Talk:Miramax Films

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The fact that this entity is owned by the Walt Disney Company is mentioned in the article and in the article's catigorization. Therefore, the see also section is unnecessary. Gentgeen 05:41, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I believe -- although I could be incorrect -- that Disney only has final say over what Miramax releases in the event that Miramax makes an NC-17 film. --Neschek 00:07, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

When I worked there, Miramax released several films against the wishes of Disney, notably "Priest". I believe Disney had some say in aquisitions and production, but the final word was with Harvey and Bob. --9917

Contents 1 Discrepancy in purchase price by Disney 2 Mr. Ripley 3 Selected Titles 4 Dimension 5 MonkeyPeaches 6 Vandalism 7 Deleted section 8 Criticism section

[edit] Discrepancy in purchase price by Disney

If anybody notices that there is a discrepancy in the purchase price by Disney ($70 million vs. $80 million) between this article and Harvey Weinstein please see Talk:Harvey Weinstein. Jjjjjjjjjj 02:30, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mr. Ripley

As the doomed IP criminal seemed to suggest, yes, the full title of The Talented Mr. Ripley includes more of his interesting traits. IMDB, as this doomie suggested, refers to the movie by the shortened title, and lists his obscene title under the heading "Also Known As". Yes, 24.159.186.88, it does as ALSO, a word meaning "in addition to" or "besides". Besides indicates that there is a focal or starting point to which this second term is in reference, placing the first term in a category some could call the "main" subject of the sentence. This means that your asinine little exercise in overreading IMDB articles is for naught and so is your edit. --TheGrza 07:02, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

Again with the insanity. I have removed the full title and placed it in the Talented Mr. Ripley article, where it belongs. Now sit, crazed editor, sit. --TheGrza 02:37, Jan 26, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Selected Titles

The list of films by Miramax was not only woefully inadequate, missing two best picture winners and several more films of note, including Pulp Fiction, but it also included every single one of the Pokemon films. Clearly compiled by a seven year old, I deleted the repetitive films, the films with innumberable sequels, except those sequals of note, and added several of the films that were missing. I know this list is far from complete, but perhaps before someone starts arguing that we list every film from every studio (That's what you people make list pages for, isn't it?), perhaps we could make this article more than a stub? --TheGrza 14:54, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dimension

No mention of this subsidiary that allowed Harvey and Bob to bankroll their vanity projects. --9917

[edit] MonkeyPeaches

"MonkeyPeaches" is paraphrased and linked in an early paragraph about Miramax. No one in the world, except for a small in-group, has the slightest idea what "MonkeyPeaches" refers to, and the link does *not* clarify this. If people would like Wikipedia to appear as if it is not produced by 11-year-olds, then I suggest removing this reference.71.224.204.167 10:36, 26 July 2006 (UTC)71.224.204.167 10:38, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

There appear to be one or two anon users who are intent on removing salient facts from the article. For no good reason. Not even for a stated reason (however wrong). If this persists - we need to consider protection of the article. If people wish to delete legitimate factual information - a reason should be offered on the talk pages. Make a case for deleting material. Don't just delete information which is factual and pertinent without any reason, Davidpatrick 22:23, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted section

I removed this from the Criticism section where it didn't belong:

As of 2006-2007, Miramax has been discontinuing some of their films from dvd release. Some most notably the Woody Allen films Mighty Aphrodite, Everyone says I love you, Bullets over Broadway. It is unclear if these films will be re-released with anamorphic widescreen transfers or are just long-lost, forgotten gems.

I don't know where it should, or if it should even be included since it seems to be specific to just these movies. Tocharianne 15:39, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism section

The criticism section is grammatically poor and contains questionable information.

For example: " Many North American fans, wanting to see the films held up by Miramax, would seek out DVD versions of the films on the Internet from overseas dealers. MonkeyPeaches, a website about Chinese movies, accuses both its ISP and Miramax of "backstabbing" their site by threatening, without giving the site any warning, a lawsuit unless it immediately stopped selling Hero, which was still in US theaters. The ISP responded by shutting down the site.[4] "

Why is it notable that a bootlegging site got shut down? Also, the language in this paragraph is loaded and leading. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rjamm (talk • contribs) 07:05, 2 March 2008 (UTC)