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This is the practice of skipping theaters/television and just going straight to home video as the first release. This is generally not a good sign in terms of quality (especially if it was originally going to be released theatrically, but was consigned to video)—the term "direct-to-video" or "straight-to-video" often gets used as slang for "cheaply made, rushed, low quality", and in extreme cases, "complete bucket of crap".
In the United States, while there have been plenty of direct-to-video films and such since the advent of home video, they were usually things that were considered financially unsound to release in theaters, like instructional videos, specialized documentaries, foreign films, films with controversial or niche subject matter, Z-grade low budget horror films, cartoon compilations, concert films, longform music videos, and pornography. The practice of creating and releasing regular fiction specifically for video didn't really take off until 1994 with Disney's Aladdin: The Return of Jafar and Universal's The Land Before Time II, neither of which were intended to hit theaters any point in their production.note Other studios started following suit, hardly limited to child-oriented animation. In particular, independent studios and filmmakers quickly picked up on this distribution model, due to its lower distribution costs and reduced censorship (video stores will often stock unrated films that theaters won't touch).
There is a distinct business model that drives the direct-to-video industry, particularly when it involves lower-quality films. One might think that churning out mediocre-to-bad movies on purpose would be a dumb idea, until one looks the sales and rental figures. A cheap 70- to 90-minute film can be produced for as little as a few thousand dollars if you hire obscure actors, crew and writers (often non-union, and barely getting minimum wage), everything gets shot around the studio, and nothing is required that can't be obtained from the studio's stock wardrobe and props. Or, as has been trending since the mid-2000s, animation will now be done as pretty cheap CGI movies. The studio then usually makes about $3-5 million off this, most of it from sales to rental chains. It floods the market with tripe into which nobody put any true effort, but it still makes money in the long run.
It's the modern equivalent of the B-Movie; in fact, many of these would be B movies if double features were still a regular thing. Some direct-to-video flicks will try to make lemonade of their lemons by claiming that their movie is "too intense", "too scary", "too well-written", "too sexy", or "too lavishly budgeted" for theaters; usually the viewers don't fall for it. It may be a sign that a series or franchise the movie is associated with has long since jumped the shark, or is about to very soon. Alternately, the movie could be a shameless ripoff of an existing, highly profitable franchise.
A film that had a theatrical release in its home country might be released direct-to-video internationally note . This may be due to several factors: it might be a sign that the film was a complete failure in its home country, or it might be because the subject matter or style limit its appeal in a particular foreign market. It's also common for a film made and released direct-to-video in its home country to be released theatrically in other countries — for instance, Bambi II and Honey 2 were both released straight to video in the US and Canada, but given theatrical runs in Europe.
Further still, works that were originally intended to be direct-to-video end up getting retrofitted to show on television or in theaters. Usually, only some minimal editing is done to make it fit for theaters, but there have been cases where the project was intervened midway and beefed up to make it quite a bit better. An example of the former is Doug's 1st Movie, which was put into theaters after the success of The Rugrats Movie. A famous example of the latter is Toy Story 2, on which Pixar expanded tremendously for its theatrical release, along with another Disney film, Recess: School's Out.
In Nhật bản, where the business model is referred to in wasei-eigo as Video-through (ビデオスルー), OVAs follow the same model of distribution, but have the opposite expectations in terms of their quality. In short, while "direct-to-video" means "too bad for theaters" in the West, OVA means "too good for television" in the East. With larger budgets and without Executive Meddling or the strict requirements of the Media Watchdogs, OVAs are expected to be significantly better than television-based anime. Live-action direct-to-video, known as "V-cinema" overseas (although this is technically a trademark of Toei Company), also has a much better reputation in Nhật bản. This is due mainly to the number of established filmmakers who use it for their more "experimental" or unusual work, enjoying the greater creative freedom and lack of censorship. In addition, some Japanese dubbed versions of foreign films or TV series also go direct to home video without getting a theatrical or TV release first — for example, the Japanese release of Family Guy.
With home video being slowly replaced by streaming services, direct-to-video has become more loosely defined as any film that skips theaters for a release through streaming or the general web. Because of the rise of original programming for services like Netflix and Hulu during the 2010s, with shows like Stranger Things boasting production values and A-list talent on par with cable offerings, the line has become blurrier between "theatrical" and "direct-to-video" content. This became especially true in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic, where it became common for films originally intended for theaters to be released directly to streaming instead.
