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Article: 'Made in Italy' label gains celluloid cachet.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 4, 2000
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Martin Scorsese is an unflinching perfectionist. For his latest film on the gritty 1840s turf wars between Italian and Irish mobsters - "Gangs of New York" - he demanded a set so surreal it could have been a Fellini dream sequence. Opium dens, miles of twisting slums, a sprawling harbor, even a transatlantic steamer.
When shooting started last month, where did he report? Hollywood? Nope. The Bronx? Not even close.
Take one: Rome.
With a reported budget of $100 million, "Gangs" will be the biggest project to date for Miramax Films. For Italy, it is part of an American-fueled renaissance of a film industry that once rivaled Hollywood. Mr. ...
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Article: Miramax Acquires the Rights to FilmFour's 'The Warrior'.
PR Newswire;
September 6, 2001 ;
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... ... in North and South America, Italy, Australia, and China NEW YORK, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Miramax Films has acquired all rights in North and South America, Italy, Australia and China to "The ... Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax. The film will be distributed ...
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