Film Company Leads Golden Globe Film Nominations with 15
Academy-Award winning Director Quentin Tarantino to Host Special On-Stage
Discussion with Bob and Harvey Weinstein to Kick Off 50 Film MoMA
Retrospective
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- On the eve of the Museum of Modern Art's
kick-off celebration for the retrospective honoring Miramax Films' twenty-
fifth year anniversary this Thursday, December 16th, Miramax Films today
received a total of 15 overall Golden Globe nominations, the most for any
studio, including Best Picture nominations for "The Aviator" and "Finding
Neverland," and a Best Foreign Language Film nomination for "The Chorus." The
Golden Globe nominations are expected to boost the Company's box office
prospects for 2005 with Martin Scorsese's highly anticipated film The Aviator
(six Golden Globe nominations) opening later this month and Finding Neverland
(five Golden Globe nominations) continuing to expand into additional markets.
Upcoming releases for the remainder of 2004 and early 2005 include Dimension's
thriller Darkness on December 25, the Bruce Willis starrer Hostage on January
21, Bride & Prejudice on February 11, Wes Craven's Cursed on February 25,
Robert Rodriguez' Sin City on April 1 and The Adventures of Sharkboy and
Lavagirl in 3-D, a family film also directed by Robert Rodriguez
In addition, Miramax International has set a new record for the Company
with international box office receipts for 2004 generating close to $560
million on a slate of 38 movies. With over three weeks remaining in the
calendar year, including the Christmas holiday, this year's strong performance
already breaks last year's record of $508 million on 47 movies.
The most significant contributions to the International box office success
this year include: Scary Movie 3; Kill Bill 2; Starsky & Hutch; Cold Mountain;
Shall We Dance; Spy Kids 3D; Master & Commander; Hero and early UK numbers
from Finding Neverland.
This Thursday, December 16, 2004, MoMA will kick off a film retrospective
to honor Miramax Film's 25-year history. The evening will begin with a
special on-stage discussion between Miramax co-founders and co-chairmen Bob
and Harvey Weinstein and Academy-Award winning director Quentin Tarantino
followed by a screening of Tarantino's first feature film "Reservoir Dogs."
Following the kick off event, the Museum will mount a retrospective featuring
the extraordinary body of work from Miramax and Dimension Films, and saluting
the contributions of the Bob and Harvey Weinstein. Miramax Films will make a
gift to The Museum of Modern Art of fifteen 35mm feature films chosen by the
Department of Film and Media.
Miramax's fifteen Golden Globe nominations include six for The Aviator
[Best Picture (Drama), Best Director for Martin Scorsese, Best Screenplay for
John Logan, Best Actor (Drama) for Leonardo DiCaprio, Best Supporting Actress
(Drama) for Cate Blanchett, and Best Original Score by Howard Shore], five
nominations for Finding Neverland [Best Picture (Drama), Best Director for
Marc Forster, Best Screenplay for David Magee, Best Actor (Drama) for Johnny
Depp, Best Original Score by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek], two for Kill Bill Vol. 2
[Best Actress (Drama) for Uma Thurman and Best Supporting Actor (Drama) for
David Carradine], Best Foreign Language Film for The Chorus, and Best Actress
(Musical or Comedy) for Renee Zellweger's performance in Bridget Jones: The
Edge of Reason.
