Word: miramaxes
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...Martin Scorsese is used to two things: being called America's finest picturemaker, and getting stiffed at the Oscars ceremony. This Sunday he will find out if he wins for Gangs of New York. This year, at the urging of Miramax Films' Harvey Weinstein, he has campaigned more aggressively for the prize. But some have found the Gangs gang too aggressive; one ad, which reprinted an Op-Ed column by former Academy president Robert Wise, caused such an uproar among other members it was hastily pulled. How much does an Oscar mean to a man with big projects...
...which offers tax breaks for private investment in film production and last year raked in almost $30 million (City of God cost less than $5 million to make). Last year some 50 films were made in Brazil, raising the domestic market share to 8.3%. Now U.S. distribution giants like Miramax and Columbia have jumped in to give the films unprecedented pan-Latin American and global play. As authoritarian regimes tumble as Mexico's has, the range of stories that can now be told on Latin American screens has increased. The region's new films "frame societies in the making ? based...
Women's films: even the name sounds second-class and second-rate. "It narrows the experience," says Meryl Poster, co-president of production at Miramax Films, which distributes Chicago and is a partner in The Hours. "It doesn't sound like a full picture; you think it's weepy or trite." Another pejorative, chick flicks, is even more limiting. "It denigrates a male appreciation of the female experience," says Diane Lane, who won the New York Film Critics' Actress award for her turn as an adulterous wife in Unfaithful. "I think men are very curious and surprised by the female...
...PURCHASED. WARNER BROS.; the remake rights to the 2002 Hong Kong box-office hit Infernal Affairs for $1.75 million after a bidding war with DreamWorks, Paramount and Miramax that began late last month; in Hong Kong. Starring Hong Kong heartthrobs Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, the film was the territory's highest-grossing movie last year. The remake will be co-produced by prominent American actor Brad Pitt...
...Pantheon), Gini Alhadeff, former features editor at Elle, portrays a fashion sovereign who resembles Giorgio Armani, once her boss. In Full Bloom (Dutton), Caroline Hwang, a former editor at Glamour, tells the story of a Korean-American woman climbing the fashion-magazine ladder. And there's another--Bergdorf Blondes (Miramax), by Plum Sykes, a Vogue editor. Leaks at Conde Nast? There's an absolute flood...