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The Twentieth Century Fox Film Studios Corporation (or just 20th Century FoxTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn) is a TBA upcoming American film studio that is a subsidiary of The Disney-Fox Entertainment Studios, a division of Disney-Fox. The studio is located on the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles.^[8]

The current 20th Century Fox was one of the «Big Six» major American film studios for over 83 years. In 2024, It was founded from the merger of Twentieth Century Studios (formerly the original 20th Century Fox) and the Fox Film Studios Corporation. In 1985, the original studio was acquired by News Corporation, which was succeeded by 21st Century Fox in 2013, after spinning off its publishing assets. In 2019, Disney purchased 20th Century Fox through its acquisition of 21st Century Fox.^[9] The studio’s current name was adopted on January 17, 2020.^[10]

History

Fox Film

History

Background

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William Fox entered the film industry in 1904 when he purchased a one-third share of a Brooklyn nickelodeon for $1,667.Template:EfnTemplate:Sfn He reinvested his profits from that initial location, expanding to fifteen similar venues in the city, and purchasing prints from the major studios of the time: Biograph, Essanay, Kalem, Lubin, Pathé, Selig, and Vitagraph.Template:Sfn After experiencing further success presenting live vaudeville routines along with motion pictures, he expanded into larger venues beginning with his purchase of the disused Gaiety theater,Template:Efn and continuing with acquisitions throughout New York City and New Jersey, including the Academy of Music.Template:Sfn

Fox invested further in the film industry by founding the Greater New York Film Rental Company as a film distributor.Template:Sfn The major film studios responded by forming the Motion Picture Patents Company in 1908 and the General Film Company in 1910, in an effort to create a monopoly on the creation and distribution of motion pictures. Fox refused to sell out to the monopoly, and sued under the Sherman Antitrust Act, eventually receiving a $370,000Template:Efn settlement, and ending restrictions on the length of films and the prices that could be paid for screenplays.Template:Sfn

In 1914, reflecting the broader scope of his business, he renamed it the Box Office Attraction Film Rental Company.Template:Sfn He entered into a contract with the Balboa Amusement Producing Company film studio, purchasing all of their films for showing in his New York area theaters and renting the prints to other exhibitors nationwide.Template:Sfn He also continued to distribute material from other sources, such as Winsor McCay‘s early animated film Gertie the Dinosaur.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Later that year, Fox concluded that it was unwise to be so dependent on other companies, so he purchased the Éclair studio facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey, along with property in Staten Island,Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn and arranged for actors and crew. The company became a film studio, with its name shortened to the Box Office Attractions Company; its first release was Life’s Shop Window.Template:Sfn

Fox Film Corporation

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Always more of an entrepreneur than a showman, Fox concentrated on acquiring and building theaters; pictures were secondary. The company’s first film studios were set up in Fort Lee, New Jersey where it and many other early film studios in America’s first motion picture industry were based at the beginning of the 20th century.^[6][7][8]

In 1914, Fox Film began making motion pictures in California, and in 1915 decided to build its own permanent studio. The company leased the Edendale studio of the Selig Polyscope Company until its own studio, located at Western Avenue and Sunset Boulevard, was completed in 1916.^[9] In 1917, William Fox sent Sol M. Wurtzel to Hollywood to oversee the studio’s West Coast production facilities where a more hospitable and cost-effective climate existed for filmmaking.

With the introduction of sound technology, Fox moved to acquire the rights to a sound-on-film process. In the years 1925–26, Fox purchased the rights to the work of Freeman Harrison Owens, the U.S. rights to the Tri-Ergon system invented by three German inventors, and the work of Theodore Case. This resulted in the Movietone sound system later known as «Fox Movietone» developed at the Movietone Studio. Later that year, the company began offering films with a music-and-effects track, and the following year Fox began the weekly Fox Movietone News feature, that ran until 1963. The growing company needed space, and in 1926 Fox acquired 300 acres (1.2 km²) in the open country west of Beverly Hills and built «Movietone City», the best-equipped studio of its time.

Decline

When rival Marcus Loew died in 1927, Fox offered to buy the Loew family’s holdings. Loew’s Inc. controlled more than 200 theaters, as well as the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio. The Loew family agreed to the sale, and the merger of Fox and Loew’s Inc. was announced in 1929; MGM studio bosses Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg were not included in the deal, and fought back. Using powerful political connections, Mayer called upon the Justice Department‘s antitrust unit to delay giving final approval to the merger. William Fox was badly injured in a car crash in the summer of 1929, and by the time he recovered, he had lost most of his fortune in the stock market crash of 1929, ending any chance of the Fox/Loew’s merger being approved, even without the Justice Department’s objections.

Overextended and close to bankruptcy, Fox was stripped of his empire in 1930^[10] and later ended up in jail on bribery and perjury charges. Fox Film, with more than 500 theatres, was placed in receivership. A bank-mandated reorganization propped the company up for a time, but it soon became apparent that despite its size, Fox could not stand on its own. William Fox resented the way he was forced out of his company and portrayed it as an active conspiracy against him in the 1933 book Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox.

Merger

Under new president Sidney Kent, the new owners began negotiating with the upstart, but powerful independent Twentieth Century Pictures in the early spring of 1935. The two companies merged that spring as 20th Century Fox. For many years, 20th Century-Fox claimed to have been founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary. However, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915.^[11]

Products

Feature films

Main article: List of Fox Film films

A 1937 fire in a Fox film storage facility destroyed over 40,000 reels of negatives and prints, including the best-quality copies of every Fox feature produced prior to 1932;^[12] although copies located elsewhere allowed many to survive in some form, over 75% of Fox’s feature films from before 1930 are completely lost.Template:Sfn

Newsreels

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In 1919, Fox began a series of silent newsreels, competing with existing series such as Hearst Metrotone News, International Newsreel, and Pathé News. Fox News premiered on October 11, 1919, with subsequent issues released on the Wednesday and Sunday of each week. Fox News gained an advantage over its more established competitors when President Woodrow Wilson endorsed the newsreel in a letter, in what may have been the first time an American president commented on a film.Template:Sfn In subsequent years, Fox News remained one of the major names in the newsreel industry by providing often-exclusive coverage of major international events, including reporting on Pancho Villa, the airship Roma, the Ku Klux Klan, and a 1922 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.Template:Sfn The silent newsreel series continued until 1930.^[13]

In 1926, a subsidiary, Fox Movietone Corporation, was created, tasked with producing newsreels using Fox’s recently acquired sound-on-film technology. The first of these newsreels debuted on January 21, 1927. Four months later, the May 25 release of a sound recording of Charles Lindbergh‘s departure on his transatlantic flight was described by film historian Raymond Fielding as the «first sound news film of consequence».Template:Sfn Movietone News was launched as a regular newsreel feature December 3 of that year.Template:Sfn Production of the series continued after the merger with Twentieth Century Pictures, until 1963, and continued to serve 20th Century Fox after that, as a source for film industry stock footage.^[13]

Unlike Fox’s early feature films, the Fox News and Fox Movietone News libraries have largely survived. The earlier series and some parts of its sound successor are now held by the University of South Carolina, with the remaining Fox Movietone News still held by the company.^[13]

Serials

Fox Film briefly experimented with serial films, releasing the 15-episode Bride 13 and the 20-episode Fantômas in 1920. William Fox was unwilling to compromise on production quality in order to make serials profitable, however, and none were produced subsequently.Template:Sfn

Short films

Hundreds of one- and two-reel short films of various types were also produced by Fox. Beginning in 1916,Template:Sfn the Sunshine Comedy division created two-reel comedy shorts. Many of these, beginning with 1917’s Roaring Lions and Wedding Bliss, starring Lloyd Hamilton, were slapstick, intended to compete with Mack Sennett‘s popular offerings.Template:Sfn Sunshine releases continued until the introduction of sound.Template:Sfn Other short film series included Imperial Comedies, Van Bibber Comedies (with Earle Foxe), O’Henry, Married Life of Helen and Warren, and Fox Varieties.Template:Sfn Fox’s expansion into Spanish-language films in the early 1930s also included shorts.Template:Sfn

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20th Century Pictures

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Schenck was President of Twentieth Century, while Zanuck was named Production Chief and Goetz and Raymond Griffith served as vice-presidents. Their initial stars under contract were George Arliss, Constance Bennett, and Loretta Young; however the Goetz connection meant that talent could be borrowed from MGM. The company was successful from the very beginning; out of their first 18 films, only one, Born to Be Bad, was not a financial success.^[1] Their 1934 production, The House of Rothschild was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1935, they produced the classic film Les Misérables, from Victor Hugo‘s novel, which was also nominated for Best Picture.

In the winter of 1934, Zanuck began to negotiate with the UA board to acquire stock of the company and become a board member, but became outraged by UA’s co-founder Mary Pickford‘s refusal to reward Twentieth Century with the company’s stock, fearing it would have diluted the value of holdings by another UA stockholder and co-founder, D.W. Griffith. Schenck, who had been a UA stockholder for over ten years, resigned from United Artists in protest of the shoddy treatment of Twentieth Century, and Zanuck; thus began discussions with other distributors, which led to talks with the bankrupt Fox Studios of the Fox Film Corporation in the early spring of 1935. Fox Film had begun in the silent era in 1915 under founder William Fox.

Twentieth Century Pictures of 1933, merged with Fox Studios in 1935 to form 20th Century-Fox (the hyphen was dropped a half century later in 1985 under Australian Rupert Murdoch). For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have been founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary. However, in recent years it has now claimed the 1935 merger as its founding date.^[2]

Films

Main article: List of Twentieth Century Pictures films

20th Century Studios (formerly 20th Century Fox)

History

From founding to 1956

See also: Fox Film and Twentieth Century Pictures

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Twentieth Century Pictures‘ Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck left United Artists over a stock dispute, and began merger talks with the management of financially struggling Fox Film, under President Sidney Kent.^[3]Template:Sfn

Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, helped make it happen (and later became president of the new company).^[3] The company had been struggling since founder William Fox lost control of the company in 1930.^[4]

Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures merged in 1935. Initially, it was speculated in The New York Times that the newly merged company would be named Fox-Twentieth Century.Template:Sfn The new company, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31, 1935. Kent remained at the company, joining Schenck and Zanuck.Template:Sfn Zanuck replaced Winfield Sheehan as the company’s production chief.^[5]

The company established a special training school. Lynn Bari, Patricia Farr and Anne Nagel were among 14 young women «launched on the trail of film stardom» on August 6, 1935, when they each received a six-month contract with 20th Century-Fox after spending 18 months in the school. The contracts included a studio option for renewal for as long as seven years.^[6]

For many years, 20th Century-Fox claimed to have been founded in 1915, the year Fox Film was founded. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary. However, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915.^[7] The company’s films retained the 20th Century Pictures searchlight logo on their opening credits as well as its opening fanfare, but with the name changed to 20th Century-Fox.

