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| Industry | Motion picture video production |
|---|---|
| Genre | Science fiction/Horror/Cult |
| Founder | MGM |
| Products | VHS,DVD |
| Owner | MGM |
Midnite Movies is a line ofB movies released first onVHS and later onDVD byMGM Home Entertainment. The line was launched by MGM in March 2001 following its acquisition ofOrion Pictures, which bought outFilmways, the owner ofAmerican International Pictures. AIP had a library of B movies from the 1950s and 1960s that were primarilyscience fiction,horror, andexploitation films. TheMidnite Movies collection was primarily derived from the AIP library (including most ofRoger Corman andVincent Price's horror films), but also included films from other MGM-owned libraries, namelyUnited Artists,Cannon Films, andEmpire International Pictures; films fromHammer Film Productions andAmicus Productions were also licensed and released under the banner. The DVDs were first released as single films, but most later releases would bedouble features on single double-sided discs.[1] The "Midnite Movies" line continued as MGM Home Entertainment switched distributors twice in the mid-2000s, first toSony Pictures Home Entertainment and then to20th Century Fox Home Entertainment; under Fox's tenure, the banner was expanded to include Fox library titles. All double feature titles released during the Fox era were two-disc packages. By 2011, no new titles were forthcoming; the previous catalog titles slowly went out of print and theMidnite Movies website was taken down.[2]
Beginning in 2013, independent media labels such asShout! Factory (and sub-label Scream Factory),Kino Lorber Studio Classics,Twilight Time and Olive Films have licensed MGM-owned titles from the formerMidnite Movies line forBlu-ray release.