Word: miramaxes
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...grab a bigger slice of Europe's box-office takings (which in 2002 were €5.6 billion), directors and producers need to better understand the business of moviemaking. "It's the perpetual struggle between art and commerce," says Colin Vaines, executive vice president of European production and development at Miramax. "In Europe, where there is such an auteurist culture - the director is king or queen and they drive everything along - it isn't always possible to contemplate the marketplace alongside the art." It's not as if European cinema lacks funds; on the contrary, many European films are government-subsidized...
...that helped propel Halle Berry to her Monster’s Ball Oscar two years ago. And if Return of the King doesn’t win Best Picture (and director Peter Jackson doesn’t win Best Director), it’ll be the biggest upset since Miramax bought the 1999 Best Picture Oscar for Shakespeare in Love...
...peaked too big, too early. I may be partially biased in that I thought she horribly misjudged her Cold Mountain role and delivered it with such intolerable garishness that by film’s end, I almost wished Jack White would mistake her for a Von Bondie. But even Miramax seems to admit that she’s lost her momentum, opening room for a victory by a member of your so-called “weak field.” That reference surely comes from someone who has not yet seen House of Sand and Fog, because Shohreh Aghdashloo?...
...DISNEY Long the gold standard in family films, Disney runs Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney Features Animation, Miramax Films and Dimension Films, though it recently lost hitmaker Pixar...
...tough part about writing boy books, as we may as well call them (hey, chick lit doesn't rhyme either), is that a lot of guys just aren't all that complicated. Such a man is David, the 27-year-old protagonist of Scott Mebus' Booty Nomad (Miramax Books; 392 pages). David is a TV producer struggling to bounce back from a horrific breakup with a woman he can bring himself to refer to only as the Eater of Souls. Like Tom, David gets plastered, visits a strip club, hits on his female friends and longs for an unattainable lady...