After the merger was completed, Zanuck signed young actors to help carry 20th Century-Fox: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Sonja Henie, and Betty Grable. 20th Century-Fox also hired Alice Faye and Shirley Temple, who appeared in several major films for the studio in the 1930s.^[8][9]

Higher attendance during World War II helped 20th Century-Fox overtake RKO and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to become the third most profitable film studio. In 1941, Zanuck was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Signal Corps and assigned to supervise production of U.S. Army training films. His partner, William Goetz, filled in at 20th Century-Fox.^[10]

In 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio.Template:Sfn During the next few years, with pictures like Wilson (1944), The Razor’s Edge (1946), Boomerang, Gentleman’s Agreement (both 1947), The Snake Pit (1948), and Pinky (1949), Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films. 20th Century-Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams‘ Leave Her to Heaven (1945), starring Gene Tierney, which was the highest-grossing 20th Century-Fox film of the 1940s. The studio also produced film versions of Broadway musicals, including the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, beginning with the musical version of State Fair (1945), the only work that the partnership written especially for films.

After the war, audiences slowly drifted away with the advent of television. 20th Century-Fox held on to its theaters until a court-mandated «divorce»; they were spun off as Fox National Theaters in 1953.Template:Sfn That year, with attendance at half the 1946 level, 20th Century-Fox gambled on an unproven process. Noting that the two film sensations of 1952 had been Cinerama, which required three projectors to fill a giant curved screen, and «Natural Vision» 3D, which got its effects of depth by requiring the use of polarized glasses, 20th Century-Fox mortgaged its studio to buy rights to a French anamorphic projection system which gave a slight illusion of depth without glasses. President Spyros Skouras struck a deal with the inventor Henri Chrétien, leaving the other film studios empty-handed, and in 1953 introduced CinemaScope in the studio’s groundbreaking feature film The Robe.^[11]

Zanuck announced in February 1953 that henceforth all 20th Century-Fox pictures would be made in CinemaScope.^[12] To convince theater owners to install this new process, 20th Century-Fox agreed to help pay conversion costs (about $25,000 per screen); and to ensure enough product, 20th Century-Fox gave access to CinemaScope to any rival studio choosing to use it. Seeing the box-office for the first two CinemaScope features, The Robe and How to Marry a Millionaire (also 1953), Warner Bros., MGM, Universal-International), Columbia Pictures and Disney quickly adopted the process. In 1956, 20th Century-Fox engaged Robert Lippert to establish a subsidiary company, Regal Pictures, later Associated Producers Incorporated to film B pictures in CinemaScope (but «branded» RegalScope). 20th Century-Fox produced new musicals using the CinemaScope process including Carousel and The King and I (both 1956).

CinemaScope brought a brief upturn in attendance, but by 1956 the numbers again began to slide.Template:Sfn^[13] That year Darryl Zanuck announced his resignation as head of production. Zanuck moved to Paris, setting up as an independent producer, seldom being in the United States for many years.

Production and financial problems

Zanuck’s successor, producer Buddy Adler, died a year later.Template:Sfn President Spyros Skouras brought in a series of production executives, but none had Zanuck’s success. By the early 1960s, 20th Century-Fox was in trouble. A new version of Cleopatra (1963) began production in 1959 with Joan Collins in the lead.^[14] As a publicity gimmick, producer Walter Wanger offered $1 million to Elizabeth Taylor if she would star;^[14] she accepted and costs for Cleopatra began to escalate. Richard Burton‘s on-set romance with Taylor was surrounding the media. However, Skouras’ selfish preferences and inexperienced micromanagement on the film’s production did nothing to speed up production on Cleopatra.

Meanwhile, another remake — of the Cary Grant hit My Favorite Wife (1940) — was rushed into production in an attempt to turn over a quick profit to help keep 20th Century-Fox afloat. The romantic comedy entitled Something’s Got to Give paired Marilyn Monroe, 20th Century-Fox’s most bankable star of the 1950s, with Dean Martin and director George Cukor. The troubled Monroe caused delays on a daily basis, and it quickly descended into a costly debacle. As CleopatraTemplate:’s budget passed $10 million, eventually costing around $40 million, 20th Century-Fox sold its back lot (now the site of Century City) to Alcoa in 1961 to raise funds. After several weeks of script rewrites on the Monroe picture and very little progress, mostly due to director George Cukor’s filming methods, in addition to Monroe’s chronic sinusitis, Monroe was fired from Something’s Got to Give^[14] and two months later she was found dead. According to 20th Century-Fox files, she was rehired within weeks for a two-picture deal totaling $1 million, $500,000 to finish Something’s Got to Give (plus a bonus at completion), and another $500,000 for What a Way to Go. Elizabeth Taylor’s disruptive Template:POV statement reign on the Cleopatra set continued unchallenged from 1960 into 1962, though three 20th Century-Fox executives went to Rome in June 1962 to fire her. They learned that director Joseph L. Mankiewicz had filmed out of sequence and had only done interiors, so 20th Century-Fox was then forced to allow Taylor several more weeks of filming. In the meantime during that summer of 1962 Fox released nearly all of its contract stars, including Jayne Mansfield.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

With few pictures on the schedule, Skouras wanted to rush Zanuck’s big-budget war epic The Longest Day (1962),^[14] an accurate account of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, with a huge international cast, into release as another source of quick cash. This offended Zanuck, still 20th Century-Fox’s largest shareholder, for whom The Longest Day was a labor of love that he had dearly wanted to produce for many years. After it became clear that Something’s Got to Give would not be able to progress without Monroe in the lead (Martin had refused to work with anyone else), Skouras finally decided that re-signing her was unavoidable. But days before filming was due to resume, she was found dead at her Los Angeles home and the picture resumed filming as Move Over, Darling, with Doris Day and James Garner in the leads. Released in 1963, the film was a hit.^[15] The unfinished scenes from Something’s Got to Give were shelved for nearly 40 years. Rather than being rushed into release as if it were a B-picture, The Longest Day was lovingly and carefully produced under Zanuck’s supervision. It was finally released at a length of three hours, and was well received.

At the next board meeting, Zanuck spoke for eight hours, convincing directors that Skouras was mismanaging the company and that he was the only possible successor. Zanuck was installed as chairman, and then named his son Richard Zanuck as president.^[16] This new management group seized Cleopatra and rushed it to completion, shut down the studio, laid off the entire staff to save money, axed the long-running Movietone Newsreel (the archives of which are now owned by Fox News), and made a series of cheap, popular pictures that restored 20th Century-Fox as a major studio. The saving grace for the studio’s fortunes came from the tremendous success of The Sound of Music (1965),^[17] an expensive and handsomely produced film adaptation of the highly acclaimed Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical, which became a significant success at the box office and won five Academy Awards, including Best Director (Robert Wise) and Best Picture of the Year.

20th Century-Fox also had two big science-fiction hits in the decade: Fantastic Voyage (1966), and the original Planet of the Apes (1968), starring Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, and Roddy McDowall. Fantastic Voyage was the last film made in CinemaScope; the studio had held on the format while Panavision lenses were being used elsewhere.

Zanuck stayed on as chairman until 1971, but there were several expensive flops in his last years, resulting in 20th Century-Fox posting losses from 1969 to 1971. Following his removal, and after an uncertain period, new management brought 20th Century-Fox back to health. Under president Gordon T. Stulberg and production head Alan Ladd, Jr., 20th Century-Fox films connected with modern audiences. Stulberg used the profits to acquire resort properties, soft-drink bottlers, Australian theaters and other properties in an attempt to diversify enough to offset the boom-or-bust cycle of picture-making.

Foreshadowing a pattern of film production still yet to come, in late 1973 20th Century-Fox joined forces with Warner Bros. to co-produce The Towering Inferno (1974),^[18] an all-star action blockbuster from producer Irwin Allen. Both studios found themselves owning the rights to books about burning skyscrapers. Allen insisted on a meeting with the heads of both studios, and announced that as 20th Century-Fox was already in the lead with their property it would be career suicide to have competing movies. Thus the first joint-venture studio deal was struck. In hindsight, while it may be commonplace now, back in the 1970s, it was a risky, but revolutionary, idea that paid off handsomely at both domestic and international box offices around the world.

20th Century-Fox’s success reached new heights by backing the most profitable film made up to that time, Star Wars (1977). Substantial financial gains were realized as a result of the film’s unprecedented success: from a low of $6 in June 1976, stock prices more than quadrupled to almost $27 after Star Wars’ release; 1976 revenues of $195 million rose to $301 million in 1977.Template:Sfn

Marvin Davis and Rupert Murdoch

With financial stability came new owners, when 20th Century-Fox was sold for $720 million on June 8, 1981 to investors Marc Rich and Marvin Davis.^[19] 20th Century-Fox’s assets included Pebble Beach Golf Links, the Aspen Skiing Company and a Century City property upon which Davis built and twice sold Fox Plaza.

By 1984, Rich had become a fugitive from justice, having fled to Switzerland after being charged by U.S. federal prosecutors with tax evasion, racketeering and illegal trading with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis. Rich’s assets were frozen by U.S. authorities.^[20] In 1984 Marvin Davis bought out Marc Rich‘s 50% interest in 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation for an undisclosed amount,^[20] reported to be $116 million.Template:Sfn Davis sold this interest to Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corporation for $250 million in March 1985. Davis later backed out of a deal with Murdoch to purchase John Kluge‘s Metromedia television stations.Template:Sfn Murdoch went ahead alone and bought the stations, and later bought out Davis’ remaining stake in 20th Century Fox for $325 million.Template:Sfn From 1985, the hyphen was quietly dropped from the brand name, with 20th Century-Fox changing to 20th Century Fox.Template:Sfn^[21]

To gain FCC approval of 20th Century-Fox’s purchase of Metromedia‘s television holdings, once the stations of the long-dissolved DuMont network, Murdoch had to become a U.S. citizen. He did so in 1985, and in 1986 the new Fox Broadcasting Company took to the air. Over the next 20-odd years the network and owned-stations group expanded to become extremely profitable for News Corp.

The company formed its Fox Family Films division in 1994 to boost production at the studio and would handled animation films. In February 1998, following the success of Anastasia, Fox Family Films changed its name to Fox Animation Studios and drop its live action production which would be picked up by other production units.^[22]

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Since January 2000, this company has been the international distributor for MGM/UA releases. In the 1980s, 20th Century Fox — through a joint venture with CBS called CBS/Fox Video — had distributed certain UA films on video; thus UA has come full circle by switching to 20th Century Fox for video distribution. 20th Century Fox also makes money distributing films for small independent film companies.

