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Breaking News: Disney Assassinates Miramax

December 4, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Maggie Van Ostrand
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It seems Miramax, the onetime indie giant of the movie industry, has now bitten the dust and been decimated by Disney. Miramax’s last movie, Everybody’s Fine, starring Robert De Niro and Drew Barrymore, opened in New York last night.

The New York Times reports: “It’s a bittersweet night,” said Daniel Battsek, the outgoing president of Miramax, joking that at least the title of the final movie was upbeat. “It could’ve been There Will Be Blood or Gone Baby Gone.

We’re not laughing.

Gone are the days of Harvey and Bob Weinstein, Miramax co-founders, who were among the first supporters of De Niro’s Tribeca Film enterprises.

Miramax: another casualty of Corporate Big Boys. A mouse has taken down an indie king.

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About the Author
Maggie Van Ostrand is ashamed to not be a geek, but she’s proud to have once attended a Star Trek convention where Bill Shatner spoke to her. He said “Hi. Are you anybody?” Maggie graduated from college so long ago, she can’t remember the name of it but thinks it was somewhere in New York. She majored in stuff that has nothing to do with anything she does today, except the classes she audited at the AFI. She knows little or nothing about comic book characters unless they’re drawn by Robert Crumb. She knows nothing of gaming outside of Vegas, and still thinks Moonlight was way better than True Blood. She is here because she reminds the publisher of his grandmother and he felt sorry for her. Her favorites are anything by Billy Wilder, Godfather I and II, Lawrence of Arabia, & Young Frankenstein. She writes political satire for Huffington Post, was head writer for movie trivia TV show; writes a column about Old West characters; was TV comedy ghostwriter; humor columnist for newspapers and online publications, and other boring stuff. Twitter: @magpie99 Website: www.maggievanostrand.com
3 Comments
  1. maggie van ostrand December 4, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    Wow, Celeste! How’d you ever get blood on the Miramax logo?

    Awesome!

  2. Celeste Monsour December 5, 2009 at 4:01 am

    It wasn’t me, it was Mickey! =)

  3. Maggie Van Ostrand December 5, 2009 at 11:22 am

    ROTFLMHO!

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