Talk:Miramax/Archives/2014

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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

List of Miramax Films

I want to erase the list of Miramax in the principal article, because we have a special article that have the list, like in the article of Touchstone, but i can erase that because Wiki reverts my changes... PhoenixMen 06:54, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

Dimension

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

Disney's ruling over NC-17 films

Disney will not release an NC-17 film, because they say it will hurt their reputation. Disney does have say over them, and they will not release them. However Bob and Harvey have gotten around this rule by clipping a few seconds from the movie, to make it barely "R". (Kids is an example) Also, they didn't want to clip any part of one of their movies (each second was too important to the story line) so they created their own distribution company called Excalibur, to distribute that one film.

Note: I know Bob and Harvey have left the company, so please don't message me about this...

68.238.118.253 (talk) 00:41, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Miramax was closed

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-29/disney-shuts-miramax-indy-studio-weinsteins-led-to-oscar-glory.html --190.43.44.185 (talk) 07:58, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

new owner use Lionsgates film to distribuiton DVD/Blu-ray

i update a real issue with the new owner of miramax, the situation is that Disney (formely owner) had the option of Spanish and French audio, now there is no such option in the DVD/Blu-ray realease. actualize it in this wiki.i update this in this entry, but user:Nightscream, will revert this entry for lacking of sources, the problem is that this entry have lack of sources. How to add this issue? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheHispanMedia (talk • contribs) 00:13, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Changing of Official Wikipedia Title to Account for Company Name Change

This Miramax page should have its official Wikipedia Title changed from "Miramax Films" to simply "Miramax" because that is the true name of the company at this point in time. In addition, the sidebar should be updated to include the new logo to also reflect the name change and subsequent logo change. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dymo450 (talk • contribs) 20:06, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Requested move

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: move the page, not because the official name has changed but because of consensus that the new title reflects common usage. Dekimasuよ! 02:17, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

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Miramax Films → Miramax – This Miramax page should have its official Wikipedia Title changed from "Miramax Films" to simply "Miramax" because that is the true name of the company at this point in time. The sidebar has been updated to include the new logo to also reflect the name change and subsequent logo change. Please see www.miramax.com for more information. Dymo450 (talk) 20:16, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support Normally we don't just base moves of an official name changing but rather how the common name is used among reliable sources. However, I believe and a search seems to confirm that this has been the commonly used name for a while already, so it's really not an issue.--Yaksar (let's chat) 22:54, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support What are you saying is not really an issue? Are you implying that it's not important enough to change a large film studio's wiki name to its correct name since it has changed ownership and also changed its business practices? If so, that is largely a mistake on your part. Would you not update Apple Computer to Apple Inc. after it had changed its name? Or would you not make AOL Time Warner be updated to Time Warner Inc.? I respectfully disagree that the name change should not move forward. It is an ill-conceived argument to say that because people still recognize the name "Miramax Films", that the Wiki page should not be changed to reflect the true name, "Miramax".Dymo450 (talk) 17:35, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

• Two points - 1) You normally don't need to give a !vote on a requested move that you've nominated. I don't think it's expressly forbidden or anything, but especially when it's not the first comment it gives an impression that more people are involved in the discussion than there actually are. 2) I believe you've misread my comment expressing support.--Yaksar (let's chat) 18:46, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

• It's actually expressly allowed, with a caveat: "After the nomination has been made, nominators may nevertheless add a separate bullet point to support their nomination, but should add 'as nominator'" per WP:RM/CM. Dekimasuよ! 23:50, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

My mistake. Re-reading your statement, still makes it seem confusing. But I must apologize. I was under the presumption that you were voicing opposition in the way that I read it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dymo450 (talk • contribs) 20:54, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

No worries, sorry for being terse in my response.--Yaksar (let's chat) 20:58, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support for all the reasons above. Red Slash 02:09, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.