After months of tug-of-war negotiations, the Walt Disney Company and Miramax founders Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein finally announced an agreement Tuesday, ending their 12-year relationship. It boiled down to this: Disney gets the Miramax name and library; the Weinsteins reportedly get $130-140 million, Miramax’s Dimension Films subsidiary, and several films that they’ve been developing (although they must pay Disney a fee for each of them). Today’s New York Times reported that the Weinsteins intend to combine the money with whatever their investment bankers, Goldman Sachs, line up to start a new film company. For the time being, it’s being called “The Weinstein Co.” In an interview with the Times, Harvey Weinstein implied that things might have gone differently if the new regime at Disney had been in place earlier. Weinstein ticked off numerous “entrepreneurial deals” that Disney, under Michael Eisner and chief strategist Peter Murphy had rejected. “At the new Disney,” Weinstein told the newspaper, “I think that those entrepreneurial efforts will be met with a stronger response. So that’s the irony of this deal.” Separately, he told the Wall Street Journal: “I could have built a $5 billion company, rather than a $2 billion one.” Analysts expressed doubt that the Weinsteins will be able to enjoy more autonomy with their new company than with their old. Veteran media analyst Jeffrey Logsdon with investment bankers Harris Nesbitt said in a Los Angeles Times interview: “Clearly, they’ve had enormous financial flexibility under the Disney umbrella, which is not likely to continue no matter how they design their independent company.” The Weinsteins are due to remain with Miramax until September 30. Thus far, there has been little speculation about who will replace them. (Disney said Tuesday that their successors will be named in July.) Speaking to the Chicago Tribune, Paramount Pictures Co-President Ruth Vitale remarked, “To me the biggest curiosity factor is who’s taking over Miramax and what will that look like? That’s more interesting to me. Harvey and Bob will be Harvey and Bob wherever they are.”