In late 2006, Fox Atomic was started up^[23] under Fox Searchlight head Peter Rice and COO John Hegeman^[24] as a sibling production division under Fox Filmed Entertainment.^[23] In early 2008, Atomic’s marketing unit was transferred to Fox Searchlight and 20th Century Fox, when Hegeman moved to New Regency Productions. Debbie Liebling became president. After two middling successes and falling short with other films, the unit was shut down in April 2009. The remaining films under Atomic in production and post-productions were transferred to 20th Century Fox and Fox Spotlight with Liebling overseeing them.^[24]

In 2008, 20th Century Fox announced an Asian subsidiary, Fox STAR Studios, a joint venture with STAR TV, also owned by News Corporation. It was reported that Fox STAR would start by producing films for the Bollywood market, then expand to several Asian markets.^[25] In 2008, 20th Century Fox started Fox International Productions .^[26]

Chernin Entertainment was founded by Peter Chernin after he stepped down as president of 20th Century Fox’s then-parent company News Corp. in 2009.^[27] Chernin Entertainment’s five-year first-look deal for the film and television was signed with 20th Century Fox and 20th Century Fox TV in 2009.^[28]

In August 2012, 20th Century Fox signed a five-year deal with DreamWorks Animation to distribute in domestic and international markets. However, the deal did not include the distribution rights for previously released films which DreamWorks Animation acquired from Paramount Pictures later in 2014.^[29] Fox’s deal with DreamWorks Animation ended on June 2, 2017 with Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, with Universal Pictures taking over the distribution deal with DreamWorks Animation due to NBCUniversal‘s acquisition of DreamWorks Animation on August 22, 2016, starting on February 22, 2019 with the release of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

21st Century Fox era

In 2012, Rupert Murdoch announced that News Corp. would be split into two publishing and media-oriented companies: a new News Corporation, and 21st Century Fox, which operates the Fox Entertainment Group and 20th Century Fox. Murdoch considered the name of the new company a way to maintain the 20th Century Fox’s heritage.^[30][31]

Fox Stage Productions was formed in June 2013.^[32] In August 2013, 20CF started a theatrical joint venture with a trio of producers, both film and theater, Kevin McCollum, John Davis and Tom McGrath.^[33]

In September 2017, Locksmith Animation formed a multi-year production deal with 20th Century Fox, who will distribute Locksmith’s films, with Locksmith aiming to release a film every 12–18 months. The deal was to bolster Blue Sky’s output and replace the loss of distributing DreamWorks Animation films.^[34]

Technoprops, a VFX company that worked on Avatar and The Jungle Book, was purchased in April 2017 to operate as Fox VFX Lab. Technoprops’ founder Glenn Derry would continue to run the company as vice president of visual effect reporting to John Kilkenny, VFX president.^[35]

On October 30, 2017, Vanessa Morrison was named president of a new created 20th Century Fox division, Fox Family, reporting to the Chairman & CEO and Vice Chairman of 20th Century Fox. The family division would develop films that appeal to younger moviegoers and their parents both animated films and films with live action elements. Also, the division would oversee the studio’s family animated television business, which produce based holiday television specials on existing film properties, and oversee feature film adaptation of its TV shows.^[36] To replace Morrision at Fox Animation, Andrea Miloro and Robert Baird were named co-presidents of 20th Century Fox Animation.^[37]

20th Century Fox issued a default notice in regards to its licensing agreement for the under-construction 20th Century Fox World theme park in Malaysia by Genting Malaysia Bhd. In November 2018 Genting Malaysia filed suit in response and included soon to be parent The Walt Disney Company.^[38]

Disney era and studio renaming

Further information: Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney

On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced plans to purchase most of the 21st Century Fox assets, including 20th Century Fox, for $52.4 billion.^[39] After a bid from Comcast (parent company of NBCUniversal) for $65 billion, Disney counterbid with $71.3 billion.^[40] On July 19, 2018, Comcast dropped out of the 21st Century Fox bid in favor of Sky plc and Sky UK and eight days later, Disney and 21st Century Fox shareholders approved the merger between the two companies.^[41] Although the deal was completed on March 20, 2019,^[42] 20th Century Fox was not planning to relocate to Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, but retained its headquarters in Century City on the Fox Studio Lot, which is currently leased to Disney by 21st Century Fox’s successor, Fox Corporation, for seven years.^[43] Various units were moved out from under 20th Century Fox at acquisition and months after the merger plus there were several rounds of layoffs.

On January 17, 2020, Disney renamed the studio as 20th Century Studios (legally, 20th Century Studios, Inc.^[44]), which served to help avoid brand confusion with the Fox Corporation. Similar to other Disney film units, distribution of 20th Century Studios films is now handled by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, while Searchlight Pictures operates their own autonomous distribution unit.^[45] The first film released by Disney under the studio’s new name was The Call of the Wild.^[46]

In January 2020, held-over production president Emma Watts resigned from the company.^[47] On March 12, 2020, Steve Asbell was named president, production of 20th Century Studios. While Morrison was named president, streaming, Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production to oversee live action development and production of Disney Live Action and 20th Century Studios for Disney+. Two other changes that similar merged 20th Century Studios and Disney Pictures functions and answering to Asbell and Sean Bailey, president, Walt Disney Pictures productions were Philip Steuer as president, production over physical and post production and VFX and Randi Hiller who will lead casting as executive vice president, casting.^[48]

Television

Main articles: 20th Century Fox Television, 20th Television, and Fox 21 Television Studios

20th Television was 20th Century Fox’s television syndication division. 20th Century Fox Television was the studio’s television production division.

During the mid-1950s, feature films were released to television in the hope that they would broaden sponsorship and help distribution of network programs. Blocks of one-hour programming of feature films to national sponsors on 128 stations was organized by Twentieth Century Fox and National Telefilm Associates. Twentieth Century Fox received 50% interest in NTA Film network after it sold its library to National Telefilm Associates. This gave 90 minutes of cleared time a week and syndicated feature films to 110 non-interconnected stations for sale to national sponsors.^[49]

Buyout of Four Star

Rupert Murdoch’s 20th Century Fox bought out the remaining assets of Four Star Television from Ronald Perelman‘s Compact Video in 1996.^[50] The majority of Four Star Television‘s library of programs are controlled by 20th Century Fox Television today.^[51][52][53] After Murdoch’s numerous buyouts during the buyout era of the eighties, News Corporation had built up financial debts of $7 billion (much from Sky TV in the UK), despite the many assets that were held by NewsCorp.^[54] The high levels of debt caused Murdoch to sell many of the American magazine interests he had acquired in the mid-1980s.

Music

Main articles: 20th Century Fox Records and Fox Music

Between 1933 and 1937, a custom record label called Fox Movietone was produced starting at F-100 and running through F-136. It featured songs from Fox movies, first using material recorded and issued on Victor‘s Bluebird label and halfway through switched to material recorded and issued on ARC‘s dime store labels (Melotone, Perfect, etc.). These scarce records were sold only at Fox Theaters.

Fox Music has been 20th Century Fox’s music arm since 2000. It encompasses music publishing and licensing businesses, dealing primarily with Fox Entertainment Group television and film soundtracks.

Prior to Fox Music, 20th Century Records was its music arm from 1958 to 1982.

Radio

The Twentieth Century Fox Presents radio series^[55] were broadcast between 1936 and 1942. More often than not, the shows were a radio preview featuring a medley of the songs and soundtracks from the latest movie being released into the theaters, much like the modern day movie trailers we now see on TV, to encourage folks to head down to their nearest Picture House.

The radio shows featured the original stars, with the announcer narrating a lead up that encapsulated the performance.

Motion picture film processing

From its earliest ventures into movie production, Fox Film Corporation operated its own processing laboratories. The original lab was located in Fort Lee, New Jersey along with the studios. A lab was included with the new studio built in Los Angeles in 1916.^[56] Headed by Alan E. Freedman, the Fort Lee lab was moved into the new Fox Studios building in Manhattan in 1919.^[57] In 1932, Freedman bought the labs from Fox for $2,000,000 to bolster what at that time was a failing Fox liquidity.^[58][59] He renamed the operation «DeLuxe Laboratories,» which much later became DeLuxe Entertainment Services Group. In the 1940s Freedman sold the labs back to what was then 20th Century Fox and remained as president into the 1960s. Under Freedman’s leadership, DeLuxe added two more labs in Chicago and Toronto and processed film from studios other than Fox.

Divisions

Fox Atomic

Fox Atomic was a youth-focused film production company and division of Fox Filmed Entertainment that operated from 2006 to April 2009. Atomic was originally paired with Fox Spotlight Pictures under the same leadership.

In late 2006, Fox Atomic was started up^[23] under Fox Searchlight head Peter Rice and COO John Hegeman^[24] as a sibling production division under Fox Filmed Entertainment.^[23] Debbie Liebling transferred to Fox Atomic in 2007 from Fox.^[24] In January 2008, Atomic’s marketing unit was transferred to Fox Searchlight and 20th Century Fox,^[60] when Hegeman moved to New Regency Productions. Debbie Liebling became president. After two middling successes and falling short with other films, the unit was shut down in April 2009. The remaining films under Atomic in production and post-productions were transferred to 20th Century Fox and Fox Spotlight with Liebling overseeing them.^[24]

• Turistas (December 2006)^[23]
• The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)^[23]
• 28 Weeks Later (2007)^[23]
• The Comebacks^[60]
• The Rocker^[24]
• Miss March^[24]
• 12 Rounds^[24]

Films in production at shut down and transferred to other Fox units

• I Love You, Beth Cooper (July 10, 2009)^[60] 20th Century Fox release, 1492 Pictures production company, directed by Chris Columbus and starring Hayden Panettiere^[24]
• Post Grad (August 21, 2009) through Fox Searchlight directed by Vicky Jenson and starring Alexis Bledel^[24]
• Jennifer’s Body (September 18, 2009)^[60] 20th Century Fox release, directed by Karyn Kusama and starring Megan Fox^[24]

Fox Family

Fox Family is a family-friendly production division of 20th Century Studios. Besides family-friendly theatrical films, the division oversees mixed media (live-action with animation), family animated holiday television specials based on film properties and film features based on TV shows.

