For the past few years, Bob Weinstein has been quietly making movies under a new label, Watch This Entertainment. On October 11, the first of these films, Seven Cemeterywill arrive in theaters and on-demand thanks to Quiver Distribution.
Seven Cemetery At the time of the film’s release, Bob’s brother and former business partner Harvey Weinstein was awaiting a retrial on his landmark 2020 rape conviction, which was overturned in April, and was in New York Facing new sexual assault charges.
Directed by John Gulag and produced by Joel Soisson and Talia Bella, the film stars Danny Trejo as an ex-con who is hired by some ranchers to protect them from drug lords , Seven Cemetery It’s a return to horror. Bob made his mark on the genre in 1992 as the founder of Dimension Films, once Miramax’s lucrative horror imprint and scream and horror movie Franchise. (Paramount now owns the rights to Dimension’s pre-2005 films, which were successful at the box office scream Sequels will be released in 2022 and 2023, with new horror movie A second film will be shot in 2025).
Seven Cemetery It is one of three films produced by Bob Weinstein at Watch This Entertainment with budgets between $2 million and $5 million. In New York and Los Angeles, former Weinstein Co. communications executive Pantea Ghaderi serves as president of production and development. Bob was responsible for managing the company’s finances, approving scripts and tracking the film from development to post-production.
The new films are Bob’s first projects since the Weinstein Company filed for bankruptcy in 2018. They work behind the scenes and focus on more obviously commercial projects. Bob told Harvey that when Harvey was accused of multiple sexual assaults in 2017 THR He said he was living a “waking nightmare” and said he believed his brother’s “flirtations” with women involved “all consensual situations”.
When Bob first announced the show in 2019, Time’s Up released a statement accusing him of being “complicit” in his brother’s abuse of women. “Bob Weinstein had no right to run anything, let alone start a new production company, while dozens of survivors are still seeking some small measure of justice,” the statement reads. Time’s Up is now available Invalid.
in addition Seven CemeteryWatch This Entertainment has also completed production road to resurrection Currently seeking distribution for this Civil War-set horror thriller. Written and directed by Ashley Cahill, starring Malcolm Goodwin (Rachel) and Michael Madsen, road to resurrection It tells the story of a group of black soldiers sent to infiltrate a Confederate fort.
Bob’s name does not appear Seven Cemetery or road to resurrectionbut he is expected to receive production credit bird boyis a family adventure film currently in post-production directed by Soissons and starring Tea Leoni and South African actor Toni Kgolog. The film’s synopsis reads: “In the spirit of free willy …an inspirational story about a boy and an ostrich who change each other’s lives forever and teach each other the meaning of friendship.