The retrospective will be held in two phases, in the winter and summer of
2005, and will feature a selection of fifty significant films that have been
distributed and/or produced by Miramax and its division, Dimension. The
titles to be shown include: Amelie (Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001), Bad
Santa (Directed by Terry Zwigoff, 2003), Barbarian Invasions (Directed by
Denys Arcand, 2003), Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blue (1993), White (1994) and Red
(1994), Bullets Over Broadway (Directed by Woody Allen, 1994), Chicago
(Directed by Rob Marshall, 2002), The Chorus (Les Choristes) (Directed by
Christophe Barratier, 2004), Chunking Express (Directed by Wong Kar Wai,
1994), Cider House Rules (Directed by Lasse Hallstrom, 1999), Cinema Paradiso
(Directed Giuseppe Tornatore, 1989), City of God (Directed by Katia Lund and
Fernando Meirelles, 2002), Clerks (Directed by Kevin Smith, 1994), The Cook,
The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Directed by Peter Greenaway, 1989), The
Crying Game (Directed by Neil Jordan, 1992), Dead Man (Directed by Jim
Jarmusch, 1995), Dirty Pretty Things (Directed by Stephen Frears, 2002),
English Patient (Directed by Anthony Minghella, 1996), Exotica (Directed by
Atom Egoyan, 1994), Farewell My Concubine (Directed by Kaige Chen, 1993), From
Dusk Til Dawn (Directed by Robert Rodriguez, 1996), Gangs of New York
(Directed by Martin Scorsese, 2002), Good Will Hunting (Directed by Gus Van
Sant, 1997), The Grifters (Directed by Stephen Frears, 1990), Heavenly
Creatures (Directed by Peter Jackson, 1994), Holy Smoke (Directed by Jane
Campion, 1999), I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (Directed Patricia Rozema,
1987), Il Postino (Directed by Michael Radford, 1994), In the Bedroom
(Directed by Todd Field, 2001), Jackie Brown (Directed by Quentin Tarantino,
1997), Ju Dou (Directed by Yeng Fengliang and Yimou Zhang, 1990), Life is
Beautiful (Directed by Roberto Benigni, 1997), Like Water For Chocolate
(Directed by Alfanso Arau, 1992), Mimic (Directed by Guillermo del Toro,
1997), My Left Foot (Directed by Jim Sheridan, 1989), The Others (Directed by
Alejandro Amenabar, 2001), Paris is Burning (Directed by Jennie Livingston,
1990), The Piano (Directed by Jane Campion, 1993), Priest (Directed by Jane
Campion, 1994), Princess Mononoke (Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, 1997), Pulp
Fiction (Directed Quentin Tarantino, 1994), Scary Movie (Directed Keenen Ivory
Wayans, 2000), Scream (Directed by Wes Craven, 1996), Shakespeare in Love
(Directed by John Madden, 1998), Shall We Dance (Directed by Masayuki Suo,
1996), Sling Blade (Directed by Billy Bob Thornton, 1992), Spy Kids (Directed
by Robert Rodriguez, 2001), Strictly Ballroom (Directed by Baz Luhrmann,
1992), Swingers (Directed by Doug Liman, 1996), Through the Olive Trees
(Directed by Abbas Kiarostami, 1994), and Trainspotting (Directed by Danny
Boyle, 1996)
ABOUT MIRAMAX FILMS
Miramax Films, founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 1979, has released
some of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful independent
feature films of the past decade, including fourteen Best Picture nominations
over a span of the past twelve years: Chicago, Gangs of New York, The Hours,
In the Bedroom, Chocolat, The Cider House Rules, Shakespeare In Love, Life Is
Beautiful (La Vita E Bella), Good Will Hunting, The English Patient, Il
Postino (The Postman), Pulp Fiction, The Piano and The Crying Game. The
outstanding quality of Miramax's films is represented in the company's success
in the annual Academy Awards race. In its history, Miramax has received 229
Academy Award nominations and has won 54 Academy Awards.
Miramax's commitment to cinema from around the world is evident in its
history of releases. Miramax has received 23 Best Foreign Language Film
nominations over the past 16 years. Some of the nominated films, among other
foreign releases, include: The Barbarian Invasions (Canada), Twin Sisters,
Hero (China), Amelie (France) Taste of Others (France), Everybody Famous
(Belgium), Life is Beautiful (Italy), Children of Heaven (Iran), Four Days in
September (Brazil), Beyond Silence (Germany), Kolya (Czech Republic), Ridicule
(France), The Star Maker (Italy), Strawberry and Chocolate (Cuba/Mexico),
Farewell My Concubine (China/Hong Kong), Mediterraneo (Italy), Ju Dou
(China/Japan), The Nasty Girl (Germany), Cinema Paradiso (Italy), Pelle the
Conqueror (Denmark/Sweden), Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico), French Twist
(France), Red (France), White (Poland) and Blue (Switzerland), among many,
many others.
ABOUT DIMENSION FILMS
Dimension Films, a subdivision of Miramax founded in 1994, is committed to
producing science fiction, thriller, action, and horror genre films. The
company's successful slate of releases include the "Scary Movie" franchise,
"Bad Santa," "The Others," Robert Rodriguez' "Spy Kids" trilogy, Wes Craven's
"Scream" trilogy, "Halloween: H2O," "The Crow," and Rodriguez' and Quentin
Tarantino's "From Dusk Till Dawn."
SOURCE Miramax
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Related links:
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CONTACT:
Matthew Hiltzik, +1-212-941-3883, or Sarah
Levinson, +1-212-941-3875, both of Miramax
NOTE TO EDITORS: A reel highlighting the past 25 years of Miramax
and Dimension films is available. Please call Sarah Levinson at
212-941-3875 for more information.
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