Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment, Inc. (doing business as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment;  formerly known as Warner Home Video and WCI Home Video and sometimes credited as Warner Home Entertainment) is the home video distribution division of Warner Bros.
It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (as a division of Warner Communications, Inc.). The company launched in the United States with twenty films on Betamax and VHS videocassettes in late 1979. The company later expanded its line to include additional titles throughout 1979 and 1980.
It is responsible for distributing the film and television library of Warner Bros. Discovery and other companies on various home media formats, such as DVD, Blu-ray, digital, and streaming platforms. Some of the companies that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment distributes include Max, Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, DC Entertainment, DC Studios, Viz Media, HBO, CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, TBS, TNT, TruTV, Turner Classic Movies, Rooster Teeth, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC, HGTV, Food Network and among others.
== Logo History ==
=== Print Logos ===
File:WCI Home Video 1978 print logo.png|WCI Home Video print logo (1978-1981)
File:Warner Home Video 1980 print logo.png|Warner Home Video print logo (1980-1985)
File:Warner Home Video 1986 print logo.png|Warner Home Video print logo (1985-1996)
File:Warner Home Video 1996 print logo.png|Warner Home Video print logo (1996-2016)
File:Warner Home Entertainment 2016 print logo.png|Warner Bros. Home Entertainment print logo (2016-2020)
File:Warner Bros Home Entertainment 2019 print logo.png|Warner Bros. Home Entertainment print logo (2019-present)
=== On-Screen Logos ===
File:WCI Home Video 1980 logo.png|WCI Home Video on-screen logo (1980-1981)
File:Warner Home Video 1981 logo.png|Warner Home Video on-screen logo (1981-1986)
File:Warner Home Video (1992).jpg|Warner Home Video on-screen logo (1993-1997)
File:Warner Home Video 1997.png|Warner Home Video on-screen logo (1996-2019)
File:Warner Home Video 1996 Logo 16-9 Regular Version.png|Warner Home Video widescreen on-screen logo (1996-2019)
File:Warner Home Video 2004.png|Warner Home Video on-screen logo (2002-2004)
File:Warner Home Entertainment 2017 logo.png|Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on-screen logo (2017-present)
== Company History ==
The company launched in the United States with twenty films on Betamax and VHS videocassettes in late 1979. The company later expanded its line to include additional titles throughout 1979 and 1980.
Some of the company's early releases were time-compressed in order to save tape time and money and to compensate for long-playing cassettes being unavailable in the early days of home video. One example was 1978's Superman in which the film was released in a 127-minute format, compared to its 143-minute theatrical release. In addition, early film-to-video transfers of films from WCI were noted for being in poor quality, compared to modern day video releases. By the end of 1980, the quality of transfers had improved.
The company was noted in its early days for releases in big cardboard boxes that opened like a book, colored in black, with cast credits on the inside. Some early releases under the Warner Home Video name also used this design. In early 1981, the company switched to plastic clamshell cases, with a multicolor design, with a few releases using the cardboard boxes and the multicolor designs, and to cardboard sleeves in 1985 for packaging, eliminating plastic cases by 1986. In the mid 1990s, the studio revived the use of plastic cases for a handful of releases from Warner Bros Family Entertainment.
Warner Bros began to branch out into the videodisc market, licensing titles to MCA DiscoVision and RCA's SelectaVision videodisc formats, allowing both companies to market and distribute the films under their labels. By 1985, Warner was releasing material under their own label in both formats. Titles from Warner Home Video were and continue to be distributed and manufactured by Roadshow Home Video worldwide except for Australia and New Zealand because of its film counterpart's films released by Village Roadshow.
===Rentals===
Warner also experimented with the "rental-only" market for videos, a method also used by 20th Century Fox for their first release of Star Wars in 1982. Two known films released in this manner were Superman II and Excalibur. Other films released for rental use include Dirty Harry, The Enforcer, Prince of the City, and Sharky's Machine.
=== Notable firsts, Warner Archive Collection and distribution===
In 1990, Warner Home Video acquired the worldwide home video rights to the MGM/UA catalog. The $125 million purchase was used to finance MGM/UA's acquisition by the Pathé Communications Corporation. The intended 12½-year-long deal was cut short in February 2000, with MGM paying Warner Bros $225 million to regain video rights to MGM's pre-1986 video library, an asset the studio acquired outright from Turner, but due to a pre-existing licensing deal with MGM, was expected to expire in 2001.
With the merger of Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting in 1996, Turner Home Entertainment was absorbed into WHV, with WHV inheriting THE's video lines, including a previous deal with PBS Home Video and Cartoon Network video titles. WHV also assumed responsibility for distributing the products of New Line Home Video (later renamed as New Line Home Entertainment), though New Line otherwise maintained autonomy until 2010 after New Line Cinema itself was absorbed into Warner Bros. WHV also eventually absorbed HBO Home Entertainment by the mid-2000s, after that division switched from mostly distributing third-party titles to HBO's own material.
