Filmyard Holdings
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Filmyard Holdings, LLC is a pure holding company and is the current parent company of Miramax Films
Miramax Films
Miramax Films is an American entertainment company known for distributing independent and foreign films. For its first 14 years the company was privately owned by its founders, Bob and Harvey Weinstein...

. Through this company, Ron Tutor (CEO of Tutor-Saliba Corporation
Tutor-Saliba Corporation
The Tutor-Saliba Corporation is a building contractor and heavy civil works construction company. In 2008, it was ranked the 37th largest general contractor in the United States by Engineering News-Record.-Portfolio:...

), Tom Barrack (CEO of Colony Capital), Qatar Investment Authority
Qatar Investment Authority
The Qatar Investment Authority is Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, specializing in domestic and foreign investment. It was founded in 2005 to manage the oil and natural gas surpluses by the Government of Qatar...

 & The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company is an American film studio founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005 after the brothers left the then-Disney-owned Miramax Films, which they had co-founded in 1979...

 own the studio. Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe
Robert Hepler "Rob" Lowe is an American actor. Lowe came to prominence after appearing in films such as The Outsiders, Oxford Blues, About Last Night..., St. Elmo's Fire, and Wayne's World. On television, Lowe is known for his role as Sam Seaborn on The West Wing and his role as Senator Robert...

 is an investor in Colony's entertainment fund.

On December 3, 2010, Disney closed the sale of Miramax to Filmyard Holdings. Investors put in $200 million in capital while raising $400 million in liabilities through Barclays PLC led group of banks. Mike Lang
Mike Lang
Mike Lang is the current Chief Executive Officer of Miramax Films.Lang was a former News Corp. executive. In that job he had a hand in acquiring MySpace and starting up Hulu. Lang was a consultant on the deal for Filmyard Holdings to purchase Miramax Films from Walt Disney Company. At closing he...

, former business development executive at News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...

, was selected as the CEO of Miramax, and the sale, estimated around US$663 million, includes 700 film titles, as well as 90 book rights, 300 development projects and the "Miramax" name. Additional, Miramax came with $50 million in cash, $10 million in adjusted fees and a few finished films ready to distribute. Two, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011 film)
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is a 2011 American horror film written by Matthew Robbins and Guillermo del Toro, directed by comic book artist Troy Nixey and filmed in Mount Macedon, Victoria and Melbourne, Australia...

and The Debt, will be released in 2011 by some distributor besides Disney. Filmyard is current content with generation revenue off Miramax's film library.
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