Number of employees 100+ Current: Former: Prestige Films Millemeter Films Miramax Home Entertainment Dimension Home Video Miramax Records Dimension Records Miramax Zoe Former: (with ) Website Miramax (also known as Miramax Films) is an American company known for producing and distributing films and television shows. It is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. Miramax was founded in 1979 by brothers and, and was a leading independent film motion picture distribution and production company before it was acquired by on June 30, 1993. Shortly thereafter, was released.

The Weinsteins operated Miramax with more creative and financial independence than any other division of Disney, until September 30, 2005 when they left the company and founded. Miramax was sold by Disney to, a joint venture of,, and, in 2010, ending Disney's 17-year ownership of the studio. In 2016, ownership was transferred to. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] Independent era (1979–1993) [ ] The company was founded by the brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein in in 1979, and was named by combining the first names of their parents Miriam and Max. It was created to distribute deemed commercially unfeasible by the. The company's first major success came when the Weinsteins teamed up with British producer and acquired the U.S.

Rights to two concert films Lewis had produced of for organization. The Weinsteins worked with Lewis to distill the two films into one film for the US marketplace. The resulting film (US Version) was a successful release for Miramax in the summer of 1982. This release presaged a modus operandi that the company would undertake later in the 1980s of acquiring films from international filmmakers and reworking them to suit US sensibilities. Among the company's other breakthrough films as distributors in the late 1980s and early 1990s were;;;; and. Habib Wali Muhammad Mp3 Free Download there. The company also made films such as, and. Miramax acquired and/or produced many other films that did extraordinarily well financially.