Mike Lang, the new chief executive of Miramax Films, said Thursday that one of his top priorities as a CEO was releasing Quentin Tarantino's
Pulp Fiction on Blu-ray. He also said that he'll focus boosting sales of the titles in the Miramax library while looking for partners to make new films.
That would be a fitting start for this new incarnation of Miramax, as the second feature directed by Tarantino was the first movie from the studio to break the $100 million barrier at the US box office. Indeed, one of the chapters of Peter Biskind's highly informative book
Down on Dirty Pictures: Miramax Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film is titled "The House That Quentin Built," referring to Miramax.
Pulp Fiction had been pre-announced by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment as coming out on Blu-ray in 2009, and it even went up on the Disney site with an August release date, but that never materialized.
The Miramax library comprises about 700 titles, including Academy Award winners such as
Shakespeare in Love, The English Patient and
Life Is Beautiful.
The studio, formerly owned by The Walt Disney Co., was recently sold to investment group Filmyard Holdings as a result of Disney's new focus on family-oriented movies.
Lang, who is 45 years old, was previously a strategy executive at 20th Century Fox.