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...films than in any other decade in the history of film," says Jonathan Wolf, managing director of the American Film Market, an annual event where filmmakers and studio executives converge to sign production and distribution deals. But since the economic downturn, many indie movie distributors, including New Line Cinema, Miramax, the Weinstein Company and Paramount Vantage, have either left the market or slashed their funding...
...economic recession may be ending but the independent film industry's shakeout continues to roll, as we were recently reminded by Disney's October decision to gut its Miramax division, cutting staff by more than...
...marketed them to the public. Today only Twentieth Century Fox, Sony and Universal still have specialty divisions - Disney does, too, but in name only. Paramount closed Paramount Vantage, Time Warner shut down Warner Independent as well as Picturehouse and absorbed New Line into Warner Brothers, Disney has radically reduced Miramax, and Universal sold Rogue. (See films from the Toronto film festival...
...first of all, those unpedigreed items today outshine much of the solemn epics produced in the '30s and '40s. And second, the five chosen films of 2008 were all examples of a different kind of genre: the nobility-in-distress art-house drama. Ever since the mid-'90s, when Miramax Films' Harvey Weinstein figured out how to win Oscars by assiduously promoting movies of elevated angst, the ceremony has been limited mostly to validating this very narrow film taste...
...Riverton ’99, one of the network’s goals is to find summer internships for students. “They become a part of our organization and participate in other activities,” she says. Media goliaths ABC, Disney, Dreamworks, HBO Films, and Miramax Films have all offered internships through Harvardwood, and activities range from film screenings to industry panels and speaker series. “It’s not so much about getting jobs right away but creating connections over time,” she adds. Harvardwood 101 selects twenty-four students...