Without Harvey Weinstein, Is There a Weinstein Company?<br />So far this year, the Weinstein Company, a boutique studio<br />that specializes in sophisticated, small-budget dramas like the 2011 Oscar winner “The King’s Speech,” has released six films, which have taken in a combined $123 million at the domestic box office.<br />On Friday, three members of the board — Marc Lasry, Dirk Ziff and Tim Sarnoff — resigned, according to a board member and a company executive.<br />“Without Harvey actively managing, the Weinstein Company will become even more capital constrained — tougher to find funding,” Harold L. Vogel, a media analyst<br />and the author of the book “Entertainment Industry Economics” wrote in an email on Friday.<br />But Harvey Weinstein is the one who called — or screamed — the shots, often pushing the company forward by sheer force of will.<br />In a statement, Bob Weinstein and three other board members said<br />that a group of lawyers from Debevoise & Plimpton, including one with experience prosecuting sex crimes, would lead an investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s behavior.<br />To compare, major studios like Warner Bros. and the Walt Disney Company generally<br />take in $1 billion to $2.5 billion annually at the domestic box office.<br />The Weinstein Company has also found itself sidelined at film festivals, where Mr. Weinstein has long shopped<br />for movies to release, helping to discover auteurs like Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh.
