20th Century Studios Home Entertainment

Final TCFHE logo used from 2010 until 2020

20th Century Studios Home Entertainment (commonly referred to as 20th Home Video, formerly known as 20th Century-Fox Video, Fox Video, and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment) was a home video brand label of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment that releases films produced by 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, and 20th Century Animation, and television series by 20th Television, 20th Television Animation, FX, and National Geographic in home entertainment formats.

Founded in 1976, it served as its own distinct home video distribution arm of Fox Entertainment Group. On March 20, 2019, The Walt Disney Company acquired 21st Century Fox, and as a result, 20th Century Home Entertainment's operations were folded into Disney's own home entertainment division. It now operates as a label of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, and also releases titles from other studios it has prior distribution deals with.

After The Walt Disney Company acquisition of 21st Century Fox was completed on March 20, 2019, TCFHE are now operated as a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment as they will distribute future Fox movies and tv show releases under TCFHE banner, starting with X-Men: Dark Phoenix, while TCSHE are still currently acted as a home media distributor of MGM Home Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures. Underwater was the final home media release to used TCFHE logo and the main company as a whole to distributed.

They serve as a UK/France distributor Pathé titles and their film library for VHS, DVD and Blu-ray. Fox also distributed MGM, Annapurna Pictures titles in North America.

TCSHE currently distributes MGM and United Artists films on DVD and Blu-ray after MGM ended their agreement with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Fox's worldwide distribution deal with MGM was due to expire in September 2011, but was renewed and extended on April 13, 2011 and was due to expire in 2016, but was renewed and extended again for the third time, which means it will be due to expire in June 2020. They also distribute titles from Lionsgate, EuropaCorp and Entertainment One. TCFHE formerly distributed Clarius Entertainment titles until the company changed its name to Aviron Pictures and switched its North American home video distributor to Universal Pictures Home Entertainment in 2015.

Fox's best selling DVD titles are currently the various season box sets of The Simpsons. They also once served as the U.S. distributor for television and/or film products released by BBC Video until the North American distribution rights were transferred to Warner Home Video. They also distributed HIT Entertainment releases in 2006 until 2008 when video distribution moved to Lionsgate Home Entertainment, then Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Starting in late 2006, the company began releasing its titles on Blu-ray.

With the home media release of The Call of the Wild, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (used Buena Vista Home Entertainment as the legal name for the distribution of the home media) briefly took over the home media distribution since and used 20th Century Studios around the world as an in-name label/banner only, while keeping the TCFHE name as a copyright holder according to the back cover of DVD/Blu-ray cover.

Following the launch of Disney+ in 2019 and its international expansion in the following years, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (which had been distributing 20th Century & Searchlight titles since 2020) has begun to discontinue physical distribution entirely in certain regions such as Latin America, Australia, Portugal, Asia (except Japan), Greece, Russia, Eastern Europe (with the exception of the Czech Republic and Poland) or to outsource its activities to other regional distributors in markets like the United Kingdom (Elevation Sales), Czech Republic (Magic Box), Poland (Galapagos), Spain (Divisa Films), Italy (Eagle Pictures), Scandinavia (SF Studios), France and Benelux (ESC Distribution), and Germany (Leonine Studios),.

In February 2024, Disney entered into a home video distribution agreement with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, in which Sony would handle all physical media production and distribution for Disney's home entertainment assets in North America.

20th Century Studios Home Entertainment

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