Weinstein to Up ‘Stage’ Himself

While there is no word yet on whether the bloody rampage of the Kill Bills will make it on Broadway, Harvey Weinstein is joining an apparent movie studio trend of transforming film properties into stage incarnations. While we are used to it being the other way around, this new profit making scheme works much in the same way as the notion of the sequel or film trilogy: it helps to establish a project with an instilled fan base. Fans of this kind of theatre experience might find this trend appalling, but heck, this sure beats trying to come up with some extra coin method of re-releasing the same film on DVD several times over.

Variety reports that the tyro will begin with “Finding Neverland” in 2010, followed by a of Pink Floyd album “The Wall.” and then possibly continue into the same direction with Shakespeare in Love, Chocolat, Cinema Paradiso and “Shall We Dance.”  For more info on the TWC on stage pipeline click here.