed by Barry Avrich. His docus include The Last Mogul on Lew Wasserman, Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story and Show Stopper: The Theatrical Life Of Garth Drabinsky. A Vintage Crime focuses on the exploits of wine counterfeiter Rudy Kurniawan, who drove the elite and secretive world of rare-wine collectors into a frenzy with his extravagant showmanship and record-setting deals. Kurniawan conned the biggest players in the fine wine market, including prominent tycoons and entertainment moguls, before he made the mistake that ultimately led to his arrest and the discovery of a wine counterfeiting factory in his suburban Los Angeles home. Charged with mail and wire fraud in connection with the sale of fake rare wines,...
- 3/7/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Here is the official trailer for Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, directed by Barry Avrich (The Last Mogul). The film will arrive in select theaters on October 7th. The trailer is very short, which makes sense since they don't want to give away a bunch of the film. It only shows a few interviews of those that have worked with or know Harvey. I enjoy some documentaries, but I am not sure this would be one I want to see.
Synopsis:
Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project is as much an examination of the last 25 years of the history of independent cinema as it is a story about Weinstein himself. Without Hollywood’s “Last Bully”, there would be no Pulp Fiction, no one would have known about that English patient, Rob Marshall would still be a chorus boy and Quentin would be recommending Bruce Lee’s greatest hits in some video store.
Synopsis:
Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project is as much an examination of the last 25 years of the history of independent cinema as it is a story about Weinstein himself. Without Hollywood’s “Last Bully”, there would be no Pulp Fiction, no one would have known about that English patient, Rob Marshall would still be a chorus boy and Quentin would be recommending Bruce Lee’s greatest hits in some video store.
- 9/30/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
"This film is... Unauthorized!" Sundance Selects and IFC Films have recently debuted a short official trailer for Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, the documentary about producer and Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. This played very briefly at Tiff in 2010, but hasn't been seen much since. Thanks to The Film Stage for the tip on the trailer. Unfortunately it doesn't really seem to show much, besides a brief snippet of some of the interviews they do have in it (since Harvey declined) and some of his red carpet appearances, but what else do they have? I want to see more from this! Take a look at the doc trailer below. Watch the trailer for Barry Avrich's Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, via YouTube: Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, directed by Canadian Barry Avrich (The Last Mogul), is as much an examination of the last 25 years of independent cinema as it is...
- 9/30/2011
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
This weekend Seattle, Wa will be invaded by a large group of "Achievers" when the Lebowski Fest makes its annual trek to the Pacific Northwest. On Friday night there will be a screening of the now classic Coen Brothers' film The Big Lebowski in a large rock and roll venue, followed by a first come first serve bowling party on Saturday night, October 16.
If you don't know about the Lebowski Fest, you should. This is the eighth year of the Festival. It started out as a party in Lexington, Kentucky then grew into a traveling road show that includes stops in numerous cities including New York (this year's fest features a performance by the band Diamondhead featuring Moby), Philadelphia, DC, Boston, Orlando, the UK and Los Angeles where the Lebowski Fest annually sells out Wiltern Theater and it's 2,300 seats for a raucous screening of the film.
For those of you,...
If you don't know about the Lebowski Fest, you should. This is the eighth year of the Festival. It started out as a party in Lexington, Kentucky then grew into a traveling road show that includes stops in numerous cities including New York (this year's fest features a performance by the band Diamondhead featuring Moby), Philadelphia, DC, Boston, Orlando, the UK and Los Angeles where the Lebowski Fest annually sells out Wiltern Theater and it's 2,300 seats for a raucous screening of the film.
For those of you,...
- 10/14/2010
- by Bill Cody
- Rope of Silicon
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: A busy day for IFC Films.
