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* For a number of years until Disney acquired the company, the word "presents", in script, would appear under the logo.

* On some films, the "FILMS" text is omitted.

* On some widescreen versions of the logo, the top and bottom edges of the "Big M" touch the black borders, or are cut off.

* Sometimes, the logo fades out early while the rest of the music plays.

* Rarely, the text would be {{color|silver}}.

* On ''Ready to Wear'', when the "M" zooms out, the entire logo zooms out even further.

* For the international version, "INTERNATIONAL" replaces "FILMS".

* There is a version of the International version where "presents" (in the same script) appears under the logo.

* On ''Scandal'', the logo is still, except for "presents" fading in.

* On ''Pulp Fiction'' and the English Canadian VHS of ''Gordy'', the last two notes of the fanfare are cut off.

* Sometimes, the music is double pitched.

* This first appeared on ''I've Heard the Mermaids Singing'', and made its last appearance at the end of ''Music of the Heart'' (which uses the next logo below at the beginning).

* The "presents" variant appears on the R1 DVDs of ''Strictly Ballroom'', ''Kolya'', the Live Entertainment releases of ''The Crying Game'', the VHS releases of ''The Grifters'' (but not on the Canadian Cineplex Odeon VHS, where it's skipped entirely), ''Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!'', the Canadian VHS release of ''Prospero's Books'', and the Canadian Seville Pictures DVD of ''Breaking the Rules'' (VUDU prints use MCEG instead, though with Miramax's jingle retained, oddly), among others.

* The version that fades out early can be seen on ''Il Postino'' (''The Postman'') and ''Everest''.

* Don't expect to see this logo on ''Bob Roberts'', despire the print logo appearing on posters and trailers, only the 1990 [[Paramount Pictures]] logo is used on-screen.

* It was also originally seen on U.S. theatrical prints of ''Freddie'' as ''F.R.O.7'' and ''Tom and Jerry: The Movie'', but the home video releases show no evidence, though in the case of the former, it's an alternate cut.  

* Strangely, this can be seen on ''The Crow: City of Angels'', but [[Dimension Films|Dimension]] distributed the film. It was also spotted on the 1999 HBO DVD of ''My Left Foot'', and is preserved on the Anchor Bay DVDs of ''Strapless'' and ''The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover''. It is also seen on early U.S. prints of ''Princess Mononoke'' while later prints use the next logo and the 2017 DVD uses the GKIDS logo. It was also seen on the Canadian VHS releases of ''The Girl in a Swing'' and ''The Miracle'', despite the fact that [[Millimeter Films|Millimeter]] and [[Prestige Films|Prestige]] distributed those two respective films to U.S. theaters. It can also be found on the U.S. [[Buena Vista Home Entertainment|Buena Vista]]/[[Lionsgate Home Entertainment|Lionsgate]] Blu-Rays of ''Sling Blade, Chasing Amy, Life is Beautiful'', the Alliance Blu-Ray releases of ''The English Patent, Good Will Hunting'', and the Echo Bridge Blu-Ray of ''Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood''.

* This may have been seen on theatrical prints of ''The Long Walk Home'', but VHS releases skip the logo (despite its presence on the box).

* This also makes a surprise appearance on the US dub of ''Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra'' instead of the next logo, and makes a very strange appearance on an Italian HDTV airing of ''The Brothers Grimm'' (instead of the international variant of the next logo).

* It was also seen on the Canadian [[Cineplex Odeon Video (Canada)|Cineplex Odeon]] VHS releases of ''Gulliver's Travels'' (1983), ''The Golden Treasure, The Adventures of the Magnificent Six and a Half, The Young Visitors, Tail of the Tiger'' and ''Undercover Gang'', among possible others.

* It also may have been seen on theatrical prints of ''Pastime'', the Canadian comedy ''Crazy Moon, The Pope Must Diet,'' the Canadian thriller ''Murder One,'' and ''House of Cards'', among others.

* Don't expect this to appear on ''Faithful'', which they co-produced with [[Savoy Pictures]].

* It is unknown if this is seen on the Media/Fox VHS release of ''Black Rainbow'' or the [[Charter Entertainment]] VHS of ''I've Heard the Mermaids Singing''.

* It is preserved on the 1995 Canadian Alliance Video VHS release of ''Gordy''.

* The International version was seen on international releases of films of the time. It surprisingly appears at the start of some post 1998-2002 international releases, such as ''Spy Kids'' on its Australian DVD release.

* The International version with "presents" underneath can be found on the 2001 Australian DVD release of ''Emma'' (1996).

