Miramax's Chocolat, which received five Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture, grossed more than $120 million worldwide. Bridget Jones's Diary brought in more than $71 million at the domestic box office. Dimension Films had another very successful year with Spy Kids and The Others, which together compiled domestic grosses of more than $200 million.

Miramax's releases in late 2001 included The Shipping News, starring Kevin Spacey, Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench and Julianne Moore, directed by two-time Academy Award® nominee Lasse Hallström and adapted by Academy Award® nominated writer Robert Nelson Jacobs from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Annie Proulx; and Kate & Leopold, starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman.

In 2002, Miramax will offer the Martin Scorsese-directed Gangs of New York, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day Lewis; Chicago, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger; and Full Frontal, directed by Academy Award® winner Steven Soderbergh and starring Academy Award® winner Julia Roberts. The company also is set to begin production on the film adaptation of Charles Frazier's best-selling and award-winning novel, Cold Mountain, directed and adapted by Academy Award® winner Anthony Minghella and starring Tom Cruise.

Miramax's Television and Film divisions joined with LivePlanet and developed "Project Greenlight," an online screenwriting contest that awarded a first-time screenwriter, Pete Jones, the chance to direct his own film based on his screenplay, Stolen Summer. Miramax Films is financing the production of Stolen Summer and will distribute the film in theaters. Miramax Television is producing a series for HBO that documents the entire process.