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“Films are making more money in home video than in theatrical in many cases. It’s had a profound effect on the business.” - John Carpenter (1990)

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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Background 20th Century Fox was born in 1935 as the result of a merger between two other studios, Twentieth Century Pictures and Fox Film Corp. During this time, the studio mainly made biopics and musicals, with stars such as Betty Grable, Shirley Temple and Alice...

Display Box (Packaging)

Introduction Display boxes (more commonly referred to as big boxes) were first introduced to the home video market in 1981 by either Caballero Control, TVX or Family Home Entertainment.  Although most of the releases which used this...

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