Weinstein Co. is a reel mess

THE meltdown of former Hollywood powerhouse the Weinstein Company has left its staff in something of a twilight zone, we’re told.

Eight months after Harvey Weinstein’s massive sexual-misconduct scandal broke, plunging his former studio into chaos and bankruptcy — sources say company employees are still getting paid, and some of them are even still showing up at the LA office.

“Some people are going in and looking for jobs [at other companies], some are going in to tie up loose ends on projects they had been working on before everything happened, and some are just going in because they don’t know what else to do,” said a source.

After Weinstein — who was indicted on rape charges in May — was accused of harassment and assault (which he denies) in two bombshell reports in October, the company declared bankruptcy and began looking for a buyer, exploring deals with a number of suitors.

But an insider tells us that the long-suffering staffers have no idea whether the sale of the company will be a “fire sale” — with an investor hoping to pick up the catalog and other assets — or if a buyer will hire the employees and reinvigorate the company.

“You can’t blame their bosses for keeping them in the dark,” said the source, “because they don’t know the answers either. It’s awful.”

In May, the company announced that Lantern Capital had won an auction to buy “substantially all of the assets” of the beleaguered company.

But the Hollywood Reporter wrote on Wednesday that the deal is in danger of falling apart with “the parties . . . now threatening to sue each other as they argue over the millions . . . owed to various creditors,” including such stars as Robert De Niro. Weinstein lawyers “are charging that Lantern has breached the agreement by failing to close the sale within the time permitted, while Lantern has accused [the Weinstein Company] of misrepresenting the payments that are due.” E-mails to multiple Weinstein Company reps bounced back.