- 3-G Home Video
- 10th Ave. Video
- 4 Play Video
- Academy Entertainment
- Action International Pictures
- Active Home Video
- AdultX
- AIX Media Group
- Allied Artists Video
- Alpha Video Classics
- American Home Video
- Amvest Video
- Anheuser-Busch Theme Parks Video
- Arman Julian Productions
- Astronics Tele-Cine Ltd.
- Axon Video
- Barr Entertainment
- BC Video
- Best Film & Video Corp.
- Big Top Video
- Bingo Video, Inc.
- Brentwood Communications
- Bullfrog Films
- BWE Video
- Caballero Home Video
- Caesar's Video
- Cal Vista Video (Some countries)
- Camp Video
- Children's Learning Video
- ChoiceMark Corp.
- Cindy V Video
- Cinema Home Video
- Cinescope Enterprises/Panorama International
- Classic Family Entertainment
- Cobra Media
- Coliseum Video
- Crown Movie Classics
- Dave Hood Entertainment
- Dead Alive Productions
- Diamond Entertainment Corporation
- DIC Home Entertainment
- Digiview Entertainment
- Disc Plaza Entertainment
- Dollar Entertainment
- Dreamland Home Video
- E Realbiz
- Edde Entertainment
- Elite Entertainment
- Ergo Home Video
- Essex Video
- Evil Angel Video
- Fat Dog Productions
- Films Incorporated
- Film Threat Video
- First Look Home Entertainment
- First Run Video
- Fotomat Video
- Front Row Entertainment, Inc.
- Genesis Home Video
- Golden Dragon Cambodian Video (Some countries)
- Gospel Films Video
- Gourmet Video Collection
- Guthy-Renker
- Happy Face Home Video
- Harmony Vision
- Hart Sharp Video
- HIS Video
- Hollywood Video Library
- Hosca Home Video Productions
- IN-X-CESS International Films
- J2 Communications
- JTC Video
- Jane Fonda Workout
- Jingle Cats Home Video
- K-Tel Video
- Kaiju Productions
- Kid Time Video
- Kideo Incorporated
- King of Video
- Kodak Video
- Kultur
- KVC Home Video
- L.A. Hero
- LatinAmerica Films & Video
- Lumivision
- MPI Home Video
- MTI Home Video
- Maier Communications, Inc.
- Malibu Video
- Mark V International
- Master Arts Video
- Minolta Audio-Visual (Some countries)
- Monarch Home Video
- Morgan Creek DVD
- Morris Video
- Muther Video
- National Geographic Video
- New Horizons Home Video
- New Star Entertainment
- NFL Films Video Library
- North American Releasing
- NuTech Digital
- Omega Entertainment
- Pacific Arts
- Palisades Home Video
- Parade Video
- Paragon Video Productions
- Parents Approved Video
- Passion Productions
- Passport International Productions, Inc.
- PC Treasures
- Penthouse Video
- Pentrex
- Pioneer Special Interests
- Planet Video
- Playboy Home Video
- Player Home Entertainment
- PorchLight Home Entertainment
- Premiere Video
- Prism Entertainment
- Producers' Video Inc.
- Quality Video, Inc.
- Quality X Video
- Questar Home Video
- RCA SelectaVision
- RNJ Corporation
- Raedon Home Video
- Rainbow Home Video
- Reader's Digest Home Entertainment (Some countries)
- Right Stuf Inc.
- Shapiro Glickenhaus Home Video (Some countries)
- Shokus Video
- SISU Home Entertainment
- Slingshot Entertainment
- Soft Touch Video
- Something Weird Video
- SouthGate Entertainment
- Standard Video
- Star Anime Enterprises
- Starling Films
- Sterling Entertainment Group
- Super Video Inc.
- TGA Video
- TGG Direct
- Tidewater Productions
- Travelview International
- Troma Team Video
- Twin Tower Entertainment
- UVI Video Productions
- Valentine Video
- Valley of the Sun Video
- VCI Entertainment
- VCX
- Velocity Home Entertainment
- Ventura Distribution
- Victor King Video
- VIDCO - The Video Company
- Video-X-Pix
- Video City Productions
- Video Gems
- Video Outlaw
- VideoTours
- View Video
- Vina Distributor
- Vintage Home Entertainment
- Virgin Video (Some countries)
- Vivid Entertainment
- Voyage Productions
- Wellspring Media
- WesternWorld Television
- Westlake Entertainment
- Wizard Video
- Woodhaven Entertainment
- York Entertainment
- Young Generation Video
MGM Home Entertainment
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Background
In 1997, the UA name was dropped, renaming it as MGM Home Entertainment. Outside North America, MGM sold their international home video operations to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. The assets of the former Orion Home Video was transferred to MGM itself, as well as picking up the pre-1996 PolyGram film library. Outside North America, MGM sold their international home video operations to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
Following MGM's acquisition by the Sony-led consortium in 2005, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment began distributing the MGM library on home video until May 31, 2006, when MGM shifted most of its home entertainment output to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for worldwide release (although Sony and Fox traded off releases throughout the rest of the year as part of a transitional period). TCFHE's worldwide distribution deal with MGM continued until June 2020.
As of late 2022 in the United States, MGM releases are distributed on home media by Studio Distribution Services, with United Artists Releasing titles initially through Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (from Operation Finale to On the Count of Three and the eventual 26th James Bond film) and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment for all catalog releases and United Artists Releasing titles since Three Thousand Years of Longing, finally unifying all of the MGM catalog titles (along with the legacy UA catalog) under the same roof for the first time in over two decades.
(January 27, 1998-2005 [1998- in Asia])
Logo: Just the standard 1986 MGM logo of the time, with the only difference being the words "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" in Trajan Pro under the ribbon, sandwiched between two lines.
Variants:
- On the home video trailer for Species III,"HOME ENTERTAINMENT" and the lines are presented in a more brown-ish color, the text font differs, and the lines are spaced closer to "HOME ENTERTAINMENT".
- A superimposed variant of the logo exists.
- At the end of the animated feature Tom Sawyer, a still image of the MGM logo scrolls up and the text "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" is shown below the logo in a white Roman text. Strangely, the lion is not in its correct still image.
Technique: Live-action footage.
Music/Sounds: The 1995 lion roar.
Availability: Common.
- Found primarily on VHS releases, VCDs and later Laserdiscs.
- Such examples include the Special Edition Laserdisc of The Spy Who Loved Me, as well as on the 2000 VHS release of Never Say Never Again (despite no MGM logo appearing on the packaging) and the 1998 VHS release of Bad Influence.
- One of the first releases to use this logo was the 1998 VHS release of 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (the demo VHS release used the 1990 Orion Home Video logo).
- This makes a strange appearance on TV spots for the 2001 DVD release of Platoon.
- It also doesn't appear on the 1998 THX remastered Laserdisc of Singin' in the Rain, despite showing the print logo on the cover.
- MGM's sale to a Sony-led consortium put an end to this logo in the United States in 2005, with some of the last uses of this logo, like the 3rd logo, being the 2005 VHS releases of Be Cool, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Hotel Rwanda, and Beauty Shop, respectively.
- VCDs released in Asia still use this logo, and it also makes a surprise appearance on the Fox PAL DVD release of For a Few Dollars More.
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