Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment LLC
Formerly
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    • MCA Videocassette, Inc. (1980–1983)
    • MCA Videodisc (1981–1983)
    • MCA Home Video (1983–1990)
    • MCA/Universal Home Video (1990–1997)
    • Universal Studios Home Video (1997–2005)
    • Universal Studios Home Entertainment (2005–2016)
Company typeDivision
IndustryHome entertainment
Predecessors
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Founded1980 (1980), in Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Headquarters,
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsHome video
ParentUniversal Pictures
DivisionsUniversal 1440 Entertainment
Universal Playback
SubsidiariesStudio Distribution Services (joint venture with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
Websiteuphe.com

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment LLC (UPHE) is the home video division of Universal Pictures, an American film studio owned by NBCUniversal, the entertainment unit of Comcast. The division was founded in 1980.

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is the home video distributor of all of the Universal Pictures film library, all of the Focus Features film library, most of the 1929–1949 Paramount Pictures film library held by EMKA, Ltd., and all of the shows of the NBCUniversal Syndication Studios library (NBC, E!, Syfy, USA Network, and Oxygen).

The division also had distribution deals with United Artists Releasing (including select Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Orion Pictures films), The Film Arcade, Aviron Pictures, STX Entertainment (excluding all of the films from EuropaCorp Films USA, which Lionsgate holds the home video distribution rights to), Mattel Television (for the longest-running Barbie direct-to-video film series), 101 Studios, Sovereign Films, Open Road Films, Briarcliff Entertainment, Pinnacle Peak Pictures, Picturehouse, Blumhouse Tilt, Neon and Bleecker Street (until 2021), Funimation (in the United States and Canada; until 2018, after which Sony Pictures Home Entertainment took over) and Entertainment One (in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Spain, Germany and the United States; until 2024, after which Lionsgate Home Entertainment took over).

Starting in 2021, their releases are currently distributed in North America by Studio Distribution Services, a joint venture between Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment, with select titles distributed by Allied Vaughn through its Manufacture-on-demand (MOD) solutions.