Miramax today announced an expansion to their global sales team, hiring two executives dedicated to Miramax's upcoming global television plans. Richard Tulk-Hart has joined as Senior Vice President, Head of TV Sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), while Jo Sherlock has been appointed as V...
Read More »Martin Scorsese is partnering with Miramax and GK Films to develop his 2002 gritty turn-of-the-century drama "Gangs of New York" into a TV series. The project would follow the same story arc as the film, but also include organized-gang plotlines beyond New York, set in Chicago and elsewhere.
Read More »In the words of Leonardo DiCaprio's Amsterdam Vallon, "And no matter what they did to build this city up again... for the rest of time... it would be like no one even knew we was ever here." Except on television, because Martin Scorsese and Miramax have announce that they're developing a TV series b...
Read More »An interesting discussion during FICG 2013 with Ugo Sorrentino, the head of Art Films, brought to light the issues involved with co-productions with Brazil, whether with Latino or other countries.
Read More »Miramax continues its push into foreign territory.
Read More »American indie films continue to forge new paths to international TV audiences. Miramax has cut a subscription VOD deal with Russian online service Stream, while NBCUniversal has partnered with Chinese VOD company Youku to bring its library content to Asia.
Read More »Trend alert? Guess we'll have to see, but filmmakers are now turning to comics to get their ambitious scripts made into something, even if ever-wary studios and financiers won't flip the switch on them. Darren Aronofsky's "Noah's Ark" and Duncan Jones' "Mute" are both going the graphic route and now...
Read More »Watch Out British Helmer Richard Ayoade, Harvey Scissorhands May Be BackAdmittedly, we might be behind the times and some of us just started parsing Vanity Fair's fairly massive Hollywood Issue tome. Written by Bryan Burrough, (the author of " Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34" which spawned Michael Mann's 2009 movie) the thesis of the article is essentially what you see in its (and our) headline: Harvey Weinstein is back. Maybe a slightly more mature, warm and fuzzy Harvey Weinstein with 70% less temper tantrums and outbursts, but one that still knows how to make noise and get his hands dirty w...
Read More »Some interesting news cropped up yesterday morning. The new owners of Miramax struck a deal with the old owners of Miramax, the Weinsteins, to put into production sequels and or potential television offshoots for some of the most high profile titles in the film library. "Bad Santa," "Rounders" and "Shakespeare in Love" are the first batch to titles to be exhumed but plenty more are waiting in the wings including, “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” “Copland,” “From Dusk Till Dawn,” “Swingers,” “Shall We Dance?,” “The Amityville Horror” and "Clerks." The news took many by surprise as pretty much no one actually involved with those films knew about any pe...
Read More »And who says originality in Hollywood is dead. Oh wait.
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