The Weinstein Company has stiffed a lot of prominent people.
The Weinstein Company has stiffed a lot of prominent people.
The beleaguered movie studio filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week and is looking to the sell the business. It’s said to be hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and its filing discloses its list of creditors.
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The 394-page list (pdf), obtained and published by Deadline, includes usual Weinstein associates, like frequent collaborators Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith, as well as people you might not expect, such as former US first daughter Malia Obama, who interned at The Weinstein Company. Nearly every entertainment company is listed as well as other entities like local fire departments in the cities of Los Angeles and New York.
Here are some of the big names:
And the businesses:
Chinese production company Wanda Pictures, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, the law firm led by famous litigator David Boies, whose career collapsed with the Weinstein scandal, Viacom, Sony $SONY, the Creative Artists Agency, and Disney $DIS are among the 30 creditors owed the most money, according to the petition for bankruptcy, viewed by Quartz. Their claims range from $800,000 to more than $17 million.
