Lantern Entertainment

Lantern Entertainment, LLC
Formerly
 The Weinstein Company (2005–18)
Subsidiary
Industry Film
Founded March 10, 2005 (2005-03-10)
Founders Harvey Weinstein
Bob Weinstein
Headquarters Dallas, Texas, United States
Key people
 Andy Mitchell (co-president)
Milos Brajovic (co-president)
Products Motion pictures
Number of employees
 50[1] (2018)
Parent Lantern Capital
Divisions
Website lanternent.com

Lantern Entertainment is an American independent film studio, originally founded in New York City by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005 as The Weinstein Company or TWC. As TWC, Lantern was one of the largest mini-major film studios in North America prior to its financial troubles and eventual bankruptcy, in February 2018.[2] Founder and chief executive Bob Weinstein previously owned a small stake in the company.[3]

The company was derailed after joint founder and chief executive Harvey Weinstein in October 2017 was accused by over 70 women of sexual harassment, assault, or rape.[4] Following the revelations of the allegations, Weinstein was fired by the company. In the fallout of the scandal, the studio struggled to close a deal to be acquired, which included the collapse of a buyout deal with an investor group led by Maria Contreras-Sweet, the former head of the Small Business Administration under President Barack Obama,[5][6] which collapsed on March 6, 2018, after the studio had an extra debt of US$50 million revealed after the TWC board and the investor group agreed to have TWC sell all of its assets for US$500 million.[7][8][9] The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 19, 2018.[10] On May 1, 2018, Lantern Capital emerged as the winner of the studio's bankruptcy auction.[11] Lantern closed the acquisition on July 16, 2018, changing its name to Lantern Entertainment.

History

The Weinstein Company

The Weinstein Company logo used from 2005 to 2018

The Weinstein Company was founded in March 15, 2005 after Harvey and Bob Weinstein left Miramax Films, which they co-founded in 1979. They retained ownership of Dimension Films. Their first releases in 2005 included the dramatic thriller Derailed (starring Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel and Clive Owen), the offbeat comedy-drama Transamerica (starring Felicity Huffman) the computer-animated family film Hoodwinked, the World War II–era comedy-drama Mrs Henderson Presents (starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins), and the caper comedy The Matador (starring Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear).

In February 2006, TWC announced a distribution pact with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[12] MGM distributed the product domestically in theatres, while TWC will retain long-term ownership of their product. On July 13, 2006, the Weinsteins and Robert L. Johnson announced the creation of a joint venture studio titled Our Stories Films, which will distribute African-American-oriented films.[13] In late August 2006, it was announced that TWC and co-investors Hubbard Media Group purchased Ovation TV, an arts-focused cable channel.[14] In November 2006, TWC announced a three-year deal with Blockbuster Video to give the video renting company exclusive rights for rentals starting on January 1, 2007.[15] However, under the First Sale Doctrine of United States copyright law, other rental companies are able to rent copies of the company's movies purchased at retail.

The company is the co-producer, along with Miramax, of the Lifetime reality series Project Runway, which for its first five seasons aired on Bravo. The series won a Peabody Award in 2007.[16]

On May 23, 2007, the Weinstein Company announced the launch of three new direct-to-video labels: The Miriam Collection, Kaleidoscope TWC, and Dimension Extreme.[17][18]

On February 8, 2008, TWC launched a distributor called Third Rail Releasing that released films aimed mainly at the home video market.[19] On September 25, 2008, TWC ended its three-year distribution pact with MGM three months before the December 31 end date. This happened in part because TWC had struck a television output deal with Showtime, though not through MGM's output deal with them. During the span of their pact, TWC paid for marketing and prints, while MGM received a distribution fee for booking theatres.[20]

Financial restructuring

In June 2009, the Weinstein Company announced the hiring of a financial adviser to restructure the finances of the company.[21] Since July 2009, many layoffs occurred at TWC, and the release dates of some films were pushed back.[22][23] On September 14, 2009, TWC sold its stake in Genius Products, which served as TWC's home video distributor from 2006 to 2009. Genius however, had announced to exit the home video distribution business and the DVD rights that were distributed by Genius were sold to Vivendi Entertainment. TWC also struck a deal with Vivendi.[24] The same year, it won a Peabody Award for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.[25]

