Word: miramaxes
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...Disney, for one, was not impressed. Earlier this month, the company ordered its subsidiary, Miramax Films, not to release the film. Moore says that his lawyer was told by Disney CEO Michael Eisner that distributing it would harm the company?s negotiations for favorable treatment for its Florida theme parks from that state?s governor, one Jeb Bush. Harvey Weinstein, co-chair of Miramax, is now trying to buy the film back from Disney and to fashion his own coalition of the willing - other distributors happy to profit from Disney?s timidity. The result of this internal agita will...
This week the Walt Disney Company reaffirmed its intention to block Disney-owned Miramax from distributing Michael Moore’s latest documentary, Fahrenheit 911, through Disney’s distribution channels. The film takes issue with President Bush’s decisions before and after the 2001 World Trade Center attacks and examines Bush’s ties to powerful Saudis, including the Bin Laden family. Disney, as a result, has argued that Moore’s film is too political and partisan for its company to distribute—defying its contract with Miramax. Even more disturbing than...
...right to distribute what it wants to distribute, but we also reserve the right to criticize malicious decisions. Disney’s choice to use its powerful financial position to keep political expression from the public is an insult to all Americans. If Disney is willing to allow Miramax to make the movies it wants to make, Disney ought to be willing to follow through with its own contract to distribute those films...
...sure, Moore and Miramax will find a new distributor; of that there is no question. What is particularly worrisome is that the interference of powerful media conglomerates in the dissemination of politically sensitive material has lately become routine. Two weeks ago, Sinclair Broadcast Group instructed its seven ABC affiliates not to air a Nightline segment displaying the names of over 500 U.S. soldiers killed in action in Iraq because, according to Sinclair’s statement, the company deemed the program politically motivated against U.S. efforts in that country. (Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blasted Sinclair?...
...first crossover Bollywood-style musical: Bride and Prejudice, with Jane Austen's Bennet family transformed into Anglo-Indians and Bollywood goddess Aishwarya Rai in the lead. "It's got the love story, it's got the songs, it's fun--like a Grease," rhapsodizes Rick Sands, COO of Miramax Films, which will distribute Bride in the U.S. "It's a Bollywood musical, but it's not going to be 3 1/2 hours long." Chadha, who says, "I don't make Bollywood films, I make British films," calls Bride "a Bollywood-inspired movie for a Western audience...