On October 30, 2017, Morrison was transferred from her post as president of 20th Century Fox Animation, the prior Fox Family Films, to be president of a newly created 20th Century Fox division, Fox Family, which as a mandate similar to Fox Family Films. The division pick up supervision of a Bob’s Burgers film^[36] and some existing deals with animation producers, including Tonko House.^[61] With the sale of 21st Century Fox to Disney in March 2019, rights to The Dam Keeper feature animated film returned to Tonko House.^[62]

With the August 2019 20th Century Fox slate overhaul announcement, 20th Century Fox properties such as Home Alone, Night at the Museum, and Diary of the Wimpy Kid have been assigned for Disney+ release and assigned to Fox Family.^[63] On March 12, 2020, Morrison was named president, Streaming, Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production to oversee live action development and production of Disney Live Action and 20th Century Studios for Disney+.^[48]

Upcoming productions

• Bob’s Burgers: The Movie (April 9, 2021)^[36][64]
• an unnamed The Simpsons Movie sequel
• The Prom Goer’s Interstellar Excursion based film, produced with Chernin Entertainment^[65]
• Paper Lanterns live-action/animated family film written by Jonny Sun and produced with Chernin Entertainment^[66]
• The Garden live-action/CGI musical film based on book of Genesis’s the Garden of Eden with Franklin Entertainment^[67]

Fox VFX Lab

Fox VFX Lab is a visual effects company division of 20th Century Studios that was acquired in 2017 known as Technoprops. It is leaded by president John Kilkenny. Besides their visual effects activities, the division oversees different parts of the world to apply for and work on projects that include films such as Avatar, The Jungle Book, Rogue One, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Doctor Strange, and Warcraft^[68] and also video game properties like Need for Speed (2015), Battlefield 1, Rainbow Six Siege, Watch Dogs 2, Just Cause 3, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Mafia III, Halo 4, Mortal Kombat 11, Far Cry (Far Cry 5 and Primal), Call of Duty (Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Black Ops III) and Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic Forces and Team Sonic Racing).^[69][70]

Fox International Productions

Fox International Productions was the division of 20th Century Fox in charge of local production in 12 territories in China, Europe, India and Latin America from 2008 to 2017.

In 2008, 20th Century Fox started Fox International Productions under president Sanford Panitch. The company had $900 million in box-office receipts by the time Panitch left the company for Sony on June 2, 2015.^[26] Co-president of worldwide theatrical marketing and distribution for 20th Century Fox Tomas Jegeus was named president of Fox International Productions effective September 1, 2015.^[71] The company struck a development and production deal in November 2015 with Zhejiang Huace, a Chinese entertainment group.^[72] In December 2017, 20th Century Fox film chairman-CEO Stacey Snider indicated that Fox International Productions would be dissolved in favor of each local and regional offices producing or acquiring projects.^[73]

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The familiar 20th Century production logo originated as the logo of Twentieth Century Pictures and was adopted by 20th Century-Fox after the merger in 1935. It consists of a stacked block-letter three-dimensional, monolithic logotype (nicknamed «the Monument») surrounded by Art deco buildings and illuminated by searchlights. In the production logo that appears at the start of films, the searchlights are animated and the sequence is accompanied by a distinctive fanfare that was originally composed in 1933 by Alfred Newman.Template:Sfn The original layout of the logo was designed by special effects animator and matte painting artist Emil Kosa Jr..^[74]Template:Sfn

The 20th Century-Fox logo and fanfare has been recognised as an iconic symbol of a golden age of Hollywood. Its appearance at the start of popular films such as How Green Was My Valley (1941) and MASH (1970) established its recognition.^[75]

In 1953, Rocky Longo, an artist at Pacific Title, was hired to recreate the original logo design for the new CinemaScope picture process. Longo tilted the «0» in «20th» to have the logo maintain proportions in the wider CinemaScope format.^[76] Alfred Newman also re-composed the logo’s fanfare with an extension to be heard during the CinemaScope logo that would follow after the Fox logo. Although the format had since declined, director George Lucas specifically requested that the CinemaScope version of the fanfare be used for the opening titles of Star Wars (1977). Additionally, the film’s main theme was composed by John Williams in the same key as the fanfare ([[B-flat major|BTemplate:Flat major]]), serving as an extension to it of sorts.^[77][75] In 1981, the logo was slightly altered with the re-straightening of the «0» in «20th».^[76]

In 1994, after a few failed attempts, Fox in-house television producer Kevin Burns was hired to produce a new logo for the company, this time using the then-new process of computer-generated imagery (CGI) adding more detail and animation, with the longer 21-second Fox fanfare arranged by David Newman used as the underscore.^[76][75]

In 2009, an updated logo created by Blue Sky Studios debuted with the release of Avatar.^[76]

On January 17, 2020, it was reported that Disney had begun to phase out the «Fox» name from the studio’s branding as it is no longer tied to the current Fox Corporation, with 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures respectively renamed to 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures. Branding elements associated with the studio, including the searchlights, monolith, and fanfare, will remain in use. The first film that carries the new 20th Century Studios name is The Call of the Wild (coincidentally the original film adaptation was the original Twentieth Century Pictures‘ final movie before its merger with Fox Film).^[78][46][79]

For the 20th Century Studios logo, its print logo debuted on a movie poster of The New Mutants^[80][81] while the on-screen logo debuted in a television advertisement for the film The Call of the Wild.^[82]

The 20th Century Studios logo was animated by Picturemill.^[83]

Films

Lists

• List of 20th Century Studios films (2020–present)
• List of 20th Century Fox films (2000–2020)
• List of 20th Century Fox films (1935–1999)
• List of Twentieth Century Pictures films (1933–1936)
• List of Fox Film films (1914–1935)

Highest-grossing films

The Academy Film Archive houses the 20th Century Fox Features Collection which contains features, trailers, and production elements mostly from the Fox, Twentieth Century, and Twentieth Century-Fox studios, from the late 1920s–1950s.^[84]

Highest-grossing films in North America[85] Rank Title Year Box office gross 1 Avatar ‡ 2009 $760,507,625 2 Titanic ‡ 1997 $659,363,944 3 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 1999 $474,544,677 4 Star Wars‡ 1977 $460,998,007 5 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith 2005 $380,270,577 6 Deadpool 2016 $363,070,709 7 Deadpool 2 2018 $324,535,803 8 Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones 2002 $310,676,740 9 Return of the Jedi ‡ 1983 $309,306,177 10 Independence Day 1996 $306,169,268 11 The Empire Strikes Back ‡ 1980 $290,475,067 12 Home Alone 1990 $285,761,243 13 Night at the Museum 2006 $250,863,268 14 X-Men: The Last Stand 2006 $234,362,462 15 X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014 $233,921,534 16 Cast Away 2000 $233,632,142 17 The Martian 2015 $228,433,663 18 Logan 2017 $226,277,068 19 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel 2009 $219,614,612 20 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 $219,195,243 21 Alvin and the Chipmunks 2007 $217,326,974 22 Bohemian Rhapsody 2018 $216,428,042 23 X2: X-Men United 2003 $214,949,694 24 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2014 $208,545,589 25 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 2009 $196,573,705

Highest-grossing films worldwide Rank Title Year Box office gross 1 Avatar ‡ 2009 $2,789,679,794 2 Titanic ‡ 1997 $2,187,463,944 3 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace ‡ 1999 $1,027,044,677 4 Bohemian Rhapsody 2018 $903,655,259 5 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 2009 $886,686,817 6 Ice Age: Continental Drift 2012 $877,244,782 7 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith 2005 $848,754,768 8 Independence Day 1996 $817,400,891 9 Deadpool 2 2018 $785,046,920 10 Deadpool 2016 $783,112,979 11 Star Wars ‡ 1977 $775,398,007 12 X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014 $747,862,775 13 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2014 $710,644,566 14 Ice Age: The Meltdown ‡ 2006 $660,940,780 15 Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones 2002 $649,398,328 16 The Martian 2015 $630,161,890 17 How to Train Your Dragon 2 2014 $621,537,519 18 Logan 2017 $616,225,934 19 Life of Pi 2012 $609,016,565 20 The Croods 2013 $587,204,668 21 Night at the Museum 2006 $574,480,841 22 The Empire Strikes Back ‡ 1980 $547,969,004 23 The Day After Tomorrow 2004 $544,272,402 24 X-Men: Apocalypse 2016 $543,934,787 25 The Revenant 2015 $532,950,503

^{I ‡}—Includes theatrical reissue(s).

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The Twentieth Century Fox Film Studios Corporation (or just 20th Century FoxTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn) is a TBA upcoming American film studio that is a subsidiary of The Disney-Fox Entertainment Studios, a division of Disney-Fox. The studio is located on the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles.^[8]

The current 20th Century Fox was one of the «Big Six» major American film studios for over 83 years. In 2024, It was founded from the merger of Twentieth Century Studios (formerly the original 20th Century Fox) and the Fox Film Studios Corporation. In 1985, the original studio was acquired by News Corporation, which was succeeded by 21st Century Fox in 2013, after spinning off its publishing assets. In 2019, Disney purchased 20th Century Fox through its acquisition of 21st Century Fox.^[9] The studio’s current name was adopted on January 17, 2020.^[10]

History

Fox Film

History

Background

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William Fox entered the film industry in 1904 when he purchased a one-third share of a Brooklyn nickelodeon for $1,667.Template:EfnTemplate:Sfn He reinvested his profits from that initial location, expanding to fifteen similar venues in the city, and purchasing prints from the major studios of the time: Biograph, Essanay, Kalem, Lubin, Pathé, Selig, and Vitagraph.Template:Sfn After experiencing further success presenting live vaudeville routines along with motion pictures, he expanded into larger venues beginning with his purchase of the disused Gaiety theater,Template:Efn and continuing with acquisitions throughout New York City and New Jersey, including the Academy of Music.Template:Sfn

Fox invested further in the film industry by founding the Greater New York Film Rental Company as a film distributor.Template:Sfn The major film studios responded by forming the Motion Picture Patents Company in 1908 and the General Film Company in 1910, in an effort to create a monopoly on the creation and distribution of motion pictures. Fox refused to sell out to the monopoly, and sued under the Sherman Antitrust Act, eventually receiving a $370,000Template:Efn settlement, and ending restrictions on the length of films and the prices that could be paid for screenplays.Template:Sfn

In 1914, reflecting the broader scope of his business, he renamed it the Box Office Attraction Film Rental Company.Template:Sfn He entered into a contract with the Balboa Amusement Producing Company film studio, purchasing all of their films for showing in his New York area theaters and renting the prints to other exhibitors nationwide.Template:Sfn He also continued to distribute material from other sources, such as Winsor McCay‘s early animated film Gertie the Dinosaur.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Later that year, Fox concluded that it was unwise to be so dependent on other companies, so he purchased the Éclair studio facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey, along with property in Staten Island,Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn and arranged for actors and crew. The company became a film studio, with its name shortened to the Box Office Attractions Company; its first release was Life’s Shop Window.Template:Sfn

Fox Film Corporation

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Always more of an entrepreneur than a showman, Fox concentrated on acquiring and building theaters; pictures were secondary. The company’s first film studios were set up in Fort Lee, New Jersey where it and many other early film studios in America’s first motion picture industry were based at the beginning of the 20th century.^[6][7][8]

In 1914, Fox Film began making motion pictures in California, and in 1915 decided to build its own permanent studio. The company leased the Edendale studio of the Selig Polyscope Company until its own studio, located at Western Avenue and Sunset Boulevard, was completed in 1916.^[9] In 1917, William Fox sent Sol M. Wurtzel to Hollywood to oversee the studio’s West Coast production facilities where a more hospitable and cost-effective climate existed for filmmaking.