In January 2010, TWC announced more layoffs at the company after the box office failure of Nine.[26] On February 21, 2010, The Weinstein Company made a deal with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment releasing the DVDs through Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group.[27] Bob and Harvey Weinstein attempted to buy back Miramax from Disney in 2010, but the attempt was unsuccessful.[28]

An ownership interest in TWC's library at that point, consisting of 200 titles, was sold off to Goldman Sachs and Assured Guaranty in 2010.[29] The sale freed TWC from bankruptcy. Goldman Sachs' stake in the library was purchased by AMC Networks in 2015. According to Deadline Hollywood: "The library will revert to the Weinstein Company itself when the remaining debt has been paid off by the films in question."[30]

On January 4, 2011, the Weinstein Company has agreed to acquire a 25% stake in Starz Media. Because of this, Starz Media subsidiary Anchor Bay Entertainment became the home video distributor for all TWC films.[31] On February 3, 2011, the Weinsteins extracted a $75 million consolation prize from their former parent company, Disney, thus improving their filmmaking career. As a result, Disney handed over its 50% stake in Project Runaway, and reduced its share in four jointly owned films, including Scary Movie and Spy Kids, from 50% to 5%.[32] On February 27, 2011, TWC's distributed film The King's Speech brought to the company their first Academy Award for Best Picture at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, after their last Best Picture Oscar winner Chicago won in 2002 when Bob and Harvey Weinstein were at Miramax, controlled by then corporate owner Disney, and their previous Best Picture nominees for TWC were 2008's The Reader and 2009's Inglourious Basterds, the latter film a co-production with Universal Pictures and A Band Apart.[33] In March 2011, the company formed a video game division named TWC Games.[34] TWC Games formed a strategic consultancy with Beefy Media, a video game production company, to foster relationships with publishers and create high-quality games.[34]

On February 26, 2012, after TWC's purchase of the rights to release Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist in the United States, which won the prestigious Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for Jean Dujardin, The Artist won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. This is the second consecutive Oscar for Best Picture awarded to the Weinstein Company. The last independent mini-major to win back-to-back Oscars for Best Picture was Orion Pictures for their films Dances with Wolves in 1990 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1991.

TWC distributes films on multiple formats (including video-on-demand) through its Radius-TWC brand.[35] In September 2013, Bob and Harvey Weinstein launched the TWC-Dimension label to distribute projects of mutual interest.[36]

On November 4, 2013, TWC announced they have picked up U.S. distribution rights to the British drama series Peaky Blinders from Endemol.[37]

In December 2013, Miramax and TWC entered a 20-year joint-venture agreement to develop and produce films, TV series, and stage shows. The deal will allow the Weinsteins to exploit the 700-film Miramax library. Sequels to Rounders and Shakespeare in Love are among the films being developed under this new deal, and series based on Good Will Hunting and Flirting with Disaster are being planned as well. Other developments include a Stephen Colbert-written film titled The Alibi, and an adaptation of Liz Jensen's novel The 9th Life of Louis Drax, that late filmmakers Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack intended to make. Miramax will put up the financing and handle international sales while The Weinstein Company will develop the projects and distribute the titles domestically.[38]

In May 2014, the company entered into a five-year multi-picture financing agreement with Worldview Entertainment.[39] However, Worldview financed only the period drama Tulip Fever due to financial difficulties as a result of the departure of CEO, Christopher Woodrow.

In April 2015, The Weinstein Company was closing in on a deal to sell its TV division to British network ITV for $950 million but the deal was grounded in May. That same year, the company announced that around 40–50 layoffs would occur due to the box office failure of the comedy-drama Burnt among other factors.[40] Shortly after, TWC announced they would no longer release the normal 18 films per year, instead the company will release 8–10 films per year, and will make fewer acquisitions at film festivals.[41]

In July 2015, TWC COO and president David Glasser briefly left the company amid a string of company exits,[42][43] but then in September, he rejoined the company and will stay as its COO and president until 2018. Harvey Weinstein also openly expressed interest in reacquiring Miramax and merging the film and TV libraries of both companies when the latter went up for sale in July.[44][45][46][47][48][49] On February 2016, TWC decided to put its film library of 520 titles as well as a majority stake in its TV division up for sale,[50] and later signed investment banks Moelis & Co and Thomas Dey’s ACF Investment Bank to handle the TV sale (which was resumed nine months after the failed talks with ITV) by looking for strategic investors.[51] Meanwhile in March, Miramax has been acquired by BeIN Media Group, but in a later July interview however, Weinstein said that he's still interested in merging TWC with Miramax and combining the two companies' libraries in order to build a larger film library, even after the BeIN acquisition.[52][53] In June 2016, James L. Dolan exited TWC's board of directors and is replaced by hedge fund billionaire and Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry.[54][55] Later on August 1, Opus Bank's media and entertainment banking division funded a $400 million credit facility into TWC.[56][57]

