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	Miramax Films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Miramax Films was a Big Ten film motion picture distribution and production company headquartered in New York City before being bought out by The Walt Disney Company.
		Miramax is currently developing a film of the Fathers 4 Justice movement to go into production next year, made by Harbour Pictures (Calendar Girls) and written by Danny Brocklehurst (Shameless).
		Miramax has come under severe criticism from foreign film fans for its editing, dubbing, and replacing the soundtracks of various foreign films it releases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miramax_Films (924 words)

	'Chicago' producer sues Miramax for $10M - Boston.com
		The Producer Circle Co. says in its lawsuit it is the owner of the film rights to the musical "Chicago," a Broadway hit of the 1970s that Miramax agreed to produce with PCC as a movie.
		Miramax spokeswoman Emily Baer said she had not seen the lawsuit and could not comment.
		The film, which starred Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger and was directed by Rob Marshall, was based on a play by the late Bob Fosse and Fred Ebb.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2006/03/20/chicago_producer_sues_miramax_for_10m (544 words)

	[KFCC] Letter to Miramax
		Miramax has pushed back several times already the release date of one of the most popular Asian movie of all time, “Shaolin Soccer,”; which is now one of the most downloaded movies on the Internet (Wired.com).
		Miramax really should put these wasted and negative efforts into something more constructive, such as improving their movie releases and trying to fight bootlegs and movie downloads, which hurt the movie industry much more than buying legit official import movies overseas.
		What we suggest to Miramax, instead of trying to rule the people by force, why don’t they simply release the movies in their uncut form just like other North American distributors, this way people won’t have to Import the overseas version and everyone will be in a win-win situation.
	www.kfccinema.com /features/articles/letter_miramax/letter_miramax.html (1195 words)

	Dimension Films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a part of The Weinstein Company.
		It was formerly used as Bob Weinstein's label within Miramax Films, to produce and release genre films.
		This article about a film studio is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dimension_Films (146 words)

	Film History of the 1990s
		Although the average film budget was almost $53 million by 1998, many films cost over $100 million to produce, and some of the most expensive blockbusters were even more.
		However, the independently-distributed film movement was also proving that it could compete (both commercially and critically) with Hollywood's costly output.
		The small, independent Miramax Studios, formed in 1979 by brothers and co-chairmen Harvey and Bob Weinstein (the name was derived from the combination of their parents' names: Miriam and Max), produced and distributed independent and foreign, and then - more recently - even mainstream films.
	www.filmsite.org /90sintro.html (2014 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Disney, Miramax rush films to venues
		Miramax is hoping for a better box-office showing with "The Brothers Grimm," left, starring Heath Ledger, left, and Matt Damon.
		Miramax said it expected to spend about $30 million to support the national release of "The Brothers Grimm." Although the picture's original production budget was $88 million, Miramax said, its total financial exposure was significantly less, thanks to $16 million in European tax breaks and $40 million in foreign sales.
		The latest films are being released at a time when Miramax and Disney could use a hit.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2002443790_miramax18.html?syndication=rss&source=movies.xml&items=22 (642 words)

	Miramax Films Celebrates 25th Anniversary
		Miramax Films will make a gift to The Museum of Modern Art of fifteen 35mm feature films chosen by the Department of Film and Media.
		The outstanding quality of Miramax's films is represented in the company's success in the annual Academy Awards race.
		Miramax's commitment to cinema from around the world is evident in its history of releases.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-14-2004/0002631461&EDATE= (336 words)

	Miramax Films - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Miramax Films, American film company owned by The Walt Disney Company, with offices in New York and Los Angeles.
		Japan, immediately before and during World War II, Communist China, and Cuba after the revolution of 1959 similarly made use of films, alongside...
		In recent years, alongside the burgeoning power of stars and agents (often working in tandem), much of the most interesting American film work has...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Miramax_Films.html (176 words)

	Disney Selects New Chief of Miramax - New York Times
		Battsek, 47, takes over after the Weinsteins step down on Sept. 30, he faces the challenge of re-establishing the Miramax label as a force for independent or specialty films, even as Disney is expected to slash its budget by half or more.
		And when Miramax was acquired by Disney two years later, he found himself marketing and releasing nearly all of its films in Britain.
		And the prolific film producer Scott Rudin, who recently signed a deal with Disney and was expected to release many of his films through Miramax, said of Mr.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/07/26/business/26miramax.html?ex=1280030400&en=70cb9003633a98bc&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (727 words)

	Miramax Films: topsy-turvy ride
		"It's nice to be No. 1 again," Miramax Films co-head Harvey Weinstein said last month in response to the Golden Globe nominations announced by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. At the end of a turbulent year, Miramax was back in its customary position atop the awards-seeking pack.
		On the other hand, the usually prolific Miramax, facing a budget crunch in the second half of the year, virtually sat out the summer.
		Following protracted negotiations, the Weinsteins bought the film back from Miramax and Disney, and after creating a new company, the Fellowship Adventure Group, to oversee its release, they joined forces with Lions Gate and IFC Films to mastermind the documentary's record-breaking $119 million release.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/film/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000747437 (629 words)

