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Distributor plastik jaring Bob, left, and Harvey Weinstein are to leave Miramax soon. Tis no man. Tis a remorseless eatin machine Landing Page of the Pay-per-Click campaign being run by Miramax The face off between Harvey Weinstein and Michael D. Eisner resulted in a parting of ways, wherein Walt Disney Company got to keep the library and also the Miramax name. The Weinstein brothers were left in the lurch. Disney had accused the brothers of taking in more bonuses than they were entitled to.

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September of 2009

 

Rate `The Harder They Come` Co-Writer Dead

Original at CARIBWORLDNEWS.COM external link    Tue, Sep 15

Rhone also had a supporting Role in theMiramar ABC TV series `Going to Extremes` aired across the United States of America and in the Miramax feature film ... and more »

Rate Iron Monkey BD Review

Original at bluray.ign.com external link    Tue, Sep 15

Thanks in part to the success of Crouching Tiger, Miramax has just released a restored, re-scored, and newly subtitled version of Iron Monkey. ...

Rate Weinsteins pounce on US, German rights for A Single Man

Original at Screendaily.com external link    Tue, Sep 15

The Weinsteins will release this year to parlay the drama's strong critical buzz into Oscar consideration after beating out interest from Miramax. ...

Rate Tarantino sees "Basterds" saving Weinstein brothers

Original at Reuters external link    Tue, Sep 15

Brothers Bob and Harvey Weinstein have released all of Tarantino's work, beginning in 1992 with "Reservoir Dogs" when they ran Miramax Films. ... and more »

Rate Weinstein terminates stake in Genius Products-paper

Original at Reuters external link    Tue, Sep 15

Harvey and Bob Weinstein founded Weinstein Co after they sold Miramax Films, the powerhouse studio behind such 1990s movies as "Pulp Fiction" and ... and more »

Rate Media Room: DVD & Blu-ray reviews

Original at Washington Times external link    Mon, Sep 14

Media Room: DVD & Blu-ray reviews Hero, The Legend of Drunken Master, Iron Monkey, Zatoichi ($39.99-$44.99, Blu Ray, Miramax) — Miramax has been at the forefront of bringing kung-fu features ... and more »

Rate Set From 'Shakespeare in Love' to Be (or Not to Be) a Theater?

Original at New York Times external link    Mon, Sep 14

guardian.co.uk Laurie Sparham/Miramax Films Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes in a scene from “Shakespeare in Love.” The set that stood in for a ... Judi Dench's theatre is Rose-tintedguardian.co.uk Shakespeare in Love' set to be reborn as theaterBloomington Pantagraph

Rate Norman Reedus Talks “Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day” And More - Icon Vs. Icon

Original at iconvsicon.com external link    Sat, Sep 12

Icon Vs. Icon - All Things Pop Culture Norman Reedus Talks “Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day” And More Icon Vs. Icon - All Things Pop Culture Back then, there was another film that I was up for that was a Miramax film. They flew me up to New York for a meeting. I met up with Bob Weinstein and he ...

Rate Producers' pacts with the majors plunge

Original at Variety external link    Sat, Sep 12

The 2000 edition of Facts on Pacts tallied 24 deals at DreamWorks, 33 at Miramax and 22 at New Line. At the same studios, those numbers are now three, ...

Rate Oscars double down with 10 best-picture nominees

Original at TheV247.com external link    Fri, Sep 11

Publicist Tony Angelotti, who has worked on awards campaigns for such studios as Miramax and Universal, said Oscar voters might stick largely to the sober ... and more »

Rate Tough times for indie labels

Original at Variety external link    Wed, Sep 9

There are rumors that Disney is looking to downsize Miramax in some way, but so far, it's just chatter. Amid U's thorny year at the box office, ... Searchlight zeroes in on emotionVariety all 2 news articles »

Rate Weinstein Books Constricts

Original at Publishers Weekly external link    Tue, Sep 8

Miramax Books, founded in 1993, was the publishing unit of the former Miramax, the boutique media company run by Bob and Harvey Weinstein and owned by ...

Rate Comics won't be less Marvel-ous

Original at statepress.com external link    Tue, Sep 8

Disney acquired Miramax in 1993. A year later, Miramax distributed “Pulp Fiction.” Disney didn't stifle that film because of violence or profanity. ... Disney buys MarvelTiger Weekly Disney acquires Marvel EntertainmentThe Daily Titan

Rate Chasing Amy

Original at bluray.ign.com external link    Fri, Sep 4

September 4, 2009 - On November 17, 2009, Miramax and Buena Vista Home Entertainment will release Chasing Amy on Blu-ray. ...

