Under a New Watch, Miramax Still Homes in on Awards
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Miramax may be a smaller and calmer organization under Daniel Battsek, but the studio has nonetheless remained in the thick of the awards race.
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Three years after becoming the first Indian to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, director Mira Nair is back at the scene of her 2001 triumph with another film that is in the running for best picture.
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While the Writers Guild of America continues its strike, throwing much of awards season into question, it still has some awards of its own to hand out.
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LOS ANGELES  - While Sony's "The  Forgotten" took top honors with a weekend debut of a solid $21  million, higher than the mid-to-high teens that had been  projected heading into the frame, it was the only memorable  point during a mostly forgettable session.
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By staff report. Miramax Film&#39;s epic Chinese martial arts period piece &quot;Hero&quot; retained its crown as North America&#39;s top-grossing motion picture over a slow four-day holiday weekend with domestic boxoffice receipts of about $8.
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Hollywood's Oscar race for best  film appears to be wide open heading into its final month with  several award watchers on Tuesday giving comedy "Little Miss  Sunshine" a slight edge over "The Departed" and "Babel."
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fifth story in this year's Oscar Insider series, a behind-the-scenes look at the Academy Awards.
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rights to Chinese director Zhang Yimou&#39;s martial-arts epic, &quot;Ying xiong,&quot; or &quot;Hero.&quot; Miramax, Biskind says, hoped that &quot;Hero&quot; might become the next &quot;Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.&quot; It didn&#39;t, though. The company bungled the picture&#39;s release, reportedly ...
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After collecting dust on  Miramax Films' shelves for five years, the acclaimed Thai  action film "Tears of the Black Tiger" will be unleashed in the  U.S. by Magnolia Pictures early next year.
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The film almost doesn&#39;t need  an introduction: Affleck (times two), a director and cast with  a few Academy Award wins among them, a best-selling novel and a  gripping story -- all sealed by the Miramax label.
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For most of their first 13 years, the Screen Actors Guild Awards played little more than the role of a seat-filler. This year they might be the biggest star in town.
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Mira Nair is no stranger to the Oscars. It therefore comes as no surprise to know that she and the producers of The Namesake are heading to Los Angeles to campaign for the film in several categories.
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For all the talk of  Oscar gold, this year the best picture winner will have to look  to DVD to see a payout.
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For brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein, these may be the best of times and the worst. Their Miramax Films is mounting what could be its strongest slate of Oscar contenders in years, led by "The Aviator," yet the pair also could soon lose their jobs with Disney.
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The short has enjoyed a year of mainstream attention in movie theaters.
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Poised to leave the studio they founded, brothers Bob and Harvey Weinstein bathed in the Oscar spotlight again on Tuesday as Miramax drew some of the year's most coveted Academy Award nominations.
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Gwyneth Paltrow joins the growing list of stars lining up to present a coveted Academy Award.