Vincent D'Onofrio to play Harvey Weinstein in Down And Dirty

Screendaily.com
15 December, 2009 | By Jeremy Kay

Vincent D’Onofrio is being lined up to play Harvey Weinstein in Yamani Pictures’ Down And Dirty, an adaptation of Peter Biskind’s Hollywood tell-all beststeller.

The casting development emerged as international event production and talent management company 7th Level Entertainment Group announced it had signed a deal to support Yamani Pictures’ 2010-15 feature slate with tours and events.

In return Yamani will invest an undisclosed sum to provide an acquisitions fund to 7th Level, a wholly owned subsidiary of California-based Signature Devices.

Besides Down And Dirty, other titles on Yamani’s 2010-11 production slate include Bill Condon’s Richard Pryor film Is It Something I Said starring Eddie Murphy, and Only The Hood Dies Young with Bruce Willis, DMX and Mickey Rourke.

7th Level CEO R J Bucaria and Yamani CEO Robert Yasin Wright announced the deal this week.



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Guess who’s going to play Richard Pryor and Harvey Weinstein? - thanks Judy!

Artvoice.com, 12.15.09
by M. Faust

As a rule I don’t spend too much time perusing announcements of upcoming movies. (It’s all I can do to deal with the ones opening next week, much less next year). But my eye was caught by two titles on the 2010-2011 slate for Yamani Pictures.

The first one will be Is It Something I Said, starring Eddie Murphy as Richard Pryor. You knew it was only a matter of time, right?

Here’s the one I’ll be looking forward to: Down And Dirty Pictures, based on Peter Biskind’s book about the “indie” film movement of the 1990s, and starring Vincent D’Onofrio as Harvey Weinstein, the one-time Buffalo concert promoter who became the most feared man in the business since Louis B. Meyer. I’ve been a fan of D’Onofrio ever since his psycho turn in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. He’s played a wide range of characters, and I can’t help but wonder which of his faces the casting director had in mind when picturing him as Weinstein.