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Today the project sounds golden. But Hollywood didn't always think so. Disney-Miramax rejected Jackson's proposal, even at a compromised two-film length. The front-office pooh-bahs may have recalled the failure of Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings, also in two parts (the second half was never made). For less remote box-office evidence, potential sponsors had only to measure the $300 million Jackson needed to make the trilogy against the measly $35 million or so his five previous features had earned worldwide...
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...Mogul and His Motives Re "10 Questions for Harvey Weinstein," your interview with the co-chairman of Miramax [Feb. 9]: In defending his interference in editing the movies that Miramax releases, Weinstein said, "It's not that I ever want to take the integrity out of movies; it's that I want to put the integrity into them." Still, his measure of a film's success seems based entirely upon box-office returns, and he views the inbred Academy Award nominations as "almost an affirmation." Such narrow-minded arrogance leaves one with the impression that what really pleases Weinstein...
Such is the pathos of the Manhattan Front Row Girls (FRGs) depicted in British fashionista turned novelist Plum Syke’s new novel Bergdorf Blondes, to be released in April by Miramax Books. The light-hearted, designer label-laden novel is latest of the “chick-lit” fiction craze that has spawned a plethora of unlikely pop heroines from Bridget Jones to Sex and the City’s Samantha Jones...