Trusting Your Gut: Texas Film Awards Honoree Michael de Luca on a Life in Cinema

From New Line to Warners, the exec discusses his career

"...an intern in 1985. There was New Line and Miramax of course, but there was also Vestron with Dirty..."

March 2, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fox Announces Bloom County Animated Series

The cartoon strip with Austin roots heads to the small screen

"...animation studio Bento Box (Bob's Burgers, Central Park, and Miramax, Spyglass and Project X will executive-produce. Breathed will cowrite..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Adds Last Two Titles

Follow-up to FF fave The Lure joins list

"...script was also written by Shepard, and produced by Miramax...."

Sept. 17, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Big Money, But Who Pays? The Cost of Emerging TV Studios

TV budgets get bigger, but so do network and streamer demands

"...eyes bulged. Now, at the height of peak TV, Miramax president of television Lauren Whitney said, "If we made..."

June 9, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Landline

The team behind Obvious Child is back

"...is an indie flick staple in the age of Miramax and Parker Posey.) After falling into a reckless affair..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

ATX Television Festival Expands With Empire

"Creatives" panel added, plus an FX comedies night

"...• El Rey Network and Miramax will present the season two world premiere of From..."

April 28, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fest 2014: Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau

Hollywood studios are the real monsters in this warts and all doc

"...which also suffered at the hands of U.S. distributor Miramax. Given to quirky outfits and raised by a self-styled..."

Sept. 22, 2014 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Things That Go Bump in the Blumhouse

As "Oculus" opens, producer Jason Blum on suburbs and franchises

"...and The Purge. A former co-head of acquisitions at Miramax, in 2000 he set out his own shingle as..."

April 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Burning and The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Another gruesome twosome for your weekend's viewing

"...it's funny. Considering that the filmmaking Weinstein brothers of Miramax fame made their feature-writing debut with slasher flick The..."

May 25, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ride the Local Through This Mega Movie Map

250 films, 20 lines, 1 amazing visual

"...Miramax posted this subway map of 250 of the world's..."

May 3, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

DVD Watch: ‘Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene’

The first American-produced portrait of the titan of British letters

"...Strictly Ballroom (Miramax Lionsgate, Blu-ray, $14.99): Gear up for Baz Luhrmann’s long-awaited..."

April 30, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Home Entertainment for the Holidays

Best bets for DVD and Blu-ray

"...Other auteurs Tarantino XX (Lionsgate Miramax, $119.99 Blu-ray), Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection (Universal Studios,..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bedside Manner: Books In My Possession, Which I May or May Not Read

A consumer guide to recent purchases

"...this book catalogs indie-cinema’s late ‘80s/early ‘90s explosion – Miramax, Sundance, Pulp Fiction, et. al. Looks to spill a..."

Dec. 1, 2011 Books Post by Wells Dunbar

Dance, Girl, Dance

It was a good year for women filmmakers at a recharged Sundance Film Festival

"...and more studios shutter their specialty distribution arms (R.I.P. Miramax, Warner Independent Pictures, Picturehouse, et al.) and the online..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

This long-awaited follow-up to Troy Duffy's violent, pulpy cult original is dead on arrival.

"...oddly dated back when it received a microrelease from Miramax before heading straight to video and developing a substantial..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ending Was Only the Beginning

Harry Knowles and others dissect No Country for Old Men's ending.

"...And Miramax, No Country's distributor, offers on their website a podcast,..."

Jan. 8, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Chinatown

For many, Chinatown epitomizes the peak of Seventies Hollywood filmmaking and is perhaps the finest neo-noir ever made

"...The Hoax (Miramax, $29.99): The excellent film version of Clifford Irving's personal..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Screens Review by Rick Klaw

Stranger Than Paradise

When it was first released in 1984, Jim Jarmusch's tale of three lost souls going nowhere was a revelation – a dry-as-the-desert revelation in black and white, or rather gray and lighter gray

"...Richard Linklater, and Kevin Smith and the ascension of Miramax in the early Nineties. As is the case with..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Interview

Steve Buscemi directs and co-stars in this film with Sienna Miller as the pair play out an emotionally charged pas de deux.

"...was not new but rather an escapee from the Miramax vault, circa 1995. Buscemi plays Pierre Peders, a news..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Eagle vs Shark

Like Napoleon Dynamite, Eagle vs Shark is a little wisp of a movie, a lightweight feature loaded with montage and hung on the multidimensional performance of Loren Horsley as Lily.

"...House, Cohen Holloway, Joel Tobeck and Morag Hills. This Miramax import, developed at the Sundance Institute, is Napoleon Dynamite..."

July 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Film News

Texas could be like New York

"...diffused, said director Jonathan Levine, who once interned for Miramax and now sees his Bastrop-shot film ready for release..."

March 16, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

'Possession Arrow': Badgley<-Razook

They have made their selections, and I'm split between bliss and extreme bitterness.

"...Orangewomen Erin Collier, Chronicle marketing director, and Nicolette Aizenberg, Miramax publicity maven. Collier and I were at the Crown..."

March 11, 2007 Sports Post by Shawn Badgley

... Vs Liger?

New Zealander Taika Waititi doesn't mind if you compare his charmed comedy to Napoleon Dynamite

"..."where they invite six or eight screenwriters." What's more, Miramax "bought the film off a promo reel at Cannes..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Tears of the Black Tiger

This Thai film is part melodrama and part spaghetti western, as if Sirk and Peckinpah fell into a blender and out poured tear-soaked Polaroids, giant exploding squibs and blown-up heads, tearful Asian songbird ballads, and homoerotic outlaw bonding.

"...indeed too weird to take America by storm – Miramax bought the film after Cannes and shelved it until..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Best Books of 2006

"...(ECPrinting), Ramon Moncivais; The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine (Miramax), Steven Rinella; I Survived Cancer but Never Won the..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Painted Veil

Set in China and starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, and Liev Schreiber, this melodic adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel is the story of many things – but it is most of all the story of a marriage.

"...appeal and literary sensibility. Beneath the veneer of pretty, old-Miramax-style chinoiserie (Jones as a debauched civil servant gone native,..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Texas (Cook)Book Festival

Reviewing the Central Market Cooking School

"...Miramax Books, 319 pp., $23.95..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Food Feature by Mick Vann

The Promise

This fantastical story from the Chinese director Chen Kaige mixes battles, magic, romance, and mistaken identities for a lovely but unsatisfying blend.

"...Harvey Weinstein in his former capacity as head of Miramax before his distribution company dropped the film, which was..."

May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Zu Warriors

Tsui Hark's wide-screen riot of color, movement, and sound

"...Miramax, $29.99..."

April 28, 2006 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

The Best of Youth

"...Miramax, $29.99..."

March 3, 2006 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

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