With the introduction of sound technology, Fox moved to acquire the rights to a sound-on-film process. In the years 1925–26, Fox purchased the rights to the work of Freeman Harrison Owens, the U.S. rights to the Tri-Ergon system invented by three German inventors, and the work of Theodore Case. This resulted in the Movietone sound system later known as «Fox Movietone» developed at the Movietone Studio. Later that year, the company began offering films with a music-and-effects track, and the following year Fox began the weekly Fox Movietone News feature, that ran until 1963. The growing company needed space, and in 1926 Fox acquired 300 acres (1.2 km²) in the open country west of Beverly Hills and built «Movietone City», the best-equipped studio of its time.

Decline

When rival Marcus Loew died in 1927, Fox offered to buy the Loew family’s holdings. Loew’s Inc. controlled more than 200 theaters, as well as the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio. The Loew family agreed to the sale, and the merger of Fox and Loew’s Inc. was announced in 1929; MGM studio bosses Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg were not included in the deal, and fought back. Using powerful political connections, Mayer called upon the Justice Department‘s antitrust unit to delay giving final approval to the merger. William Fox was badly injured in a car crash in the summer of 1929, and by the time he recovered, he had lost most of his fortune in the stock market crash of 1929, ending any chance of the Fox/Loew’s merger being approved, even without the Justice Department’s objections.

Overextended and close to bankruptcy, Fox was stripped of his empire in 1930^[10] and later ended up in jail on bribery and perjury charges. Fox Film, with more than 500 theatres, was placed in receivership. A bank-mandated reorganization propped the company up for a time, but it soon became apparent that despite its size, Fox could not stand on its own. William Fox resented the way he was forced out of his company and portrayed it as an active conspiracy against him in the 1933 book Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox.

Merger

Under new president Sidney Kent, the new owners began negotiating with the upstart, but powerful independent Twentieth Century Pictures in the early spring of 1935. The two companies merged that spring as 20th Century Fox. For many years, 20th Century-Fox claimed to have been founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary. However, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915.^[11]

Products

Feature films

Main article: List of Fox Film films

A 1937 fire in a Fox film storage facility destroyed over 40,000 reels of negatives and prints, including the best-quality copies of every Fox feature produced prior to 1932;^[12] although copies located elsewhere allowed many to survive in some form, over 75% of Fox’s feature films from before 1930 are completely lost.Template:Sfn

Newsreels

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In 1919, Fox began a series of silent newsreels, competing with existing series such as Hearst Metrotone News, International Newsreel, and Pathé News. Fox News premiered on October 11, 1919, with subsequent issues released on the Wednesday and Sunday of each week. Fox News gained an advantage over its more established competitors when President Woodrow Wilson endorsed the newsreel in a letter, in what may have been the first time an American president commented on a film.Template:Sfn In subsequent years, Fox News remained one of the major names in the newsreel industry by providing often-exclusive coverage of major international events, including reporting on Pancho Villa, the airship Roma, the Ku Klux Klan, and a 1922 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.Template:Sfn The silent newsreel series continued until 1930.^[13]

In 1926, a subsidiary, Fox Movietone Corporation, was created, tasked with producing newsreels using Fox’s recently acquired sound-on-film technology. The first of these newsreels debuted on January 21, 1927. Four months later, the May 25 release of a sound recording of Charles Lindbergh‘s departure on his transatlantic flight was described by film historian Raymond Fielding as the «first sound news film of consequence».Template:Sfn Movietone News was launched as a regular newsreel feature December 3 of that year.Template:Sfn Production of the series continued after the merger with Twentieth Century Pictures, until 1963, and continued to serve 20th Century Fox after that, as a source for film industry stock footage.^[13]

Unlike Fox’s early feature films, the Fox News and Fox Movietone News libraries have largely survived. The earlier series and some parts of its sound successor are now held by the University of South Carolina, with the remaining Fox Movietone News still held by the company.^[13]

Serials

Fox Film briefly experimented with serial films, releasing the 15-episode Bride 13 and the 20-episode Fantômas in 1920. William Fox was unwilling to compromise on production quality in order to make serials profitable, however, and none were produced subsequently.Template:Sfn

Short films

Hundreds of one- and two-reel short films of various types were also produced by Fox. Beginning in 1916,Template:Sfn the Sunshine Comedy division created two-reel comedy shorts. Many of these, beginning with 1917’s Roaring Lions and Wedding Bliss, starring Lloyd Hamilton, were slapstick, intended to compete with Mack Sennett‘s popular offerings.Template:Sfn Sunshine releases continued until the introduction of sound.Template:Sfn Other short film series included Imperial Comedies, Van Bibber Comedies (with Earle Foxe), O’Henry, Married Life of Helen and Warren, and Fox Varieties.Template:Sfn Fox’s expansion into Spanish-language films in the early 1930s also included shorts.Template:Sfn

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20th Century Pictures

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Schenck was President of Twentieth Century, while Zanuck was named Production Chief and Goetz and Raymond Griffith served as vice-presidents. Their initial stars under contract were George Arliss, Constance Bennett, and Loretta Young; however the Goetz connection meant that talent could be borrowed from MGM. The company was successful from the very beginning; out of their first 18 films, only one, Born to Be Bad, was not a financial success.^[1] Their 1934 production, The House of Rothschild was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1935, they produced the classic film Les Misérables, from Victor Hugo‘s novel, which was also nominated for Best Picture.

In the winter of 1934, Zanuck began to negotiate with the UA board to acquire stock of the company and become a board member, but became outraged by UA’s co-founder Mary Pickford‘s refusal to reward Twentieth Century with the company’s stock, fearing it would have diluted the value of holdings by another UA stockholder and co-founder, D.W. Griffith. Schenck, who had been a UA stockholder for over ten years, resigned from United Artists in protest of the shoddy treatment of Twentieth Century, and Zanuck; thus began discussions with other distributors, which led to talks with the bankrupt Fox Studios of the Fox Film Corporation in the early spring of 1935. Fox Film had begun in the silent era in 1915 under founder William Fox.

Twentieth Century Pictures of 1933, merged with Fox Studios in 1935 to form 20th Century-Fox (the hyphen was dropped a half century later in 1985 under Australian Rupert Murdoch). For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have been founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary. However, in recent years it has now claimed the 1935 merger as its founding date.^[2]

Films

Main article: List of Twentieth Century Pictures films

20th Century Studios (formerly 20th Century Fox)

History

From founding to 1956

See also: Fox Film and Twentieth Century Pictures

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Twentieth Century Pictures‘ Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck left United Artists over a stock dispute, and began merger talks with the management of financially struggling Fox Film, under President Sidney Kent.^[3]Template:Sfn

Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, helped make it happen (and later became president of the new company).^[3] The company had been struggling since founder William Fox lost control of the company in 1930.^[4]

Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures merged in 1935. Initially, it was speculated in The New York Times that the newly merged company would be named Fox-Twentieth Century.Template:Sfn The new company, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31, 1935. Kent remained at the company, joining Schenck and Zanuck.Template:Sfn Zanuck replaced Winfield Sheehan as the company’s production chief.^[5]

The company established a special training school. Lynn Bari, Patricia Farr and Anne Nagel were among 14 young women «launched on the trail of film stardom» on August 6, 1935, when they each received a six-month contract with 20th Century-Fox after spending 18 months in the school. The contracts included a studio option for renewal for as long as seven years.^[6]

For many years, 20th Century-Fox claimed to have been founded in 1915, the year Fox Film was founded. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary. However, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915.^[7] The company’s films retained the 20th Century Pictures searchlight logo on their opening credits as well as its opening fanfare, but with the name changed to 20th Century-Fox.

After the merger was completed, Zanuck signed young actors to help carry 20th Century-Fox: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Sonja Henie, and Betty Grable. 20th Century-Fox also hired Alice Faye and Shirley Temple, who appeared in several major films for the studio in the 1930s.^[8][9]

Higher attendance during World War II helped 20th Century-Fox overtake RKO and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to become the third most profitable film studio. In 1941, Zanuck was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Signal Corps and assigned to supervise production of U.S. Army training films. His partner, William Goetz, filled in at 20th Century-Fox.^[10]

In 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio.Template:Sfn During the next few years, with pictures like Wilson (1944), The Razor’s Edge (1946), Boomerang, Gentleman’s Agreement (both 1947), The Snake Pit (1948), and Pinky (1949), Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films. 20th Century-Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams‘ Leave Her to Heaven (1945), starring Gene Tierney, which was the highest-grossing 20th Century-Fox film of the 1940s. The studio also produced film versions of Broadway musicals, including the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, beginning with the musical version of State Fair (1945), the only work that the partnership written especially for films.

After the war, audiences slowly drifted away with the advent of television. 20th Century-Fox held on to its theaters until a court-mandated «divorce»; they were spun off as Fox National Theaters in 1953.Template:Sfn That year, with attendance at half the 1946 level, 20th Century-Fox gambled on an unproven process. Noting that the two film sensations of 1952 had been Cinerama, which required three projectors to fill a giant curved screen, and «Natural Vision» 3D, which got its effects of depth by requiring the use of polarized glasses, 20th Century-Fox mortgaged its studio to buy rights to a French anamorphic projection system which gave a slight illusion of depth without glasses. President Spyros Skouras struck a deal with the inventor Henri Chrétien, leaving the other film studios empty-handed, and in 1953 introduced CinemaScope in the studio’s groundbreaking feature film The Robe.^[11]

Zanuck announced in February 1953 that henceforth all 20th Century-Fox pictures would be made in CinemaScope.^[12] To convince theater owners to install this new process, 20th Century-Fox agreed to help pay conversion costs (about $25,000 per screen); and to ensure enough product, 20th Century-Fox gave access to CinemaScope to any rival studio choosing to use it. Seeing the box-office for the first two CinemaScope features, The Robe and How to Marry a Millionaire (also 1953), Warner Bros., MGM, Universal-International), Columbia Pictures and Disney quickly adopted the process. In 1956, 20th Century-Fox engaged Robert Lippert to establish a subsidiary company, Regal Pictures, later Associated Producers Incorporated to film B pictures in CinemaScope (but «branded» RegalScope). 20th Century-Fox produced new musicals using the CinemaScope process including Carousel and The King and I (both 1956).

