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WEINSTEINS TO DO A PIXAR? Wednesday, May 12 2004 
Miramax
Co-chairmen
Bob
and
Harvey
Weinstein
may
join
the
exodus
of
high-level
Disney
executives
as
contract-renewal
talks
with
the
pair
appear
to
have
hit
what
today's
(Wednesday)
Daily
Variety
called
"a
Pixar-like
impasse."
The
trade
paper
reported,
without
citing
sources,
that
if
a
new
deal
can
not
be
reached
within
the
next
few
weeks
and
if
Disney
remains
adamant
in
it
refusal
to
sell
Miramax
back
to
the
Weinsteins,
the
two
are
prepared
to
set
(more)UPROAR OVER FAHRENHEIT 911 HEATS UP Thursday, May 6 2004 
Controversy
is
again
swirling
around
provocative
documentary
filmmaker
Michael
Moore
(Roger
and
Me,
Bowling
for
Columbine)
following
Miramax's
announcement
on
Wednesday
that
it
will
not
be
distributing
Moore's
latest
film,
Fahrenheit
911.
Earlier,
the
Walt
Disney
Co.
said
that
it
would
prevent
Miramax,
which
it
owns,
from
releasing
it,
even
though
Miramax
had
financed
it.
Zenia
Mucha,
a
spokeswoman
for
the
company
(herself
a
former
adviser
to
New
York
Republican
politicos
George
Pataki
and
Alfonse
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Disney has reportedly changed its mind and will now allow Miramax's Bob and Harvey Weinstein go buy back Michael Moore's controversial Fahrenheit 911 for $6 million, essentially what it cost Disney to produce, published reports said today (Thursday). The film is due to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday. Although the Weinsteins have reportedly arrived in Cannes, they have been keeping a low profile, published reports said. In addition to discussing a deal with another independent distributor for Fahrenheit, they are negotiating a new contract with Disney. Some reports have suggested that Disney's handling of the Moore film has so soured the Weinstein's on the studio that they are likely to accept a proposal by a group of private investors to set up a new independent film company.
