From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment They also distributed The Magic School Bus videos from
Type Subsidiary of 20th Century Fox 1999 to 2002 while the series was aired on Fox.
Roadshow Home Video had distributed the titles in
Industry Home video
New Zealand.
Founded 1976 (1976)[1] Out of all the Fox Kids programs in the United States
sold to The Walt Disney Company, Goosebumps is one of
Headquarters Century City, Los Angeles
the very few Fox Kids shows that was not sold to Disney
Key people Mike Dunn (President) and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment still holds the
Simon Swart (EVP) Home entertainment distribution rights to release them
Products Home video on DVD since 1995.
They will also distribute Own-produced movies and
Owner(s) News Corporation
English-dubbed Japanese Anime films dubbed by 4Kids
Parent 20th Century Fox Entertainment releases on DVD and Blu-ray in the United
News Corporation States as the company has a deal with The CW4Kids and
Website foxconnect.com 4Kids TV, since its Saturday Morning block was first aired
on Fox.
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is the home video In 2007, the company began releasing its titles on Blu-
distribution arm of the 20th Century Fox film studio. It ray Disc, with Universal Studios doing it in 2008, which
was established in 1976 as Magnetic Video Corporation
Corporation, both of them will become the last remaining major Hol-
and later as 20th Century Fox Video CBS/Fox Video and
Video, CBS/Fox lywood studios to enter the high-definition home video
FoxVideo, Inc. The company also is best known for dis-
Inc.. market.
tributing the two highest-grossing films of all time, Titan-
ic and Avatar.
CBS/Fox
CBS/Fox became Fox Video in 1991, alternating with
the CBS/Fox name until 1998. It was re-named as 20th
CBS/Fox Fox Connect (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s Website)
Century Fox Home Entertainment in 1995, alternating Logo
with the Fox Video name until 1999.
They serve as a UK distributor for French film distrib-
utor, Pathé and their film library for VHS/DVD release
Labels
while Warner Bros. handles theatrical distribution as of • 20th Century Fox Studio Classics
2010. Fox also distributed Yari Film Group DVD titles in • 20th Century Fox Cinema Classics Collection
North America. • 20th Century Fox Film Noir
They also distribute Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Unit- • 20th Century Fox Marquee Musicals
ed Artists DVD titles worldwide under the MGM Home • Fox War Classics
Entertainment label since MGM ended their home video
agreement with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, with
the exception of certain MGM/UA/Columbia TriStar co-
References
productions (in such cases, SPHE continues to own do- [1] "20th Century Fox: Company History".
mestic video rights). Fox’s worldwide distribution deal http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-
with MGM was due to expire in September 2011, but was histories/Twentieth-Century-Fox-Film-
renewed and extended on April 13, 2011 and will due to Corporation-Company-History.html. Retrieved
expire in 2016) as well as Largo Entertainment among April 10, 2010.
others. Fox’s best selling DVD titles are currently the var- [2] The Simpsons - ’Don’t have a cow man’ - Season 4
ious season box sets of The Simpsons.[2] g] They also once press release!
served as the U.S. distributor for television and/or movie
products released by the BBC from the 1980s to the 1990s, External links
but those U.S. distribution rights expired at the end of
1999, and were then given to Warner Home Video. • 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment at the
Internet Movie Database
• Fox Video at the Internet Movie Database
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
• Fox Home Entertainment’s US website • Fox Home Entertainment’s UK site, which distributes
their TV shows on DVD
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• Home video companies of the United States
• 20th Century Fox
• News Corporation subsidiaries
• Companies based in Los Angeles, California
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