In a further expansion of the phenomenon, it has become increasingly common for Missing Episodes of shows that were canceled early to first see the light of day on home video or streaming.
See also It's Not Supposed to Win Oscars, the Ghetto Index, Sequelitis, It Will Never Catch On, and Audience-Alienating Premise.
Direct-to-video releases (examples by source truyền thông)
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Anime & Manga
- The American releases of the Pokémon movies, beginning with the sixth one; the closest they get to a theatrical release now is a premiere on Cartoon Network or
Disney XD.
- Since there were two versions of Pokémon the Movie: Black/White (a "black" version and a "white" version, much like their corresponding games
Pokémon Black and White), The Pokemon Company International used the opportunity to premiere one version in a limited theatrical run (the "white" version) while the other premiered on Cartoon Network (the "black" version). Both were released to DVD in a double-feature.
Comic Books
- There have recently been a series of
Marvel Comics direct-to-video animated adaptation such as Ultimate Avengers and
Hulk Vs., which in practice are more like OVAs: both better animated and less-censored than their television counterparts. DC Comics has a similar line of such productions, including Superman: Doomsday (adapted from The Death of Superman) and
Wonder Woman. There's also the little-known 1998 animated film based on Gen¹³,
Gen¹³: The Movie, the series's only venture outside of comics. The Beano Video and its sequel were both Direct to video. These were a number of animated shorts featuring characters
from The Beano. The Hellboy Animated series comprises two films: Sword of Storms and Blood and Iron. (Both films did air on Cartoon Network shortly
after they were released on DVD.) In spite of having much of the voice work provided by the same actors from the Guillermo del Toro Hellboy live-action films, Animated is a distinct continuity. If anything, it's closer to
the original comics. Gold Digger: Time Raft was released directly to DVD. Being a home made project, it was initially released in parts. In 2010, the whole thing was complied into
one full movie.
Comic Strips
- In the run of Peanuts animated specials:
- It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown (1996, made in 1992 for TV but unaired until after the video release) It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown! (1997) It's
the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown (2000) Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown (2011). This is the first Peanuts special produced without the involvement of longtime producer Bill Melendez, who died in 2008. The artwork in the special is actually an
Art Shift that reflects the classic early drawing style of the Peanuts specials of The '60s.
Films — Animation
- The third and fourth
An American Tail movies, which screwed with the canon by putting Fievel back in Tp New York City, making Fievel Goes West
All Just a Dream, and omitting characters from the first movie. Bartok the Magnificent, the technically-not-a-sequel to
Anastasia, was released this way. Films by Blue Sky Studios got this treatment in Nhật bản (with
two exceptions). Due to the
Coronavirus Pandemic shutting down theaters, Trolls: World Tour went straight to video on demand, skipping theaters (bar a few drive-ins).
SCOOB!, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run note ,
Soul, and Luca followed suit.
- Some of these films did wind up getting theatrical releases:
- Soul got a limited release in select theaters in Tp New York City and California, most
notably Disney’s own El Captain Theater. Trolls World Tour got released select AMC Theaters locations beginning in April of 2022, as either a selectable movie for their private watch parties or as a standard $5 Fan Favorites release. In addition, the film was shown three summer kids' movie programs: Regal's Summer Movie Express, Cinemark's Summer Movie Clubhouse and Megaplex Cinema's Kids Summer Movies. SCOOB! got a release
nationwide on May 21, 2022. Luca got a theatrical release the El Capitan Theater the same day it hit Disney+.
- Disney has released direct-to-video sequels to a significant portion of its animated canon, animated by the company's various television animation units. At first they were follow-ups to
The Renaissance Age of Animation titles, but they gradually shifted back to films from the Golden and
Dark ages. There are also a few titles based on Classic Disney Shorts characters and
Winnie-the-Pooh, while least one film was a Compilation Movie consisting of the completed episodes of an aborted TV spinoff. In
The New '10s, Disney's only efforts in this vein were the Tinkerbell CGI films. There have been a couple Disney sequels that have gotten theatrical runs:
The Rescuers Down Under, Peter Pan:
Return to Never Land, and The Jungle Book 2. The financial failure of The Rescuers Down Under resulted in the start of the company's Direct-to-Video
trend in the 1990s. The failure of the latter two convinced the company to continue it in the 2000s, abandoning plans for theatrical releases of Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch and The Lion King 1½ (hence why they have higher production values)note . The company has decided to venture again recently into theatrical sequels, starting with Ralph Breaks the
Internet in 2022 and Frozen II in 2022. And the Tinker Bell movies (with the exception of The Pirate Fairy, thanks to Muppets Most Wanted coming out the
same time) were shown the El Capitan so they could be hypothetically nominated for an Oscar, thus padding the list of eligible animated films. note
- After Megamind flopped because it was released on the same weekend as the Tohoku disaster in 2011,
Dreamworks decided to release their films in Nhật bản in this matter. The only recent DreamWorks films to not be released this way were The Boss Baby and
Trolls: World Tour. In the case of the latter, it was also released on VOD in the United States and Canada due to the Coronavirus Pandemic closing down most, if not all,
movie theaters, save for drive-ins.
