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How we pick the best Fox releases

Formed in 1935 by the merger of Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures, the Hollywood studio was bought by Disney in 2019 and dropped the Fox name in 2020. Its discs now come out through Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, with Sony handling US and Canadian physical distribution since 2024. Much of the classic Fox catalogue reaches Blu-ray through licensees rather than in-house.

Also known as: 20th Century Studios

How we pick the best Fox releases

43 in 4K

Best video release on UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Director: Ridley Scott

4K · Excellent
Best Video & English-Friendly:

Theatrical Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray 

2003 Directors Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray 

Video Notes:

(additional scenes appear to be upscaled)

Best Audio:

Original Theatrical 70mm 6-Track Stereo: Fox 4K Blu-ray (DTS-HD MA 4.1)

Original Theatrical 35mm Matrixed Dolby Stereo: 1999 DVD? (2.0 mix on the UHD is a downmix)

2003 Directors Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray, Fox Blu-ray (DTS-HD MA 5.1)

Director: John McTiernan

4K · Excellent
Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

70mm Six-track mix: THX AC3 or DTS LaserDisc

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu

4K · Excellent
Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: John McTiernan

4K · Excellent
Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: David Fincher

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Disney 4K Blu-ray or Fox 2009 Blu-ray or Kinowelt Entertainment 2008 Germany Blu-ray for a purist version

Best Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray or Fox 2009 Blu-ray for a purist version or Kinowelt Entertainment 2008 Germany Blu-ray from the original 1999 telecine transfer

Video Notes:

Disney 4K Blu-ray, while a good release by itself, is very revisionist albeit made by Fincher. It has a huge amount of tinkering, a different grade, and at times uncanny with the sharpening. Caps of just how revisionist the new master is.

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Audio Notes:

All Blu-ray tracks have significant limiting.

Disney 4K Blu-ray has some alterations, otherwise similar to the Fox Blu-ray

Additional Info:

A blog article going over the home video history of Fight Club: https://notonbluray.com/blog/fight-club-compared-blu-ray-vs-itunes-vs-d-vhs-vs-dvd-vs-laserdisc/

Director: Sergio Leone

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

251 min cut (Extended): Fox Blu-ray

229 min cut (Theatrical): WB Blu-ray

139 min cut (US theatrical): VHS

Video Notes:

251 min cut (Extended): Fox Blu-ray. Eagle Pictures has forced Italian subs in some parts

229 min cut (Theatrical): WB Blu-ray

139 min cut (US theatrical): VHS

Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray, caps

The 4K includes both theatrical and extended cuts. It's overall a solid upgrade over previous discs, but some will strongly dislike the color grading.
There are some issues with encoding and grain management.


Nic's review:

Some definitely messed with it as there’s grain management going on that resulted in magnetic, squishy grain movement. Both cuts (4K discs) are affected and it doesn’t look like an encoding issue to me as the bitrates don’t drop down to single digits á la Paramount or StudioCanal. During opticals, the lowest I’ve noted on the Extended 4K was around 30 MB/s vs. ~5 MB/s more for the theatrical cut.

Darker scenes are mostly (but not always) better but when it gets brighter, particularly in exteriors or scenes like the Jennifer Connelly dance scene at minute 38, I can’t unsee the digital tinkering as it does some damage texturally.

I compared it with the Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros Fox Blu-ray of the extended cut and they all look fine without grain management like that. Eagle Pictures’s Blu-ray is an older one if anyone’s curious and credited to another authoring house than 64Biz, which did the 4K.

Other than that, except for some encoding-related chroma noise that peeks through in the DV layer, Eagle Pictures did everything right. They corrected the framing to 1.85, kept the original English titles, the English restoration note, subtitles, HDR/DV is gentle and respectful of the source black levels are better than on the Warner Bros/Fox Blu-ray. Without that grain management, this would’ve been the all-timer release we all longed for.

Best Audio:

251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray

229 min cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray (24-bit, Eagle Pictures is 16-bit, not audible)
229 min cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc (missing 2 minutes, but original mono mix was never released on DVD/Blu-ray)

Additional Info:

Extended edition adds scenes cut from the theatrical, but from a much lower quality source. It's intended to approximate the original cut, but to what extent that is true is debatable.
US theatrical cut is infamously bad, was panned at release and never re-released on home video.

