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Mike Dunn, the president of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, will also become chairman of the Digital Entertainment Group, a trade association that monitors home entertainment sales by dozens of companies in the film, television and digital worlds, the association said on Wednesday. Dunn succeeds Ron Sanders of…

The new deal between eOne and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment builds on the companies’ longstanding distribution alliance in Australia and Spain. Under the long-term, multi-territory pact unveiled today, the partnership will now include the UK and Benelux. The companies are also creating a new home entertainment…

In another move to familiarize Chinese audiences with The Force, The Empire and the Ewoks, Disney and online giant Tencent have entered a pact to create a single digital hub for the first six films in the epic Star Wars series. Millions in the Middle Kingdom will from today have unprecedented access to the saga ahead…

Most people who attended last week’s International CES confab were dazed by the vast array of new gadgets. But one of the most important demonstrations centered on a piece of Hollywood content: Fox impressed some attendees by showing them a specially produced clip that could have been (but wasn’t) taken from its…

The exec who had been running the company’s international distribution business is expanding his oversight. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment said today it has promoted Keith Feldman to President of Worldwide Distribution. He’ll be in charge of customer engagement and activities across global physical and digital…

Consider this to be an upgrade to the Ultra High Definition programming deal that the companies announced earlier this year at International CES. At the time, Fox said that it would provide Samsung with a storage device, called the UHD Video Pack, that would include content from different studios including Fox’s <em…

The goal is to inspire the estimated 16M people expected to receive a tablet, smartphone, smart TV or other connected device this Christmas to make the action film starring Liam Neeson the first one they buy. Fox Home Entertainment is releasing Taken 2 in its Digital HD format today, four weeks before it’s out on DVD…

NBC Universal and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment will supply standard definition and HD movies and TV shows to the NOOK Video download and rental service — just as Barnes & Noble prepares this week to ship its NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ tablets and offer them in its stores. The bookstore retailer’s release skimps on…

Randy Orton is getting back in the action for 12 Rounds: Reloaded. The three time WWE World Heavyweight Champ will star in the second installment of the action franchise for WWE Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. In Reloaded, Orton plays an Emergency Medical Technician who has to find out why a…

LOS ANGELES (May 15, 2012) – Three long-standing executives of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment's sales team have been elevated to senior management positions it was announced today by Executive Vice President and General Manager Simon Swart. Don Jeffries has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Sales…

The kiosk company already buys Warner Bros discs on the open market instead of accepting the studio’s insistence that it wait 56 days for new releases. And Paul Davis, CEO of Redbox parent Coinstar, says he’s “comfortable that we could deal with” a similar situation if Universal or Fox also try to change their current…

EXCLUSIVE: WWE Studios and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment have partnered on three films that will be DVD premiere titles. First up is The Marine: Homefront, a new installment of the franchise that started with the 2006 Fox theatrical release that starred WWE wrestler John Cena. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment…