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Did YOU win a copy of BRIDESHEAD REVISITED? (Bookgasm)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:00:28 GMT

Three lucky BOOKGASM readers now can read Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 classic BRIDESHEAD REVISITED before they go see the new movie from Miramax Films starring Matthew Goode, Emma Thompson and Greta Scacchi. Thanks for playing, people! Out of a ton of entries, the following three names were randomly picked to snag this new hardback edition: • Thomas [...]

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Weekend Brideshead Revisited giveaway (bilerico.com)

bil@bilerico.com (Bil Browning) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Thanks to the good folks at Miramax Films , this weekend we have a special contest surrounding Brideshead Revisited . The film opened in select theaters last Friday and expands today. Up for grabs to two lucky Projectors: One Grand Prize: 1 Hard Cover Brideshead Revisited book by Evelyn Waugh 1 Brideshead Revisited Official Soundtrack One Secondary Prize: 1 Soft Cover Brideshead...

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Win a copy of BRIDESHEAD REVISITED! (Bookgasm)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:04:52 GMT

We’ve got three hardback copies of Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 classic BRIDESHEAD REVISITED to give away, to tie in with the new movie from Miramax Films starring Matthew Goode, Emma Thompson and Greta Scacchi. How to win? Easy! Just e-mail us your name and mailing address. We’ll announce the randomly picked winners on Friday, Aug. 8. [...]

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indieWIRE INTERVIEW | "Brideshead Revisited" Director Julian Jarrold (IndieWire)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:40:47 GMT

by Erica Abeel (July 25, 2008) [EDITOR'S NOTE: Miramax Films will open "Brideshead Revisited" Friday, July 25 in limited release.] Bringing " Brideshead Revisited " to the screen presented a trifecta of challenges. Director Julian Jarrold and screenwriters Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock had to compress and reconfigure Evelyn Waugh 's layered, elegiac novel, while finding a visual equivalent...

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“There Will Be Blood” and “No Country for Old Men” (Urban Onramps)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:36:02 GMT

Wikipedia: “This film [There Will Be Blood] was the second co-production of Paramount Vantage and Miramax Films to be released in as many months, after No Country for Old Men (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture).” Interesting. I wonder if it was the same executive or executive team that green-lit and shepherded these two projects. [...]

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Smart People 92008) (Remix Concepts)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:26:00 GMT

Year: 2008 Country: USA Time: 95 minutes Production: Grosvenor Park Productions Distribution: Miramax Films Director: Noam Murro Cast: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker , Thomas Haden Church, Ellan Page, Ashton holmes Certification USA:R (certificate #43519) | UK:15 | Canada:G (Québec) | Canada:PG (British Columbia) | Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba/Ontario) | Ireland:15A | Australia:M...

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NY Times takes Miramax to 'Prom' (Variety.com)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:04:47 GMT

Film News: Studio to develop film based on June 22 article -- Miramax Films has closed a deal to develop a movie from "This Strange Thing Called Prom," a Brooke Hauser article published in the June 22 edition of the New York Times.

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"Shakespeare" Director Hunts Nazis in New Film (Idol Chatter)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:40:00 GMT

"Shakespeare in Love" director John Madden, is now chasing Nazis--or at least planning to helm a remake (or reinterpretation) of an Israeli film about Nazi hunting, called "The Debt." The Miramax Films project is based on the 2007 Israeli feature...

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WEINSTEIN EXPOSE PLANNED BY EX-WORKER (PR-Inside.com Entertainment News)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:30:11 GMT

An explosive book about film bosses HARVEY and BOB WEINSTEIN’s management of movie studio Miramax Films has been written by a former employee. The expose is allegedly based on files and tapes compiled over a 15-year period and will reportedly detail the Weinstein’s "manipulation" of the firm, which they co-founded in 1979 but left in 2005. The [...]

