Magnolia Home Entertainment (fictional)

Magnolia Home Entertainment was the home media division of. Prior Magnolia Pictures releases were distributed by Artisan then Lionsgate while and the first  movie distributed by 20th Century Fox and prior IFC FIlms releases were distributed by MGM and for a few months Sony Pictures while  was distributed by HBO and  was distributed by Paramount.

History
In November 2005, launched Magnolia Home Entertainment to release its films on home video, with its first release being Alex Gibney's acclaimed doc,  on January 17, 2006, on DVD, VHS,, and Videocard and later on Blu-ray on October 10, 2006. It is headed by entertainment industry vet and former head of home entertainment for, Randy Wells. It also had ties with the 's home video division.

The companies first Blu-ray release was on October 10, 2006.

It made a deal with to distribute all their shows and movies on VHS (until 2007), DVD,  (until 2011), and Videocard.

The final VHS releases the company released were and  (named as Samoan Wedding outside New Zealand) both on February 13, 2007.

In late 2009, after Magnolia's distributor exited the home video distribution business and the DVD rights that were distributed by Genius were sold to Vivendi Entertainment. Magnolia struck a deal with but later made a deal with.

After the Weinstein Company acquired a 25% stake in, the final release to be distributed by Sony Pictures was and the first self-distributed title was. In 2014, Magnolias titles started to be distributed by. Weinstein and Magnolia were brought back after 5 years of separation when purchased Starz. Even if The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment shut down. Magnolia's titles are still distributed by Lionsgate. In December 2019, the division was folded.

Television distribution

 * All3Media
 * FremantleMedia
 * Fries Entertainment
 * ITV
 * Rysher Entertainment
 * SFM Entertainment
 * Sonar Entertainment

Home video distribution

 * (2006-2009)
 * (2009-2010) (uncredited)
 * (2010-2011) (uncredited)
 * Self-distributed (2011-2014)
 * (formerly (thru  (2014-2019) (uncredited)