James Coburn made an appearance at the Miramax celebration -- The partying begins, for a few hours, and then we're going home to bed, ... Affliction.
James Coburn made an appearance at the Miramax celebration -- The partying begins, for a few hours, and then we're going home to bed, ... Affliction.
Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.
Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.
Miramax under them had basically become a major studio. We're still in the Miramax business, but it will be reconstructed to look more like what they started.
Bob Weinstein (formerly of Miramax) saw it during the Los Angeles International Film Festival on a Saturday, and by Monday he had already bought the distribution rights.
I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.
I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.
Miramax and Disney were collaborators, and then during the film's release, they jumped out of bed and it got caught up in a political holding pattern,
Harvey is the reason Miramax is what it is. It's very difficult for everyone else to take credit.
The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.
Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.
He admitted Miramax wouldn't make the film with Johnny and that I was their choice. They thought Johnny was too weird and didn't have any box-office clout.
With the relationships Miramax has built up in the industry, the kind of scripts they can get, the actors who will work for them, the loss would be more of a reputation loss,
In May 2003, The Walt Disney Company communicated to Miramax and Mr. Moore's representatives that Miramax would not be the distributor of his film.
Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together.
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