History ChannelHop / Film

* ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' franchise:

* ''Film/TheCrow'' began production under Paramount, but they dropped the film during production due to the on-set death of its star Creator/BrandonLee. Miramax, just purchased by Disney at the time, stepped in to complete the film and handle distribution through its Dimension Films label. Thus, the 2020 acquisition of a minority stake in Miramax, and distribution rights to its library, by Paramount meant that rights to ''The Crow'' returned to the studio that originally greenlit the film.

** Zig-zagged and later played straight with a Fox 2000 holdover, ''Literature/ChildrenOfBloodAndBone''. It ended up staying at Disney after the label's shuttering, but Disney-owned Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} ended up joining as a production partner after it caught the attention of Lucasfilm head Creator/KathleenKennedy. However, a protracted development period and Lucasfilm choosing to focus on ''Franchise/StarWars'' and other established [=IPs=] led to Disney losing the rights to Creator/{{Paramount}}, which has a strong relationship with Hasbro.

** ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' was originally released by Creator/TriStarPictures but the initial video release was through Embassy (later Nelson) Home Entertainment, then New Line acquired the video rights in the early '90s and licensed it to Image for a deluxe laserdisc release. Again, Columbia/[=TriStar=] (re)claimed it at the end of TheNineties. In 2024, the video/TV rights were acquired by Shout! Studios along with ''The Dark Crystal''.

* The live-action ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'' movie was produced by Cinergi Productions and Allied Filmmakers, and released by Creator/{{Disney}} via Creator/HollywoodPictures. When Creator/{{Nintendo}} decided to give the franchise a second go in movies, they contracted Creator/IlluminationEntertainment to produce an [[AllCGICartoon all-CGI]] ContinuityReboot, to be released by Creator/{{Universal}}. Disney notably had a long-standing relationship with Nintendo that predated the latter's entrance into video games, though Universal has a stronger relationship nowadays as the latter's theme parks are opening Nintendo-themed areas (ironically, Nintendo and Universal were not on good terms to start their relationship when the latter sued the former in the 1980s because ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' allegedly infringed on Universal's rights to ''King Kong'').

** Zig-zagged and later played straight with a Fox 2000 holdover, ''Literature/ChildrenOfBloodAndBone''. It ended up staying at Disney after the label's shuttering, but Disney-owned Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} ended up joining as a production partner after it caught the attention of Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy. However, a protracted development period and Lucasfilm choosing to focus on ''Franchise/StarWars'' and other established [=IPs=] led to Disney losing the rights to Creator/{{Paramount}}, which has a strong relationship with Hasbro.

* In the late-90s

** Other Creator/JimHenson works have hopped too. ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'' was a ITC/Universal Pictures release that originally was released by Thorn EMI Video in TheEighties, then reissued by HBO later in the decade, followed by Buena Vista Home Video (via Jim Henson Video) in TheNineties, all on behalf of Henson. At the end of that decade, Columbia/[=TriStar=] Home Entertainment picked it up. (and yet [[Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance the prequel show]] was a solo endeavor by The Jim Henson Company distributed by Netflix. Universal still owns the theatrical rights to the film.
** ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' was originally released by Creator/TriStarPictures but the initial video release was through Embassy (later Nelson) Home Entertainment, then New Line acquired the video rights in the early '90s and licensed it to Image for a deluxe laserdisc release. Again, Columbia/[=TriStar=] (re)claimed it at the end of TheNineties.

* Perhaps because of their severe lack of back catalog (aside from UA's own stuff), MGM spent much of the 1990s (following the Giancarlo Parretti fiasco that saw a merger with Creator/TheCannonGroup) buying up other companies and/or film libraries. This included Creator/OrionPictures (whose pre-1982 films are still with Warner Bros.) and some of their predecessor companies (namely Creator/{{Filmways}} and Creator/AmericanInternationalPictures), The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and the pre-1996 library of Creator/PolyGramFilmedEntertainment (post-1996 films are still with Universal), which in turn included the Epic library, a hodge-podge of film libraries taken from clients of the French bank Credit Lyonnais (who had been involved in the aforementioned Parretti mess) including films from [[Film/TheTerminator Hemdale]], [[Film/BillAndTed Nelson]] (including pre-1994 Creator/CastleRockEntertainment films and video rights to the Embassy Pictures catalog), [[Film/ValleyGirl Atlantic]] [[Film/TeenWolf Releasing]], [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension Sherwood Productions]]/[[Film/{{Mannequin}} Gladden Entertainment]] and others.

* Amidst [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong#Legal_rights a complicated legal battle]], all the major Film/KingKong movies were by different studios: the 1933 original and it's 1934 sequel by RKO (now distributed by Warner domestically), the 1976 remake and its 1986 sequel by the De Laurentiis Corporation (the first distributed by Paramount), the 2005 version by Universal (who owns the rights to the King Kong name), and Universal licensed 2017's ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' to Warner so they could make a crossover with [[Film/Godzilla2014 their Godzilla]]. In 2022, James Wan's Atomic Monster production company arranged their own deal with Merian C. Cooper's estate to develop a ''King Kong'' TV series for Disney+.

* The Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein film versions of ''Film/{{Oklahoma}}'' and ''Film/SouthPacific'' were produced and distributed by the Magna Theatre Corporation for their initial roadshow runs. After they entered their general release runs, distribution of the films changed hands; ''Oklahoma!'' went to RKO, and later 20th Century Fox, while ''South Pacific'' went to Fox. In the 1980s, CBS acquired the video rights to both films from the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization; these rights were transferred to CBS/Fox, and later 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. In 1982, ''Oklahoma!'' was re-released theatrically by The Samuel Goldwyn Company, which also assumed television rights. ''South Pacific'' was not given a theatrical reissue, but Goldwyn still distributed the film for TV. By 2021, ''Oklahoma!'' was distributed for TV by 20th Century Fox's successor Disney (it was streamed on Disney+ for a while) before those rights expired shortly thereafter. In 2023, Samuel Goldwyn Films (a spiritual but not legal successor to the Goldwyn Company) acquired the worldwide distribution rights to both films, as well as the filmed 1998 Royal National Theatre production of ''Oklahoma!'' starring Creator/HughJackman, from the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and released the films on Blu-Ray.