Word: miramaxes
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...filmmakers weren't interested in these incidents, Internet muckmaker Matt Drudge was. When the movie opened, he ran an item saying it had "completely scrubbed" any gay scenes from Nasar's book. Some thought the tip came from Miramax, but Drudge won't finger his source, saying, with a laugh, "Birds have been singing outside my window." A few weeks ago, he raised the Jewish question. Others tried to trace that tip to Fox, but Drudge says he found it himself when he read the book "and the Jew stuff popped...
...unexpected success of The Nanny Diaries (St. Martin's; $24.95), a novel of bad manners set on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The book is in its sixth printing and in ninth place on the New York Times fiction best-seller list. The film rights have been sold to Miramax for a reported $500,000. And the first-time authors, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, two peppy twentysomething graduates of New York University, have been all over the morning television shows...
It’s clear things have gone awry in Oscar land when In the Bedroom supporters at Universal-cohort Miramax Pictures are contacting Oscar voters and bashing Moulin Rouge for being “trite, ridiculous, simpleton cinema.” This is according to 20th Century Fox, of course. But regardless of the artistry one finds in a dancing Nicole Kidman or a plate-throwing Sissy Spacek, 2002 is proving to be the peak of the Oscar’s political shenanigans. As nominees are garnered primarily through ad campaigns or favors to filmmakers whose turn...
...spots for In the Bedroom, Miramax sells the domestic drama as a thriller through dynamic editing and by focusing on a few carefully chosen scenes. "It's all a question of degree," says an executive at a rival studio. "In the case of In the Bedroom, even if they cheated to get you in, chances are you still liked the movie." Indeed, moviegoers usually don't complain about obfuscation in trailers; they do complain that trailers give too much away. There's a reason for this, and studios have the test results to prove it. When trailers are market-tested...
...will, but the National Enquirer sold 6.5 million newsstand copies of its issue with Elvis peacefully at rest in his open casket. In September, Iain Calder, the Enquirer?s editor-in-chief for 30 years, will detail such feats of tabloidism in an as-yet untitled memoir for Talk Miramax. This is the guy who knows where all the bodies are buried, even before they?re buried...