Miramax, like its frequent interlocutor Deadline, is teaming with Facebook in order to market video-on-demand titles from its back catalog in a burgeoning trend of selling films on Facebook as social experiences. Read More
Perpetual adolescent Peter Pan, already the subject of three separate Broadway musicals—not to mention a novel, several TV movies, an animated Disney film and a peanut butter—is eyeing a return to Broadway.
Bob and Harvey Weinstein, who produced the 2004 Johnny Depp film Finding Neverland—about the character’s creator, J.M. Barrie, and his not-at-all-weird relationship with Read More
Mike Lang, who left News Corp. in February after six years with the company, will step into the CEO position at Miramax, The Wrap reports. Lang has also spent time at The Walt Disney Company, which sold the film studio to Los Angeles billionaire Ron Tutor for $660 million in July.
During his Read More
This weekend, bloggers and reporters who cover media and Hollywood put in a little overtime to cover a small, but important, bit of breaking news: Would News Corporation fire Foxnews.com’s Fox 411 columnist Roger Friedman over a column in which he admitted to watching a bootleg copy of 20th Century Fox’s X-Men Origins: Read More
Miramax Films and producer Scott Rudin have acquired screen rights to Richard Price’s novel Lush Life, just published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Mr. Price, who recently won the Edgar Award for his script work on HBO series The Wire, will write the script, with a "mid-six against seven figures" deal, according to Variety. Read More