Rate Love of film runs in the Garner family

Original at RocNow external link    Fri, Sep 4

At the festival, we were able to get into an exclusive party where Matt met both filmmakers as well as Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein. ... and more »

Rate Google To Add Video Results in Search Pages?

Original at ITProPortal external link    Wed, Sep 2

Beta testing for the same has already begun with an Electronics Arts campaign for its latest “Need for Speed” video game, as well as with Miramax studio for ... Google Hitting up Hollywood for Ad Bucksmediabistro.com Google makes bid for Hollywood ad dollarsRevolution Magazine

Rate 3 Legitimate Reasons To Freak Out Over The Disney Marvel Deal

Original at Cinema Blend external link    Mon, Aug 31

While the Disney brand is geared entirely towards kids, they also own Miramax. Miramax is a studio which releases mostly R-rated, edgy, independent adult ... Disney to buy Marvel EntertainmentExaminer.com Disney Marvel Deal: ReactionG4 TV

Year 2009

 

Rate Stars hit Hollywood for 'Extract' preem

Original at Variety external link    Wed, Aug 26

Us Magazine Miramax topper Daniel Battsek admitted he was a latecomer to Mike Judge's humor at the helmer's "Extract" premiere on Monday. ... Five or Six Things I Learned at the Extract PremiereIndie Wire Red carpet report: 'Extract' premiereUSA Today

Rate Pitt, Tarantino's 'Basterds' earns glorious $37.6M

Original at google.com external link    Sun, Aug 23

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At Miramax, the Weinsteins balanced prestige and profit with a string of Academy Awards triumphs such as "Shakespeare in Love" and "Chicago" and hits such ... Basterds' Invading Weekend BOTheWrap Los Angeles Times -Box Office Prophets -TheWrap

Rate A New Entry Stakes Out Low-Budget Film

Original at New York Times external link    Sun, Jun 14

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Many studios dedicated to independent movies have been closed (Picturehouse) or exist more in name than in function (Miramax). Production and advertising costs continue to climb, financing is virtually impossible to secure and the recession has ...

Rate Disney Smartly Maneuvering to Exploit Turnaround in Entertainment ...

Original at Gerson Lehrman Group external link    Tue, Jun 9

 New York If there's any downside to this strategy, its that the studio does not position itself to be innovative with smaller, breakout films or with emerging filmmakers. The lack of spark from its Miramax division in this regard will surely be something that ...

Rate DVD Review: "Enchanted April”

Original at NewsOK.com external link    Thu, May 21

 OK Unfortunately, Miramax offers a barebones DVD with disappointing picture quality. Still, the subpar release can't diminish the wonderful performances or charming, mellow storytelling of Newell's film version of Elizabeth von Arnim's 1922 novel. ...

Rate Miramax's Bob Weinstein pays $15M for Lincoln Square townhouse

Original at The Real Deal New York external link    Wed, May 13

 New York Miramax co-founder Robert Weinstein and his wife Annie Clayton paid $15 million for a townhouse at 39 West 70th Street in Lincoln Square. The couple closed on the mid-block building between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West May 6, according to ...

Rate Movie Review: Enchanted April – Miramax Award-Winning Collection

Original at Blogger News Network external link    Mon, May 4

Starting this May 5th, now available on DVD from BBC Films and Miramax Home Entertainment comes the classic tale of paradise and finding it in the midst of life. Enchanted April – Miramax Award-Winning Collection is ready to saunter out of your ...

Rate Enchanted April DVD Review

Original at Ultimate Disney external link    Mon, May 4

It didn't win any of those, faring slightly worse than the year's other Miramax/Miranda Richardson drama (original screenplay winner The Crying Game). It may seem like all of the major studios' 1990s theatrical output has been put on DVD with the ...

Rate Quentin Tarantino: the golden boy must make good

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link    Sat, May 2

 UK When it became apparent that Kill Bill would have to be released as two films instead of one, the producer, Harvey Weinstein, ever grateful for the glory bestowed on his company Miramax by Pulp Fiction, memorably announced: "Miramax is the house ...

