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
152 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 42 in 4K83 in HD26 in SD1 with no official release17 more for audio only
- Excellent4
- Solid11
- Disappointing1
- Worse Than BD3
Films where Fox's release is the pick. How picks are made
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Films where Fox's release is the pick. How picks are made
Fox 4K Blu-ray
Director: Ridley Scott
Theatrical Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray
2003 Directors Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray
(additional scenes appear to be upscaled)
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
Fox 4K Blu-ray
70mm Six-track mix: THX AC3 or DTS LaserDisc
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
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.
251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray
229 min cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc
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)
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
Fox 4K Blu-ray
Fox 4K Blu-ray reference sound
Fox 4K Blu-ray, merely okay with compression issues
Director: Bryan Singer
Fox 4K Blu-ray
4K Blu-ray vs Cinema DTS vs D-Theater DVHS?
Missing extras on the old Blu-ray trilogy box set
Director: Bryan Singer
Fox 4K Blu-ray
4K Blu-ray vs Cinema DTS vs D-Theater DVHS?
Missing extras on the old Blu-ray trilogy box set
Director: Brett Ratner
Fox 4K Blu-ray
Missing extras on the old Blu-ray trilogy box set
Director: David Fincher
Disney 4K Blu-ray or Fox 2009 Blu-ray or Kinowelt Entertainment 2008 Germany Blu-ray for a purist version
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · notonbluray.com (opens in a new tab)
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
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.
All Blu-ray tracks have significant limiting.
Disney 4K Blu-ray has some alterations, otherwise similar to the Fox Blu-ray
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: Akira Kurosawa
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
179 min cut: Toho 4K Blu-ray
159 min cut: Fox Blu-ray
Director: Tim Burton
Fox/Disney 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
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The compression is poor, but it still beats the previous Blu-ray. (Luminance plot)
1991 Fox Video LaserDisc
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The 4K Blu-ray only has Atmos which is possibly the original mix, but the previous Blu-ray’s 4.0 sounds good too.
Fox 4K Blu-ray
Fox 4K Blu-ray
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