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Since two of the majors and (at this point) all of the mini-majors (think Lionsgate, Weinstein Company, and Summit Entertainment) are abstaining, will theaters give preferential treatment to the studios who don't yet take part in this program?
Scott Mendelson: The Shot Heard Round the Industry... Studios' doomed plan for pre-DVD Video On Demand. Scott Mendelson 2011
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Since two of the majors and (at this point) all of the mini-majors (think Lionsgate, Weinstein Company, and Summit Entertainment) are abstaining, will theaters give preferential treatment to the studios who don't yet take part in this program?
Scott Mendelson: The Shot Heard Round the Industry... Studios' doomed plan for pre-DVD Video On Demand. Scott Mendelson 2011
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Call them specialty divisions, mini-majors, production companies, or distributors, but don't call them indie studios.
Warner Independent Pictures and Picturehouse Shut Down! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I mentioned Screen Gems, Castle Rock, etc. because they fall under studio owned mini-majors much like Miramax Films, which you mentioned (and doesn't produce genre films either).
Warner Independent Pictures and Picturehouse Shut Down! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The major studios and mini-majors were all flush with hedge fund cash that was being hauled in by the boatload.
Jeff Steele: Note: Oscars Don't Finance Films Jeff Steele 2010
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It used to be far less than that, but we now have far more cable networks and a lot of mini-majors out there.
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MusicPublicityBigWig: these days though the indie labels are behaving just like mini-majors though
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Large service companies are beginning to act like mini-majors, providing contract services to national oil companies or multi-national oil companies.
unknown title 2011
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Most mini-majors - small independent divisions of the studio - have shut down in the last 12 months, taking away the majority of US wealthy indie acquisition and production houses from the marketplace.
home 2009
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Most mini-majors - small independent divisions of the studio - have shut down in the last 12 months, taking away the majority of US wealthy indie acquisition and production houses from the marketplace.
home 2009
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