Cold Mountain (North Carolina) settlement on the real-life mountain. The peak is accessible only by hiking a spur of the strenuous Art Loeb Trail. A major motion picture based on the novel was distributed by Miramax Films in 2003. The movie was actually filmed in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. A Miramax Films spokesperson cited higher production costs however director Anthony Minghella had said that the lack of old-growth forests and period buildings as well as the lack of dependable snowfall were the primary reasons he chose not to film in Western North Carolina. A 2015 opera production followed. "Cold Mountain Hunter" a 2004
Mirage Enterprises Mr. Ripley" (1999), "Iris" (2001), and "Cold Mountain" (2003). By the time of Pollack's death in 2008, "Time" magazine noted he had become "a much more prolific producer, with the pictures he made through his Mirage company tending to be smaller in scale, more eccentric, more personal than his studio pictures had been and he enjoyed godfathering them." Mirage Enterprises Mirage Enterprises was an American film production company founded by director and producer Sydney Pollack in 1985. Sydney Pollack was known for being a director and occasional actor. He began producing his own films in the 1970s, then started producing