After its founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein split from Disney, they formed The Weinstein Company, who currently owns the US distribution rights.

Tarantino finished the script on April 26, 2011, and handed in the final draft to The Weinstein Company.

In May 2006, The Weinstein Company acquired film rights to adapt Knight Rider from series creator Larson.

Since this initial appearance, plans have been underway at The Weinstein Company to bring Knight Rider to the big screen as an updated take on the original series pilot, " Knight of the Phoenix ".

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 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.

The Weinsteins started a new film production company called simply The Weinstein Company, and took the Dimension Films label with them.

On December 16, 2010, Miramax reunited with Bob and Harvey Weinstein, forming a joint venture with the brothers ' current studio, The Weinstein Company, to develop sequels to films from the former studio.

The network also has rights to many films not released by Disney ( either because the studio does not have a children's network or has one that is incompatible with their focus ), such as Warner Bros .' ( Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ( known in the US as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ), Universal Pictures ( Beethoven, An American Tail, The Land Before Time ), The Weinstein Company ( Hoodwinked, The Magic Roundabout ), Sony Pictures ( Stuart Little, Stuart Little 2, Hook ), Lionsgate ( Happily N ' ever After ), 20th Century Fox ( Ice Age, the Home Alone film series, Catch That Kid ), Paramount ( Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown ( and Don't Come Back !!)).

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.

Showtime has also agreements with IFC Films ( which it shares broadcasting rights with Starz ), ThinkFilm, certain films put out by The Weinstein Company ( those that are distributed theatrically in conjunction with MGM Studios ), and the newly re-formed United Artists ( still a subsidiary of MGM ).

On July 15, 2008, it was announced that Showtime had signed a seven-year deal with The Weinstein Company to exclusively air their films during their initial premium-channel broadcasts, starting with their 2009 film slate.

Striking distribution deals with The Weinstein Company, Lakeshore Entertainment, Bauer Martinez Entertainment and other independent studios, MGM distributed films from these companies.

* Rights to A Hard Day's Night ( 1964 ) are controlled by The Weinstein Company, in conjunction with Miramax Films and Lionsgate ( the latter company currently holding home video rights under Miramax ).

In fall 2006, Blockbuster signed a deal with The Weinstein Company, that gave it the exclusive rental rights to the studio's films beginning January 1, 2007.

The first-sale doctrine allows Netflix and other video rental businesses to offer movies released by the Weinstein Company, but the long-term effects of the Blockbuster-Weinstein deal remain uncertain.

It was announced there that Fanboys would be released to theaters on September 19, 2008, but soon after, the official Weinstein Company website announced that this had changed to November 26, 2008.

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* 2010: Miramax, the current co-owner of the film ( with The Weinstein Company ), is sold by Disney to Filmyard Holdings, LLC, and the home video sub-license is transferred to Lionsgate, who continue to issue the DVD today, although no U. S. Blu-ray release date has been announced.

Blockbuster was the exclusive rental chain for The Weinstein Company movies since January 1, 2007, although due to the First Sale Doctrine, other rental stores and online DVD rental-by-mail companies, like Netflix, could still rent DVDs released by The Weinstein Company.

The Weinstein Company / Miramax Books purchased the publishing rights to her first novel, Whacked.

The Weinstein Company, a film studio run by former Miramax heads Bob and Harvey Weinstein, purchased a 25 % stake in the company on January 4, 2011, with Anchor Bay entering into a multi-year domestic distribution agreement of theatrical feature films released by The Weinstein Company and its Dimension Films subsidiary.

The Weinstein Company purchased the US distribution rights for Tom-Yum-Goong and retitled it The Protector ( also the name of a 1985 film starring Jackie Chan ).

Webb has adapted his play for the screen and sold the rights to Harvey and Bob Weinstein.

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 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.

Initially, Miramax Films was reported to have obtained the movie rights to the series, but the project migrated to The Weinstein Company with the departure of the Weinstein brothers from Disney and Miramax.

The film was entered into competition at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland, where it was seen by Mark Tusk from Miramax who, convinced Pitt would become a film star, urged Harvey Weinstein to make the unprecedented step of purchasing the rights to a film he had not yet seen.

As of 2011, Starz, Encore and their respective multiplex movie channels have exclusive first-run premium cable rights to films from Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures ( including Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, and Hollywood Pictures ), Sony Pictures Entertainment ( including Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, Screen Gems, TriStar Pictures ), Overture Films ( also owned by Starz ' parents, Liberty Media and The Weinstein Company ), Anchor Bay Entertainment, Yari Film Group, and Warren Miller Films, among other leading distributors.

More recently, both Elms and librarian Lee Weinstein have gathered circumstantial evidence to support the case for Linebarger's being " Allen ," but both concede there is no direct proof that Linebarger was ever a patient of Lindner's or that he suffered from a disorder similar to that of " Kirk Allen.

He was married to the former Sylvia Weinstein from April 28, 1930, until her death on March 16, 1973.

Allen Weinstein was the non-voting chair of the panel from 1996 to 2003.

A former Elm Coordinator was Sydney Weinstein from the Myxa Corporation.

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.

After a five-year absence from filming, Day-Lewis returned to act in multiple Academy Award-nominated films such as Gangs of New York, a film directed by Martin Scorsese ( with whom he had worked on The Age of Innocence ) and produced by Harvey Weinstein.

Weinstein alleged that the group broke off from the original Political Red Cross in late 1906 when Weinstein and other anarchists received no support despite ample donations from the anarchist community.

Alternate US end credit titles crediting the series as " A Hannah Weinstein Production for Sapphire Films Limited ",( and for later episodes from 1958 credited as " A Hannah Fisher Production ") also exist.

In 1998, New Red Archives released Live & Rare, a CD compiling highlights from New York City-area Reagan Youth sets from the early ' 80s with the Pike / Weinstein lineup, along with tracks from the band's initial demo and a brief demo for Volume 2.

A retired merchant from Lumberton, North Carolina, Weinstein served in the Senate from 1997 through 2009, when Gov.

What Weinstein calls " the smoking gun ... the long missing citation " was a 1994 posting from New York fan Richard Newsome, who transcribed an interview with Theis published in OSFAN # 13.