
In 1996, Warner Home Video had reached a deal on releasing Twister, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Maverick, The Fugitive and three Batman films in China through Shenzen Advanced Science Enterprise Group. Home Entertainment as their new home media distributor, while Universal already began distributing some of UAR's other releases beginning with Operation Finale on December 4, 2018. In the studio's 2020 financial report, MGM named Warner Bros. With the acquisition of Fox's parent company 21st Century Fox by Disney in 2019, MGM announced in their 2019 report that it would not renew its deal with Fox after the current agreement expired on June 30, 2020, and would search for a new distributor afterwards.
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gained full control over the video rights to MGM's pre-1986 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. $225 million to regain video rights to a number of its films. The intended 12½-year-long deal was cut short in February 2000, with MGM paying Warner Bros. The $125 million purchase was used to finance MGM/UA's acquisition by the Pathé Communications Corporation. In 1990, Warner Home Video acquired the worldwide home video rights to the MGM/ UA catalog. Following Universal's acquisition of PolyGram in 1999, PolyGram Video (which had international operations) was dissolved into Universal. (a joint venture between CIC Video and JVC) for VHS and on Pioneer LDC, Inc. In Japan, releases from both Universal and Paramount appeared on CIC-Victor Video Ltd. Universal previously distributed its films on video internationally through CIC Video (a division of Cinema International Corporation, later United International Pictures) alongside Paramount Pictures.

The same year, UA licensed foreign video rights to Warner Home Video, in a deal that was set to expire in 1991. In 1981, Warner Home Video signed a deal with NBC Enterprises to release its titles under the NBC Home Video label.