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Norm of the North was originally intended to be this, but for unknown reasons, the film averted this and it was put into theaters. Most would agree that the final product still feels like it was supposed to be a direct-to-video film (mainly due to its very outdated animation). - Originally, two
sequels were in production that were intende to go straight to DVD, but for some reason, they just decided to splice the two films together so it could get a limited theatrical release, resulting in Norm of the North: Keys to the Kingdom.
Films — Live-Action
- Blood Cult, a 1985 Slasher Movie, was the first DTV film ever made. Most of
National Lampoon's later films have been released direct-to-video. Not surprisingly, this coincides with the steep fall in quality that their films have taken. Slumdog Millionaire was almost released
this way until Fox Searchlight signed on as distributor. Controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike loves using direct-to-video V-cinema for many of his more unusual movies, because of the creative freedom this provides him. Miike is often touted as part of the reason for V-cinema's good reputation overseas.
Paranormal Asylum was released on DVD in 2013. All of the Puppet Master franchise was released straight to video. This was because producer Charles Band thought he would make more money going this
route instead of taking it to theaters. In fact, most of Full Moon Entertainment's works are direct-to-video. Theodore Rex was intended to be a theatrical release, but after some complications, including a few failed test screenings, it was released straight to video. Having a budget of $33.5 million, it was the most expensive direct-to-video
release of its time. Most mockbusters use the DTV market in order to dupe unsuspecting customers. All of Ernest P. Worrell's films after Ernest Rides Again. The live-action Casper film produced several. They could hardly even really be called "sequels" seeing how they disregarded the continuity of the original movie so completely that the presence of Casper and his uncles was literally the only similarity to the feature film. They
haunted a different house in a different town and all movie-based characters were dropped, all without explanation. And, of course, there was also the expected downgrade in the quality of the CGI. (It should be noted that Amblin, ILM and
Universal were not involved with the sequels, with Saban Entertainment and
20th Century Fox producing them instead, though Universal and Amblin did produce the better-received animated series.) Incidentally, the Casper "sequels" gave a very young Hilary Duff in her first acting role
as Wendy in Casper Meets Wendy
. All Nollywood movies are like this, although with the rising popularity of streaming many of them are now direct to
YouTube or similar sites. The Universal Soldier franchise is an interesting case of this. A pair of DTV films (Brothers In Arms and Unfinished Business) were released in 1998 sans any of the
original cast members, and focused on lead character Luc Deveraux's attempts to stop the UniSol program from smuggling diamonds while helping reporter Veronica Roberts clear her name after the events of the original film. The DTV sequels were subsequently retconned by 1998's theatrical Universal Soldier: The Return. That film, in
turn, was retconned by 2010's DTV Universal Soldier: Regeneration, which disregards everything except the original. In the Electric Mist, an acclaimed crime drama with
Tommy Lee Jones and John Goodman and directed by Bertrand Tavernier, had the misfortune of going straight-to-DVD after failing to find a distributor. However, it did manage a brief theatrical run after the film rented well.
