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.
Fox
150 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 41 in 4K82 in HD26 in SD1 with no official release17 more for audio only
Best 4K release by tier:
- Excellent4
- Solid11
- Disappointing1
- Worse Than BD3
Films where Fox's release is the pick. How picks are made
Also known as: 20th Century Studios
Films where Fox's release is the pick. How picks are made
41 in 4K
Best video release on UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Fox 4K Blu-ray
Director: Ridley Scott
Best English-Friendly & Video:
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
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Fox 4K Blu-ray
Best Audio:
70mm Six-track mix: THX AC3 or DTS LaserDisc
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Best Video:
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: Roland Emmerich
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
Director: Bryan Singer
Best English-Friendly & Video:
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: Bryan Singer
Best English-Friendly & Video:
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
82 in HD
Best video release on Blu-ray or HD streaming · by Letterboxd rating
Director: Martin Scorsese
Director: James Cameron
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Any 2010s Fox Blu-ray
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
Disney 4K Blu-ray has AI enhancement see youtube comparison
Director: Danny Boyle
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Fox Blu-ray
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
Sources: fareastfilm.com (opens in a new tab)
Best Video:
New resto, no discs https://www.fareastfilm.com/eng/news/far-east-film-festival-26/?IDLYT=13308
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Fox Tyrone Power: Matinee Idol Collection DVD
1 with no official release
Unofficial sources only, no home media, or lost · by Letterboxd rating
Director: David Butler
Sources: archive.org (opens in a new tab)
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
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Any 2010s Fox Blu-ray
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
Disney 4K Blu-ray has AI enhancement see youtube comparison
Director: James Cameron
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Fox Blu-ray
Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)
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
Best English-Friendly & Video:
International Fox Blu-ray
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
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.
Director: James Cameron
Best English-Friendly & Video:
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:
Additional Info:
The 4K Blu-ray bonus disc, the 2012 Blu-ray bonus disc, and the 2005 3 disc DVD have exclusive extras.
17 for audio only
The best audio is Fox's; the video and English-friendly picks are other releases · by Letterboxd rating
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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.
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Director: Chris Columbus
Best Audio:
1991 Fox Video LaserDisc
Best English-Friendly & Video:
2020 30th Anniversary Edition 4K Blu-ray
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.
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Best English-Friendly & Video:
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: Terrence Malick
Best Audio:
DTS-HD 7.1 is on the old Fox Blu-ray for the Theatrical Cut
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Best Audio:
Fox 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Audio Notes:
Fox 4K Blu-ray has a less band filtered DTS-HD 5.1 track than the Criterion
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Director: Marc Webb
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Audio Notes:
Fox 2002 NTSC DVD includes the original mix as discrete LCRS 4.0, later reelases only include a matrixed version an an inferior 5.1 upmix.
The matrixed stereo version on Shout! Factory's 4K Blu-ray sounds good.
Best English-Friendly & Video:
US Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray or Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray?
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