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List Of Miramax Films
This is a selected list of feature films originally released and/or distributed by Miramax. Dates are US release dates. 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Upcoming films References External links Miramax Filmsat Box Office Mojo Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Miramax films Lists of films by studio American films by studio Lists of films released by Disney Lists of Paramount Pictures films Paramount Global-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Films Released By Dimension Films
The following is a complete list of films produced and/or distributed by American production and distribution company Dimension Films, a subsidiary of Lantern Entertainment, formerly owned by Walt Disney Studios (division), The Walt Disney Company under Miramax, and later by The Weinstein Company. Dimension Films began in 1992, and has produced and distributed numerous genre films, largely horror film, horror, science fiction film, sci-fi and action films. The company has owned the rights to, as well as produced and distributed, the films of several horror franchises, including the ''Scream (franchise), Scream'' films, the ''Children of the Corn (film series), Children of the Corn'' series, ''Hellraiser (franchise), Hellraiser'' series and the ''Halloween (franchise), Halloween'' films, among others. All films through October 1, 2005, are currently owned by Paramount Pictures via Miramax while all films since October 1, 2005, are currently owned by Lantern Entertainment, Warner Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an American film production and distribution company owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment division of NBCUniversal. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour, Universal is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States; the world's fifth oldest after Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus, and Nordisk Film; and the oldest member of Hollywood's "Big Five" studios in terms of the overall film market. Its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. In 1962, the studio was acquired by MCA, which was re-launched as NBCUniversal in 2004. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder One (film)
''Murder One'' is a 1988 independent biographical crime drama film starring Henry Thomas and James Wilder, based on the 1973 Alday Murders. Plot In 1973, two half-brothers (Carl and Wayne) and another man (George) escape from a prison in Maryland, picking up their teenage brother Billy and heading south on a murderous spree. Carl is seemingly the most intelligent of the group and assumes the responsibility of leader, while his older half-brother Wayne is a mindless killer, his only interest being to murder any potential witnesses with little care or thought. When the car they are in breaks down, the group steal another by killing the owner, to show Billy how he should take part in their spree. They have no plan where they are going and show little care or interest. While looking for gas money, they ransack a house before being interrupted by its occupants, who are shot in cold blood. Billy, who at first admires his brothers, does not want to participate and only wishes to go ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowing With The Wind
''Rowing with the Wind'' a.k.a. ''Remando al viento'' (Spanish title) is a 1988 Spanish film written and directed by Gonzalo Suárez. The film won seven Goya Awards. It concerns the English writer Mary Shelley and her circle. Plot In the summer of 1816, English poet Percy Shelley, his soon to be wife Mary Shelley (daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft), and Mary's stepsister and companion Claire Clairmont take a holiday with Lord Byron and his physician John William Polidori at a villa rented by Byron at Lake Leman, Switzerland. Byron challenges each of the friends to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, ''Frankenstein''. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the creature of her imagination is the cause. Meanwhile, Claire has Byron's baby, is estranged from him and barred from seeing her daughter. Byron and Percy continue their friendship, the one hedonistic, the other id ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Thin Blue Line (1988 Film)
''The Thin Blue Line'' is a 1988 American documentary film by Errol Morris, about the trial and conviction of Randall Dale Adams for the 1976 shooting of Dallas police officer Robert W. Wood. Morris became interested in the case while doing research for a film about Dr. James Grigson, a psychiatrist known in Texas as "Dr. Death" for testifying with "100 percent certainty" of a defendant's recidivism in many trials, including that of Randall Adams. The film centered around the "inconsistencies, incongruities and loose ends" of the case, and through his investigation, not only comes to a different conclusion, actually obtained an admission of Adams' innocence by the original suspect of the case, David Harris. The "thin blue line" in the title "refers to what Mr. Morris feels is an ironic, mythical image of a protective policeman on the other side of anarchy". The film won many awards, but was a controversial film among documentary film critics, who felt the use of reenactment had n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aria (film)
''Aria'' is a 1987 British anthology film produced by Don Boyd that consists of ten short films by ten different directors, each showing the director's choice of visual accompaniment to one or more operatic arias. There is little or no dialogue from the actors, with most words coming from the libretto of the operas in Italian, French, or German. The film was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Summary The opening credits are set to the prelude to Giuseppe Verdi's '' La traviata''. ''Un ballo in maschera'' A fictionalised account of the visit by King Zog I of Albania to Vienna in 1931, to see a lover, when opponents tried to assassinate him on the steps of the opera house (in fact after leaving a performance of '' Pagliacci'') but by shooting back he survived. * Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi * Extracts: Prelude, "Re dell' abisso", "Di che fulgor che musiche", "La rivedra nell'estasi", "Ebben si t'amo", "Mezza notte", "O giustizia del fato" * Sung by Leontyne Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caribe (1987 Film)
