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| Mr. Hole the Magnificent... |
 Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:55 pm |
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This has been coming for some time, and after recent shakeups at
Disney, is really no great surprise. Now Daniel Battsek, the current
president of Miramax, has announced that he’ll step down at the end of
January 2010. At the same time, Disney will relocate the label from
New York City to Disney’s headquarters in Burbank, CA, where they’ll
reduce Miramax’s output to just three films a year. The label that
launched Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith and was
the biggest face of the ’90s indie explosion is basically dead.
OK, the real end of the era hit four years ago, when the Weinstein
brothers left Miramax, the company they built into an indie
juggernaut. The years since then have been an extended coda for
Miramax as it soldiered on at Disney. We’ve known for some time that
Miramax would be cutting back, and that move was seen as part of the
death knell of the indie in general. But Battsek’s exit is a surprise,
as Disney had recently said that he would “continue to oversee all
aspects of creative, development, production and business and legal
affairs.” Corporate climates change fast.
While Miramax wasn’t truly indie since Disney bought into it in
1993,the company the Weinsteins built into the most recognizable face
of ‘indie’ film remained a player post-Weinstein. Gone Baby Gone, No
Country For Old Men, The Queen, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: all
Miramax. Now THR reports that Battsek is exiting and that only about
20 jobs will remain. This all comes after a rough year for the
company: Adventureland, Extract, Cheri and The Boys Are Back were all
underperformers.
Where will the indie culture be in a few years? The big-ticket indie
represented by Miramax is almost a dinosaur. While Fox Searchlight,
Focus Features and Sony Pictures Classics are still doing well, none
of those are actually independent, and there’s been a great deal of
commentary in the past six months about the death of the American
indie. But if it is truly dying, then how did we get Big Fan, World’s
Greatest Dad, Precious, We Live in Public, That Evening Sun, Black
Dynamite (bought by Sony Classics, but not made by them) and many
other true indies this year? The landscape is changing, and fast, but
it isn’t dying. This is a changing of the guard, if a difficult one.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/11/02/end-of-an-era-miramax-president-quits-disney-all-but-shutters-the-label/ |
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| Mr. Hole the Magnificent... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:59 pm |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:16 pm |
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On Nov 2, 8:30 pm, Captain Infinity <Infin... at (no spam) captaininfinity.us>
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You waited for the cock shot and then snuck out?
I saw 83 of those films. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:20 pm |
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On Nov 2, 7:55 pm, "Mr. Hole the Magnificent"
<classic.mr.h... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote:
Where will the indie culture be in a few years? The big-ticket indie
represented by Miramax is almost a dinosaur. While Fox Searchlight,
Focus Features and Sony Pictures Classics are still doing well, none
of those are actually independent, and there’s been a great deal of
commentary in the past six months about the death of the American
indie. But if it is truly dying, then how did we get Big Fan, World’s
Greatest Dad, Precious, We Live in Public, That Evening Sun, Black
Dynamite (bought by Sony Classics, but not made by them) and many
other true indies this year? The landscape is changing, and fast, but
it isn’t dying. This is a changing of the guard, if a difficult one.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/11/02/end-of-an-era-miramax-president-q...
There's also SKIN and BOONDOCK SAINTS II plus the current assortment
of Magnet releases (BRONSON,
THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL) in the current marketplace.
Mark L. Falconer
http://www.youtube.com/terrymcca
http://www.poetry-arts-confidential.blogspot.com
Recent films/DVD releases seen:
THIS IS IT ***
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD ***
SKIN *** |
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| Captain Infinity... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:30 pm |
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Once Upon A Time,
Mr. Hole the Magnificent wrote:
I've seen six of those films, and one of those I walked out on (The
Crying Game).
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Captain Infinity |
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| TT... |
| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:23 am |
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Mr. Hole the Magnificent wrote:
Quote: On Nov 2, 8:30 pm, Captain Infinity <Infin... at (no spam) captaininfinity.us
wrote:
Once Upon A Time,
Mr. Hole the Magnificent wrote:
The films of Mirimax...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_released_by_Miramax_Films
I've seen six of those films, and one of those I walked out on (The
Crying Game).
You waited for the cock shot and then snuck out?
I saw 83 of those films.
And I saw all of them except The Crying Game. |
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