You would think that a movie starring Michael Jackson put out in 1988 would have no trouble getting a theatrical release — and you would be right... except that Moonwalker wound up going straight-to-video in the US
after Jackson's then-manager Frank DiLeo asked for an exorbitant share of the box office takings. An interesting case is the 2006 thriller The Contract, which starred John Cusack as a school coach who unwittingly ends up having to escort an assassin (played by
Morgan Freeman, no less) during a camping trip and avoid a group of the assassin's cohorts while he tries to bring him back to police custody. Despite having several major film and television stars attached to the project, the production (which cost $25 million) was shut down after 50 days by Millennium Films, leaving the director to finish the project with
money out of his own pocket. The resulting film was unceremoniously dumped on DVD stateside after a limited theatrical showing — in France. Millennium Films also produced the Morgan Freeman/Antonio Banderas heist film The Code (a.k.a. Thick As Thieves), which revolved around a veteran thief recruiting a younger crook
to help him pull off a final job to pay off the Russian mob. Despite attracting some top-tier talent — Mimi Leder (Deep Impact) directed and Tom Hardy co-starred — the film was also dumped on DVD without a theatrical release (it was
however the top-renting movie the week it was released on DVD, giving sort of a happy ending for the film). The Maiden Heist was released straight to DVD after the distributor Yari Film Group went bankrupt. The first film version of
The Punisher (1989) was planned for a US theatrical release by its makers New World Pictures, but the new owners decided to focus more on television and elected to sit on this, Warlock (1989) and Meet The
Applegates (although all three did open as planned outside the US through other distributors). The other two did get American theatrical release eventually, but The Punisher spent two years on the shelf before going to video. As if being shelved by
DreamWorks/Paramount for years before its 2012 theatrical release wasn't enough, Paramount cancelled the British release of
A Thousand Words following its terrible American reception - and thus it went straight to DVD. The 2004 film Envy, starring Ben Stiller and
Jack Black, was released straight to DVD in all of Europe following its negative American reception. Liam Neeson signed up for
Taken thinking it was going to be released this way. The sixth and seventh installments of the Child's Play franchise, "Curse of Chucky" and "Cult of Chucky".
Soldier bombed so badly in the US, that it went for a straight to video release in other countries. Robert Rodriguez originally intended to make
El Mariachi for Spanish home video. Two popular movies of the early-'90s — Dennis the Menace and
Richie Rich — were given direct-to-video sequels in 1998 from Warner Bros. Family Entertainment. The former received Dennis the Menace Strikes Again, while the latter was saddled with Richie Rich's Christmas Wish. Neither movie featured its predecessor's original cast, nor was either movie nearly as well-received. The same
year, Warner Bros. Family Entertainment also put out Addams Family Reunion in the same manner. It fared about as well as the prior mentioned movies, though unlike those, Reunion was not intended as a direct sequel to
the first two films in its series. 2013's Blood Ties, despite its impressive cast (Clive Owen,
Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldaña,
James Caan), went straight to DVD in Britain. After it bombed the U.S. box-office in February 2014, Vampire Academy's British cinema release was cancelled and it went straight to DVD there in early July.
In 2008, Entertainment Weekly released an article entitled "Would You Dump this Woman?" (which you can read here) which detailed the tumultuous production of Amy
Heckerling's I Could Never Be Your Woman (starring Michelle Pfeiffer and
Paul Rudd) and how it went straight-to-video in the first place. Captain America (1990) did receive theatrical distribution in some foreign markets, but it went straight to VHS in the US due to financing
problems. After Sony cancelled the wide theatrical release of The Interview in late 2014, it released the film to YouTube the same time as a limited release and then to
Netflix. In 2006, Warner Bros. made a brand specifically devoted to Direct To Video films entitled Warner Premiere. These consisted of sequels to their live-action output, animated films for
Scooby-Doo, Tom and Jerry, and the
DC Universe Animated Original Movies (mentioned below), and a few original titles here and there (like the delayed
Trick 'r Treat). Due to the growing decline of the DVD market and other economic setbacks, Warner Bros. pulled the plug on the label in 2013. The studio still makes direct to video films, but those are under the regular Warner trang chủ Video banner. - Fun fact, Warner Premiere had a sub-label named Raw Feed which made, you guessed it, horror films.
It didn't last very long.
from the Tp New York Post revealed the drive-in screenings were booked by Universal
on accident, and that the film was only meant to be straight to video. Tremors was released theatrically. All of its sequels—six and counting—have been released straight to DVD, or straight to Neftlix.
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit: Despite having known actors such as Edward James Olmos and Bradbury's name on it, it was shown the Sundance Film Festival before going straight to VHS.
