The film was released straight to video in the United States in 1992 by Miramax.

In 1997 Tolkien Enterprises licensed the film rights to Miramax, which assigned them in 1998 to New Line Cinema.

The then-fledgling film company Miramax decided to promote the film in the US where it became a sleeper hit, earning $ 62 million at the box office.

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.

Director Scorsese initially struggled selling his idea of realizing the film until DiCaprio became interested in playing protagonist Amsterdam Vallon, a young leader of the Irish faction, and thus, Miramax Films got involved with financing the project.

Founded in 1979 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein and headquartered in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Miramax was a leading independent film motion picture distribution and production company before it was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1993.

The resulting film The Secret Policeman's Other Ball ( US Version ) was a successful release for Miramax in the summer of 1982.

Miramax operated, until 2005, the label Dimension Films, specializing in genre films and created the Spy Kids, Scream and Scary Movie film franchises.

Disney's film studio consortium, Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group assumed control of Miramax, which was projected to have a smaller annual production budget.

The Miramax name remained with the film studio owned by Disney.

The sale included 700 film titles, as well as books, development projects and the " Miramax " name.

On March 25, 2011, Miramax entered licensing talks with various digital premium services, including Netflix, Amazon, Google, and Hulu, for digital distribution of the former company's film library.

On September 6, 2011, Miramax announced that hundreds of its film titles were available digitally in Latin American territories including Brazil, Mexico and Argentina under a multi-year agreement with Netflix.

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.

After getting a restraining order from Randal Graves ( Jeff Anderson ) for selling drugs ( including to minors ) and constant harassment, Jay and Silent Bob ( Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith ) find out from Brodie ( Jason Lee ) that Bluntman and Chronic, the comic book based on their likenesses, has been adapted into a film in production by Miramax Films.

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

It features deadpan commentary from actor / director Sam Neill and director and film archivist John O ' Shea, as well as critical praise from international industry notables including film historian Leonard Maltin, and Harvey Weinstein of Miramax Films.

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.

Baldwin starred alongside Cindy Crawford in the 1995 film Fair Game, then in 1996 starred in a low-budget film by Miramax Films titled Curdled, and was paid US $ 150, 000 for his performance compared to the $ 1. 7 million he received for his role in Sliver with Sharon Stone in 1993.

Although Gibson wanted to call his film The Passion, on October 16, 2003 his spokesman announced that the title used in the United States would be The Passion of Christ because Miramax had already registered the title The Passion with the MPAA for the 1987 novel by Jeanette Winterson.

Miramax hired civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz to appeal the decision and the MPAA relented and re-rated the film with the more commercially viable " R " rating, without alteration.

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 film's distribution company in North America, Miramax, filed a lawsuit against the MPAA over the X rating.

The film's distributor, Miramax, removed its name from the production, and hired attorney Dan Petrocelli to defend it publicly.

Miramax, the film's US distributor, obscured the presence of South Asian characters in the marketing of the film: the poster features the face of a blonde woman, with the Asian characters appearing only in small windows.

The film was then picked up by Miramax and was given a limited release in the United States in September 1998 under the title All I Wanna Do, because Miramax found the film's original title, The Hairy Bird ( which alluded to male genitalia ), to be too offensive.

There are two collections from the film ; the first soundtrack, Swingers: Music From The Miramax Motion Picture, was released in 1996 and contained music included in the film.

The song " Keep on Dancin '" was featured on " 54, Volume I ", the official album from the 1998 Miramax film 54.

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.

Paramount retains American rights to this day but international rights are now held by Miramax Films and StudioCanal in conjunction with American Zoetrope.

Miramax was sold by Disney to Filmyard Holdings in 2010, ending Disney's 17-year involvement with the studio.

Paramount still owns video rights to some of these films today, while TV distribution is now with Trifecta Entertainment & Media, while the Disney owned Miramax films are distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television.

In 1993 Miramax was purchased for $ 60 million by The Walt Disney Company.

Production at Miramax was taken over by Daniel Battsek, who formerly was head of Buena Vista International in the UK.

Maple Pictures held the rights to distribute Miramax films in Canada from 2008 up until August 10, 2011 when Maple Pictures was acquired by Alliance Films.

On October 3, 2009, Disney announced that the staff of Miramax was to be reduced by 70 %, and the number of releases would be reduced by half to just three films per year.

After the sale was closed, some movies already developed at Miramax, including The Tempest and Gnomeo & Juliet, were eventually released by Disney under its Touchstone Pictures banner, and theatrical distribution of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and The Debt has been shifted to FilmDistrict and Focus Features respectively.

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.

* Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film by Peter Biskind ( Simon & Schuster, 2004 )

A major motion picture based on the novel was distributed by Miramax Films in 2003.

* Cannes: Fifty Years of Sun, Sex & Celluloid: Behind the Scenes at the World's Most Famous Film Festival by Peter Bart ( Miramax, 1997 )

A major motion picture based on the novel was produced by Miramax Films in 2003.

However, it was acquired by Miramax and released to unexpected success, going on to earn more than $ 13, 000, 000 worldwide.

The movie rights were sold to David Brown and developed by Miramax Pictures.

A very select amount of films by Walt Disney Pictures are distributed in Canada by another billion-dollar franchise known as Alliance Films with DVD rights to Universal Studios Home Entertainment, typically for films under Miramax Films, which was recently sold by Walt Disney Studios to Filmyard Holdings.