Deadline Hollywood article

http://deadline.com/2016/02/weinstein-company-sale-library-or-tv-division-harvey-weinstein-david-glasser-q-and-a-1201708350/

Here are excerpts regarding Hands of Stone:

Deadline:

They (Weinstein and Glasser) were particularly high on three films: I watched Sing Street play through the roof at Sundance, and they showed me rough cuts of two others: the Jonathan Jakubowicz-directed Edgar Ramirez/Robert De Niro starrer Hands Of Stone about the fighter Robert Duran, and Lion, based on a true story of Saroo Brierly, who as a child was separated from his family in the Calcutta slums, by a miracle was rescued by Australian adoptive parents, and returned to search for his family. In my view, all three are terrific, and if Lion doesn’t get you weepy, you should go to a cardiologist and see if you are missing a heart.

Here with Hands of Stone, Usher is a revelation as Sugar Ray Leonard. We said, we appreciate your acting and let us take care of that but you’re going in the studio and you’re going to do music for this. He put a guest star, I’m not going to name who it is but it’s unbelievable [reports have speculated Stevie Wonder] and they’re recording things. We also have Bob De Niro, who’s our neighbor in Tribeca, and got his insight on boxing movies and how to do them. Bob is as smart as they come and his performance is vintage De Niro. You just go wow, he’s back. I was proud that Silver Linings Playbook got him nominated again for a fantastic performance. But this one, where he plays Ray Arcel opposite Edgar Ramirez as Roberto Duran in a performance that will make Edgar a major movie star? And yet, technically, this was an acquisition.