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152 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 42 in 4K83 in HD26 in SD1 with no official release17 more for audio only

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Films where Fox's release is the pick. How picks are made

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

42 of 152 films match

Films where Fox's release is the pick. How picks are made

42 in 4K

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

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: John McTiernan

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: Ridley Scott

4K · Excellent
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

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

70mm Six-track mix: THX AC3 or DTS 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

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

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 English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: Jan de Bont

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Director: Steven Spielberg

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: Steve McQueen

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

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

Director: Bryan Singer

4K · Solid
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

4K · Solid
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

Show all 42 in 4K

13 for audio only

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

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Best Audio:

Fox Lorber DVD

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Eureka MoC 4K Blu-ray

Director: Michael Curtiz

Best Audio:

1984 Fox Hi-Fi VHS

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

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:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

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:

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: Guillermo del Toro

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:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Director: Chris Columbus

Best Audio:

1995 Fox LaserDisc

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney+ has Streaming in 4K

Video Notes:

Fox has Blu-ray

Director: Marc Webb

Best Audio:

2010 Fox Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney+ 4K Streaming

Director: Jonathan Kaplan

Best Audio:

Fox 2002 NTSC DVD

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?

Director: Terence Young

Best Audio:

UK mix: 1984 CBS Fox VHS Hifi but missing one scene
International mix: WB 4K Blu-ray though source origin is unknown

1995 MGM stereo remix: 1998 LaserDisc and 2000 DVD fix gunbarrel dropout

Best English-Friendly:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray despite frozen grain

Director: Danny Boyle

Best Audio:

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

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Audio Notes:

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

Best English-Friendly & Video:

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.

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+

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+

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