Rate NZ sites, designers nominated for Oscars of the internet

Original at National Business Review external link    Tue, Apr 14

 New Zealand Winners are decided by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), a global organisation of “industry experts and technology innovators” that includes Miramax’ Harvey Weinstein, Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Jamie Oliver, ...

Rate Opinion: Giveaway - Doubt DVD

Original at TMR Zoo external link    Mon, Apr 6

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Movie City News by Steve Tomassetti To celebrate the April 7th Blu Ray and DVD release of Doubt, The Zoo is giving away THREE copies of the DVD, courtesy of Miramax Home Entertainment, to THREE lucky winners. From Miramax Films comes one of the most honored and ...

Rate Doubt DVD Review

Original at Ultimate Disney external link    Tue, Mar 31

This Miramax Films drama was less of a gamble and not just because its title lacked an eruptive disaster source ripe for unfavorable comparisons. With the subtitle "A Parable", Shanley's Doubt debuted as a one-act play in 2004. ...

Rate Brideshead Revisited DVD Review

Original at dBTechno external link    Sun, Jan 18

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 MA - Miramax Films is set to release Brideshead Revisited on the DVD format this month, and hopes to do justice to the release of this film based on the ...

Rate Pressured Miramax Retracts 'Doubt' Pseudoblurb [Awards]

Original at Defamer external link    Wed, Jan 7

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By STV Miramax pulls fudged blurb from 'Doubt' ad [The Big Picture]

Rate Opinion: Miramax pulls fudged blurb from 'Doubt' ad

Original at latimesblogs.latimes.com external link    Wed, Jan 7

By LAT Blogs Scott Rudin and I have been having a lively e-mail exchange (at the U.N. they'd call it a "frank exchange of views") over the propriety of Miramax's ads for "Doubt," a Rudin production that inexplicably featured a mashed-up blurb from... Scott Rudin and I have been having a lively e-mail exchan...

Rate Opinion: When Oscar Hype Goes Wrong, Vol. MMCXLII: Miramax Fakes 'Doubt' Blurb [Oscars]

Original at Defamer external link    Fri, Jan 2

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By STV · Revolutionary Road: "Screenwriter Justin Haythe digests Richard Yates's piercing dialogue into compact, Oscar-clip-compatible bursts. A quasi-pedigreed patina reveling in excruciating emotional turmoil. $40 million of DreamWorks' money!"

Rate Review: Doubt

Original at Cinematical external link    Fri, Dec 12

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson Shanley is a playwright who occasionally forays into movies, and he adapted his own 2004 play into the screenplay for Doubt. He won a Best Screenplay Oscar for Moonstruck (1987), and his other writing work ranges from Five Corners (1987) to an adaptation of Congo (1995). As a director, Doub...

Rate A Free Burger and Beer Is Media Excess, 2008 Style [Recessionomics]

Original at Gawker external link    Tue, Nov 18

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By Sheila When Tina Brown's Talk magazine launched in 1999, its party was one of the biggest events of the year, an overblown, garish party that sprawled over Liberty Island. Today it's a sad memory of where magazines once stood in the New York social strata. Bob and Harvey Weinstein, then the dominat...

Rate Empty Desks, Fire Sales, and Other Signs of the Weinstein Apocalypse [Weinstein DeathWatch]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Defamer external link    Wed, Oct 22

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By STV There aren't a lot of wheels left to fly off at the Weinstein Company, where as many as five executives are now expected to have made their exits by the end of the year. Add on the news that its previous Oscar hopeful The Road is officially shelved until 2009 while Bob Weinstein reportedly inve...

Rate Del Toro’s not afraid of the dark

Original at sbiff.org external link    Wed, Jul 30

By Roger Durling Share This   “Hellboy 2″ director Guillermo del Toro and Miramax will produce a remake of the horror-thriller TV movie “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.” Comic book artist-writer Troy Nixey will make his feature directorial debut with the adaptation of ABC’s 1973 chiller, which gained a cu...

Rate Why Harvey Weinstein Thinks He Owns New York Media

Original at gawker.com external link    Tue, Apr 1

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By Ryan Tate The mogul also makes his power felt further down the media food chain, where he can wow reporters with Hollywood glitz. David Carr said in the opening of a 2001 New York profile of Weinstein that the celebrities surrounding the mogul made Carr feel like "I'm in — kind of, temporarily, a membe...

Rate Countdown to the Oscars!!