On December 20, 1996, Warner Home Video was one of the first major American distributors for the then-new DVD format, by releasing the films Assassins, Blade Runner: Director's Cut, Eraser, and The Fugitive on DVD in Japan and on March 24, 1997 in the United States with Blade Runner also being a launch title for the region there. Warner executive Warren Lieberfarb is often seen as "the father of DVD". Lieberfarb's successor, Warner Executive James F. Cardwell was recognized in paving the way for WHV's strategic positioning in next generation technologies such as High Definition DVD, electronic sell-through and portable video. In 2003, Warner Home Video became the first home video releasing company to release movies only on DVD with no VHS equivalent.
On September 20, 2006, Warner Home Video became the first company to release a title in three formats on the same day and date with the home release of The Lake House on DVD, Blu-Ray and HD DVD. With Paramount Home Entertainment switching from neutral in the high definition video camp to solely to HD DVD in September 2007, Warner Home Video was at the time the only major distributor to support both high definition formats, though this changed at the end of May 2008. From June 2008, Warner Home Video released new high definition content on Blu-Ray only, becoming the last major Hollywood studio to drop HD DVD after Toshiba discontinued the HD DVD format.
Warner Home Video briefly owned New Line Home Entertainment after New Line was absorbed by Warner Bros in 2008. In 2010, New Line Home Entertainment was then folded into Warner Home Video. Warner Home Video continues to use the NLHE logo on Blu-Ray and DVD reprints of titles before Valentine's Day (2010).
In 2009, Warner Home Video introduced the Warner Archive Collection, which allows the public to order custom-made DVDs of rarely seen films and TV series from the Warner and Turner libraries. The films are also available as digital downloads. Warner Archive DVDs and downloads can be ordered online on Warner's website, on Amazon.com or Turner Classic Movies-affiliated DVD website Movies Unlimited. (Although Movies Unlimited sells these archive titles, it usually takes 2-3 months before the DVD is available for order after Warner releases it on their website.)
In October 2012, Paramount Home Media Distribution and Warner Home Video signed a distribution deal, allowing Warner Bros to gain U.S. and Canadian DVD, Blu-Ray, UltraViolet, Flixster, and DVD-manufacturing-on-demand distribution rights to over 600 Paramount Pictures titles as well as new Paramount titles. The deal went into effect on January 1, 2013, and expired in 2017.
On January 1, 2015, the company replaced Cinedigm in distribution of content from WWE Libraries in a deal with WWE, including content from former corporate sibling World Championship Wrestling.
On January 14, 2020, Universal and Warner Home Video announced that they would partner on a 10-year multinational joint-venture, merging their physical operations in North America. Universal will distribute Warner Bros.' titles in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan, while Warner Bros. will distribute Universal's titles in the United Kingdom, Italy and Benelux. On April 7, 2020, the European Commission approved the merger. The company was later named Studio Distribution Services.
On August 7, 2020, Warner Bros Home Entertainment was moved from Warner Bros. to the newly-formed WarnerMedia Commercial division due to a major restructuring within the company. Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment, however, remains part of WarnerMedia's Studios & Networks group.
==Releases==
=== Production Company ===
# Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 05/10/2020 (UK / Ireland)
#Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 05/10/2020 (UK / Ireland)
#Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) - R - DVD / Blu-Ray - 25/08/2020 (US)
#Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) - 15 - DVD - 24/08/2020 (UK / Ireland)
#Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018) - 15 - DVD - 23/07/2018 (UK / Ireland)
#Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018) - R - DVD / Blu-Ray - 17/04/2018 (US)
=== Distributor=== 
#Black Adam (2022) - 12 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 16/01/2023 (UK / Ireland)
#Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) - PG - DVD - 19/12/2022 (UK)
#Jordan Peele 3-Movie Collection (2022) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 14/11/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Nope (2022) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 14/11/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Iconic Horror 5-Film Collection (2022) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 17/10/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#DC League of Super-Pets (2022) - PG - DVD / Blu-Ray - 10/10/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#DC League of Super-Pets (2022) - PG - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 04/10/2022 (US)
#Denzel Washington 5-Film Collection (2022) - 18 - Blu-Ray - 03/10/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#The Black Phone (2021) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 03/10/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Tim Burton 9-Film Collection (2022) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 03/10/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Jurassic World Trilogy (2022) - 12 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 26/09/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Jurassic World Ultimate Collection (2022) - 12 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 26/09/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) - 12 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 26/09/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Dune (2021) - 12 - 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 19/09/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Elvis (2022) - 12 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 19/09/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Stephen King 8-Film Collection (2022) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 05/09/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Dune (2021) - 12 - 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 22/08/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) - PG - DVD / Blu-Ray - 15/08/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Modern Monsters 7-Film Collection (2022) - 12 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 08/08/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) - 12 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 25/07/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#The Northman (2022) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 18/07/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#The Batman (2022) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 13/06/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#The Duke (2020) - 12 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 13/06/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Licorice Pizza (2021) - 15 - Blu-Ray/DVD Combo Pack - 06/06/2022 (UK)
