The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio, founded in New York City by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, retained ownership of Dimension Films after leaving what film distributor?
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The Weinstein Company The Weinstein Company (usually credited or abbreviated as TWC) is a mini-major film studio, founded in New York City by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005. The studio originated after the Weinsteins left Miramax Films, which they co-founded in 1979. They retained ownership of Dimension Films. TWC is one of the largest mini-major film studios in North America.
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Dimension Films Dimension Films is an American film production company and independent film distribution label formerly owned by The Walt Disney Studios and now owned by The Weinstein Company. It was formerly used as Bob Weinstein's label within Miramax Films, to produce and release independent films and genre titles, specifically horror and science fiction films.
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Beyond Home Entertainment Beyond Home Entertainment is an independent home entertainment distributor headquartered in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, operating within Australia and New Zealand.
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RKO General RKO General, Inc. was the main holding company through 1991 for the noncore businesses of the General Tire and Rubber Company and, after General Tire's reorganization in the 1980s, GenCorp. The business was based around the consolidation of its parent company's broadcasting interests, dating to 1943, and the RKO Pictures movie studio General Tire purchased in 1955. The holding company acquired the name of RKO General in 1959 after General Tire dissolved the film studio. The original RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. corporation name was then changed to the present day RKO General, Inc. Current RKO Radio Pictures copyrights are held by this corporate name. Headquartered in New York City, the company operated six television stations and more than a dozen major radio stations around North America between 1959 and 1991.
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Filmax International Filmax International is a Spanish motion picture production company and film distributor based in Barcelona, and one of the Spain's most important integrated film and television groups. It produced the "REC" horror series, and owns the Nirvana Films and New World Films International distributors and the Fantastic Factory label, dedicated to create fantasy films in the horror, science fiction and action genres.
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List of The Weinstein Company films The following is the complete list of films produced and distributed by an American company The Weinstein Company. The company was founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005. The company's first releases in 2005 was the dramatic thriller "Derailed" (starring Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel and Clive Owen).
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Ovie Entertainment Ovie Entertainment is an American independent film motion picture production company based in New York City.
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Paramount Vantage Paramount Vantage (originally known as Paramount Classics) was the specialty film division of Paramount Pictures (which, in turn, has Viacom as its parent company), charged with producing, purchasing, distributing and marketing films, generally those with a more "art house" feel than films made and distributed by its parent company.
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Universal Music Distribution Universal Music Distribution (abbreviated as UMD and formerly known as MCA Music Distribution Corp., Uni Distribution Corp., Universal Music & Video Distribution Inc., Universal Music Distribution Corp., Universal Music & Video Distribution Corp.) is a unit of Universal Music Group. It oversees the distribution and sales of such UMG labels as Republic Records, Island Records, Def Jam Recordings, Capitol Music Group, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, UMG Nashville, Verve Music Group, Decca Label Group, Universal Music Latin Entertainment, Universal Music Enterprises, and Varèse Sarabande. It also provides North American distribution to non-Universal-owned labels such as Roc Nation, Big Machine Records, ABKCO Records, Concord Records, Darksyde Productions Inc and Rounder Records and handles worldwide distribution for the Disney Music Group's two labels: Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records. It also managed distribution and sales for Vivendi Entertainment, the company's home entertainment division, until it was sold to Gaiam in 2012.
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Lionsgate Films Lionsgate Films (formerly known as Cinépix Film Properties) (logo styled as LIONSGATE) is an American film production/distribution studio and a division of Lionsgate. It is the largest and most successful mini-major film studio in North America. It focuses on foreign and independent films and has distributed various commercially successful film series, including "The Twilight Saga" (partially, via the firm's 2012 acquisition of "Twilight" distributor Summit Entertainment), "The Hunger Games", "The Divergent Series", "Saw", "Madea", and "The Expendables".