On August 18, 2017, TWC launched Mizchief, a film label dedicated to producing animated films. When Harvey Weinstein, co-founder of TWC, was explaining on the origin of the name of Mizchief, he said that it was based on how one of his kids pronounced the word, "Mischief".[58][59] The first film to be released under the label was the French-Canadian computer-animated film Leap!, released on August 25, 2017.

Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations

On October 5, 2017, The New York Times reported that dozens of women, including more than 60 women in the film industry, had accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment, sexual assault or rape.

On October 6, three of the company's nine members of the board of directors (including Lasry) resigned after the allegations were published.[60][61] Harvey Weinstein also announced that he would take an indefinite leave of absence.[62] On October 7, Paul Tudor Jones became the fourth member of the company's board of directors to resign.[63]

On October 8, TWC announced that Weinstein had been fired.[64] Soon after, TWC executives announced that Harvey Weinstein will not receive credit on upcoming releases, and it may consider renaming the company.[65] On October 12, board of directors member Richard Koenigsberg, who was one of the four signatories of a board of directors statement defending Weinstein,[66] resigned from the company as well.[66]

In October 2017, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched a civil rights investigation into whether the Weinstein Company violated state civil rights and New York City human rights laws in its handling of sexual harassment complaints and other types of discrimination against employees.[67] The attorney general's Civil Rights Bureau sent the company a subpoena seeking a long list of documents, including any documents and communications related to private out-of-court settlements struck with accusers.

A group of Weinstein Company employees published a public statement in The New Yorker asking to be released from their signed nondisclosure agreements, which prohibit them from speaking out about their time at the company.[68] In their statement, they wrote, "We all knew that we were working for a man with an infamous temper. We did not know we were working for a serial sexual predator." They asked the company to lift their NDAs so they could "speak openly, and get to the origins of what happened here, and how."[69]

On February 11, 2018, Schneiderman filed a civil rights lawsuit against the company, Harvey and Bob Weinstein, just shortly before an anticipated announcement that the company would be purchased by an investor group led by Maria Contreras-Sweet. In the lawsuit, the company and both Weinsteins were accused of violating civil rights and gender discrimination laws, stating that it had "repeatedly and persistently treated female employees less well than male-employees through gender-based hostile workplace harassment, quid pro quo harassment, and discrimination" by maintaining "a group of female employees whose primary job it was to accompany HW (sic) to events and to facilitate HW’s sexual conquests". In addition, the lawsuit includes information that the company's Chief Operating Officer communicated with the Human Resources Director about complaints where settlements and non-disclosure agreements were needed, with the H.R. Director not being involved in any investigation or resolution process "on more than one occasion", and details on verbal abuse and threats by Harvey Weinstein that he would (in substance) kill employees, directly or indirectly via claims that he "had connections to the Secret Service who could solve problems for him".[70]

In filing the lawsuit, Schneiderman sought to force the company to address several points: to give up non-disclosure agreements with past employees, provide better protection for employees "who would be reporting to some of the same managers"[70] since most of the existing senior managers would remain in place, including David Glasser, current COO of the company, and insufficient funds to compensate alleged victims that would file suits. The investment group has allocated $50 million in the deal for compensation, which is in addition to the company's insurance policies. Other non-disclosure agreements were in effect between the company and the investment group, which prevented members of the group from talking the Attorney General until February 10, though Bob Weinstein denied this. People "close to the sale" derided the timing of the filing "as an effort to score political points and grab media attention", and could lead to the sale falling through, forcing the company into bankruptcy and delaying compensation for victims. The investment group is said to meet with the Attorney General's office within a few days, with the decision whether to continue or abandon the bid for the company on hold until then.[71]