Original at The Ghetto Fashionista Entertainment external link    Fri, Feb 22

By The Ghetto Fashionista The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Juliette Welfling Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment): Jay Cassidy No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roderick Jaynes

Year 2007

 

Rate Podcast: Interview: Josh Brolin, 'No Country for Old Men'

Original at Cinematical external link    Thu, Nov 8

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By James Rocchi In an Esquire piece celebrating "The Casting Mistake of the Year," Joel and Ethan Coen explained how Josh Brolin wound up cast in one of No Country for Old Men's lead roles: "Our movie version of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men had Tommy Lee Jones in place -- no mistake there -- as a cr...

Rate DVD Review: Renaissance

Original at Cinematical external link    Mon, Jul 23

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By Christopher Campbell The kidnap victim is a young woman named Ilona (voiced in the English-language dub by Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights star Romola Garai), a researcher at a huge cosmetics corporation called Avalon. Assigned to find her is Barthelemy Karas (Casino Royale's 007, Daniel Craig), a police dete...

Rate Weinsteins Order Up Some Hong Kong Action

Original at Cinematical external link    Fri, Jun 22

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By Peter Martin Filed under: Action & Adventure, Deals, The Weinstein Co.Mention the Weinsteins to any fan of Asian cinema during the past dozen years and you'd be likely to hear a lot of profanity. While running Miramax, Harvey Weinstein constantly professed his great love for films from the region...

Rate The First Teaser for 'There Will Be Blood' is OnlineVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Cinematical external link    Sat, Jun 16

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By Jessica Barnes Filed under: Drama, Movie Marketing, Other Festivals, Miramax, Paramount VantageTo be honest, the summer crop of movies hasn't had me lining up at the box office like I thought it would. Instead, my attention has been firmly fixed on fall and winter. So you can imagine my glee when a promoti...

Rate Cannes Press Raving Over New Coen Brothers Thriller

Original at Cinematical external link    Sun, May 20

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By Scott Weinberg Filed under: Action & Adventure, Drama, Cannes, Miramax, Cinematical IndieI don't know about you, but the arrival of a new Coen Brothers movie is a really big deal to me. (Yes, even after Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers, both of which I enjoy more than most people seem to.) Thei...

Rate Review: The Lookout

Original at Cinematical external link    Sat, Mar 31

By Kim Voynar What would you do if your entire life as you know it was changed in the blink of an eye? It doesn't take much, really ... just a few minutes of bad judgment and a smattering of bad luck and BOOM! -- everything's changed. The Lookout, directed by Oscar-nommed screenwriter Scott Frank in his directo...

Rate Podcast: The Lookout: Interview with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matthew Goode and Scott Frank

Original at /FILM external link    Fri, Mar 30

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By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Tags: Brideshead Revisited, Fourty Four, Jeff Daniels, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Killshot, Mathew Goode, Scott Frank, Stop Loss, The Lookout, Drama, Thriller, Features, Movie Marketing, Interviews Comment on this now or read more at slashfilm.com.

Year 2006

 

Rate Randy Quaid's Rejected Spirit Awards Script

Original at Defamer external link    Fri, Mar 24

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By Mark I don't know, I guess I'm just not that excited about independent film anymore, because I've finally figured out what "independent" means: It means you don't make any money. I just did this film for Miramax, which means I'm working for The Walt Disney Company, but because it's the Oscar win...

Year 2005

 

Rate Trade Round-Up: Executive Shuffle

Original at Defamer external link    Tue, Jan 4

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By Mark · Just because there's nothing to do in the first week of the year but count the piles of money: Sony wins the year in North American box office thanks to Spider-man 2, while Warner Bros. takes the international box office crown [THR, Variety]

Year 2004

 

Rate Trade Round-Up: Hilary Swank To Play Woman

Original at Defamer external link    Tue, Dec 14

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By Mark · The latest on Miramax vs. Disney: In an SEC filing, Disney ominously states that production of Miramax projects may be "abandoned or otherwise impaired" after their deal with the Weinsteins expires. This is the closest Michael Eisner can get to threatening to kill Harvey Weinstein's ch...

Rate Trade Round-Up: Critics Celebrate Tragic Love Affair With Sideways

Original at Defamer external link    Mon, Dec 13

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By Mark · The lovable drunks of Sideways take the LA Critics Assn. [THR], San Francisco Critics Circle [Variety, sub. req'd.], and NY Online Critics [THR] top honors. They're all just setting themselves up for disappointment when Miramax buys a win for The Aviator at the Oscars.

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