Before Miramax Home Entertainment was launched, the company had mostly licensed their films to other distributors, like HBO Video and LIVE Home Video. In 1992, Miramax struck a deal with Paramount Home Video to release their films on home media, and the name Miramax Home Video was launched. This partnership was short-lived as Disney would purchase Miramax the following year and the home media rights would go straight to Disney. The earliest titles put out under Disney, such as Like Water for Chocolate, were released under Touchstone Home Video, before being released under the Miramax name as Miramax Home Entertainment.
In 2005, the original founders of Miramax, Harvey & Bob Weinstein, left Miramax to form a new independent company. At the end of the year, the sublabel Dimension Films was sold back to the Weinsteins, with Venom being the last Dimension release under Disney. Disney would still continue to operate Miramax and own their film library, as well as the Dimension Films library put out under them, until 2010, when they sold the company to Filmyard Holdings. Home media rights to the Miramax library were split between Echo Bridge Home Entertainment and Lionsgate Home Entertainment (which LIVE Home Video had been absorbed into). In 2014, Echo Bridge's rights to Miramax lapsed, and Lionsgate acquired full home media ownership of the Miramax library (they also owned home media rights to the Weinstein Company's library through Anchor Bay Entertainment). While Lionsgate re-released several titles that had previously been owned by Echo Bridge, Miramax was sold once again to a new company, beIN Media Group. In 2019, beIN offered to share half of their share of Miramax to a different company. Lionsgate and Lantern Capital (who purchased the rights to the Weinstein Company's library after the downfall of Weinstein) emerged as the frontrunners but later dropped out, with Viacom (now Paramount Global) becoming the winning candidate. Beginning in 2020, Paramount Home Entertainment became the home media distributor to the Miramax library, re-releasing several titles on Blu-ray and DVD.
While much of the output under Disney is now owned by Paramount, several other titles, such as their pre-Disney material, have been put out and owned by different companies. Some LIVE Home Video releases, such as Reservoir Dogs, would transfer to Artisan Home Entertainment rather than Disney, and are now owned by Lionsgate. Kids, which was acquired by the Weinsteins in 1995, was unable to be released under Miramax due to Disney forbidding NC-17 releases from their catalog, and the home media rights were given to Trimark Home Video, also owned by Lionsgate. Princess Mononoke, like the rest of Studio Ghibli's catalog, is now owned by GKIDS, whose home media rights are licensed to Shout! Factory.
As of 2015, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (UK & Ireland) - via Walt Disney Pictures - secretly re-acquire theatrical and home video rights to The Brothers Grimm from Miramax despite not being announced to the public at this time. However, Dimension Films retains its credit and copyright with the Miramax logo at the beginning are expected to be replaced by the current Disney castle logo (introduced in November 2022 with the release of Strange World) at the start of the film in the future.
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