20th Century Studios

20th Century Studios (formerly 20th Century Fox) is an American film studio currently owned by The Walt Disney Company. The studio was formed in 1935 due to a merger between Fox Film Corporation and 20th Century Pictures, which were founded in 1915 and 1933 respectively. They distributed many US Thomas & Friends DVDs from the ninth to eleventh series for HiT Entertainment from 2006 until 2008, when video distribution moved to Lionsgate.

In 1998, reruns of the second and third seasons of Shining Time Station used to air on Fox Family Channel (later called ABC Family, now called Freeform), as well as Storytime with Thomas and Mister Moose's Fun Time, which both featured Thomas stories as a regular segment.

Releases

 * Calling All Engines!
 * Songs from the Station
 * Thomas' Sodor Celebration!
 * Tales from the Tracks
 * Come Ride the Rails
 * Track Stars
 * Milkshake Muddle
 * Carnival Capers
 * Hit Favorites: Winter Wonderland
 * It's Great to be an Engine!
 * HiT Favorites: Springtime Fun!
 * Engines and Escapades
 * HiT Favorites: Summertime Fun!

Trivia

 * As shown in an early trailer for The Great Discovery, Fox was originally going to distribute the movie in the US, but Lionsgate was instead chosen to distribute the movie.
 * The brake sound effect use the first two seasons of Thomas & Friends was originally used in Fox films such as The Sand Pebbles, Emperor of the North and the original Planet of the Apes.