The Weinstein Company ( TWC ) is an American film studio founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005 after the brothers left the then-Disney-owned Miramax Films, which they had co-founded in 1979.

Paramount also owns DVD rights to several films released by Miramax Films prior to that firm's acquisition by Disney in 1993, also a result of a deal.

Miramax Family ( also known as Miramax Family Films ) is the family division of Miramax Films created in 1991 and shut down in 2006.

As of 2011, Showtime holds first-run premium cable rights to films from Summit Entertainment, The Weinstein Company, Miramax Films ( also including rights to Dimension Films releases ), DreamWorks Pictures ( live-action releases through Touchstone Pictures only ), CBS Films, First Look Pictures, IFC Films ( rights are shared with Starz ), THINKFilm and Anchor Bay Entertainment.

Disney also broadened its adult offerings in film when then Disney Studio Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg acquired Miramax Films in 1993.

Cinemax ( through HBO ) also shows sub-runs ( runs of films that have already received broadcast network / syndicated television releases ) of theatrical films from Paramount Pictures ( usually those released prior to 1997 ), Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group ( including Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax ), Sony Pictures Entertainment ( including Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures ), Twentieth Century Fox ( select films from all five studios are shared with Starz and Encore ), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, DreamWorks Pictures ( those made prior to the 2010 shift of film distribution rights from Paramount to Touchstone Pictures ), and Lionsgate Entertainment.

Two episodes aired on the ABC network ( a subsidiary of the Disney company, which also owns Miramax Films, the studio which released many of Smith's films, including Clerks ) in late May / early June 2000 before being pulled from the lineup.

For the first time there was also interest in the USA with the EP of the musical performances being released as an album by Atco / Atlantic Records and the US movie rights being acquired by fledgling independent distributor Miramax Films.

The film is also notable for being the breakout film for the then-decade-old Miramax independent film studio.

In addition, Katzenberg also sealed the deal that created the highly successful partnership between Pixar and Disney and the deal that brought Miramax Films into Disney.

The Movie Channel ( through Showtime ) holds first-run premium cable rights to films from Summit Entertainment, The Weinstein Company, Miramax Films ( also including rights to Dimension Films releases ), DreamWorks Pictures ( live-action releases through Touchstone Pictures only ), CBS Films, First Look Pictures, IFC Films ( rights are shared with Starz ), THINKFilm and Anchor Bay Entertainment.

After Pete Jones's Stolen Summer was chosen for Project Greenlight instead, the show's founders, LivePlanet and Miramax, decided to produce Speakeasy also, as a normal film apart from the documentary series.

The film also documents a number of computer enthusiasts who drive across the United States searching for Miramax representatives and demonstrating their discontent with certain aspects of the bootleg script of Takedown they had acquired.

StudioCanal also handles home entertainment distribution of 550 titles from the Miramax Films library internationally ( Lions Gate handles US distribution and Alliance Films handles Canadian distribution ) since February 2011.

It is also the last film in the Pokémon franchise to have been released by Miramax in the United States and Alliance Films in Canada ; the next three films were released by Viz Media in both countries and Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior was released by Universal Studios in both countries.

Besides rights to Universal Pictures films, Starz also initially had rights to films released by Carolco Pictures, Fine Line Features and its sibling New Line Cinema, and Disney-owned Miramax, Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures ( although films from those studios did not begin to be carried on Starz!

Starz also airs older titles from Time Warner subsidiaries Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema and Turner Entertainment, as well as from 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Miramax Films, Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios.

Almodóvar also complained that Miramax, the distributor of the film in the U. S. A, did not understand the film and had no idea what to do with it.

Although Cartoon Network currently airs the film, it also aired on Toon Disney on November 27, 2007 ( because Miramax, owned by Disney, released this animated film ), being the fourth Pokémon film to air on Toon Disney ( the first three being Pokémon: Jirachi Wishmaker, Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys, and Pokémon 4Ever.

Encore also airs older titles from Time Warner subsidiaries ( Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, and Turner Entertainment ), 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Miramax Films, Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios.

Miramax also released their version on DVD in the US and was also released on Blu-ray on Sept. 15, 2009 with the English audio in DTS-HD Master Audio 5. 1 and the Chinese audio in Dolby Digital 5. 1.

In April 2007, Hasselhoff said that the film was in development at Miramax, and that he would at least have a cameo in the film.

It seems curious that all three ( networks ) are taking the same tack ," said Russell Schwartz, Miramax executive vice president.

Heather Phares, from Allmusic said: " Though the film is technically a Miramax offering ," but " the soundtrack is downright Disney, gathering songs from the studio's stable of prefab teen pop singers.

The Weinsteins operated Miramax with more creative and financial independence than any other division of Disney, until 2005 when they decided to leave the company and founded The Weinstein Company.

Harvey and Bob Weinstein continued to operate Miramax until they left the company on September 30, 2005.

Having no place to loiter, they decide to pay a visit to Brodie ( Jason Lee ), where they learn that Miramax Films is making a " Bluntman and Chronic " film.

Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein, founders / owners of the new independent distribution company Miramax Films had previously acquired the US rights to the film of the 1979 show The Secret Policeman's Ball and they subsequently acquired the rights to its successor The Secret Policeman's Other Ball.

After the founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein split with Miramax parent Disney, they formed the Weinstein Company, who currently owns US distribution rights.

The Miramax film corporation bought the American film rights to Shaolin Soccer before its release in China, so they helped publish the comic book along with two Chinese film companies who originally produced the film.

The Weinstein Brothers took this label with them when they departed the Disney-owned Miramax in October 2005.

In 1998, Brown resigned from the New Yorker following an invitation from Harvey and Bob Weinstein of Miramax Films ( then owned by the Disney Company ) to be the chairman in a new multi-media company they intended to start with a new magazine, a book company and a television show.

Agreeing to the deal that would cement their Hollywood clout and ensure that they would remain at the head of their company, Miramax followed the next year with their first blockbuster, Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and distributed the popular independent film Clerks.

Agreeing to the deal that would cement their Hollywood clout and ensure that they would remain at the head of their company, Miramax followed the next year with their first blockbuster, Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.

The deal also functioned in the other direction whereby Miramax would offer him scripts, books, stories or re-make ideas they thought fit his sensibility and he'd have the right of refusal.

On March 1, 2011, Miramax renewed its Canadian distribution deal with Alliance Films, which had always been a distributor of Miramax releases in Canada from 1987 to 2008 and will replace Maple Pictures ( which previously distributed Miramax releases from 2008 to 2011 ).

Alliance will have access to all of the company's library titles once again as well as distribution rights to new Miramax films produced in the next five years.

On January 29, 2012, Panasonic announced that the Miramax App will be one of the new apps to join Viera Connect in 2012, enabling users to access Miramax's library of films.

Miramax CFO Steve Schoch will run the company until a permanent successor can be found.

In March 2012, Miramax and Britain ’ s branded multichannel broadcaster UKTV announced a licensing agreement under which a number of the studio ’ s hit films will be made available to UKTV subscribers across its basic pay and DTT channels.

On April 1, 2012, Miramax and Sky Italia, Italy ’ s leading pay TV platform, announced a deal under which that network will air many of the leading titles from Miramax ’ s collection across all of its pay television channels in Italy.

On April 2, 2012, Miramax and the Samuel Goldwyn Jr. Family Trust announced that Miramax ’ s Global Sales team will manage global licensing of the library produced by the legendary Samuel Goldwyn across a broad range of television and digital platforms.