The Hollywood Reporter claims to have been given the scoop on the winning bidder for the famed Miramax Studios that Eisner bought to be Disney’s art-house wing. The winners? The team that claims Miramax’s founding brothers among them. Not so fast says Disney. They have… Read More »Weinsteins part of Winning Bid For Miramax? Not yet.
Three bids have come in to buy the Miramax brand and film library from the Walt Disney Company. The Weinstein Brothers, the original founders of the company, are part of a group who has one of the bids. As NBC did when sending Oswald the… Read More »Should Miramax go back to its founders?
You know a film has high expectations for a studio when they hire writers to start working on a sequel even before the finished product enters theaters. But that’s exactly what has happened with TRON Legacy. The Hollywood Reporter notes that the screenwriters for TRON… Read More »TRON Legacy sequel leaves the starting gate
Slashfilm was lucky enough to be invited to tour the set of Tron Legacy a few months ago. The film’s release is still a ways off in December, but Disney has said it’s okay to start leaking a few things out here and there. This… Read More »Tron Legacy Set Preview Pics
Down with the bloody Red Queen! Tim Burton’s take on Alice in Wonderland (opening in theatres today) is one of the best live-action releases from Walt Disney Pictures in years. This dark, grown-up ‘Alice’, a hybrid sequel/retelling of the stories by Lewis Carroll, is a natural… Read More »‘Alice in Wonderland’ | My review
Via the NY Times we get this story about how Bob Iger and the Walt Disney Studios are looking to experiment with shorter in-theater times for its movies, which in theory will lead to bigger bucks in alternate methods of distribution. I’m not sure I… Read More »Alice in Wonderland to shrink Box Office Window
Got a spare $700 million? I know two brothers you could make very happy. After laying off the last of the staff from Miramax, Disney has now announced that they’re putting the studios’ assets up for sale. Most likely suitor is Summit, which has produced… Read More »Disney now selling Miramax Studios
When Eisner added the Weinstein brother’s Miramax studio to its quiver there were a lot of people wondering if that arrow would shoot straight. But it was fashionable in Hollywood at the time to have a boutique label that could go and win a couple… Read More »Miramax Studio closed by Disney