#Cyrano (2021) - 12 - DVD - 30/05/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Malignant (2021) - 18 - 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 23/05/2022 (UK / Ireland)
# Belfast (2021) - 12 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 25/04/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#The Matrix Resurrections (2021) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 21/03/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Vikings: Season 6 Volume 2 (2022) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 14/03/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Vikings: The Complete Series (2022) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 14/03/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Cry Macho (2021) - 12 - DVD - 21/02/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#House of Gucci (2021) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 21/02/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#King Richard (2021) - 12 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 21/02/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Dune (2021) - 12 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 31/01/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Halloween Kills (2021) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 17/01/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#The Addams Family 2 (2021) - PG - DVD / Blu-Ray - 10/01/2022 (UK / Ireland)
#Pain & Glory (2019) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 2021-present (UK / Ireland)
#Malignant (2021) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 27/12/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#No Time to Die (2021) - 12 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 20/12/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#Respect (2021) - 12 - DVD - 13/12/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#The Many Saints of Newark (2021) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 13/12/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#Candyman (2021) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 29/11/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#Trolls: Holiday in Harmony (2021) - U - DVD - 29/11/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan (2021) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 22/11/2021 (UK)
#Reminiscence (2021) - 12 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 22/11/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#The Suicide Squad (2021) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 08/11/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) - U - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 25/10/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#In the Heights (2021) - PG - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 27/09/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) - 15/18 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 06/09/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021) - 18 - Blu-Ray - 30/08/2021 (UK)
#Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 30/08/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#SAS: Red Notice (2021) - 15 - DVD - 12/07/2021 (UK)
#Mortal Kombat (2021) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 05/07/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 21/06/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) - 12 - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 14/06/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#Locked Down (2021) - 15 - DVD - 07/06/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021) - 15 - DVD - 07/06/2021 (UK)
#Tom & Jerry: The Movie (2021) - PG - DVD / Blu-Ray - 24/05/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#Tom & Jerry: The Movie (2021) - PG - DVD / Blu-Ray - 18/05/2021 (Canada / US)
#The Little Things (2021) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 10/05/2021 (UK / Ireland)
#Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) - R - DVD / Blu-Ray - 04/05/2021 (Canada / US)
#The Little Things (2021) - R - DVD / Blu-Ray - 04/05/2021 (US)
#Blithe Spirit (2020) - 12 - DVD - 26/04/2021 (UK)
#Superintelligence (2020) - PG - DVD - 12/04/2021 (UK / Ireland)
# Vikings: The Complete First Season (2013) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 2020-present (US / UK / Ireland)
#Vikings: The Complete Second Season (2014) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 2020-present (UK / Ireland)
#Vikings: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2 (2014) - 18 - DVD - 2020-present (UK / Ireland)
#Vikings: The Complete Seasons 1, 2 & 3 (2015) - 18 - DVD - 2020-present (UK / Ireland)
# Vikings: The Complete Third Season (2015) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 2020-present (US / UK / Ireland)
#Vikings: Season 4 Volume 1 (2016) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 2020-present (US / UK / Ireland)
#Vikings: Season 4 Volume 2 (2017) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 2020-present (UK / Ireland / US)
#Vikings: The Complete Fourth Season (2017) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 2020-present (UK / Ireland)
#Vikings: Season 5 Volume 1 (2018) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 2020-present (UK / Ireland / US)
#Vikings: Season 5 Volume 2 (2019)' - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 2020-present (UK / Ireland / US)
# Vikings: The Complete Fifth Season (2019) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 2020-present (UK / Ireland)
#An American Pickle (2020) - 12 - DVD - 07/12/2020 (UK / Ireland)
#Vikings: Season 6 Volume 1 (2020) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 19/10/2020 (UK / Ireland)
#Vikings: Season 6 Volume 1 (2020) - TBA - DVD / Blu-Ray - 13/10/2020 (US)
#Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 05/10/2020 (UK / Ireland)
#Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) - 15 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 05/10/2020 (UK / Ireland)
#Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) - R - DVD / Blu-Ray - 25/08/2020 (US)
#Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) - 15 - DVD - 24/08/2020 (UK / Ireland)
#Vikings: The Complete Second Season (2014) - TBA - DVD / Blu-Ray - 07/07/2020 (US)
#Just Mercy (2019) - 12 - DVD - 25/05/2020 (UK / Ireland)
#Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020) - R - DVD / Blu-Ray / 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray - 28/04/2020 (Canada / US)
#Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 27/04/2020 (UK / Ireland)
#Just Mercy (2019) - PG-13 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 14/04/2020 (Canada / US)
#Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018) - 15 - DVD - 23/07/2018 (UK / Ireland)
#Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018) - R - DVD / Blu-Ray - 17/04/2018 (US)
#The Firm (2009) - 18 - DVD / Blu-Ray - 18/01/2010 (UK / Ireland)
#Five Children and It (2004) - TBA - DVD - 05/07/2005 (US)
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