Miramax Films

And Now She's Dead: Ramona Quimby, Age 8

source: Gawker

 NY Variety] Scott Rudin, perhaps still reeling from his Harvey Weinstein/The Reader flame-out, has gone and struck a deal with Weinstein's former company, Miramax. He'll be producing a Patrick Marber (Closer) adaptation of Zoe Heller's novel The ...

Published Wed, Mar 4

Harvey Weinstein's Non-Comeback Comeback

source: Gawker

 NY Basically, the expensive stuff that Rudin and Miramax did last year while pushing No Country For Old Men to its Oscar wins, all of which was based on the original Harvey schematic first sketched out 20 years ago. And it worked. Of course it worked. ...

Published Mon, Feb 23

Pressured Miramax Retracts 'Doubt' Pseudoblurb [Awards]

source: Defamer

Miramax may be starving for an Oscar repeat for 2008, but apparently not enough to mix their meats at the Oscar-season blurb buffet. Patrick Goldstein notes today that the studio has retracted its...

Published Wed, Jan 7

Pressured Miramax Retracts 'Doubt' Pseudoblurb [Awards]

source: Defamer

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

Published Wed, Jan 7

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

source: Defamer

· 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!"

Published Fri, Jan 2

Bet-Losing Harvey Weinstein Spends First $1 Million on 'Reader' Oscar Campaign [Liar Liar]

source: Defamer

Yowza! Let this be a lesson to always use pencil when updating your Rudin/Weinstein Blood Feud Scorecard. To recap: After resurgently pushing The Reader into the '08 Oscar race, Harvey Weinstein lays million-dollar odds that his mortal enemy Scott Rudin could go another three or four mo...

Published Tue, Sep 30

Scott Rudin Acquires Richard Price's Lush Life

source: First Showing

Producer Scott Rudin (middle above) is on a roll in Hollywood. After winning the Oscar for Best Picture for producing No Country for Old Men alongside of the Coen Brothers, Rudin is off buying up every last book and script he can get his hands on. In February we mentioned that Rudin and the Coen...

Published Mon, Mar 17

Golden Globes Nominations Announced; Prayers That WGA-Sympathetic Honorees Will Actually Show Up Begin In Earnest [Awards]

source: Defamer

1. AMERICAN GANGSTER Imagine Entertainment/Scott Free Productions; Universal Pictures A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production; Miramax/Paramount Vantage 7. THERE WILL BE BLOOD A Joanne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production; Paramount Vantage and Miramax Films

Published Thu, Dec 13