How Harvey Got His Groove Back

How Harvey Got His Groove Back
According to the Reporter, after winning an all-night, $4 million bidding war for the rights to John Cusack's Grace is Gone at Sundance, a resurgent Harvey Weinstein pounded his chest and issued forth this barbaric, dealmaking yawp, serving notice to the industry that Weinstein Co.'s misplaced groove has been reacquired:

The "Grace" deal went into after-hours negotiations, with the Weinstein Co. clinching it because of its passion for the project, said sources close to the film. Harvey Weinstein, reverting to his old Sundance strategies, didn't leave the negotiating table from 9 p.m. until 4:30 a.m. "The company got its groove back last night," an ebullient Weinstein said. "I'm happy to be back in this game. it. I'm good at this. It's fun."

If Weinstein sounds a little self-satisfied with his acquisition, it's only because he initially feared that he might have been a little out of practice in implementing his once-legendary Sundance strategies; any seeming braggadocio is merely relief that his rivals from Fox Searchlight and Sony Pictures Classics lacked the desire to chew through their limbs to escape the well-concealed bear traps he'd planted in their condos, then suddenly show up at the marathon Grace session with new bids that might trump his own.
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