Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Continues Blu-ray Industry Leadership With Second Wave Of Film Titles Launching In Europe And Australia

Studio’s U.S. Research Shows Blu-ray Disc Vastly Outpacing HD DVD

January 30, 2007

Continuing its industry leadership role and unwavering commitment to the Blu-ray disc format, the only high-definition packaged media format supported by the movie, music, gaming and computing industries, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced its second wave of upcoming Blu-ray Disc (BD) titles to be released in Europe and Australia. This March, in time for the PLAYSTATION®3 launch, Fox will release an exciting BD line up that includes X-MEN THE LAST STAND, DAY AFTER TOMORROW, FROM HELL, FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX and BD-Java titles BEHIND ENEMY LINES, LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN and SPEED. This will be followed in April with NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM and ERAGON (day and date releases), SENTINEL, ALIEN VS PREDATOR, MEN OF HONOR, COURAGE UNDER FIRE, RISING SUN and PREDATOR. Through the studio’s partnership with MGM, ROCKY, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and TERMINATOR will also arrive on BD. “We are looking forward to this pivotal year and the ultimate establishment of Blu-ray as the high-definition packaged media standard,” noted Mike Dunn, Worldwide President, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. “We remain extremely encouraged by the growth in sales and player penetration in the US and are optimistic the international market growth will follow a similar pattern. We are fully committed to creating the most compelling products possible and to the continued pioneering development of BD with our partners.” A recognized global industry leader, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC (TCFHE) is the worldwide marketing, sales and Distribution company for all Fox film and television programming on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD) as well as acquisitions and original productions. The company also releases all products around the globe for MGM Home Entertainment. Each year TCFHE introduces hundreds of new and newly enhanced products, which it services to retail outlets -- from mass merchants and warehouse clubs to specialty stores and e-commerce -- throughout the world. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC is a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corporation company.

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