Word: miramax
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Figuring that it should stick to its roots of critical success, Miramax Studios is once again exploiting William Shakespeare. With the 1998 success of Shakespeare in Love, the fictional adaptation of the life of Shakespeare, this time the studio is at least sticking to the great bard's words-or some of them, at least. (Haven't we seen this before) The only catch is they are grossly distorting the traditional setting to a glitzier Hollywood of the 1930s. The classic and comedic tale of oaths and devotion, love and loyalty, takes on an entirely new twist when plopped down...
...Miramax...
...Miramax Films...
...short film--a form that the Oscars recognize but the public doesn't. That's already changing online. All the buying at the Sundance Film Festival this year was done not by the big studios but by websites that show short, downloadable films, hoping to be the online Miramax or, better yet, to be bought by Miramax. Throughout the weeklong event, AtomFilms.com drove a slow-moving RV equipped with a television for aspiring directors to use to screen their short films, in the hope of getting purchased by the site. Bad films were dropped off at the end of Main...
...when The Cider House Rules got nominated, you can bet that Spielberg and the team at Dreamworks had abdominal cramps. American Beauty, of course, is the frontrunner-and that's a Dreamworks film. Do you see it now? Yes, Miramax is staging a repeat of last year's race: Dreamworks' favored American Beauty vs. the Miramax underdog Cider House. Does it matter that Cider House isn't as good as Shakespeare in Love and that American Beauty is far superior to Saving Private Ryan? Absolutely not. The Academy voters ignore such subtleties. If you scream loud enough, their hearing aids...