''Caribe'' is a 1987 Canadian adventure-thriller film directed by Michael Kennedy and starring John Savage, Kara Glover and Stephen McHattie Stephen McHattie Smith (born February 3, 1946)Other sources cite 1945, 1947, and 1948. is a Canadian actor. Since beginning his professional career in 1970, he has amassed over 200 film and television credits. He won the Genie Award for Best Sup .... Plot Cast References External links * 1980s adventure thriller films Canadian adventure thriller films English-language Canadian films Films scored by Mychael Danna Films directed by Michael Kennedy (director) 1980s English-language films 1980s Canadian films {{adventure-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mio In The Land Of Faraway
''Mio in the Land of Faraway'' ( sv, Mio min Mio; russian: Мио, мой Мио, Mio, moy Mio) is a 1987 fantasy film directed by Vladimir Grammatikov and starring Christopher Lee, Christian Bale, Nicholas Pickard, Timothy Bottoms and Susannah York. Based on the 1954 novel '' Mio, My Son'' by Astrid Lindgren, it tells the story of a boy from Stockholm who travels to an otherworldly fantasy realm and frees the land from an evil knight's oppression. ''Mio in the Land of Faraway'' was co-produced by companies from Sweden, Norway and the Soviet Union with a budget of about fifty million Swedish kronor, making it the most expensive film adaptation of an Astrid Lindgren book during her lifetime. It featured an international cast consisting largely of British, Russian and Scandinavian actors, while its filming locations included Stockholm, Moscow, Crimea, and Scotland. The film was shot in English and subsequently dubbed in Swedish and Russian. Its special effects were created by De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gandahar (film)
''Gandahar'' is a 1987 French animated science fantasy film written and directed by René Laloux, based on Jean-Pierre Andrevon's 1969 novel ''Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar'' (''The Machine-Men versus Gandahar''). Plot The peaceful people of Gandahar are suddenly attacked by an army of automata known as the Men of Metal, that march through the villages and kidnap their victims by turning them to stone. The resulting statues are collected and then transferred to their base. At the capital city of Jasper, the Council of Women orders Sylvain to investigate. On his journey, he encounters the Deformed, a race of mutant beings who were accidentally created via genetic experimentation by Gandahar's scientists. Despite their resentment, they are also threatened by the Men of Metal and offer to help Sylvain. Sylvain later saves Airelle, a Gandaharian woman. Together they discover the Men of Metal's base, where the frozen Gandaharians are taken through a large portal and are seemingl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grand Highway
''Le grand chemin'' is a 1987 French film directed by Jean-Loup Hubert. It was released in the U.S. as ''The Grand Highway'', and was remade in 1991 as ''Paradise''. It won the César Award for Best Actor and Best Actress. Plot Louis, a timid nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she is having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year-old girl next door, and learns about life from her. His subsequent adventures run the gamut from delightful to terrifying, with a little "coming of age" (via a few glimpses of nudity) thrown in. Cast *Richard Bohringer – Pelo *Anémone – Marcelle * Antoine Hubert – Louis *Christine Pascal – Claire *Pascale Roberts – Yvonne *Vanessa Guedj – Martine Production ''Le grand chemin'' was directed by Jean-Loup Hubert, and produced by Pascal Hommais and Jean Francois Lepetit. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crazy Moon (film)
''Crazy Moon'' is a 1987 film written by Tom Berry and Stefan Wodoslawsky, directed by Allan Eastman, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Vanessa Vaughan. Plot Brooks is a rich but slightly odd teenager who has various adventures as his older brother leads him astray. His life changed after he met a girl, Anne, who is deaf. They met as Brooks was stealing a mannequin from a clothes store where she worked as a clerk. They fall in love. The story follows their relationship as each of them learn from the others strengths and weaknesses. Cast *Kiefer Sutherland as Brooks *Vanessa Vaughan as Anne *Peter Spence as Cleveland *Ken Pogue as Alec *Eve Napier as Mimi * Sean McCann as Anne's Father *Bronwen Mantel as Anne's Mother *Terri Hawkes as Pamela See also *List of films featuring the deaf and hard of hearing There is a body of films that feature the deaf and hard of hearing. The ''Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series'' wrote, "The world of the deaf has received lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The American Way (film)
''The American Way'', also known as ''Riders of the Storm'', is a 1986 American science fiction comedy film directed by Maurice Phillips and starring Dennis Hopper and Michael J. Pollard. Premise S&M TV is a pirate television station, broadcasting from a B-29 plane by a group of disgruntled Vietnam war veterans. After many years, the crew considers accepting an offer of amnesty, broadcasting legitimately, and going back to more normal lives. However, as the US Presidential campaign is starting, the captain of the plane decides S&M has a last job to do: to prevent the pro-war conservative candidate from winning the election. Cast * Dennis Hopper as The Captain * Michael J. Pollard as Tesla * Eugene Lipinski as Ace * James Aubrey as Claude * Al Matthews as Benedict * William Armstrong as Jerry * Michael Ho as Minh * Derek Hoxby as Sam * Nigel Pegram as Mme Westinghouse * Mark Caven as Don * Craig Pinder as Irving * Jeff Harding as Doug * Linda Lou All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
