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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck originally wrote 'Good Will Hunting' with an oral sex scene between the main character and his shrink to see which film execs had truly read the script. They sold the film rights to Harvey Weinstein of Miramax, the only one to mention the scene was wildly out of place
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Due to budget issues, the Lord of the Rings trilogy was briefly planned as one film. Helm's Deep and Saruman were cut, Rohan and Gondor merged with Éowyn as Boromir's sister, etc. Upset by the idea of "cutting out half the good stuff," Peter Jackson left Miramax and went to New Line Cinema.
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Disney Owned Miramax for a time, technically making Pulp Fiction a Disney film.
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The 1994 film "Clerks" had an extended, but a much darker ending, in which Dante Hicks was murdered by a robber who then proceeded to take the money from the cash register. Miramax reacted negatively and ordered writer-director Kevin Smith to delete that ending completely.
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After Disney acquired Miramax in 1993, the first film given the green-light was Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction
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In 1997, at the age of 33, Guillermo was given a $30 million budget from Miramax Films to shoot another film, Mimic. During this time, his father was kidnapped in Guadalajara. Del Toro's family had to pay twice the amount originally asked for as a ransom."
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Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer were credited for writing Scary Movie despite not actually working on the filmed script due to a decision by the WGA because Miramax had a parody of Scream that they wrote in development at the same time
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Disney owns Buena Vista Home Entertainment, and Buena Vista owns Miramax, who made films such as Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. This means that Disney owns the movie that set a world record for language.
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When Miramax Films purchased the North American film distribution rights for Studio Ghibli's "Princess Mononoke," chairman Harvey Weinstein demanded permission to make cuts in the movie. Producer Toshio Suzuki responded by sending him a katana with a message reading "No cuts."
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Miramax Films is responsible for the English version of David the Gnome and Harvey Weinstein is listed as an Executive Producer
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The longest movie production in history was for "The Thief and the Cobbler", which was created in 1964 and released in 1993. The creator of the film even had the control of the film taken away from him and given to Miramax Films because of how long it took for him to make.