The Circle (2022) demonstrated that Tom Hanks isn't immune this, with this movie bypassing UK cinemas despite also having
Emma Watson and Karen Gillan (this was before John Boyega was famous, if you're
wondering) - and going straight to Netflix instead. Operation Delta Force
Stiletto Rise of the Scarecrows All of the Japanese-made
Godzilla films from 1989's Godzilla vs. Biollante to 2004's Godzilla:
Final Wars were released straight to video in the west, with the sole exception of Godzilla 2000. Biollante was handled by HBO and the rest by
Sony Pictures, who also handled 2000's theatrical release and distributed the American-made Godzilla (1998). The 2022 reboot Shin Godzilla broke the trend by getting a limited American theatrical release by Funimation, prior to its video release. In an effort to accommodate those who are unable or uncomfortable with venturing out, many studios have taken a modified approach to this in the wake of theaters reopening after
the pandemic-forced shutdown, releasing movies in cinemas and on-demand either simultaneously, or very soon afterwards rather than several months later as was done before. For example, No Time to Die was released on-demand within a month after it finally opened in the US, and became available on DVD by December 21. Due to the cinemas in the UK still
being closed due to Covid, School's Out Forever was released straight to streaming in February 2022, before getting a Blu-Ray release the following April. It's US release in June 2022 was also
straight to streaming. Boxing Day was released straight to Amazon Prime in the US, two weeks after it's theatrical release in the UK.
Zack Snyder's Justice League premiered on the HBO Max streaming service first (and on HBO partner streaming/VOD sites internationally), then came out on physical home video. It had a limited
IMAX theatrical run with profits going to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Literature
- Return to Rainspell Island, an
Animated Adaptation of the Rainbow Magic franchise. A series of
Richard Scarry's animated educational videos that were produced between 1989 and 1994.
Live-Action TV
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Little Hardhats is a live-action direct to video series on showing kids about what adult jobs are like. The pioneer of this for spin-offs of TV series was probably the Babylon 5 spin-off
The Lost Tales, which was intended to be the first of a series of DVDs until J. Michael Straczynski decided that he couldn't tolerate the artistic limitations created by the low
budget (which many cynical people translated as "not even enough completist fans bought it for it to make any money"). Stargate SG-1 has two direct-to-video sequel movies: Stargate:
Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum.
Super Sentai:
- The annual team-up films that started with Ohranger
vs. Kakuranger were originally straight-to-video releases until Go-onger vs.
Gekiranger, in which they started getting theatrical premieres instead. Gogo-V had a tie-in video titled Clash! The New Super Warrior (aka Gogo-V vs.
Zeek), which focused on a new hero created just for the movie in order to make up for the lack of a Sixth Ranger in the actual show. Every Sentai since Samurai Sentai Shinkenger (with the
exception of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger) had a "Come Back!" special that were released on home video after their respective finales were aired. Ninpuu Sentai
Hurricaneger and Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, two of the more popular seasons, have received "Ten Years After" DTV movies which reunite most of the primary cast. Its Western counterpart had an unintentional example: The finale for
Power Rangers Samurai was first released on Netflix almost a week before it aired and as part of the DVD boxset days later. Saban had planned the DVD to release days after the finale aired, but Nickelodeon pushed the show back a week when it came back from hiatus so the DVD got out first.
- Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue was a direct to video movie. Also, in the Heisei era, there are Hyper Battle Videos/DVDs, which act as
clip shows for the respective show and usually has an alternate form or piece of equipment that never appears anywhere else. They also tend to be a good bit sillier than the original show. Starting with
Kamen Rider Double, several series have had direct-to-DVD movies that focus on a different character while the hero only appears in a reduced capacity; the movies are often Darker and Edgier and/or
Hotter and Sexier because they don't have to worry about appeasing Media Watchdogs. Double's movies focused on Accel and Eternal.
Kamen Rider Gaim got four movies whose stars were chosen by a poll; the winners were Zangetsu and Baron for the first pair, and Knuckle and Duke for the second. Kamen Rider Drive started
with one for Chaser, then two more for Mach and Heart, the first time a non-Rider got his own movienote . Kamen Rider Ghost had the "Specter V-Cinema", focusing on the origins of Specter himself.
Kamen Rider Ex-Aid had the "Another Ending" trilogy focusing on the rest of the Riders (Brave & Snipe, Para-DX with Poppy, and Lazer vs. Genm), with protagonist Emu Hojo playing only a supporting role and never transforming into Ex-Aid. The triolgy is set two years after the series' end and addresses a major hanging
plot thread: Kuroto Dan's villainy being swept under the rug as greater threats reared their heads.
