How Butter Used Bachmann, Highest-Paid Man in Entertainment, How NBC Snagged the Jackie O Tapes

by Maggie Lange
September 14, 2011 8:02 AM
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In an effort to promote the political satire Butter, whose reviews in Telluride and Toronto were less than stellar, the film's distributor Harvey Weinstein has raised the movie's political references to Michelle Bachmann in order to make a "blatant effort to make [Butter] into something people will be talking about," he wrote in a statement formally inviting the Republican politician to co-host the premiere of the film in Iowa in a few months. Weinstein asked one of the film's actresses, Olivia Wilde, to read the missive:

In 20 years of coming to the Toronto Film Festival, I've never released a statement for a film. But I would like to take this moment to formally invite Republican congresswoman from Minnesota and Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann to co-host with me the big premiere of 'Butter' in Iowa in a few months from now.

Reportedly earning $130 million from May 2010 to May 2011, Tyler Perry is the highest paid man in the entertainment industry, according to Forbes. He made $17 million more than the next highest-earning producer, Jerry Bruckheimer. Steven Spielberg, Elton John, and Simon Cowell followed.

The Hollywood Reporter details how NBC stole ABC's thunder by airing portions of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy on Friday, even though ABC owned rights to the tape and had been teasing exclusive access to the interviews, a move which had apparently rendered the top brass at Disney livid and furious.

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