Word: miramaxes
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...ground turkey and calling it Stroganoff. The 36-year-old's Semi-Homemade philosophy preaches the use of 70% prepared products and 30% fresh foods, plus a dash of ingenuity, yet this gleeful application of packaged food is far from half-baked. Lee has a multimedia deal with Miramax that includes television, books and merchandise...
...Over at Miramax, which touted Cold Mountain as its main Oscar contender this year, company co-chairman Harvey Weinstein told several news outlets that his movie’s late release date was the reason for its being passed over in the Picture, Director, Actress, and Screenplay categories. Weinstein told the New York Observer that “the biggest reason I think Cold Mountain had problems this year was the fact that we released at Christmas . . . We were the last to send out cassettes. It was an early schedule this year. I don’t think...
...nominations, studios could afford to hold their best films until the holidays and then deluge Variety and The Hollywood Reporter with flashy “For Your Consideration” ads throughout the first month of the year. As awards season battles between the studios intensified in recent years, Miramax became known as one of the fiercest Oscar campaigners, successfully driving dubious fare like Gangs of New York, Chocolat, and The Cider House Rules to Best Picture nominations...
...this year, Miramax only had about three weeks between Cold Mountain’s December 25 release and the January 17 deadline for Oscar nomination ballots—not enough of a window for the studio’s post-holiday campaigning to make the needed impact on the psyches of Oscar voters...
Similarly scrambling are films made primarily as Oscar contenders. The money a Cold Mountain, say, might earn with nominations in the flashier categories is factored into the projected gross and thus, working backward, the size of the budget. The film cadged seven nominations last week, but its sponsor, Miramax, has to be disappointed that star Nicole Kidman and writer-director Anthony Minghella, both previous Oscar winners, were stiffed--not to mention the film itself, denying Miramax a Best Picture finalist for the first time in 12 years. The company's co-chairman Harvey Weinstein is still determined to find...