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Shout! Studios

Shout! Studios (formerly known as Shout! Factory) is an American home video and music distributor founded in 2002 as Retropolis Entertainment. Its video releases, issued in DVD or Blu-ray format, include previously released feature films, classic and contemporary television series, animation, live music, and comedy specials. Considered a boutique Blu-ray label,[1][2] Shout! Studios, in addition to its mainline home video releases, also releases films under the sublabels Scream Factory (for horror film releases), Shout! Select, and Shout! Kids.

Trade name

Shout! Studios

  • Retropolis Entertainment (2002–2003)
  • Shout! Factory (2003–2023)

April 19, 2002 (April 19, 2002)

  • Richard Foos
  • Bob Emmer
  • Garson Foos

  • Home video
  • Music

  • Scream!
  • Shout! Select
  • Shout! Kids

  • Shout! TV
  • Westchester Films

Shout! Studios owns and operates Westchester Films, Timeless Media Group, Biograph Records, Majordomo Records, and Video Time Machine.

Licensing deals[edit]

As of 2024, Shout! Factory has agreements with Paramount Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, 20th Century Home Entertainment, MGM, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Hasbro Entertainment, GKIDS, Eleven Arts, Sesame Workshop, IFC Films, ITV Studios, Major League Baseball, Motion Picture Corporation of America, the estate of Stephen J. Cannell,[82] The Jim Henson Company, Alien Productions, Library Rights Company (UK), Ltd and the Zelus Film Holding Company (including the Intermedia and Largo Entertainment libraries),[83] Satellite of Love, StudioCanal, Toei and Aardman Animations.


Releases under these agreements have included the complete Joss Whedon/John Cassaday series of Astonishing X-Men, plus Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers and Iron Man: Extremis on DVD and Blu-ray;[84] the original Transformers, G.I. Joe, Jem and My Little Pony cartoons, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Power Rangers, VR Troopers, Sesame Street, Super Sentai, some Nickelodeon series like Rocko's Modern Life, Hey Arnold!, The Wild Thornberrys, CatDog, Danny Phantom, Hey Dude, The Angry Beavers, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius (under license from Paramount Home Entertainment), and Gravity Falls (under a one-time agreement with Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment).


In mid-2012, Shout! Factory announced a horror sub-label called Scream Factory, specializing in classic and cult horror films such as Halloween II, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, They Live, The Howling, Lifeforce, The Return of the Living Dead, and others being released to DVD and Blu-ray.[85]


In July 2020, Shout! Factory announced to have struck a multi-year deal with Alliance Entertainment and Mill Creek Entertainment that granted them the exclusive SVOD and AVOD digital rights to the Ultra series, 1,100 episodes and 20 films acquired by Mill Creek the previous year. Shout! Factory will stream the catalogue in the United States and Canada through their services, Shout! Factory TV and Tokushoutsu.[86]

Related companies[edit]

In 2012, Shout! Factory acquired Oregon-based home entertainment company Timeless Media Group, adding programs to its ever-expanding catalog: The Red Skelton Show, Peter Gunn, The Gene Autry Show, The Virginian, Wagon Train, Laramie, and The Roy Rogers Show, among others.[87]


Shout! Factory also acquired blues/roots label HighTone Records and continued to oversee its back catalog until 2016 when Concord Bicycle Music bought the label.[88]

– an indie record label formed as an imprint and partnership with Shout! Factory[89]

Majordomo Records

Roger Corman's Cult Classics – sub-label started in 2010

Timeless Media Group – sub-label acquired in 2012

Scream Factory – sub-label started in 2012

Shout! Select – sub-label started in 2016

Shout! Factory TV – streaming service

Scream Factory TV - horror movie streaming service

Shout! Cult - cult movie streaming service

Shout! Studios – film and TV production and distribution arm started in November 2017

Westchester Films – distributor of classic films from , John Cassavetes, Elia Kazan, and material once distributed by United Artists (all part of the holdings of Westchester's predecessor company Castle Hill Productions), as well as the North American rights to the Morgan Creek Productions and ITV Studios libraries.

Orson Welles

Official website