{"id":2957,"date":"2018-02-11T19:49:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T19:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/02\/11\/the-weinstein-company-sale-might-not-go-through-due-to-new-york-attorney-general\/"},"modified":"2018-02-11T19:49:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T19:49:59","slug":"the-weinstein-company-sale-might-not-go-through-due-to-new-york-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/02\/11\/the-weinstein-company-sale-might-not-go-through-due-to-new-york-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weinstein Company Sale Might Not Go Through Due to New York Attorney General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/the-weinstein-company\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-weinstein-company\">The Weinstein Company<\/a>&#8217;s future has been in doubt since late last year, when the first wave of allegations against Harvey Weinstein were made public. A number of potential buyers have emerged in the months since, including one involving indie stalwart and Killer Films co-founder Christine Vachon, but now <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/biz\/news\/weinstein-co-attorney-general-sale-doubt-1202694711\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Variety<\/a> reports that the current frontrunner\u00a0has hit a snag involving the New York attorney general.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/01\/the-kings-speech-the-artist-best-picture-oscars-missing-the-weinstein-company-1201919054\/\" title=\"\u2018The King\u2019s Speech\u2019 and \u2018The Artist\u2019 Best Picture Oscars Currently Missing From the Weinstein Company\u2019s Offices \u2014 Report\">\u2018The King\u2019s Speech\u2019 and \u2018The Artist\u2019 Best Picture Oscars Currently Missing From the Weinstein Company\u2019s Offices \u2014 Report<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Maria Contreras-Sweet is the head of an investor group that has been in negotiations to buy TWC for $500 million, which includes $225 million in assumed debt. Though the deal could have been made official as early as today, the fact that David Glasser \u2014 a former right-hand man of Weinstein&#8217;s \u2014 would become CEO of the new entity has raised attention from AG\u00a0Eric Schneiderman.<\/p>\n<p>According to Variety, Schneiderman&#8217;s office\u00a0&#8220;has come to believe that [Glasser] failed to protect employees from Weinstein\u2019s sexual misconduct. The office has also raised concerns with the new ownership group about whether a proposed victims\u2019 fund would provide adequate compensation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/01\/the-weinstein-company-sale-1201913519\/\" title=\"The Weinstein Company Is Close to Being Sold for Less Than $500 Million\">The Weinstein Company Is Close to Being Sold for Less Than $500 Million<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Schneiderman would reportedly require that certain conditions be met if this sale were to go through, which the investors group would likely object to.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! 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Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weinstein Company&#8217;s future has been in doubt since late last year, when the first wave of allegations against Harvey Weinstein&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-LH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}