...he rejects the term “lapsed,” saying, “It suggests slovenliness.”) Such a personal relationship with the material, points out Miramax head Daniel Battsek, is one of the reasons Shanley was a natural pick to direct. “It’s so connected to him,” says...
...is going back to the future to promote the past. Or something like that. To promote a movie that doesn't release for several months, the studio has launched a site containing vintage midway games. The studio hired company Liquid Generation to create and distribute...
...when producer Scott Rudin and writer-director John Patrick Shanley offered her the role of the oppressive Sister Aloysius in Miramax's "Doubt," even though Cherry Jones had made such a stamp in the part onstage. And it's easy to understand why: With her...
...Nichols of Working Girl and Closer fame has signed on to direct the remake of the 1962 detective thriller High and Low for Miramax. Martin Scorsese will executive produce the film. Scorsese has actually been interested in the project for years, having...
...Spira mess. And you can also assess from “Down and Dirty Pictures” that as much if not more credit for the rise of Miramax had to do with Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino, Pedro Almodovar, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Gwenyth Paltrow and the makers of...
Background
Miramax Films is a film production and distribution brand that was a leading independent film motion picture distribution and production company headquartered in New York City before it was acquired by The Walt Disney Company. Miramax was considered an important quasi-independent studio for many years after the Disney purchase.
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