CinemaScope brought a brief upturn in attendance, but by 1956 the numbers again began to slide.Template:Sfn^[13] That year Darryl Zanuck announced his resignation as head of production. Zanuck moved to Paris, setting up as an independent producer, seldom being in the United States for many years.

Production and financial problems

Zanuck’s successor, producer Buddy Adler, died a year later.Template:Sfn President Spyros Skouras brought in a series of production executives, but none had Zanuck’s success. By the early 1960s, 20th Century-Fox was in trouble. A new version of Cleopatra (1963) began production in 1959 with Joan Collins in the lead.^[14] As a publicity gimmick, producer Walter Wanger offered $1 million to Elizabeth Taylor if she would star;^[14] she accepted and costs for Cleopatra began to escalate. Richard Burton‘s on-set romance with Taylor was surrounding the media. However, Skouras’ selfish preferences and inexperienced micromanagement on the film’s production did nothing to speed up production on Cleopatra.

Meanwhile, another remake — of the Cary Grant hit My Favorite Wife (1940) — was rushed into production in an attempt to turn over a quick profit to help keep 20th Century-Fox afloat. The romantic comedy entitled Something’s Got to Give paired Marilyn Monroe, 20th Century-Fox’s most bankable star of the 1950s, with Dean Martin and director George Cukor. The troubled Monroe caused delays on a daily basis, and it quickly descended into a costly debacle. As CleopatraTemplate:’s budget passed $10 million, eventually costing around $40 million, 20th Century-Fox sold its back lot (now the site of Century City) to Alcoa in 1961 to raise funds. After several weeks of script rewrites on the Monroe picture and very little progress, mostly due to director George Cukor’s filming methods, in addition to Monroe’s chronic sinusitis, Monroe was fired from Something’s Got to Give^[14] and two months later she was found dead. According to 20th Century-Fox files, she was rehired within weeks for a two-picture deal totaling $1 million, $500,000 to finish Something’s Got to Give (plus a bonus at completion), and another $500,000 for What a Way to Go. Elizabeth Taylor’s disruptive Template:POV statement reign on the Cleopatra set continued unchallenged from 1960 into 1962, though three 20th Century-Fox executives went to Rome in June 1962 to fire her. They learned that director Joseph L. Mankiewicz had filmed out of sequence and had only done interiors, so 20th Century-Fox was then forced to allow Taylor several more weeks of filming. In the meantime during that summer of 1962 Fox released nearly all of its contract stars, including Jayne Mansfield.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

With few pictures on the schedule, Skouras wanted to rush Zanuck’s big-budget war epic The Longest Day (1962),^[14] an accurate account of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, with a huge international cast, into release as another source of quick cash. This offended Zanuck, still 20th Century-Fox’s largest shareholder, for whom The Longest Day was a labor of love that he had dearly wanted to produce for many years. After it became clear that Something’s Got to Give would not be able to progress without Monroe in the lead (Martin had refused to work with anyone else), Skouras finally decided that re-signing her was unavoidable. But days before filming was due to resume, she was found dead at her Los Angeles home and the picture resumed filming as Move Over, Darling, with Doris Day and James Garner in the leads. Released in 1963, the film was a hit.^[15] The unfinished scenes from Something’s Got to Give were shelved for nearly 40 years. Rather than being rushed into release as if it were a B-picture, The Longest Day was lovingly and carefully produced under Zanuck’s supervision. It was finally released at a length of three hours, and was well received.

At the next board meeting, Zanuck spoke for eight hours, convincing directors that Skouras was mismanaging the company and that he was the only possible successor. Zanuck was installed as chairman, and then named his son Richard Zanuck as president.^[16] This new management group seized Cleopatra and rushed it to completion, shut down the studio, laid off the entire staff to save money, axed the long-running Movietone Newsreel (the archives of which are now owned by Fox News), and made a series of cheap, popular pictures that restored 20th Century-Fox as a major studio. The saving grace for the studio’s fortunes came from the tremendous success of The Sound of Music (1965),^[17] an expensive and handsomely produced film adaptation of the highly acclaimed Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical, which became a significant success at the box office and won five Academy Awards, including Best Director (Robert Wise) and Best Picture of the Year.

20th Century-Fox also had two big science-fiction hits in the decade: Fantastic Voyage (1966), and the original Planet of the Apes (1968), starring Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, and Roddy McDowall. Fantastic Voyage was the last film made in CinemaScope; the studio had held on the format while Panavision lenses were being used elsewhere.

Zanuck stayed on as chairman until 1971, but there were several expensive flops in his last years, resulting in 20th Century-Fox posting losses from 1969 to 1971. Following his removal, and after an uncertain period, new management brought 20th Century-Fox back to health. Under president Gordon T. Stulberg and production head Alan Ladd, Jr., 20th Century-Fox films connected with modern audiences. Stulberg used the profits to acquire resort properties, soft-drink bottlers, Australian theaters and other properties in an attempt to diversify enough to offset the boom-or-bust cycle of picture-making.

Foreshadowing a pattern of film production still yet to come, in late 1973 20th Century-Fox joined forces with Warner Bros. to co-produce The Towering Inferno (1974),^[18] an all-star action blockbuster from producer Irwin Allen. Both studios found themselves owning the rights to books about burning skyscrapers. Allen insisted on a meeting with the heads of both studios, and announced that as 20th Century-Fox was already in the lead with their property it would be career suicide to have competing movies. Thus the first joint-venture studio deal was struck. In hindsight, while it may be commonplace now, back in the 1970s, it was a risky, but revolutionary, idea that paid off handsomely at both domestic and international box offices around the world.

20th Century-Fox’s success reached new heights by backing the most profitable film made up to that time, Star Wars (1977). Substantial financial gains were realized as a result of the film’s unprecedented success: from a low of $6 in June 1976, stock prices more than quadrupled to almost $27 after Star Wars’ release; 1976 revenues of $195 million rose to $301 million in 1977.Template:Sfn

Marvin Davis and Rupert Murdoch

With financial stability came new owners, when 20th Century-Fox was sold for $720 million on June 8, 1981 to investors Marc Rich and Marvin Davis.^[19] 20th Century-Fox’s assets included Pebble Beach Golf Links, the Aspen Skiing Company and a Century City property upon which Davis built and twice sold Fox Plaza.

By 1984, Rich had become a fugitive from justice, having fled to Switzerland after being charged by U.S. federal prosecutors with tax evasion, racketeering and illegal trading with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis. Rich’s assets were frozen by U.S. authorities.^[20] In 1984 Marvin Davis bought out Marc Rich‘s 50% interest in 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation for an undisclosed amount,^[20] reported to be $116 million.Template:Sfn Davis sold this interest to Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corporation for $250 million in March 1985. Davis later backed out of a deal with Murdoch to purchase John Kluge‘s Metromedia television stations.Template:Sfn Murdoch went ahead alone and bought the stations, and later bought out Davis’ remaining stake in 20th Century Fox for $325 million.Template:Sfn From 1985, the hyphen was quietly dropped from the brand name, with 20th Century-Fox changing to 20th Century Fox.Template:Sfn^[21]

To gain FCC approval of 20th Century-Fox’s purchase of Metromedia‘s television holdings, once the stations of the long-dissolved DuMont network, Murdoch had to become a U.S. citizen. He did so in 1985, and in 1986 the new Fox Broadcasting Company took to the air. Over the next 20-odd years the network and owned-stations group expanded to become extremely profitable for News Corp.

The company formed its Fox Family Films division in 1994 to boost production at the studio and would handled animation films. In February 1998, following the success of Anastasia, Fox Family Films changed its name to Fox Animation Studios and drop its live action production which would be picked up by other production units.^[22]

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Since January 2000, this company has been the international distributor for MGM/UA releases. In the 1980s, 20th Century Fox — through a joint venture with CBS called CBS/Fox Video — had distributed certain UA films on video; thus UA has come full circle by switching to 20th Century Fox for video distribution. 20th Century Fox also makes money distributing films for small independent film companies.

In late 2006, Fox Atomic was started up^[23] under Fox Searchlight head Peter Rice and COO John Hegeman^[24] as a sibling production division under Fox Filmed Entertainment.^[23] In early 2008, Atomic’s marketing unit was transferred to Fox Searchlight and 20th Century Fox, when Hegeman moved to New Regency Productions. Debbie Liebling became president. After two middling successes and falling short with other films, the unit was shut down in April 2009. The remaining films under Atomic in production and post-productions were transferred to 20th Century Fox and Fox Spotlight with Liebling overseeing them.^[24]

In 2008, 20th Century Fox announced an Asian subsidiary, Fox STAR Studios, a joint venture with STAR TV, also owned by News Corporation. It was reported that Fox STAR would start by producing films for the Bollywood market, then expand to several Asian markets.^[25] In 2008, 20th Century Fox started Fox International Productions .^[26]

Chernin Entertainment was founded by Peter Chernin after he stepped down as president of 20th Century Fox’s then-parent company News Corp. in 2009.^[27] Chernin Entertainment’s five-year first-look deal for the film and television was signed with 20th Century Fox and 20th Century Fox TV in 2009.^[28]

In August 2012, 20th Century Fox signed a five-year deal with DreamWorks Animation to distribute in domestic and international markets. However, the deal did not include the distribution rights for previously released films which DreamWorks Animation acquired from Paramount Pictures later in 2014.^[29] Fox’s deal with DreamWorks Animation ended on June 2, 2017 with Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, with Universal Pictures taking over the distribution deal with DreamWorks Animation due to NBCUniversal‘s acquisition of DreamWorks Animation on August 22, 2016, starting on February 22, 2019 with the release of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

21st Century Fox era

In 2012, Rupert Murdoch announced that News Corp. would be split into two publishing and media-oriented companies: a new News Corporation, and 21st Century Fox, which operates the Fox Entertainment Group and 20th Century Fox. Murdoch considered the name of the new company a way to maintain the 20th Century Fox’s heritage.^[30][31]

Fox Stage Productions was formed in June 2013.^[32] In August 2013, 20CF started a theatrical joint venture with a trio of producers, both film and theater, Kevin McCollum, John Davis and Tom McGrath.^[33]

In September 2017, Locksmith Animation formed a multi-year production deal with 20th Century Fox, who will distribute Locksmith’s films, with Locksmith aiming to release a film every 12–18 months. The deal was to bolster Blue Sky’s output and replace the loss of distributing DreamWorks Animation films.^[34]

Technoprops, a VFX company that worked on Avatar and The Jungle Book, was purchased in April 2017 to operate as Fox VFX Lab. Technoprops’ founder Glenn Derry would continue to run the company as vice president of visual effect reporting to John Kilkenny, VFX president.^[35]

On October 30, 2017, Vanessa Morrison was named president of a new created 20th Century Fox division, Fox Family, reporting to the Chairman & CEO and Vice Chairman of 20th Century Fox. The family division would develop films that appeal to younger moviegoers and their parents both animated films and films with live action elements. Also, the division would oversee the studio’s family animated television business, which produce based holiday television specials on existing film properties, and oversee feature film adaptation of its TV shows.^[36] To replace Morrision at Fox Animation, Andrea Miloro and Robert Baird were named co-presidents of 20th Century Fox Animation.^[37]

20th Century Fox issued a default notice in regards to its licensing agreement for the under-construction 20th Century Fox World theme park in Malaysia by Genting Malaysia Bhd. In November 2018 Genting Malaysia filed suit in response and included soon to be parent The Walt Disney Company.^[38]

Disney era and studio renaming

Further information: Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney

On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced plans to purchase most of the 21st Century Fox assets, including 20th Century Fox, for $52.4 billion.^[39] After a bid from Comcast (parent company of NBCUniversal) for $65 billion, Disney counterbid with $71.3 billion.^[40] On July 19, 2018, Comcast dropped out of the 21st Century Fox bid in favor of Sky plc and Sky UK and eight days later, Disney and 21st Century Fox shareholders approved the merger between the two companies.^[41] Although the deal was completed on March 20, 2019,^[42] 20th Century Fox was not planning to relocate to Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, but retained its headquarters in Century City on the Fox Studio Lot, which is currently leased to Disney by 21st Century Fox’s successor, Fox Corporation, for seven years.^[43] Various units were moved out from under 20th Century Fox at acquisition and months after the merger plus there were several rounds of layoffs.

