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'''Miramax Films''' is a film and television production and distribution company that was started on December 19, 1979 by Bob Weinstein and his now-disgraced brother Harvey. The company name was created by combining the names of their parents: their mother '''Mir'''i'''a'''m, and father '''Max'''. In 1987, they went full throttle as far as producing/distributing movies are concerned. In 1992, [[Dimension Films]] was created by Bob as a division of the studio. A year later, in 1993, both companies were purchased by [[The Walt Disney Company]], though it still licensed home video rights to Live Entertainment (which had already been distributing select Miramax titles, beginning with ''Hostile Takeover'', on videocassette) until it formed a new home video division in late 1994.  

'''FX/SFX:''' Nice cel animation for the time.

* 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 the [[Morgan Creek Entertainment Group|Morgan Creek]] logo instead, though with Miramax's jingle retained, oddly), among others.

* 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 Patient, 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''. It's also intact on the 2005 Australian ''Pulp Fiction'' 2-Disc 10th Anniversary Special Edition DVD.

'''FX/SFX:''' Excellent use of CGI effects.

* In an interesting occurrence, when ''Confessions of a Dangerous Mind'' airs on Starz/Encore, the standard-definition version retains this logo, but the high-definition airings of the film features the next logo below instead.

'''FX/SFX:''' A marvelous hybrid of live-action and CGI effects, made by Studio Nos.

* 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.

 

'''Legacy:''' Once again, this logo is well-liked due to the amazing CGI render of the New York City background, but some people are annoyed how it plasters older Miramax logos. While it does get some notoriety, the logo wasn't very notorious when it debuted in 2008 (due to it being the longer variant and not yet plastering).

'''FX/SFX:''' Amazing CGI animation. This was animated by MOCEAN, who would eventually animate the [[Searchlight Pictures]] logo later on in 2020.