Miramax, the independent production studio that was founded in 1979 by the mercurial Bob and Harvey Weinstein, has officially gone out of business. Under their guidance, the company enjoyed financial and critical success, having backed off-beat films that most major studios would have ignored. The brothers sold the company to Disney in 1993 but they continued to exert an astonishing amount of autonomy in running Miramax. However, after clashing with Michael Eisner, the Weinsteins left Miramax and Disney to form The Weinstein Company in 2005. Miramax died a slow death in the ensuing years and Disney finally officially closed the company today. For full details
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