The Film Industry Thread

[SweetOblivion]

Surprised this hasn't been posted yet: Miramax is no more

I know they had the occasional stumble (Shakespeare In Love), but dammit, if I saw Miramax on a film poster I knew there was a decent chance I was going to see a great movie.

[huntergrayson]

Word is that Harvey and Bob/The Weinstein Group are trying to buy back the name. Which, good, they should totally have since (a) it's named after their parents and (b) they fucking built Miramax and Buena Vista/Disney really didn't.

[SweetOblivion]

Nov 4, 2009 9:08:02 GMT -4 @huntergrayson said:

Word is that Harvey and Bob/The Weinstein Group are trying to buy back the name. Which, good, they should totally have since (a) it's named after their parents and (b) they fucking built Miramax and Buena Vista/Disney really didn't.

That would be awesome. I'm still not sure how that whole Disney takeover thing happened, I'll have to read up on that.

[chiquita]

Nov 4, 2009 13:23:32 GMT -4 SweetOblivion said:

Nov 4, 2009 9:08:02 GMT -4 @huntergrayson said:

Word is that Harvey and Bob/The Weinstein Group are trying to buy back the name. Which, good, they should totally have since (a) it's named after their parents and (b) they fucking built Miramax and Buena Vista/Disney really didn't.

That would be awesome. I'm still not sure how that whole Disney takeover thing happened, I'll have to read up on that.

The Hollywood Reporter has a brief summary of the history of the company in an article on Battsek leaving (11/2). Disney acquired Miramax in 1993 and bought out the Weinsteins in 2005, so Disney has every right to the name. Battsek, who'd been heading it up since the Weinsteins left, refocused Miramax back to small budget films rather than the monsters like Gangs of New York and The Aviator which happened under the Weinsteins. And Battsek had been with Disney since '91.

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I'm still not sure how that whole Disney takeover thing happened...

The Mouse don't bring no knife to a gun fight.

[SweetOblivion]

Nov 4, 2009 16:26:05 GMT -4 @dukeofurl said:

I'm still not sure how that whole Disney takeover thing happened...

The Mouse don't bring no knife to a gun fight.

Heh. They probably sent Mickey to the offices to talk non-stop with his annoying,sqeaky voice until the Weinsteins surrendered, Panama -style.

[sumire]

All I know about film insurance is that it's one reason why Lindsay Lohan can't get work. This headline caught my eye--'Fast & Furious 7' Insurance Claim Could Reach Record-Breaking $50 Million--and I found it a little bit interesting.

Universal, like all studios, routinely has insurance on projects to protect its investment if tragedy strikes. The record for an insurance settlement on a major franchise film appears to have come on Marvel's Iron Man 3, which was delayed three weeks in August 2012 after star Robert Downey Jr. broke his ankle. Sources peg that settlement at $10 million to $15 million. A larger settlement of about $20 million was paid when John Candy died in the middle of filming Wagons East! for Carolco in 1994. (The film was completed but performed poorly.)