On January 17, 2020, Disney renamed the studio as 20th Century Studios (legally, 20th Century Studios, Inc.^[44]), which served to help avoid brand confusion with the Fox Corporation. Similar to other Disney film units, distribution of 20th Century Studios films is now handled by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, while Searchlight Pictures operates their own autonomous distribution unit.^[45] The first film released by Disney under the studio’s new name was The Call of the Wild.^[46]

In January 2020, held-over production president Emma Watts resigned from the company.^[47] On March 12, 2020, Steve Asbell was named president, production of 20th Century Studios. While Morrison was named president, streaming, Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production to oversee live action development and production of Disney Live Action and 20th Century Studios for Disney+. Two other changes that similar merged 20th Century Studios and Disney Pictures functions and answering to Asbell and Sean Bailey, president, Walt Disney Pictures productions were Philip Steuer as president, production over physical and post production and VFX and Randi Hiller who will lead casting as executive vice president, casting.^[48]

Television

Main articles: 20th Century Fox Television, 20th Television, and Fox 21 Television Studios

20th Television was 20th Century Fox’s television syndication division. 20th Century Fox Television was the studio’s television production division.

During the mid-1950s, feature films were released to television in the hope that they would broaden sponsorship and help distribution of network programs. Blocks of one-hour programming of feature films to national sponsors on 128 stations was organized by Twentieth Century Fox and National Telefilm Associates. Twentieth Century Fox received 50% interest in NTA Film network after it sold its library to National Telefilm Associates. This gave 90 minutes of cleared time a week and syndicated feature films to 110 non-interconnected stations for sale to national sponsors.^[49]

Buyout of Four Star

Rupert Murdoch’s 20th Century Fox bought out the remaining assets of Four Star Television from Ronald Perelman‘s Compact Video in 1996.^[50] The majority of Four Star Television‘s library of programs are controlled by 20th Century Fox Television today.^[51][52][53] After Murdoch’s numerous buyouts during the buyout era of the eighties, News Corporation had built up financial debts of $7 billion (much from Sky TV in the UK), despite the many assets that were held by NewsCorp.^[54] The high levels of debt caused Murdoch to sell many of the American magazine interests he had acquired in the mid-1980s.

Music

Main articles: 20th Century Fox Records and Fox Music

Between 1933 and 1937, a custom record label called Fox Movietone was produced starting at F-100 and running through F-136. It featured songs from Fox movies, first using material recorded and issued on Victor‘s Bluebird label and halfway through switched to material recorded and issued on ARC‘s dime store labels (Melotone, Perfect, etc.). These scarce records were sold only at Fox Theaters.

Fox Music has been 20th Century Fox’s music arm since 2000. It encompasses music publishing and licensing businesses, dealing primarily with Fox Entertainment Group television and film soundtracks.

Prior to Fox Music, 20th Century Records was its music arm from 1958 to 1982.

Radio

The Twentieth Century Fox Presents radio series^[55] were broadcast between 1936 and 1942. More often than not, the shows were a radio preview featuring a medley of the songs and soundtracks from the latest movie being released into the theaters, much like the modern day movie trailers we now see on TV, to encourage folks to head down to their nearest Picture House.

The radio shows featured the original stars, with the announcer narrating a lead up that encapsulated the performance.

Motion picture film processing

From its earliest ventures into movie production, Fox Film Corporation operated its own processing laboratories. The original lab was located in Fort Lee, New Jersey along with the studios. A lab was included with the new studio built in Los Angeles in 1916.^[56] Headed by Alan E. Freedman, the Fort Lee lab was moved into the new Fox Studios building in Manhattan in 1919.^[57] In 1932, Freedman bought the labs from Fox for $2,000,000 to bolster what at that time was a failing Fox liquidity.^[58][59] He renamed the operation «DeLuxe Laboratories,» which much later became DeLuxe Entertainment Services Group. In the 1940s Freedman sold the labs back to what was then 20th Century Fox and remained as president into the 1960s. Under Freedman’s leadership, DeLuxe added two more labs in Chicago and Toronto and processed film from studios other than Fox.

Divisions

Fox Atomic

Fox Atomic was a youth-focused film production company and division of Fox Filmed Entertainment that operated from 2006 to April 2009. Atomic was originally paired with Fox Spotlight Pictures under the same leadership.

In late 2006, Fox Atomic was started up^[23] under Fox Searchlight head Peter Rice and COO John Hegeman^[24] as a sibling production division under Fox Filmed Entertainment.^[23] Debbie Liebling transferred to Fox Atomic in 2007 from Fox.^[24] In January 2008, Atomic’s marketing unit was transferred to Fox Searchlight and 20th Century Fox,^[60] when Hegeman moved to New Regency Productions. Debbie Liebling became president. After two middling successes and falling short with other films, the unit was shut down in April 2009. The remaining films under Atomic in production and post-productions were transferred to 20th Century Fox and Fox Spotlight with Liebling overseeing them.^[24]

• Turistas (December 2006)^[23]
• The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)^[23]
• 28 Weeks Later (2007)^[23]
• The Comebacks^[60]
• The Rocker^[24]
• Miss March^[24]
• 12 Rounds^[24]

Films in production at shut down and transferred to other Fox units

• I Love You, Beth Cooper (July 10, 2009)^[60] 20th Century Fox release, 1492 Pictures production company, directed by Chris Columbus and starring Hayden Panettiere^[24]
• Post Grad (August 21, 2009) through Fox Searchlight directed by Vicky Jenson and starring Alexis Bledel^[24]
• Jennifer’s Body (September 18, 2009)^[60] 20th Century Fox release, directed by Karyn Kusama and starring Megan Fox^[24]

Fox Family

Fox Family is a family-friendly production division of 20th Century Studios. Besides family-friendly theatrical films, the division oversees mixed media (live-action with animation), family animated holiday television specials based on film properties and film features based on TV shows.

On October 30, 2017, Morrison was transferred from her post as president of 20th Century Fox Animation, the prior Fox Family Films, to be president of a newly created 20th Century Fox division, Fox Family, which as a mandate similar to Fox Family Films. The division pick up supervision of a Bob’s Burgers film^[36] and some existing deals with animation producers, including Tonko House.^[61] With the sale of 21st Century Fox to Disney in March 2019, rights to The Dam Keeper feature animated film returned to Tonko House.^[62]

With the August 2019 20th Century Fox slate overhaul announcement, 20th Century Fox properties such as Home Alone, Night at the Museum, and Diary of the Wimpy Kid have been assigned for Disney+ release and assigned to Fox Family.^[63] On March 12, 2020, Morrison was named president, Streaming, Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production to oversee live action development and production of Disney Live Action and 20th Century Studios for Disney+.^[48]

Upcoming productions

• Bob’s Burgers: The Movie (April 9, 2021)^[36][64]
• an unnamed The Simpsons Movie sequel
• The Prom Goer’s Interstellar Excursion based film, produced with Chernin Entertainment^[65]
• Paper Lanterns live-action/animated family film written by Jonny Sun and produced with Chernin Entertainment^[66]
• The Garden live-action/CGI musical film based on book of Genesis’s the Garden of Eden with Franklin Entertainment^[67]

Fox VFX Lab

Fox VFX Lab is a visual effects company division of 20th Century Studios that was acquired in 2017 known as Technoprops. It is leaded by president John Kilkenny. Besides their visual effects activities, the division oversees different parts of the world to apply for and work on projects that include films such as Avatar, The Jungle Book, Rogue One, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Doctor Strange, and Warcraft^[68] and also video game properties like Need for Speed (2015), Battlefield 1, Rainbow Six Siege, Watch Dogs 2, Just Cause 3, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Mafia III, Halo 4, Mortal Kombat 11, Far Cry (Far Cry 5 and Primal), Call of Duty (Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Black Ops III) and Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic Forces and Team Sonic Racing).^[69][70]

Fox International Productions

Fox International Productions was the division of 20th Century Fox in charge of local production in 12 territories in China, Europe, India and Latin America from 2008 to 2017.

