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The Rules state:

Studios
List the Studios in the following priority.

    * Theatrical Release Studio(s)
    * Production Company(s)
    * DVD Distribution studio(s) if there is room available.

Do not abbreviate Studio names. e.g, use Universal Pictures not just Universal; The Criterion Collection rather than Criterion or Criterion Collection; Walt Disney Pictures not just Disney or Disney DVD. Exception: If the studio name is too long to fit, use standard abbreviation rules.

There is further information about correct names for studios, and the opportunity to ask questions if unsure, in the Contributions forum.

There is no such thing Distributor wise as Dimension Home Video, Touchstone Home Video, Hollywood Home Video or whatever. All of thses companies are, or were until VERY recently, divisions of the Walt Disney Company. All film to DVD products, again until very recently, are released by a SINGLE entity, that entity was Buena Vista Home Entertainment. The various Home Video  divisions are simply producers of the DVD for which that particular film division was responsible. This can be easily determined by looking at the bottom of any Disney Co. related film, the fine print on the back will always say DISTRIBUTED by Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Therefore, at this time we do not use the various DVD producers within the Disney Company, which could even include walt Diusney Parks and resorts.

This may well undergo some modification with the recent name change BVHE...we will have to wait and see. It obviously also is not going to include Miramax anymore, while Diwsney still owns the old Miramax catalog and they will not change, new Miramax Films is now a totally separate business entity from the Disney Co,

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Skip

Quoting Patsa:

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Buena Vista is no more (...)

Thou shalt not abbreviate studio names!   

IMHO, studio names should be entered exactly as credited. Rules right now are too unclear... just my opinion.

Just more proof of how evil Disney is.

Miramax still isn't a dvd distributor, it's The Weinstein Company, who's probably more evil with that BS Blockbuster deal. I'm not Blockbuster, and I won't ever have another account there either. Lucky I hear most of the "Dimension Extreme" titles that I can't rent suck anyway. Not sure how Black Sheep got on the label in the US, that was a great flick.

Actually, Skip, your claim was that "the fine print on the back will always say DISTRIBUTED by Buena Vista Home Entertainment". This no longer being the case means that the whole situation has to be reviewed, so I'd personally like a number of opinions or conclusions, and possibly someone who has firm details on the whole restructuring, my googlings seems to conflict themselves.

No, it's not "wait and see". The name change is a fact, at least in some localities. Skip, you pretend to know a lot about things which you clearly does not comprehend.

I wish we had a "common" studio name field, so we could tie all those sub-studios to the main one.

Quoting skipnet50:

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The Online is seeking real data which in this case is On Screen.

If you mean "as credited", then I have to disagree strongly. The contribution rules are after "correct names for studios" - whatever that may be. Note that the rules very clearly NOT say: "enter studios as credited on-screen" - and quite rightly so, IMHO.