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===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||
'''Miramax Home Entertainment''' was the home entertainment division of [[Miramax Films]], formed in early 1992 as Miramax Home Video after years of having their films released by several home video distributors including [[HBO Home Entertainment|HBO Video]], [[Media Home Entertainment]] (through [[Fox Video]]) and [[Live Entertainment|LIVE Home Video]]. The same year, Miramax struck a deal with [[Paramount Home Entertainment]] to have them release their films on VHS (Paramount still owns the video rights to some of these films). After Disney bought out the company in 1993, Miramax's video releases were distributed by [[Buena Vista Home Entertainment|Buena Vista Home Video]], first through [[Touchstone Home Entertainment|Touchstone Home Video]]. A year later, in 1994, Buena Vista created Miramax Home Entertainment as a label for its distribution | '''Miramax Home Entertainment''' was the home entertainment division of [[Miramax Films]], formed in early 1992 as Miramax Home Video after years of having their films released by several home video distributors including [[HBO Home Entertainment|HBO Video]], [[Media Home Entertainment]] (through [[Fox Video]]) and [[Live Entertainment|LIVE Home Video]]. The same year, Miramax struck a deal with [[Paramount Home Entertainment]] to have them release their films on VHS (Paramount still owns the video rights to some of these films). After Disney bought out the company in 1993, Miramax's video releases were distributed by [[Buena Vista Home Entertainment|Buena Vista Home Video]], first through [[Touchstone Home Entertainment|Touchstone Home Video]]. A year later, in 1994, Buena Vista created Miramax Home Entertainment as a label for its distribution of Miramax products. [[Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment]] continued distributing Miramax products until 2011 (after the company's founders and CEOs, the Weinstein brothers, left two years earlier). In December 2010, Miramax was sold by Disney to Filmyard Holdings, LLC, a division of Colony Capital. In February 2011, they entered a home video agreement with [[Lionsgate Home Entertainment]] and [[StudioCanal]] to distribute more than 550 titles from the renowned Miramax film library on DVD, and later that month, they made a deal with [[Echo Bridge Acquisition Corp.|Echo Bridge Home Entertainment]] for domestic DVD distribution of the studio's additional 251 titles. In March 2014 though, Echo Bridge lost the distribution rights to those titles, allowing Lionsgate to obtain complete access to the Miramax catalog. Later in December 2019, ViacomCBS (now [[Paramount Global]]) bought a 49% stake in Miramax and took over the home media distribution rights the next year from Lionsgate, with Paramount Home Entertainment returning to release all of Miramax's titles on home video since September 22, 2020; Paramount now handles the home video rights to the company's library worldwide. | ||
===1st Logo (August 24, 1994-August 30, 2005)=== | ===1st Logo (August 24, 1994-August 30, 2005)=== | ||
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* This also appears on the 2002 Australian VHS and DVD releases of ''Serendipity'' and the 2002 Australian DVD release of ''Bounce'' (which is strange, as they were both released during the next logo's lifespan). | * This also appears on the 2002 Australian VHS and DVD releases of ''Serendipity'' and the 2002 Australian DVD release of ''Bounce'' (which is strange, as they were both released during the next logo's lifespan). | ||
* While Miramax's first videocassettes, issued through Paramount, have a home video variation of the Miramax print logo, there is no animated version of it on said releases as they simply use the standard film logo, if that. | * While Miramax's first videocassettes, issued through Paramount, have a home video variation of the Miramax print logo, there is no animated version of it on said releases as they simply use the standard film logo, if that. | ||
* UK VHS releases didn't start using this logo until the late 90s. Prior to that, Miramax and Dimension titles were released under the [[Touchstone Home Entertainment|Touchstone Home Video]] and [[Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment|Hollywood Pictures Home Video]] labels. Other than that, this logo was used in the UK until 2005, as seen on a VHS copy of '' | * UK VHS releases didn't start using this logo until the late 90s. Prior to that, Miramax and Dimension titles were released under the [[Touchstone Home Entertainment|Touchstone Home Video]] and [[Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment|Hollywood Pictures Home Video]] labels. Other than that, this logo was used in the UK until 2005, as seen on a VHS copy of ''MyScene Goes Hollywood: The Movie''. | ||
===2nd Logo (1999-January 8, 2008)=== | ===2nd Logo (1999-January 8, 2008)=== | ||
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* Appears on the ''Bionicle'' movie trilogy at the beginning of the film (after the [[Lego]] logo). | * Appears on the ''Bionicle'' movie trilogy at the beginning of the film (after the [[Lego]] logo). | ||
* It doesn't appear on the 2005 DVD of '' | * It doesn't appear on the 2005 DVD of ''MyScene Goes Hollywood: The Movie'', even though the VHS version of the said film has it. It instead uses the [[Miramax Family Films|Miramax Family]] logo. | ||
* The European DVD releases of ''Pokémon 4Ever'' and ''Pokémon Heroes'' strangely do not use this logo, instead it uses the [[Buena Vista Home Entertainment]] logo, while the VHS release of the former uses the previous logo. | * The European DVD releases of ''Pokémon 4Ever'' and ''Pokémon Heroes'' strangely do not use this logo, instead it uses the [[Buena Vista Home Entertainment]] logo, while the VHS release of the former uses the previous logo. | ||
* The opposite occurs on the 2002 VHS & DVD releases of ''The Adventures of Tom Thumb & Thumbelina'', where despite Miramax not being mentioned on their labels, it appears on both versions of the film regardless. On the DVD version, this appears right after the 2nd [[Buena Vista Home Entertainment|Buena Vista Home Video]] logo. | * The opposite occurs on the 2002 VHS & DVD releases of ''The Adventures of Tom Thumb & Thumbelina'', where despite Miramax not being mentioned on their labels, it appears on both versions of the film regardless. On the DVD version, this appears right after the 2nd [[Buena Vista Home Entertainment|Buena Vista Home Video]] logo. | ||