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The Bubble Factory The Bubble Factory is an independent film production company founded in 1995 by former MCA Inc. (then-parent company of Universal Pictures) president/COO Sid Sheinberg with his sons, Jon and Bill. The company was formed after MCA was taken over by Seagram in June 1995. The Bubble Factory would be financed by Seagram and would produce films for release by Universal, with budgets in the $30–50 million range. Sheinberg, however, could take a film to another studio if Universal passed.
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Touchwood Pacific Partners Touchwood Pacific Partners I was an American film financing limited partnership formed by The Walt Disney Company in 1990 for its then three studios, Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures, but owned by general partner, a Yamaichi Securities affiliate, and about 50 limited partners.
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Starz Distribution Starz Distribution (previously IDT Entertainment and Starz Media) is the motion picture, animation, television, and home video operating unit of Starz Inc., a subsidiary of Lionsgate. Starz Distribution develops, produces, and acquires original programming content (Starz and AMC), feature films (Anchor Bay Films), anime (Manga Entertainment) and other filmed entertainment. Distribution methods include DVD, digital formats and traditional television.
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Larry Weinstein Larry Weinstein (born 1956 in Toronto) is a Canadian film director of theatrical and television documentaries, performance films, and dramas. The majority of his films centre on musical subjects and the depiction of the creative process, while his other subjects range from the horrors of war to the pleasures of football.
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XLrator Media XLrator Media is an American film distributor headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The CEO is Barry Gordon, who founded the company in April 2010. In 2014, they began offering film production services in partnership with other companies.
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Studio system The studio system (which was used during a period known as the Golden Age of Hollywood) is a method of film production and distribution dominated by a small number of "major" studios in Hollywood. Although the term is still used today as a reference to the systems and output of the major studios, historically the term refers to the practice of large motion picture studios between the 1920s and 1960s of (a) producing movies primarily on their own filmmaking lots with creative personnel under often long-term contract, and (b) dominating exhibition through vertical integration, i.e., the ownership or effective control of distributors and exhibition, guaranteeing additional sales of films through manipulative booking techniques such as block booking.
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A.D. Vision A.D. Vision (known simply as ADV and also referred to as ADV Films) was an American multimedia entertainment studio that served as the largest American and British anime distributor in the late 20th to early 21st centuries. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, ADV Films was formed in 1992 by video game fan John Ledford and anime fans Matt Greenfield and David Williams. The company spent the next 17 years in the fields of home video production and distribution, broadcast television, theatrical film distribution, merchandising, original productions, magazine and comic book publishing. In 2002, most of ADV Films' back catalog were used to program its new channel, the Anime Network.
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The 4th Dimension (film) The 4th Dimension is an independent film that was released by TLA Entertainment Group on April 8, 2008. It stars Louis Morabito, Miles Williams, Karen Peakes, Kate LaRoss, and Suzanne Inman.
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Diary of the Dead Diary of the Dead is a 2007 horror film by George A. Romero. Although independently produced, it was distributed theatrically by Dimension Films and was released in cinemas on February 15, 2008 and on DVD by The Weinstein Company and Genius Entertainment on May 20, 2008.
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Empire International Pictures Empire International Pictures was an American small scale theatrical distribution company that was formed in 1983 by Charles Band, as a response to the dissatisfaction of how his films were distributed by motion picture companies while making films under the banner of "Charles Band International Productions".
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Mature Pictures Corp. Mature Pictures Corp was a New York based film distribution company that specialized in sexploitation and hardcore pornographic films. It is reported to have been owned by Sam Lake. Sometimes called Maturpix, the company became the videotape releasing company Quality-X-Pix in the late 70s.
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Strand Releasing Strand Releasing is a theatrical distribution company founded in 1989 and is based in Culver City, California. The company has distributed over 300 auteur-driven titles from acclaimed international and American directors such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Gregg Araki, François Ozon, Jean-Luc Godard, Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Fatih Akin, Aki Kaurismaki, Claude Miller, Manoel de Oliveira, Gaspar Noe, Andre Techine and Terence Davies.