Shout! Factory
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Shout! Factory is an American home video and music distribution company, originally founded as Retropolis Entertainment in 2002. It typically releases existing films and television shows to home video in the United States and Canada. Shout! Factory has released numerous giant monster films, at times under its Scream Factory imprint, as well as many other tokusatsu film and television productions. It operates its own tokusatsu-themed streaming service known as TokuSHOUTsu, and currently holds the streaming rights to the majority of the Ultra Series through a licensing deal with Mill Creek Entertainment. Through a deal with Janus Films, Shout! Factory has made the entire Showa Godzilla series, save for King Kong vs. Godzilla, available to stream along with Rodan and The War of the Gargantuas. It is also the rights holder for Mystery Science Theater 3000, and brought 12 seasons of Super Sentai to DVD from 2015 to 2019. In 2021, it brought Dino De Laurentiis' King Kong to Blu-ray in North America for the first time. In July 2022, Shout! Factory licensed the 1986 film King Kong Lives from StudioCanal and made it available to digital storefronts, though the company has not yet added it to its own streaming services or announced a potential Blu-ray release.
From November 3 to November 6, 2022, acclaimed Hollywood horror director John Carpenter hosted Masters of Monsters, a nightly marathon of four selected Toho Showa kaiju films directed by Ishiro Honda on numerous streaming services, presented by Shout! Factory TV. Godzilla, Rodan, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, and The War of the Gargantuas were the featured films, courtesy of current North American rights holder Janus Films, which acted as a co-sponsor of the marathon.[1]
Selected releases
- Gamera the Giant Monster (1965) - DVD (2010)
- Gamera vs. Barugon (1966) - DVD (2010)
- Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967) and Gamera vs. Viras (1968) - DVD (2010)
- Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) and Gamera vs. Jiger (1970) - DVD (2010)
- Gamera vs. Zigra (1971) and Gamera Super Monster (1980) - DVD (2010)
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 Vol. XXI: MST3K vs. Gamera (TV 1991) - DVD (2011) [includes the Season 3 episodes Gamera, Gamera vs. Barugon, Gamera vs. Gaos, Gamera vs. Guiron, and Gamera vs. Zigra]
- Ultraseven (TV 1967-68) - DVD (2012)
- Ultra Q (TV 1966) - DVD (2013)
- Johnny Sokko And His Flying Robot (TV 1967) - DVD (2013)
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: 25th Anniversary Edition - DVD (2013) [includes the Gorgo episode]
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume XXX - DVD (2014) [includes The Black Scorpion episode]
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) - Blu-ray (2017)
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 Season 11 (TV 2017) - Blu-ray and DVD (2018) [includes the Yongary, Monster from the Deep episode]
- King Kong (1976) - Blu-ray (2021)
- Classic Tokusatsu Collection - Blu-ray set (2024) [includes Magic Serpent]
Selected streaming catalog
- Godzilla (1954)
- Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
- Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
- Rodan (1956)
- Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
- Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
- The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
- Gammera the Invincible (1966)
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
- Magic Serpent (1966)
- Gamera vs. Gaos (1967) [Mystery Science Theater 3000 version]
- Son of Godzilla (1967)
- Destroy All Monsters (1968)
- All Monsters Attack (1969)
- Gamera vs. Jiger (1970) [Mystery Science Theater 3000 version]
- Gamera vs. Zigra (1971) [Mystery Science Theater 3000 version]
- Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)
- Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
- Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
- Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
- Gamera Super Monster (1980) [Elvira's Movie Macabre version]
Gallery
Gamera vs. Gyaos and Gamera vs. Viras DVD
Gamera vs. Guiron and Gamera vs. Jiger DVD
King Kong (1976) Blu-ray
Classic Tokusatsu Collection Blu-ray set
External links
References
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