- Ultraman: Towards the Future was released this way in 1990 in Nhật bản under the title Ultraman Great. It did eventually air on Japanese TV in 1995 though.
Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero had the same fate in 1993 when it came out as Ultraman Powered, but like Towards the Future, it was finally aired on Japanese TV in 1995.
Ultraman Neos was released as such in 2000. Notably, it was originally meant to be the first Ultra Series of the Heisei era until it got shelved in favor of Ultraman Tiga. However, it did manage air a few
episodes on TV in 2002 when then-ongoing series Ultraman Cosmos had to be taken off their air for a few weeks due to the lead actor getting caught in some controversy.
Music
- The critically acclaimed
Baby Songs Music Video series. The individual videos also aired as segments on Disney Channel's Lunch Box block. Most concert videos. While films in the past like
Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains the Same, The Band's The Last Waltz and
Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense have had theatrical releases, they haven't really been box-office blockbusters, but the artists have loyal audiences for live footage. Hence, direct-to-DVD makes a lot of financial sense
for these live videos. Frank Zappa started doing this from the late 1980s on, with Does Humor Belong in Music? (1985) as his first release. In his case it made sense to directly bring it out on
home video, because his music was only popular with a cult crowd and wouldn't sell much tickets in the theater. Rock band Mindless Self Indulgence have a song called "Straight to Video" which plays off of this trope.
Puppet Shows
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The Muppets have appeared in a number of direct-to-video productions:
- In 1985, Playhouse Video released ten compilations featuring the best clips from The Muppet Show, with original linking footage.
In the late-1980s there was A Muppet Babies Video Storybook, with Kermit reading three existing Muppet Babies storybooks (sometimes to Robin). 1988 brought Jim Henson's Play-Along Video, in
which the Muppets encourage the viewers to do the activities featured in the videos. Muppet Sing-Alongs were made in the early 1990s, with Kermit hosting. Muppet Classic Theater had the Muppets doing their own versions of six fairy tales.
Kermit's Swamp Years focused on 12-year-old Kermit.
- In 1986, Random House trang chủ Video
released My Sesame Street trang chủ Video. They were basically mini-episodes featuring some of the best clips from the show itself. The releases came with an activity book. In 1987, Random House also did Sesame Street Start-to-Read Video, where Big Bird narrates various Sesame Street storybooks.
He even imitates his friends! In 1990, Random House released Sesame Songs trang chủ Video, which were similar in format to the former series, only focusing on songs from the series.
The releases came with a song lyrics poster. After taking over from Random House, Sony Wonder commissioned more Sesame Street direct-to-video specials under the regular branding, like the aforementioned Elmo's Potty Time.
- The series did air on television least twice to promote the tapes: once in syndication and another time during the Nick Jr. block.
Toys
- In a rare example of a decent DTV, the
BIONICLE films. Almost every single Bratz movie was straight to DVD, the sole exception being the controversial
Live-Action Adaptation. The My Little Pony G3's "Core 7" shorts (except for Twinkle Wish Adventure and the movies) and
Spin-Off Babies G3.5 Once Upon a My Little Pony Time shorts. The Barbie films. However, quite a few of them were shown as part of Kidtoons, and a few have been aired on
Treehouse TV.
Video Games
- The majority of video trò chơi franchises from the 1980s and 1990s originally began as arcade games and are nowadays released directly to consoles. Even during the "Golden Age" of the arcades (the 80s and 90s), some of these franchises already had a few made-for-console
sequels. Game Player Game Tape was a series of VHS tapes and Betamax tapes that helps gamers learn the tips and tricks on each video games.
Web Animation
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Homestar Runner parodies this and The Mockbuster in the
Strong Bad E-Mail "unlicensed", where Strong Bad talks about movies with titles like The Secret Princess and Her Oppressive Authority Figure 4 and Jungle Animals in Decidedly Non-Jungle Situations ("So straight-to-DVD it hurts") that are put in grocery store check-out lines to trick grandmothers into buying them.
Western Animation
- Once Upon A Potty potty training video was based on the book by the same name The
Family Guy feature Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story and the four
Futurama direct-to-DVD movies were made with intent of ultimately cutting the episodes up for airing on TV as three-parters and four-parters respectively. Though in the case of Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, the movie is considered the definitive cut and as such, the TV edit "episodes" are omitted from DVD releases. The DVD also
has about 20 minutes of bonus footage (involving the "premiere" of the movie in theaters and a fourth-wall breaking after party where the characters discuss the real-life cancellation of the series) that was not shown on TV. The four
Futurama movies sold so well and got such a positive reaction from fans that they continued the series.