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City of Men (Mickey News)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:57:09 GMT

The gritty streets of Rio de Janeiro are alive with music, excitement and danger for two young friends when City of Men comes to DVD on July 1, 2008 from Miramax Films. Acclaimed producer Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardner)returns to the thrilling setting of his Oscar nominated film, City of God (2003; Best Directing, Adapted Screenplay, Editing and Cinematography) for a...

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Tough times for indies (Salt Lake Tribune)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:17:00 GMT

How bad are things in the independent film world? Pretty awful, according to Mark Gill, former executive for Warner Independent Pictures and Miramax Films. Just the topic of the speech he gave last weekend at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival - "Yes, the Sky Is Falling" - tells you how dire the situation is. He points to the recent spate of bad news - the...

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The State of Indie Filmmaking & How it Affects Conservatives (LIBERTAS)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:00:39 GMT

“You’re all screwed.” If you are an independent filmmaker out there looking for theatrical distribution of your project, you should do three things: 1) take a stiff drink; 2) read this already-much-talked about speech at the L.A. Film Festival by Mark Gill, former President of Miramax Films, then; 3) let Apuzzo set your mind at ease. [...]

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FIRST PERSON | Film Department's Mark Gill: "Yes, The Sky Really Is Falling." (Biz)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:23:01 GMT

by Mark Gill (June 22, 2008) Yesterday in Los Angeles, Mark Gill declared provocatively, "Yes, The Sky Really Is Falling." Speaking at the L.A. Film Festival 's Financing Conference, the CEO of The Film Department (and former President of Miramax Films ) detailed a litany of challenges currently facing independent film, yet offered his audience a happy ending. His complete...

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/Film Quoted on Eagle vs. Shark DVD (/Film)

orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:22:04 GMT

/Film reader Daniel C passes along word that /Film is quoted on the Australian release of Taika Waititi’s Eagle vs. Shark, which was one of my favorite films of 2007. Unfortunately Miramax Films didn’t know how to market the film, and the movie went virtually unseen by mainstream audiences. It was also passed by indie [...]

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Joachim Trier’s Reprise reviewed. (OTB News)

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:53:26 GMT

Reprise (Miramax Films), the feature debut of young Norwegian director Joachim Trier, is as crisp and cool as a swig of Champagne. It's a story about young artists—and tormented ones to boot—that neither sentimentalizes its subjects nor treats them with arch contempt. The voice-over narrator of Reprise, an unidentified man who seems more privy to [...]

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Joachim Trier's Reprise reviewed. (Slate Magazine)

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:38:14 GMT

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Releasing April 16, 2008 (Alliance of Women Film Journalists)

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:41:35 GMT

AWFJ highlights films made by and about women Friday, April 16 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - Disney Pictures, 140mins How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer Vacation My Father My Lord Quantum Hoops Reprise - Miramax Films, 192mins Sangre de mi Sangre/Padre Nuestro - IFC Releasing, 110mins Yella

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Miramax Films To Adapt 'Lush Life' (KillerMovies)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:31:40 GMT

Miramax Films and producer Scott Rudin have acquired screen rights to Richard Price's novel "Lush Life," just published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. "Lush Life" is set up as a police procedural in which a restaurant manager and his bartender set out to walk a drunken friend home on Gotham's Lower East Side..

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Lush Life. (GreenCine Daily)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:34:08 GMT

"Miramax Films and producer Scott Rudin have acquired screen rights to Richard Price's novel Lush Life," reports Variety's Michael Fleming. "Price, who recently won the Edgar Award for his script work on HBO series The Wire will write the...

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Miramax, Richard Price Drink Up Lush Life Movie Deal (The New York Observer)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:15:03 GMT

Miramax Films and producer Scott Rudin have acquired screen rights to Richard Price's novel Lush Life , just published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Mr. Price, who recently won the Edgar Award for his script work on HBO series The Wire , will write the script, with a "mid-six against seven figures" deal, according to Variety . In the New York Times ' Michiko Kakutani's March 8 review of...

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