![]() ![]() In New York, the Weinsteins received backing from industrialist Frank McGuire and Randy Marks Cohl arranged a bunch of Canadian investors. He also touched base with Michael Cohl of Concert Productions International in ![]() Harvey first met with Jean Ubaud of Continental Films in Hong Kong. A couple million dollars was required to finance the picture. Harvey claimed that there was "script after script" and a total of seven rewrites. Harvey recollected toĪnderson that while Maylam attended a screening of Mark Rydell's The Rose (1979), the Weinsteins and Grey wrote a two-and-a-half page Harvey told Maylam about the old summer campfire involving Cropsy, the senile caretaker. While Anderson's piece focuses a lot on the Weinsteins' early career ventures as concert promoters (including aĬoncert movie about Genesis that the brothers were instrumental in getting shown), it also devotes some space to the origins of The Burning.Īccording to Anderson, Harvey and his management company associate, Brad Grey, had dinner one evening in New York with British filmmaker Tony Harvey Weinstein attended the local university, wrote a two-page feature about Bob Weinstein, his brother, and Corky Berger nearly a week before Dale Anderson, a columnist for the Buffalo (NY) Evening News near where Stephen Larson, July 15, 2023Īlthough the post-prologue credits of The Burning (1981) display the title "A MIRAMAX PRODUCTION.", the future famous indie studio didn'tįorm until after work on its inaugural feature film was well under way. ![]()
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