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IndieWire (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Erica Abeel (July 25, 2008) [EDITOR'S NOTE: Miramax Films will open "Brideshead Revisited" Friday, July 25 in limited release.] Bringing " Brideshead Revisited " to the screen presented a trifecta of challenges. Director Julian Jarrold and screenwriters Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock had to compress and reconfigure Evelyn Waugh 's layered, elegiac novel, while finding a visual equivalent to convey...
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Urban Onramps (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Wikipedia: “This film [There Will Be Blood] was the second co-production of Paramount Vantage and Miramax Films to be released in as many months, after No Country for Old Men (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture).” Interesting. I wonder if it was the same executive or executive team that green-lit and shepherded these two projects. [...]
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Remix Concepts (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Year: 2008 Country: USA Time: 95 minutes Production: Grosvenor Park Productions Distribution: Miramax Films Director: Noam Murro Cast: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker , Thomas Haden Church, Ellan Page, Ashton holmes Certification USA:R (certificate #43519) | UK:15 | Canada:G (Québec) | Canada:PG (British Columbia) | Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba/Ontario) | Ireland:15A | Australia:M Local Website:...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Film News: Studio to develop film based on June 22 article -- Miramax Films has closed a deal to develop a movie from "This Strange Thing Called Prom," a Brooke Hauser article published in the June 22 edition of the New York Times.
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Idol Chatter (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
"Shakespeare in Love" director John Madden, is now chasing Nazis--or at least planning to helm a remake (or reinterpretation) of an Israeli film about Nazi hunting, called "The Debt." The Miramax Films project is based on the 2007 Israeli feature...
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PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
An explosive book about film bosses HARVEY and BOB WEINSTEIN’s management of movie studio Miramax Films has been written by a former employee. The expose is allegedly based on files and tapes compiled over a 15-year period and will reportedly detail the Weinstein’s "manipulation" of the firm, which they co-founded in 1979 but left in 2005. The [...]
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Mickey News (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
The gritty streets of Rio de Janeiro are alive with music, excitement and danger for two young friends when City of Men comes to DVD on July 1, 2008 from Miramax Films. Acclaimed producer Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardner)returns to the thrilling setting of his Oscar nominated film, City of God (2003; Best Directing, Adapted Screenplay, Editing and Cinematography) for a remarkable tale of survival...
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
How bad are things in the independent film world? Pretty awful, according to Mark Gill, former executive for Warner Independent Pictures and Miramax Films. Just the topic of the speech he gave last weekend at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival - "Yes, the Sky Is Falling" - tells you how dire the situation is. He points to the recent spate of bad news - the shutdown of Warner Independent and...
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LIBERTAS (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
“You’re all screwed.” If you are an independent filmmaker out there looking for theatrical distribution of your project, you should do three things: 1) take a stiff drink; 2) read this already-much-talked about speech at the L.A. Film Festival by Mark Gill, former President of Miramax Films, then; 3) let Apuzzo set your mind at ease. [...]
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Biz (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
by Mark Gill (June 22, 2008) Yesterday in Los Angeles, Mark Gill declared provocatively, "Yes, The Sky Really Is Falling." Speaking at the L.A. Film Festival 's Financing Conference, the CEO of The Film Department (and former President of Miramax Films ) detailed a litany of challenges currently facing independent film, yet offered his audience a happy ending. His complete prepared remarks are included...
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/Film (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
/Film reader Daniel C passes along word that /Film is quoted on the Australian release of Taika Waititi’s Eagle vs. Shark, which was one of my favorite films of 2007. Unfortunately Miramax Films didn’t know how to market the film, and the movie went virtually unseen by mainstream audiences. It was also passed by indie [...]
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Reprise (Miramax Films), the feature debut of young Norwegian director Joachim Trier, is as crisp and cool as a swig of Champagne. It's a story about young artists—and tormented ones to boot—that neither sentimentalizes its subjects nor treats them with arch contempt. The voice-over narrator of Reprise, an unidentified man who seems more privy to [...]
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Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Reprise (Miramax Films), the feature debut of young Norwegian director Joachim Trier, is as crisp and cool as a swig of Champagne. It's a story about young artists—and tormented ones to boot—that neither sentimentalizes its subjects nor treats them with arch contempt. The voice-over narrator of Reprise, an unidentified man who seems more privy to the protagonists' memories, thoughts, and fantasies...
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Alliance of Women Film Journalists (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
AWFJ highlights films made by and about women Friday, April 16 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - Disney Pictures, 140mins How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer Vacation My Father My Lord Quantum Hoops Reprise - Miramax Films, 192mins Sangre de mi Sangre/Padre Nuestro - IFC Releasing, 110mins Yella
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Film News: Pic adapts Israeli thriller -- Miramax Films has acquired the worldwide rights to Brit multi-hyphenate Matthew Vaughn's “The Debt.”