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* If you look hard enough, you may possibly see the World Trade Center. This was animated three years before the original World Trade Center was destroyed in a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. On recent films shot on digital, the right tower is removed and the left one is placed to the edge of the city skyline.

* The logo appears to be shot at the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, facing towards Times Square.

* One Astor Plaza, the headquarters of Miramax's future owner ViacomCBS (now [[Paramount Global]]), could be also seen to the left of the skyline.

* From 1998 until 2004, the logo was shot on 35mm film. In the logo's final years from 2005-2008, it is shot on digital.

* When the logo debuted and during the logo's first official year, 1999, the words "20TH ANNIVERSARY" appear above.

* There is a prototype variant of the "20TH ANNIVERSARY" logo where the top text is in {{color|orange}}, white or {{color|yellow}}, depending on the film quality.

* Yet another variant of the "20TH ANNIVERSARY" version exists, where the text is smaller.

* Just like the previous logo, releases outside the United States have the word "FILMS" replaced with "INTERNATIONAL".

* On early films with this logo such as ''Children of Heaven'', and pre-1998 films such as ''The Harmonists'' and ''Mouth to Mouth'', it uses the last logo's theme.

* On the some older HDTV airings and the UK StudioCanal Blu-Ray of ''Shaolin Soccer'', it uses the shortened theme from the next logo, possibly due to a botched plaster job.

* This logo first appeared on ''Shakespeare in Love'', and made its final theatrical appearance on ''The Boy in the Striped Pajamas''.

* Despite plastering from the following logo, it can still be seen on US prints of ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'', ''There Will Be Blood'', and a YouTube Movies print of ''The Aviator'' (2004) and ''Underclassman''.

* This might have appeared on some international prints of the 2002 French/Italian co-production, ''Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra'' (which includes Miramax's English dub), or the [[Buena Vista International]] logo, as [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] owned Miramax at the time. The previous logo appears on DVDs and TV airings of the films for unknown reasons.

* The International version was seen on international releases of films of the time.

* A prototype variant exists where there is added motion blur, there is a timelapse effect in the clouds, a boat is floating in the water, the buildings' lights turn off slower and the dark yellow sky at the end doesn't fade out. It's overall a much more detailed version of the logo.

* Since 2010, most films only show the last half of the logo.

* Starting in 2011, the word "FILMS" is omitted. Both of these versions (particularly the latter) plaster over older Miramax logos on new releases of their films.

* Starting in 2016, a registered trademark ("®") symbol appears next to the wordmark.

* On recent prints of ''My Life So Far'' (2002), this plastered the “20th Anniversary” variant of the previous logo, but for some reason, they keep the “20th Anniversary” text.

* The closing version has just the logo and the city skyline.

* It first appeared on ''Doubt'', and made its final appearance on ''Whitney''.

* It also plasters older Miramax logos on recent prints of films. Strangely, it appears before the 1990 [[Walt Disney Pictures]] logo on ''Runaway Brain'' when it was a digital-exclusive extra on ''Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection''.

* It also strangely appears on a recent Cinemax broadcast of ''Tombstone'', a [[Hollywood Pictures]] film. Until [[Lionsgate Films|Lionsgate]] and [[Echo Bridge Home Entertainment|Echo Bridge]] assumed the home media rights to the Miramax catalog, this was used as a de-facto home video logo.

* 2018-2020: "{{color|blue|A '''beIN MEDIA GROUP''' COMPANY}}" (in variations of the Gotham font) underneath the "{{color|blue|'''MAX'''}}" text.

* 2020-: "{{color|blue|A '''beIN MEDIA GROUP''' AND '''VIACOMCBS''' COMPANY}}", with "VIACOMCBS" being the corporate logo, centered underneath the logo.

* 2022-: "{{color|blue|A '''beIN MEDIA GROUP''' & '''PARAMOUNT''' COMPANY}}" in the Peak Sans font, centered underneath the logo.

* First appeared on the final trailer for ''Halloween'' (2018), and debuted on the film itself.

* It was also seen on ''The Gentlemen'', ''Wrath of Man'' and the 4K remastered of ''Scream'' (1996).

* The shorter version first appeared on ''The Perfection'', and it will most likely only appear on non-theatrically released films and [[Miramax Television]] shows. It also appears at the beginning of Miramax's YouTube videos.

* The Paramount byline debuted on the [https://www.miramax.com/tv/ TV section] of the company's website and is expected to make its first appearance on ''Confess, Fletch''. As of now, it is used in tandem with the BeIN/ViacomCBS byline, although that could change in the foreseeable future.

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