	Miramax Films Taps Keri Putnam As Head of Production
		Putnam comes to Miramax Films from Home Box Office, where she was executive vice president responsible for overseeing the development and production of HBO Films for the cable network and for theatrical release.
		In 1999, Putnam was named senior vice president, HBO Films, and shortly thereafter moved to Los Angeles.
		Putnam is the recipient of the 2005 Excellence in Media Award from Women in Film for her work at HBO.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-08-2006/0004316549&EDATE= (423 words)

	Weinstein's Leaving Miramax, Will Form New Company; Brothers Taking Dimension Label, Leaving All Film Libraries at ...
		Miramax Films co-chairmen and founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein will leave the company they founded 25 years ago, according to an announcement released today (Tuesday).
		Disney acquired Miramax in 1993 and since then it has been considered a veritable Oscar-machine, earning the company 3 best picture Academy Awards and some 220 Oscar nominations, yielding a total of 53 of the film industry's prized honors.
		After the new Miramax leadership is unveiled, the brothers will work with the new team during a July through September transition in which the new and old Miramax leaders will report directly to Dick Cook.
	www.indiewire.com /biz/biz_050330miramax.html (952 words)

	CBS News \| Battsek Named Miramax Films President \| July 25, 2005 19:29:37
		Miramax founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein, who sold the company to Disney in 1993 for $80 million but continued to run the studio, will remain co-chairmen of the film company on a non-exclusive basis through Sept. 30, Disney said.
		The Weinsteins are expected to oversee marketing and distribution of films already scheduled for release by Miramax and their Dimension Films label, including Ben Affleck's directorial debut, "Gone Baby Gone," and "Hoax," starring Richard Gere.
		In 1998, he was promoted to oversee some 35 films per year for the Disney, Touchstone and Miramax labels.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/07/25/ap/business/mainD8BIJR9O0.shtml (374 words)

	SenArt Films
		The film won the Audience Award, The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and an Acting Award for Patricia Clarkson at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, where it was acquired by Miramax.
		STEVIE won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and the Excellence in Cinematography Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.
		Prior to SenArt, Timmons studied film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts where she wrote, directed and produced several short films.
	www.senartfilms.com /closeup.html (553 words)

	Appeal to Disney for Respectful Treatment of Asian films Petition
		As film fans, we believe that these films represent a vision and an attempt to tell a story by all those involved in the film's production.
		We respect Disney's distribution rights that they have legally acquired, but feel that if their versions are the only ones we are allowed to purchase that these versions should respect the original film and give us consumers the chance to watch the film the way we want.
		The Appeal to Disney for Respectful Treatment of Asian films Petition to Miramax Films was created by Web Alliance for the Respectful Treatment of Hong Kong Films and written by Stefan Paz.
	www.petitiononline.com /warthkf/petition.html (1209 words)

	Miramax Films (press release) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Films to be available for download from Miramax websites April 18, 2000-New York, NY-Miramax Films and SightSound.com have reached an agreement to make available for download 12 films on the Internet for non-exclusive pay-per-view distribution, it was announced today by company co-chairmen Bob and Harvey Weinstein.
		The films will be available for download only in the United States.
		Miramax has released some of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful independent feature films of the past decade including "Shakespeare In Love," "The Cider House Rules," "The Talented Mr.
	www.reeldv.com /Articles/miramax.html (365 words)

	Miramax dominates Oscars - Feb. 10, 1998
		LOS ANGELES (CNNfn) - Walt Disney Co.'s independent film distribution unit Miramax proved once again to be a mighty competitor against major film studios, helping Disney top the list of Oscar nominations Tuesday.
		Miramax films pulled in 16 nominations, bringing Disney's total to 23.
		Paramount Pictures, the film distribution arm of Viacom Inc., shared in distribution of "Titanic," but that was Paramount's only nominated film.
	money.cnn.com /1998/02/10/bizbuzz/studios/index.htm (349 words)

	MoMA.org \| 2005 Film and Media Exhibitions \| Happy Birthday, Suso Cecchi d'Amico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On the occasion of Miramax's twenty-fifth anniversary, The Museum of Modern Art presents a retrospective of fifty significant films that Miramax and its division, Dimension, produced and distributed over the past quarter-century.
		This dark and visually inventive early film adaptation of a graphic novel, about a murder victim returning as an “undead,” is infamous: actor Brandon Lee died during the shoot.
		In this sequel to his Decline of the American Empire, Arcand imagines the first film's garrulous and passionate intellectual liberals gathering twenty years later at the hospital bedside of one of their own—a randy and outspoken teacher whose estranged son is determined to see his father die with grace.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/film_media/2005/miramax.html (2874 words)

