Shout! Studios
American boutique home video and music distributor.
Shout! Studios is an American home video and music distributor founded in 2002 as Retropolis Entertainment. It releases previously released feature films, television series, animation, live music, and comedy specials on DVD and Blu-ray. The company operates sub-labels including Scream Factory, Shout! Select, and Shout! Kids, and owns Westchester Films, Timeless Media Group, and other entities.
Quick Facts
- Former name
- Retropolis Entertainment (2002–2003), Shout! Factory (as trade name; 2003–2023)
- Founded
- April 19, 2002
- Founders
- Richard Foos
- Bob Emmer
- Garson Foos
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Brands
- Scream Factory
- Shout! Select
- Shout! Kids
- Shout! Pictures
- Shout! TV
- Industry
- Entertainment
- Products
- Home video, Music
- Parent
- Radial Entertainment (2025–present)
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History
Retropolis Entertainment was founded on April 19, 2002 by Bob Emmer, Garson Foos, and Richard Foos, three former principals of Rhino Records, after they sold Rhino to Warner Music Group in 1998. The company's first product was Red, White & Rock, a 2002 joint release with PBS station WQED-TV produced with Warner Strategic Marketing. In August 2002, Retropolis acquired Biograph Records. Early releases included blues and jazz CDs from Biograph, a Fats Domino CD and DVD, and documentaries such as Superstar: The Life And Times of Andy Warhol. Retropolis was renamed Shout! Factory in April 2003, at which point it signed a press and distribution agreement with Sony Music Entertainment. In 2004, Shout! released Freaks and Geeks on DVD, its first television series on DVD, costing over a million dollars in music licensing. That year also saw releases of William Shatner's album Has Been and SCTV box sets. Shout! purchased rights to the adult animated series Home Movies and released season sets. Other notable releases included The Electric Company multi-disc sets, Herb Alpert's Whipped Cream & Other Delights Rewhipped, and Under The Covers Vol. 1 with Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs.
Licensing deals
Shout! Factory has built a sprawling network of licensing partnerships with major studios and content owners, including Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, WildBrain Limited, Corus Entertainment, Hasbro Entertainment, GKIDS, BBC Studios, Eleven Arts, Sesame Workshop, IFC Films, ITV Studios, Major League Baseball, Motion Picture Corporation of America, the estate of Stephen J. Cannell, The Jim Henson Company, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Alien Productions, Library Rights Company (UK), Ltd., the Zelus Film Holding Company, Satellite of Love, StudioCanal, Joe Camp, Toei Animation, Toei Company, Laika, Aardman Animations, and Tatsunoko Production. Through these deals, the company has put out a wide range of home video titles, including the complete Astonishing X-Men run by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday, Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers, Iron Man: Extremis, classic Transformers, G.I. Joe, Jem, My Little Pony, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Power Rangers, VR Troopers, Sesame Street, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, and Nickelodeon shows like Rocko's Modern Life, Hey Arnold!, The Wild Thornberrys, CatDog, Danny Phantom, Hey Dude, The Angry Beavers, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius. Other releases include Benji: Ultimate Collection, The Magic Snowflake, and Gravity Falls. In mid-2012, Shout! Factory launched Scream Factory, a horror-focused imprint dedicated to vintage and cult genre films. Its first wave of titles was announced in May 2017, featuring Halloween II, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, They Live, Terror Train, and The Island. Among Scream Factory’s more prominent releases are 4K steelbook editions of The Howling, The Return of the Living Dead, and Evil Dead.
Related companies
Shout! Factory expanded its catalog in 2012 by buying Oregon's Timeless Media Group, picking up TV series like The Red Skelton Show and The Virginian, plus the Roy Rogers: King of the Cowboys film set and over 50 documentaries. The company had earlier purchased the blues and roots label HighTone Records in 2008, managing its back catalog until Concord Bicycle Music took over in 2016.
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