Miramax Films

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

Opinion: Miramax pulls fudged blurb from 'Doubt' ad

source: latimesblogs.latimes.com

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...

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