Miramax is a beIN Media Group and Paramount Company.
Known for its award-winning legacy film collection, Miramax is a pioneering entertainment studio driven by its entrepreneurial culture and intrepid, ambitious commitment to modern innovation and collaboration, a company synonymous with premium, engaging and relevant content for the diverse audiences it serves globally.
A joint venture between beIN Media Group and Paramount Global, Miramax is led by CEO Bill Block. Acquired by beIN Media Group in 2016, the company entered a partnership with Paramount Global in 2020 to create new domestic and international production and co-financing opportunities, redefining how studios produce, finance, and distribute entertainment product worldwide.
Miramax is currently one of the most active and robust independent film and television studios, and as demand for premium film and television content surges globally, Miramax is uniquely positioned to capitalize. The company's energetic and creative executive team, unrivaled library of IP, access to capital and strategic support of parent companies beIN Media and Paramount Global together provide the company with a compelling mandate to manifest a new model for forward-thinking independent film and TV studios.
The company's film division has several compelling projects in various stages of production, including but not limited to publicly announced projects such as the spy thriller "Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre" directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Jason Statham, caper comedy "Confess, Fletch" directed by Greg Mottola and starring Jon Hamm and John Slattery, "Harvest Moon," directed by Mark Waters, co-written by and starring Paul Bettany and also starring Candice Bergen, "The Home," helmed by "The Purge" franchise's James DeMonaco and starring Pete Davidson as well as "The Holdovers," directed by Alexander Payne and starring Paul Giamatti.
Recent successes include the Netflix hit "He's All That," starring Addison Rae and directed by Mark Waters which landed the number one spot on Netflix's Top 10 in its opening weekend, the 2021 global blockbuster "Halloween Kills" starring Jamie Lee Curtis, produced by Miramax with Trancas International Films and Blumhouse Productions, Hulu's "Mother/Android" starring Chloe Grace Moritz, "Uncle Frank," directed by Alan Ball and starring Paul Bettany which was snapped up by Amazon after premiering at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Guy Ritchie's "The Gentlemen," released in January 2020, garnering worldwide box office receipts in excess of $100M and starring Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Colin Farrell and Hugh Grant, and action-thriller "Wrath of Man," Miramax's second project with Ritchie, theatrically released in 2021, starring Jason Statham and also garnering worldwide box office receipts in excess of $100M.
Miramax TV's growing slate of global television content includes "The Untitled Chuck Barris Project" with Apple TV+; a series based on the company's action comedy hit "The Gentlemen" from Guy Ritchie with Netflix; "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice," a series adaptation of the award-winning play which inspired the original Miramax musical film, in development with ITV; an adaptation of the bestselling novel, "The Henna Artist" starring and executive produced by Freida Pinto with Netflix; "The Turkish Detective" with Paramount +, shooting in Istanbul; an adaptation of Alex Michaelides' novel "The Maidens" with Scott Steindorff and Dylan Russell's Stone Village; a revival of "Project Greenlight," returning next year to HBO Max, in partnership with Issa Rae's Hoorae Media and Alfred Street; a series adaptation of Robert Altman's 1994 fashion industry satire "Prêt-à-Porter" for Paramount+; "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns," a limited series directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel based on the nonfiction bestseller of the same name; and a series adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel "The English Patient" with BBC.
In addition to garnering more than $10 billion at the worldwide box office, the unrivaled Miramax film collection contains several hundred titles with hundreds of Academy Award® nominations and over 68 Oscar® wins, including four Best Picture Academy Awards®.