[5] Weiner also wrote and directed the five-hour 2022 documentary on '80s Sci-Fi cinema, In Search of Tomorrow,[6] and executive produced Aliens Expanded (2024), a four-hour doc featuring new interviews with director James Cameron[7] and the cast & crew of Aliens.

Weiner was a writer for The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision[8] and LA Weekly,[9] and was a senior editor for Entertainment Tonight Online[10] from 2001 to 2014.

He was the executive editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland from 2015 to 2016, which resulted in him winning the Rondo Hatton Award for Best Interview of the Year in 2015 (for his interview with Mel Brooks for the 40th anniversary of Young Frankenstein),[11] as well as winning the award for Best Classic Magazine (for Famous Monsters of Filmland) two years in a row.

He moved on to film development and script coverage/story analyst jobs, and navigated the dot-com boom and bust in the mid-to-late '90s at AOL's Entertainment Asylum,[16] Scour.com, and Hollywood.com before spending over a decade covering film, television, music, and breaking celebrity news at Entertainment Tonight.

[17][18][19] On creating long-form genre documentaries: “These films are like the nostalgia of a sense memory, or an unexpected song that takes you back to one of the best times in your life.