On February 16, 2018, The Weinstein Company fired President and COO David Glasser "for cause".[72][73] Glasser filed a counter-suit on February 20 against the company and remaining board members, stating that no reasons other than "for cause" were given for the firing, which was described as "nothing more than a desperate attempt to deflect attention away from the very people who were empowered to halt Harvey Weinstein's abusive behavior".[74]

Sale efforts and bankruptcy

Bob Weinstein stated on October 13 that media reports that his brother's sexual misconduct scandal had forced the company to explore either a sale or shutting down operations were inaccurate. Bob released an emailed statement claiming "our banks, partners and shareholders are fully supportive of our company and it is untrue that the company or board is exploring a sale or shutdown of the company” and that “business is continuing as usual as the company moves ahead.”[75][76] This was contradicted by TWC president and COO David Glasser and a spokesman for company investor Goldman Sachs.[77][76] Glasser and the other two remaining members of the company's board of directors also did not join Bob in signing this statement either.[78]

On October 17, The Mist producer Amanda Segel accused Bob Weinstein of sexual harassment. His lawyer Bert Fields has denied the accusations.[79]

Bob Weinstein told Greenberg Glusker TWC would make a substantial payment on November 20, but it never came, according to the filing, and TWC executive vice president Sarah Sobel later told the firm TWC wouldn't be able to pay.[80]

Bert Fields and several other attorneys at the Greenberg Glusker Fields law firm represented The Weinstein Company from 2005 to December 2017.[81]

Reuters reported on October 16, 2017 that TWC had entered talks with private equity firm Colony Capital for sale of its assets.[82] On November 7, 2017, Colony Capital pulled out of acquiring The Weinstein Company.[83] Other persons and companies that have expressed interest in acquiring TWC include rapper Jay-Z,[84] Yucaipa Companies, Viacom (owner of Paramount Pictures, MTV and Worldvision Enterprises), Lionsgate (which Viacom is in talks to acquire;[85] the current home video distributor of TWC and Miramax), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (the former U.S theatrical distributor of TWC),[86] A&E Networks (owned 50% by Disney, the former owner of Miramax),[87] Administrator of the Small Business Administration Maria Contreras-Sweet, Killer Content, Shamrock Holdings, Vine Alternative Investments (co-owner of Village Roadshow Entertainment Group[88] and owner of the majority of the Rogue Pictures film library[89]), Anchorage Capital Group, MSD Capital, beIN Media Group (the current owner of Miramax), Sony Pictures Television, and Versa.[90] Contreras-Sweet has proposed turning TWC into a studio run by women,[91][92] while Killer Content would donate the studio's profits to assault victims.[93] If anyone acquires The Weinstein Company, the studio will change its name, and Bob Weinstein has agreed to leave the company; he is expected to retain the Dimension Films label.[94] All the interested parties had to submit their first-round bids by December 20, 2017.[95] On January 4, 2018, The Weinstein Company narrowed its bids down to six parties, with a sales price of below $500 million. The studio's owners will not receive any cash from the sale.[96]

As of November 8, 2017, The Weinstein Company had a debt load of $520 million, including $220 million from its film and TV credit facilities, $150 million from production loans, $50 million in corporate debt and $100 million owed to performers. The studio expected to find a buyer without declaring for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, against the expectations of most of the interested parties.[97] After it appeared that talks collapsed, the company announced it would file for bankruptcy.[5] However, after continued negotiations in which New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman played a role, the TWC board reached a deal in which TWC will sell all of its assets for $500 million; after the sales has been finalized, the company will be renamed and get a new board of directors of which a majority will be women.[8][9] However, after an additional $50 million in debt was revealed, the deal collapsed again.[98]

In order to raise funds, TWC sold the rights to two of its films, Paddington 2[99] and The Six Billion Dollar Man, to Warner Bros.[100] On January 19, 2018, TWC indefinitely postponed the releases of three of its films (The War with Grandpa, The Upside, Mary Magdalene).[101]

As of February 2018, several companies had sued TWC, including American Express ($1.4 million),[102] chocolatier Lindt & Sprüngli ($133,333),[103] and Canadian film distributor Entertainment One ($7.2 million for Paddington 2),[104] In March 2018, shortly after the studio filed for Chapter 11 protection, the Bankruptcy Court in Delaware published a 394-page list of creditors owed money from TWC; including the estate of rock musician David Bowie, film director Michael Bay, and former First Daughter of the United States Malia Obama.[105] Several Russian studios, including Central Partnership, Paradiz and Volga, and Timur Bekmambetov's Bazelevs Productions, were also owed money from the studio.[106]

