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Paquin's parents have been extremely careful about guarding their family's privacy. "I'd love to have her do more publicity for the movie, but I respect parents who want to raise their kids the way they want to," says Harvey Weinstein, the co-chairman of Miramax Films, which distributed The Piano. "She's really a normal, smart little girl who wants to stay a normal, smart little girl...
...four films picked up distributors during this year's festival: Go Fish, a lesbian comedy (to be released by Goldwyn); Spanking the Monkey, a startling drama about incest that won the audience prize for best dramatic feature (Fine Line); Clerks, a low- budget comedy set in a convenience store (Miramax); and Martha and Ethel, a documentary about two lifelong nannies (Sony Pictures Classics). Several other movies are under negotiation with distributors, among them Hoop Dreams, a nearly three-hour documentary about two ghetto youths aiming for basketball success that was perhaps the festival's most exciting discovery...
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Starring Leslie Cheung and Zhang Fengyi; Miramax...
...After Miramax Film Corp.'s The Crying Game earned $60 million and the Best Original Screenplay Oscar, the hot studio was courted by the likes of Columbia and Paramount. But Walt Disney Co. won out, announcing that it will buy Miramax for an estimated $80 million. Disney, which prevailed in part because it let Miramax retain complete freedom over its projects, gets Miramax's library of more than 200 films, including smash hits such as sex, lies, and videotape. Miramax, with Disney backing, can now make bigger-budget films and perhaps secure more lucrative deals for cable and home-video...