History Creator / Miramax

* The first three ''WesternAnimation/{{Bionicle}}'' movies (2003-05; with Toys/{{LEGO}}, Creative Capers and Creator/WangFilmProductions)

Originally an independent company (relying on Live Entertainment, Creator/{{HBO}} Video and Creator/{{Paramount}}, among others, for [[UsefulNotes/HomeVideoDistributors home distribution]]), the company was purchased by [[Creator/{{Disney}} The Walt Disney Company]] on June 30, 1993. Although the Weinsteins continued operating the company independently under Disney, the latter still had the final say on what would be released.[[note]]Good examples of this include ''Film/{{Kids}}'' (which wound up being released unrated under Shining Excalibur Films, which was a one-off label), ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' and ''[[Creator/MichaelMoore Fahrenheit 9/11]]'' (both under [[Creator/{{Lionsgate}} Lions Gate]]).[[/note]] On September 30, 2005, the Weinsteins left Miramax (and Disney as a whole) to start another company known as Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany, which the Dimension Films brand was moved to. This dealt a major blow to Miramax as a whole, as [[CreatorKiller they no longer had their main powerhouses at hand]]; after distributing some more films time to time, in 2010 Miramax and its film library was then sold to Ron Tutor and his company Filmyard Holdings (making Disney the first major studio to sell a portion of its library in over 50 years, something which was done by several studios in the 1950s to make quick cash in the early television era), only for it to be sold in 2016 to [=beIN=] Media Group, which had been formed in 2012 as a spinoff of [[UsefulNotes/NewsNetworks Al Jazeera]]'s sports holdings. In December 2019, the newly reunited [[Creator/{{ParamountGlobal}} ViacomCBS]] announced a deal with [=beIN=] to acquire 49% of Miramax. With it, [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount Pictures]] gained worldwide distribution rights to its library (in a sense, bringing Miramax full-circle (with a few exceptions)) and will invest in new titles based on Miramax IP (with a few exceptions). In between Disney's sale of the studio and [=ViacomCBS=]'s acquisition, Creator/{{Lionsgate}} held the home video rights to the Miramax catalog in the USA, and Creator/StudioCanal distributed those films in Europe. Spyglass Media Group (the successor to The Weinstein Company) held the rights to make any sequels to Miramax/Dimension properties. The involvement of Paramount notably gave the studio domestic distribution rights to ''Film/TheCrow'', a movie they had abandoned during production after the on-set death of star Brandon Lee, to be picked up by Miramax. Canadian rights to Miramax titles were held by Alliance Atlantis since 1994 (which would part ways with them in 2008 to move distribution to Maple Pictures), a new deal between both parties was signed in 2011. The deal even continued under [[Creator/{{EntertainmentOne}} eOne]]'s (later bought by Creator/{{Hasbro}} in 2019 and Lionsgate in 2023) watch after Alliance Films was absorbed into them in 2013.

* ''Film/TheCrow'' (1994) (Also see the Creator/DimensionFilms page)

Originally an independent company (relying on Live Entertainment, Creator/{{HBO}} Video and Creator/{{Paramount}}, among others, for [[UsefulNotes/HomeVideoDistributors home distribution]]), the company was purchased by [[Creator/{{Disney}} The Walt Disney Company]] on June 30, 1993. Although the Weinsteins continued operating the company independently under Disney, the latter still had the final say on what would be released.[[note]]Good examples of this include ''Film/{{Kids}}'' (which wound up being released unrated under Shining Excalibur Films, which was a one-off label), ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' and ''[[Creator/MichaelMoore Fahrenheit 9/11]]'' (both under [[Creator/{{Lionsgate}} Lions Gate]]).[[/note]] On September 30, 2005, the Weinsteins left Miramax (and Disney as a whole) to start another company known as Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany, which the Dimension Films brand was moved to. This dealt a major blow to Miramax as a whole, as [[CreatorKiller they no longer had their main powerhouses at hand]]; after distributing some more films time to time, in 2010 Miramax and its film library was then sold to Ron Tutor and his company Filmyard Holdings (making Disney the first major studio to sell a portion of its library in over 50 years, something which was done by several studios in the 1950s to make quick cash in the early television era), only for it to be sold in 2016 to [=beIN=] Media Group, which had been formed in 2012 as a spinoff of [[UsefulNotes/NewsNetworks Al Jazeera]]'s sports holdings. In December 2019, the newly reunited [[Creator/{{ParamountGlobal}} ViacomCBS]] announced a deal with [=beIN=] to acquire 49% of Miramax. With it, [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount Pictures]] gained worldwide distribution rights to its library (in a sense, bringing Miramax full-circle (with a few exceptions)) and will invest in new titles based on Miramax IP (with a few exceptions). In between Disney's sale of the studio and [=ViacomCBS=]'s acquisition, Creator/{{Lionsgate}} held the home video rights to the Miramax catalog in the USA, and Creator/StudioCanal distributed those films in Europe. Spyglass Media Group (the successor to The Weinstein Company) held the rights to make any sequels to Miramax/Dimension properties. The involvement of Paramount notably gave the studio domestic distribution rights to ''Film/TheCrow'', a movie they had abandoned during production after the on-set death of star Brandon Lee, to be picked up by Miramax. Canadian rights to Miramax titles were held by Alliance Atlantis since 1994 (which would part ways with them in 2008 to move distribution to Maple Pictures), a new deal between both parties was signed in 2011. The deal even continued under [[Creator/{{EntertainmentOne}} eOne]]'s (later bought by Creator/{{Hasbro}} in 2019 and Creator/{{Lionsgate}} in 2023) watch after Alliance Films was absorbed into them in 2013.