Quote from: SM on Feb 12, 2018, 07:58:27 PM
Did Miramax not produce any movies above a PG-13 for the 17 years they were owned by Disney?
Miramax never got much Disney love before selling off the Miramax label. During the Disney ownership, they significantly reduced its staff and sharply dropped it's film releases per year. I don't see Disney repeating this venture for the next 17 years for some other owned label.
Back in the early nineties, was it really common knowledge Miramax was owned by Disney? Sure, Disney was a fairly big name even back then, but Miramax films didn't even have the Disney trademark on the end credits. Today, Disney is now not only a bigger name, it's a mega-name. Can a mega-name aimed at family entertainment get away with hard core R films through an "alias" so to speak?
It's comparable to well known authors who sometimes use an alias to publish some books. But once the author, say like Stephen King, becomes a "mega-name", even their alias names are soon associated to the author, like Stephen King's pseudonym Richard Bachman.
I don't know, maybe that's not a very applicable analogy, but if they wouldn't even peddle a kid's cartoon Power Rangers via an "alias" what are the chances of an R-rated space raping Alien getting a Disney green light?