Director: James Mangold

4K · Solid
Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: Jan de Bont

4K · Solid
Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Director: Steve McQueen

4K · Solid
Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: Steven Spielberg

4K · Solid
Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: Bryan Singer

4K · Solid
Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

4K Blu-ray vs Cinema DTS vs D-Theater DVHS?

Additional Info:

Missing extras on the old Blu-ray trilogy box set

Director: Roland Emmerich

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Audio:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Fox 4K Blu-ray reference sound

Best Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray, merely okay with compression issues

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83 in HD

Best video release on Blu-ray or HD streaming · by Letterboxd rating

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Fox Blu-ray better encode than Criterion Blu-ray

Best Audio:

2003 Fox DVD

Audio Notes:

2003 Fox DVD slightly better

Director: Bob Fosse

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Japan Fox Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Japan Fox Blu-ray > Criterion Blu-ray

Director: Martin Scorsese

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox Blu-ray

Best Audio:

2002 Fox DVD

Director: John Ford

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox Blu-ray

Director: Steve McQueen

Best English-Friendly:

Fox US Blu-ray

Best Video:

Fox US/Universal Germany/France releases

Video Notes:

Fox US/Universal Germany/France releases looks similar, see caps https://slow.pics/c/FF1TYBgc

Best Audio:

Fox US

Director: Norman Jewison

Best Video & English-Friendly:

MGM/Fox Blu-ray

Director: James Cameron

4K · Worse Than BD
Best Video & English-Friendly:

Any 2010s Fox Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Disney 4K Blu-ray has AI enhancement see youtube comparison

Director: Robert Rossen

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Fox but low bitrate

Best Audio:

1990 Fox LaserDisc

Director: David Fincher

Best Video, Audio & English-Friendly:

20th Century Studios Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Digipack release includes an Amazing Amy book the standard edition doesn’t have.

Director: Otto Preminger

Best English-Friendly:

Fox Blu-ray

Best Video:

Fox

Video Notes:

Fox > MoC

Best Audio:

1989 Fox LaserDisc

Director: John Ford

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Fox Blu-ray mono mix

Audio Notes:

As noted at Blah-Ray, the mono mix on the Fox Blu-ray, although not perfect, sounds better than the 5.1 remix and at least as good as earlier LaserDiscs, which suffer from being murky.

Director: Mel Brooks

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox Blu-ray

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26 in SD

Best video release on DVD, SD streaming, LaserDisc or VHS · by Letterboxd rating

Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien

Best English-Friendly:

Fox Lorber DVD or new restoration unreleased

Director: Henry Hathaway

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox DVD

Director: George Cukor

Best English-Friendly:

Fox Marilyn Monroe Diamond Collection DVD see link

Best Video:

Fox Marilyn Monroe Diamond Collection DVD

Video Notes:

Fox Marilyn Monroe Diamond Collection DVD included it as an extra, see link

Director: Henry King

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox DVD

Director: Frank Borzage

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Murnau, Borzage and Fox DVD

Director: Tay Garnett

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox DVD

Director: Raoul Walsh

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox DVD

Director: William A. Wellman

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox DVD

Director: Frank Borzage

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox DVD

Director: Frank Borzage

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Murnau, Borzage and Fox DVD boxset

Director: William A. Seiter

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox DVD

Director: William K. Howard

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox DVD

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1 with no official release

Unofficial sources only, no home media, or lost · by Letterboxd rating

Director: David Butler

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best Video:

The DVD isn't an official one, and according to a user review on Amazon:

This DVD comes from Archive.org, where the movie can be viewed for free. The original source, comes from the Fox Movie Channel

4 with a weaker 4K

Best 4K release rated Disappointing or Worse Than BD · by Letterboxd rating

Director: James Cameron

4K · Worse Than BD
Best Video & English-Friendly:

Any 2010s Fox Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Disney 4K Blu-ray has AI enhancement see youtube comparison

Director: James Cameron

4K · Worse Than BD
Best Video & English-Friendly:

Paramount/Fox Blu-ray
3D Blu-ray for the IMAX/Open Matte version

35mm scan for original theatrical cut

Video Notes:

4K Blu-ray is AI upscaled

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Additional Info:

The 4K Blu-ray bonus disc, the 2012 Blu-ray bonus disc, and the 2005 3 disc DVD have exclusive extras.

