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31 Jan 2010, 8:15 am

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31 Jan 2010, 3:40 pm

Sad. This is what happens when the world is run by MBA's in suits.

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31 Jan 2010, 5:21 pm

Miramax without the Weinsteins wasn't really Miramax anyway. They micromanaged everything and that's why it struggled afterwards. It's a shame disney didn't let them buy it back - but that said - why help your disgruntled competition?



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31 Jan 2010, 5:38 pm

mjs82 wrote:
Miramax without the Weinsteins wasn't really Miramax anyway. They micromanaged everything and that's why it struggled afterwards. It's a shame disney didn't let them buy it back - but that said - why help your disgruntled competition?


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01 Feb 2010, 10:06 pm

^ thirded.


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This is what happens when the world is run by MBA sluts.

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09 Feb 2010, 1:15 pm

mjs82 wrote:
Miramax without the Weinsteins wasn't really Miramax anyway. They micromanaged everything and that's why it struggled afterwards. It's a shame disney didn't let them buy it back - but that said - why help your disgruntled competition?


And now, The Weinstein Company is doing worse,
despite one or two movies that did well.


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09 Feb 2010, 1:56 pm

Vanilla_Slice wrote:
Sad. This is what happens when the world is run by MBA's in suits.


Now what's wrong with being an MBA? That's what I'm working toward.


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10 Feb 2010, 4:39 am

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
mjs82 wrote:
Miramax without the Weinsteins wasn't really Miramax anyway. They micromanaged everything and that's why it struggled afterwards. It's a shame disney didn't let them buy it back - but that said - why help your disgruntled competition?


And now, The Weinstein Company is doing worse,
despite one or two movies that did well.


Yep that's just the nature of the business. Look at their distribution titles -

http://www.imdb.com/company/co0150452/

They're still nurturing their star performers like Smith and Tarantino etc, but they've specialised into genre titles

Only about 15% of that list is the bread-and-butter critical award darling drama stuff that made Miramax what it was. I've nothing against genre, but the mainstream stuff lifts the others up. The ones they've picked have fallen on their asses - Miss Potter etc.