- In-universe, the episodes
Lois Kills Stewie and Foreign Affairs parody Disney's infamous direct-to-video sequels with cutaway skits that poke fun just how pointless the sequels stories are. In the former, Stewie invokes his presidential power to ban Disney from producing further sequels,
including films like Aladdin IV: Jafar May Need Glasses (which is just a 38 second clip of Jafar getting an eye exam). In the latter, Peter and co. are watching Aladdin V: Jafar
Answers the Census on the Disney Channel.
- "One Good Scare Ought to Do It!" made its US debut on the DVD The Fast and the Phineas, over two months before its US TV premiere on
Disney Channel. "Unfair Science Fair" and "Unfair Science Fair Redux" (Another Story) made their US debut on the DVD The Daze of Summer, around a week before their US TV premieres on Disney XD. "The
Doof Side of the Moon" made its US debut on the DVD A Very Perry Christmas, three days before its US TV premiere on Disney Channel.
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Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade and Recess: All Growed Down were both DTV movies, consisting of unaired episodes and linking material.
Recess: School's Out was planned as this, but Disney wanted a theatrical release due to the show's popularity. With an expansion of the plot and an Animation Bump, it turned out to be a
success. In a few foreign areas, it was released as this, though, particularly in areas where Recess wasn't much heard of or not as popular than in other countries.
- After season 3 wrapped up, the series proper went on hiatus for two years in order to produce the movie. This was also the same time the show started being released on home video. Nickelodeon bought time by reshuffling and
spreading out the remaining episodes - some of which ended up first being released on DVD months before official airtime. Notable examples include "Graveyard Shift" and "Club SpongeBob" on Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies, "I Had an Accident" and "Born Again Krabs" on Tales from the Deep, and the final pre-movie episodes, "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" and "Pranks a Lot", on The Seascape Capers. "Gary Takes a Bath" has one of the stranger release
histories. It's officially the sister short of the season 2 episode "Shanghaied", which first aired by itself in March 2001 as a double-length special. Both of them showed up on the Sea Stories DVD in November 2002. "Gary Takes a Bath" didn't actually air on TV until mid-2003, over two full years after its sister and a year after its DVD debut.
note Nick hyped up the "lost episode", "The Sponge Who Could Fly"'s airdate heavily as a special sự kiện, but it actually showed up on a DVD called Lost Sea a couple weeks before airtime. An extreme example would be the DVD Bikini Bottom Adventures — the time when the DVD was released, none of the episodes were on television. "New Leaf" was released on the "Karate Island" DVD two
months before it aired on TV. Every season 4 episode that aired in 2007 had already been released on "Season 4 Volume 2" DVD before they aired on TV. Even some of season 5's episodes had been released on DVD before their official airtime on TV such as "Friend or Foe?" ("The Original Fry Cook", "Night Light", "Fungus Among Us", and "Spy Buddies"), "Season 5 Volume 1" ("Fungus Among Us"), "Bikini Bottom Adventures" ( "Boat Smarts", "Good Ol' Whatshisname", "New Digs", "Krabs à
la Mode", "Roller Cowards", "Bucket Sweet Bucket", and "Breath of Fresh Squidward"), "WhoBob WhatPants" ("Goo Goo Gas"), and "Season 5 Volume 2" ("Goo Goo Gas"). The Japanese dub of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was released this way, with the theatrical version being subtitled and shown as
a limited release. The Complete(asterix) Twelfth Season DVD notably contained several episodes that hadn't been aired on American Nickelodeon the time of its release, like "My Two Krabses", "Bubble Bass's Tab" and "Kooky Cooks".
- Jim Henson had Muppet Sing Alongs, which had a spin-off of its' own called "Things That...", which was a series of sing-along videos featuring the Muppets singing about different kinds of vehicles. Warner Brothers had two of these videos: one was a
Looney Tunes sing-along, and the other was a tie-in to Quest for Camelot, which also included songs from
The Wizard of Oz on it. Fox released two of these: one contained Shirley Temple songs, and the other was themed around
Anastasia. Alvin and the Chipmunks had two of these releases: Ragtime Cowboy Joe and Working On The Railroad.
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