Director: James Cameron

4K · Disappointing
Best Video & English-Friendly:

Fox Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Fox Blu-ray for original cuts without the extra scene added in the re-release and AI upscaling

Newer Blu-ray/4K has the extra scene, but is poor and has excessive AI upscaling

Additional Info:

An additional scene was added to the ending of the movie in the 2022 re-release: https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=493908

Director: Adrian Lyne

4K · Worse Than BD
Best Video & English-Friendly:

International Fox Blu-ray

Video Notes:

International Fox Blu-ray has the best encoding and the OAR of 1.85.1.

France LCJ Editions 4K Blu-ray is worse than Blu-ray - caps. Upscale from the BD with fake grain and horrendously encoded. AI enhancement is also present.

International Fox Blu-ray has the best encoding and the OAR of 1.85.1.

17 for audio only

The best audio is Fox's; the video and English-friendly picks are other releases · by Letterboxd rating

Director: Michael Curtiz

Best Audio:

1984 Fox Hi-Fi VHS

Best Video & English-Friendly:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Best Audio:

Fox Lorber DVD

Best Video:

Eureka MoC 4K Blu-ray

Directors: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris

Best Audio:

Fox Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Streaming

Best Video:

4K Streaming

Video Notes:

4K Streaming is a newly-done restoration superior to all past releases:
Kaleidescape > Movies Anywhere > Disney+

Director: James L. Brooks

Best Audio:

1999 Fox DVD

Audio Notes:

1999 Fox DVD slightly better

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion 4k resto

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Best Audio:

Fox Lorber DVD

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray/BFI Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Criterion and BFI very similar

Director: Sergio Leone

Best Audio:
  • Arrow's English mono is from the soundtrack negatives, with light noise reduction but still the highest quality anywhere. The main title is restored from the 1985 LaserDisc analog mono.

  • The 1985 CBS/Fox LaserDisc for untouched English mono despite element defects and an incomplete print used. The main title on this LaserDisc is the highest quality version known to exist.

    The Arrow 5.1 is a careful upmix from their mono restoration to create a purist multichannel mix.

  • The Italy mono exists in lesser quality but Arrow performed additional restoration work to improve what they could.

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Directors: Don Bluth & Gary Goldman

Best Audio:

Fox Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Streaming

Best Video:

4K Streaming

Video Notes:

4K Streaming is a newly-done restoration superior to all past releases:
Kaleidescape > Movies Anywhere > Disney+

Director: Chris Columbus

Best Audio:

1991 Fox Video LaserDisc

Best Video & English-Friendly:

2020 30th Anniversary Edition 4K Blu-ray

Director: Terrence Malick

Best Audio:

DTS-HD 7.1 is on the old Fox Blu-ray for the Theatrical Cut

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion, 4k transfer

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Best Audio:

5.1 mix is flawed on Shout! Factory/ICON, a phasey upmix instead of the proper discrete surround. The UHD 2.0 tracks are downmixes of that track.
2008 Fox Blu-ray sounds great, very close to the original 70mm mix, only with split surround.
2001 DVD has the original mix as 4.1 and matrixed 2.0.

Imprint 4K has a 4.0 track. The StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has a different 5.1, unclear if it's the same as Fox BD.

Best Video & English-Friendly:

UK ICON 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

UK ICON 4K Blu-ray (caps)

UK 4K Blu-ray has a slightly better encode than US Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray and Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

Director: Danny Boyle

Best Audio:

Dolby Atmos Remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Original 5.1 mix: old OOP Fox Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

5.1 on the 4K is a downmix of the Atmos remix.

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Sony 4K Blu-ray see caps

Recovers quite a bit of highlight detail, looks less harsh and clipped in the video footage than the old BD.

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Best Audio:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Fox 4K Blu-ray has a less band filtered DTS-HD 5.1 track than the Criterion

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

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