On March 19, 2018, The Weinstein Company announced that it had declared bankruptcy, and is considering a $310 million stalking horse offer with Lantern Capital.[107] The company's bankruptcy auction began on May 4, 2018.[108] Twenty-three bidders have expressed interest in buying certain assets from the studio.[109] On April 27, Miramax and Lantern emerged as the frontrunners in the company's bankruptcy sale.[110]

In June 2018, Lantern lowered its acquisition price to $287 million.[111] In July 2018, several actors, directors, producers and writers protested Lantern's acquisition, asking a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge not to approve the purchase price for TWC's assets without first extracting a guarantee of payment to the creditors who are still owed money by the studio.[112]

As of July 11, 2018, Netflix terminated its output contract with The Weinstein Company, and will no longer accept deliveries or make payments to the studio. This affected season 3 of the MTV series Scream (produced by Dimension Television, and billed as a Netflix original internationally). Two other Weinstein series; Peaky Blinders and Spy Kids: Mission Critical; will remain available for streaming.[113]

Before the sale was complete, three directors, Lance Maerov, Tarak Ben Ammar and Frank Rainone, and chairman Bob Weinstein resigned from the corporate board. Bob planned to launch his own company named on a favorite phrase of his, Watch This. The only remaining board director was Ivona Smith, a corporate restructuring specialist who joined the board in April.[1]

Lantern Entertainment

The Weinstein Company, on July 16, 2018, was renamed Lantern Entertainment as the Dallas-based equity firm, Lantern Capital Partners closed on its purchase of the company for $289 million. Co-presidents Andy Mitchell and Milos Brajovic took charge of a company that dropped to 50 employees from 170 due to departures and layoffs. A trio of film experts were expected to help the co-presidents hire an experienced film CEO.[1]

RADiUS-TWC

The RADiUS-TWC (or simply RADiUS) is a film label to TWC's division for distribution of multi-platform video-on-demand and theatrical productions. It was launched in 2012, and specialized in niche and independent films rather than those aimed at mainstream audiences.[114][115] By 2015 Radius had released about 35 films,[116] including Bachelorette, Butter, 20 Feet from Stardom, Only God Forgives,[117] Lovelace, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Man of Tai Chi, Fed Up, Snowpiercer,[118] Citizenfour, Horns, The Last Five Years, and It Follows.[119]

Weinstein Books

Originally launched as Miramax Books by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2001, the imprint was reborn in 2009 as Weinstein Books, a joint publishing venture between The Weinstein Company and the Perseus Books Group, published a range of general interest fiction, both literary and commercial, along with media-driven non-fiction and YA titles.[120][121]

Since 2012 Weinstein Books was under the creative management of Publishing Director Georgina Levitt and Editorial Director Amanda Murray.[122] Publicity Director Kathleen Schmidt joined Weinstein Books in 2013.[123] Weinstein Books worked in collaboration with The Weinstein Company to create book tie-ins to films such as My Week With Marilyn, Bully By Lee Hirsch and Cynthia Lee and One Chance by Paul Potts.[121]

On October 12, 2017, Hachette Book Group (which had purchased Perseus's publishing arm in April 2016) announced the imprint would immediately be shuttered, with its titles and authors moving directly to Hachette Books.[124]

International distributors

Films

Highest-grossing films

RankTitleYearDomestic grossNotes
1 Django Unchained 2012 $162,805,434 Jointly released with Columbia Pictures internationally.
2 The King's Speech 2010 $138,797,449
3 Silver Linings Playbook 2012 $132,092,958
4 Inglourious Basterds 2009 $120,540,719 Jointly released with Universal Pictures internationally.
5 The Butler 2013 $116,632,095
6 The Imitation Game 2014 $91,125,683
7 Scary Movie 4 2006 $90,710,620 Released under Dimension Films brand, jointly released with Buena Vista Pictures internationally.
8 Paddington 2015 $76,223,578 Produced in the United Kingdom by StudioCanal
9 1408 2007 $71,985,628 Released under Dimension Films brand, co-distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
10 Halloween 2007 $58,272,029

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