Shortly after announcing that they’ve acquired rights to Werner Herzog’s 3-D doc “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” the distributor reveals that it has picked up Barry Avrich’s “Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project,” a “powerful, uncensored, no-holds-barred” film that traces Weinstein’s early path from Buffalo concert promoter to his first Oscar and first $100 million film. and breaking the bank with his first $100 million film. Avrich, you may remember, also created of the critically-acclaimed Lew Wasserman doc, “The Last Mogul.” Peter Fonda narrates “Unauthorized.”
“I believe that great stories must be told. Harvey and Bob Weinstein, without a question, redefined so many rules of Hollywood marketing, distribution and filmmaking that you simply can’t ignore their impact on history,” said Avrich. “Many of their business principles and strategies also redefined other industry practices and quite frankly, other industries.
Hollywoodnews.com: A busy day for IFC Films.
Shortly after announcing that they’ve acquired rights to Werner Herzog’s 3-D doc “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” the distributor reveals that it has picked up Barry Avrich’s “Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project,” a “powerful, uncensored, no-holds-barred” film that traces Weinstein’s early path from Buffalo concert promoter to his first Oscar and first $100 million film. and breaking the bank with his first $100 million film. Avrich, you may remember, also created of the critically-acclaimed Lew Wasserman doc, “The Last Mogul.” Peter Fonda narrates “Unauthorized.”
“I believe that great stories must be told. Harvey and Bob Weinstein, without a question, redefined so many rules of Hollywood marketing, distribution and filmmaking that you simply can’t ignore their impact on history,” said Avrich. “Many of their business principles and strategies also redefined other industry practices and quite frankly, other industries.
- 9/16/2010
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Exclusive first look at the terrific stranglehold poster for Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project. Barry Avrich, a Canadian filmmaker and marketing executive perhaps best known as the writer and director of “The Last Mogul,...
- 7/17/2010
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
Here's a curious story we missed when it was first posted by the New York Times last week. So thanks to Simon Dang at The Playlist, who likely himself caught the article late via yesterday's correction. Apparently there are two competing documentaries in the works about the independent film king Harvey Weinstein. And one of them is to be made by Quentin Tarantino.
The main focus of the Times piece is on the other film, which is being developed by Barry Avrich. He's the director of the 2005 doc The Last Mogul, about agent-turned-studio head Lew Wasserman, and he's reportedly just received funding for his $1 million-budgeted expose, currently titled Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project.
And sure, that project sounds plenty interesting, particularly as it's being planned as an uncensored look at a "a brilliant, feared, charming and yet loathsome character," who is completely unsupportive of Avrich's topic of choice, regardless of...
The main focus of the Times piece is on the other film, which is being developed by Barry Avrich. He's the director of the 2005 doc The Last Mogul, about agent-turned-studio head Lew Wasserman, and he's reportedly just received funding for his $1 million-budgeted expose, currently titled Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project.
And sure, that project sounds plenty interesting, particularly as it's being planned as an uncensored look at a "a brilliant, feared, charming and yet loathsome character," who is completely unsupportive of Avrich's topic of choice, regardless of...
- 3/9/2010
- by Christopher Campbell
- Cinematical
It all started a few years ago with a newspaper story about a small hamlet in Serbia whose destitute residents were trying to reverse 4,000 years of bad luck by building a statue of Rocky Balboa in the village square. Barry Avrich, who made "The Last Mogul" documentary about the late Lew Wasserman, told Page Six, "I went there thinking I would make 'Borat.' " But when he got there and saw how sincere the villagers were, Avrich no longer found them so funny.
- 8/24/2009
- NYPost.com
NEW YORK -- Indie banner ThinkFilm has acquired North American rights to Born Into Brothels, the feature by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski that won the documentary audience award at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The company also has sealed a series of long-simmering deals on a spate of other indie docu titles, including Matt Mahurin's I Like Killing Flies, Vikram Jayanti's Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine, Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perrenou's Genesis and Barry Avrich's The Last Mogul: The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman. Brothels -- a look at children growing up around prostitution in squalid Calcutta, India -- is being released in association with HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films in New York on Dec. 8, with a national expansion planned next year.
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