	Miramax Films Acquires Night Listener - ComingSoon.net
		Miramax Films has acquired the North American rights to the Hart Sharp Entertainment and IFC Films co-production, Night Listener, it was announced today from the Sundance Film Festival by company president Daniel Battsek.
		But Gabriel soon comes to the startling realization that it is quite possible that neither the boy nor his painful account of his childhood really exist.
		The film is produced by Robert Kessel, Jeff Sharp, John Hart and Jill Footlick.
	comingsoon.net /news/indietopnews.php?id=12874 (241 words)

	Wild Brain / Miramax & Dimension Films Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Miramax Films, Dimension Films and Wild Brain, Inc., a leading producer of animated entertainment, announced a multi-year, multi-film agreement to co-finance and coproduce computer-generated (CGI) animated films.
		Under the agreement, announced today by Dimension Films Chairman, Bob Weinstein and Wild Brain Chairman, Jim Miller, Miramax/Dimension and Wild Brain will each finance 50% of the production on agreed projects.
		Similarly, Wild Brain has the opportunity to access Miramax/Dimension’s worldwide distribution pipeline for films in which it produces and pays releasing costs.
	www.wildbrain.com /about_us/about_us_release_miramax.html (383 words)

	Playbill News: "Chicago" Producer Martin Richards Files Lawsuit Against Miramax Films (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Broadway producer Martin Richards, who was one of the producers of the Academy Award-winning film "Chicago," has filed a lawsuit against Miramax Films Corp., which co-produced and released the movie musical.
		The film, which was directed by Rob Marshall, grossed more than $300 million worldwide, becoming the most profitable of any film produced by Miramax.
		PCC says that Miramax has failed to pay the company the percentage it is rightfully due.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/98596 (440 words)

	Wherefore Art Thou, Gnomeo? At Miramax - ComingSoon.net
		Miramax Films has announced an exclusive deal with Sir Elton John's Rocket Pictures to develop and produce Gnomeo and Juliet, an animated twist on Shakespeare's classic tale set in the world of tacky garden gnomes.
		Rocket Pictures producing partners, David Furnish and Steve Hamilton Shaw, who are currently finishing post-production on their latest film It's A Boy Girl Thing, will shepherd the project with Miramax president, Daniel Battsek.
		"'Gnomeo' is an edgy concept and Miramax is the perfect home to push the envelope in animation.
	www.comingsoon.net /news/movienews.php?id=14097 (250 words)

	Miramax \| Walt Disney Company \| movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The partnership, which turned numerous art-house films into blockbuster hits and Oscar winners, and which created a blueprint for Hollywood's assimilation of the indie film world, ended with the studio keeping Miramax's valuable film library and label name.
		After Miramax's success with such indie and foreign hits as sex, lies, and videotape and The Crying Game, Disney bought Miramax in 1993 for $80 million, prompting other major studios to buy or start their own ''specialty'' divisions.
		Disney is keeping the Miramax name and the 550 films Miramax has distributed over the last quarter century, as well as the rights to collaborate with the Weinsteins on as many as 25 future films spun off from them (like the forthcoming Scary Movie 4).
	www.ew.com /ew/report/0,6115,1043327_1_0_,00.html (660 words)

	TheCrow.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Saving the love he and Lily shared also means Jimmy will also save the town that has shunned him, an ironic twist of fate that he must resolve to be reunited with Lily.
		Coming soon, to a screen near you, is the 4th film in the series of Crow films, "The Crow: Wicked Prayer".
		Script reviews and trailer previews are touting this to be a film to watch for, as not only does it promise to be a great film in its own right, but also one of the best in the series.
	www.thecrow.com (447 words)

	The Miramax Films/Dimension Films 25th Anniversary DVD Giveaway!
		Miramax and Dimension are celebrating 25 years of cinematic excellence with this extraordinary collection of DVD titles
		Miramax Films (and Dimension) are celebrating 25 years in the business and wanted to toss some ultra-cool DVD packs to our JoBlo.com readers in gratitude and honor of their achievement.
		For your chance to win one of 3 DVD packs (from each studio!), simply enter your name and email address below (only 1 entry per person and all cheaters will be disqualified) and return on Monday, July 5th to see if you are one of the randomly selected winners.
	www.joblo.com /contests/contest106.htm (236 words)

	Disney/Miramax split is official
		According to The Hollywood Reporter after a prolonged, monthslong negotiation, Bob and Harvey Weinstein and the Walt Disney Studios announced Tuesday that they are ending their 12-year exclusive relationship, under which the Weinsteins ran Miramax Films.
		At Disney, the Weinsteins had been frustrated, Weinstein said, by their inability to pursue the acquisition of Artisan Entertainment, Bravo and IFC Films as well as the fact that they could not get a green light for The Lord of the Rings.
		Disney will honor all Miramax employee contracts past September, though Miramax sources said the Weinsteins have arranged with Disney to bring many staffers to their new company.
	movieweb.com /news/news.php?id=7325 (1570 words)

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