Lionsgate Home Entertainment is a Canadian–American home video distribution company formed on 21 October 1989. They distributed Thomas & Friends DVDs on behalf of HiT Entertainment in the United States from 2008 until 2014 and in Canada in 2008. They took over 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Anchor Bay Entertainment's former roles and re-released many of their titles. Their role was replaced by Universal Studios Home Entertainment in 2014.
In Canada, subsidiaries of Lionsgate distributed Thomas & Friends DVDs. Lion Cub Films in 2009 and 2010, Maple Pictures in 2010 and 2011, Alliance Films from 2011 to 2013 and Entertainment One in 2013 and 2014.
Lionsgate also released some DVDs of Britt Allcroft's Magic Adventures of Mumfie.
Releases
DVD releases
2008
2009
Railway Friends
High Speed Adventures
Team Up With Thomas
Percy and the Bandstand
Hero of the Rails
Holiday Express
2010
Splish, Splash, Splosh!
Thomas and the Runaway Kite
The Greatest Stories
Creaky Cranky
Misty Island Rescue
Merry Winter Wish
The Lion of Sodor
2011
Wobbly Wheels and Whistles
Pop Goes Thomas
The Birthday Express
Thomas in Charge!
Day of the Diesels
Merry Christmas, Thomas!
Rescue on the Rails
2012
Curious Cargo
Up, Up and Away!
Engine Friends
Schoolhouse Delivery
Blue Mountain Mystery
A Very Thomas Christmas
Sticky Situations
2013
Muddy Matters
Go Go Thomas!
Railway Mischief
Animals Aboard!
King of the Railway
Santa's Little Engine
The Thomas Way
2014
Blu-Ray Releases
2010
2011
2012
2013
Box Sets
2008
2009
2010
2011
Action Pack
Play Date Pack
Friendship on the Tracks
Fun on the Tracks
Holiday Favorites
Steam Team Collection
Adventure On the Tracks
2012
2013
Trivia
- Most of Lionsgate's DVDs were presented in the 4:3 fullscreen aspect ratio, even though the series had transitioned to the 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio in Series 6. From 2009 to 2013, only the specials Hero of the Rails, Misty Island Rescue, Day of the Diesels, Blue Mountain Mystery and King of the Railway were released on DVD by Lionsgate in the US in their original 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio. However, during this time, many of Lionsgate's titles were released digitally in their original 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio via Netflix, Vudu, iTunes or Amazon Prime Video. The first episodic DVD release released in its original 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio was Spills and Thrills in March 2014 and all following releases were also released in the 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio.
- Lionsgate would end up owning Anchor Bay Entertainment, Thomas & Friends' previous distributor, in 2016 via the Starz merger. Ironically, at that point, Lionsgate lost the distribution rights to Thomas & Friends to Universal Studios in 2014, two years prior to the merger.