In 2008, 20th Century Fox started Fox International Productions under president Sanford Panitch. The company had $900 million in box-office receipts by the time Panitch left the company for Sony on June 2, 2015.^[26] Co-president of worldwide theatrical marketing and distribution for 20th Century Fox Tomas Jegeus was named president of Fox International Productions effective September 1, 2015.^[71] The company struck a development and production deal in November 2015 with Zhejiang Huace, a Chinese entertainment group.^[72] In December 2017, 20th Century Fox film chairman-CEO Stacey Snider indicated that Fox International Productions would be dissolved in favor of each local and regional offices producing or acquiring projects.^[73]

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The familiar 20th Century production logo originated as the logo of Twentieth Century Pictures and was adopted by 20th Century-Fox after the merger in 1935. It consists of a stacked block-letter three-dimensional, monolithic logotype (nicknamed «the Monument») surrounded by Art deco buildings and illuminated by searchlights. In the production logo that appears at the start of films, the searchlights are animated and the sequence is accompanied by a distinctive fanfare that was originally composed in 1933 by Alfred Newman.Template:Sfn The original layout of the logo was designed by special effects animator and matte painting artist Emil Kosa Jr..^[74]Template:Sfn

The 20th Century-Fox logo and fanfare has been recognised as an iconic symbol of a golden age of Hollywood. Its appearance at the start of popular films such as How Green Was My Valley (1941) and MASH (1970) established its recognition.^[75]

In 1953, Rocky Longo, an artist at Pacific Title, was hired to recreate the original logo design for the new CinemaScope picture process. Longo tilted the «0» in «20th» to have the logo maintain proportions in the wider CinemaScope format.^[76] Alfred Newman also re-composed the logo’s fanfare with an extension to be heard during the CinemaScope logo that would follow after the Fox logo. Although the format had since declined, director George Lucas specifically requested that the CinemaScope version of the fanfare be used for the opening titles of Star Wars (1977). Additionally, the film’s main theme was composed by John Williams in the same key as the fanfare ([[B-flat major|BTemplate:Flat major]]), serving as an extension to it of sorts.^[77][75] In 1981, the logo was slightly altered with the re-straightening of the «0» in «20th».^[76]

In 1994, after a few failed attempts, Fox in-house television producer Kevin Burns was hired to produce a new logo for the company, this time using the then-new process of computer-generated imagery (CGI) adding more detail and animation, with the longer 21-second Fox fanfare arranged by David Newman used as the underscore.^[76][75]

In 2009, an updated logo created by Blue Sky Studios debuted with the release of Avatar.^[76]

On January 17, 2020, it was reported that Disney had begun to phase out the «Fox» name from the studio’s branding as it is no longer tied to the current Fox Corporation, with 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures respectively renamed to 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures. Branding elements associated with the studio, including the searchlights, monolith, and fanfare, will remain in use. The first film that carries the new 20th Century Studios name is The Call of the Wild (coincidentally the original film adaptation was the original Twentieth Century Pictures‘ final movie before its merger with Fox Film).^[78][46][79]

For the 20th Century Studios logo, its print logo debuted on a movie poster of The New Mutants^[80][81] while the on-screen logo debuted in a television advertisement for the film The Call of the Wild.^[82]

The 20th Century Studios logo was animated by Picturemill.^[83]

Films

Lists

• List of 20th Century Studios films (2020–present)
• List of 20th Century Fox films (2000–2020)
• List of 20th Century Fox films (1935–1999)
• List of Twentieth Century Pictures films (1933–1936)
• List of Fox Film films (1914–1935)

Highest-grossing films

The Academy Film Archive houses the 20th Century Fox Features Collection which contains features, trailers, and production elements mostly from the Fox, Twentieth Century, and Twentieth Century-Fox studios, from the late 1920s–1950s.^[84]

Highest-grossing films in North America[85] Rank Title Year Box office gross 1 Avatar ‡ 2009 $760,507,625 2 Titanic ‡ 1997 $659,363,944 3 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 1999 $474,544,677 4 Star Wars‡ 1977 $460,998,007 5 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith 2005 $380,270,577 6 Deadpool 2016 $363,070,709 7 Deadpool 2 2018 $324,535,803 8 Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones 2002 $310,676,740 9 Return of the Jedi ‡ 1983 $309,306,177 10 Independence Day 1996 $306,169,268 11 The Empire Strikes Back ‡ 1980 $290,475,067 12 Home Alone 1990 $285,761,243 13 Night at the Museum 2006 $250,863,268 14 X-Men: The Last Stand 2006 $234,362,462 15 X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014 $233,921,534 16 Cast Away 2000 $233,632,142 17 The Martian 2015 $228,433,663 18 Logan 2017 $226,277,068 19 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel 2009 $219,614,612 20 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 $219,195,243 21 Alvin and the Chipmunks 2007 $217,326,974 22 Bohemian Rhapsody 2018 $216,428,042 23 X2: X-Men United 2003 $214,949,694 24 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2014 $208,545,589 25 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 2009 $196,573,705

Highest-grossing films worldwide Rank Title Year Box office gross 1 Avatar ‡ 2009 $2,789,679,794 2 Titanic ‡ 1997 $2,187,463,944 3 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace ‡ 1999 $1,027,044,677 4 Bohemian Rhapsody 2018 $903,655,259 5 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 2009 $886,686,817 6 Ice Age: Continental Drift 2012 $877,244,782 7 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith 2005 $848,754,768 8 Independence Day 1996 $817,400,891 9 Deadpool 2 2018 $785,046,920 10 Deadpool 2016 $783,112,979 11 Star Wars ‡ 1977 $775,398,007 12 X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014 $747,862,775 13 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2014 $710,644,566 14 Ice Age: The Meltdown ‡ 2006 $660,940,780 15 Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones 2002 $649,398,328 16 The Martian 2015 $630,161,890 17 How to Train Your Dragon 2 2014 $621,537,519 18 Logan 2017 $616,225,934 19 Life of Pi 2012 $609,016,565 20 The Croods 2013 $587,204,668 21 Night at the Museum 2006 $574,480,841 22 The Empire Strikes Back ‡ 1980 $547,969,004 23 The Day After Tomorrow 2004 $544,272,402 24 X-Men: Apocalypse 2016 $543,934,787 25 The Revenant 2015 $532,950,503

^{I ‡}—Includes theatrical reissue(s).

See also

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20th Century Fox Film Corporation
Год основания	31 мая 1935[1]
Расположение	Лос-Анджелес, Калифорния
Отрасль	кинопроизводство телевидение
Продукция	фильмы
Материнская компания	Fox Entertainment Group News Corporation
Дочерние компании	Fox Searchlight Pictures Fox Atomic Fox Interactive 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Blue Sky Studios 20th Television Fox Star Studios DreamWorks Animation
Сайт	FOX Movies FOX Studios

20th Century Fox Film Corporation (рус. Кинообъединение «Двадцатый век Фокс») (20th Century-Fox Film Corporation использовался с дефисом с 1935 по 1985 год) также известная как 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Pictures, или просто 20th или Fox — одна из шести крупнейших американских киностудий, которая является дочерней компанией News Corporation Руперта Мердока. Занимается также производством телефильмов.

Компания основана 31 мая 1935 года^[1] в результате слияния двух студий: Fox Film Corporation, основанной в 1915 году Уильямом Фоксом, и Twentieth Century Pictures, основанной в 1933 году Дэриллом Ф. Зануком, Джозефом Шенком, Рэймондом Гриффитом и Уильямом Гетцом.

Съёмочная площадка компании исторически занимала Century City, квартал Лос-Анджелеса к западу от Беверли-Хиллз. К настоящему времени этот квартал застроен офисными и жилыми зданиями. Штаб-квартира компании занимает 35-этажное высотное здание Fox Plaza.

Самая популярная медиафраншиза Twentieth Century Fox включает в себя Звездные войны (Star Wars) (до перехода компании Дисней) , Люди Икс (X-Men), Ледниковый период (Ice Age), Рио (Rio), Крепкий орешек (Die Hard), (Predator), Инопланетянин (Alien), Планета обезьян (Planet of the Apes), Один дома(Home Alone), включая самые популярные TV-шоу, такие как Бэтмен (Batman), МЭШ (M*A*S*H), Секретные материалы (The X-Files), Копы (Cops), Симпсоны (The Simpsons), Гриффины (Family Guy), Американский папаша! (American Dad!), и 24.

Среди наиболее известных актрис, вышедших из этой студии — первая кинозвезда студии 20th Century Fox Ширли Темпл (Shirley Temple), Бетти Грейбл (Betty Grable), Джин Тирни (Gene Tierney), Мэрилин Монро (Marilyn Monroe) и Джейн Мэнсфилд (Jayne Mansfield). Студия также заключила контракт с первой афроамериканской кинозвездой Дороти Дэндридж (Dorothy Dandridge). 20th Century Fox является членом Американской ассоциации кинокомпаний (Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).^[2]

История

Fox Film Corporation

Fox Film Corporation образована в 1915 году Уильямом Фоксом, для снабжения его обширной сети кинотеатров фильмами, он сформировал Fox Film Corporation путем слияния двух компаний в 1913 году: Greater New York Film Rental, торговой фирмы, которая является частью Independents, и Fox (или Box, в зависимости от источника) Office Attractions Company, производственной компании. Это слияние торговой компании и производственной компании стало одним их первых примеров вертикальной интеграции. Только за год до этого, последняя компания распространила новаторский мультик Уинзора Маккея — Герти(Gertie the Dinosaur).

Всегда больше предприниматель, чем шоумен, Фокс^[3] сосредоточен на приобретении и строительстве театров, создание фильмов для него было вторичной деятельностью. Первая студия кинокомпании создана в Форт Ли, штат Нью-Джерси, где он и многие другие начинающие киностудии Первой Американской индустрии кинофильмов (en:America’s first motion picture industry) были основаны в начале 20-го века.^[4][5][6] В 1917 году, Уильям Фокс послал Сола М.Вартсела в Голливуд, для наблюдения за производством студий на Западном побережье США, где более гостеприимный и экономически эффективный климат для производства кинофильмов. Fox купила студию Edendale, неудачу en:Selig Polyscope Company, которая делала фильмы в Лос-Анджелесе с 1909 года и была первой киностудией в Лос-Анджелесе.

С внедрением звуковых технологий, Fox приобрела права на процесс оптической записи звука. В 1925-26 годы, Fox приобрел права на работу Фримана Харрисона Оуэнса (Freeman Harrison Owens), права США на Три-Эргон (en:Tri-Ergon) — систему изобретенную тремя немецкими изобретателями, и работу Теодора Кейса (en:Theodore Case) — en:Movietone sound system, позже известное как «Fox Movietone». Позднее в этом же году компания начала выпускать фильмы с записями музыки и эффектов, а в следующем году Fox начал еженедельный выпуск en:Fox Movietone News, которая просуществовала до 1963 года. Развивающейся компании необходимо пространство, и в 1926 году Fox приобрела 300 акров (1,2 кв.км) в открытой местности на западе Беверли-Хиллз и построил «Movietone City», лучшую оборудованную студию того времени.

Когда соперник Маркус Лов (Marcus Loew) умер в 1927 году, Fox предложила купить семейный холдинг Лов. Loew’s Inc. контролирует более 200 театров, а также студию MGM (чьи фильмы в настоящее время распространяются Fox на международном уровне). Когда семья согласилась на продажу, слияние Fox и Loew’s Inc. объявлено в 1929 году. Но глава студии MGM Луис Б. Майер (Louis B. Mayer), не включенный в сделку, начал сопротивляться. Используя политические связи, Майер призвал антимонопольное подразделение Министерства Юстиции, чтобы заблокировать слияние, несмотря на то, что MGM сам в сочетании с Loews Theatres нарушали антимонопольные правила. К счастью для Майера, Фокс был тяжело ранен в автокатастрофе летом 1929 года, к тому времени он выздоровел, но потерял большую часть своего состояния осенью 1929 года во время обвала фондового рынка, что положило конец слиянию с Loew. Близкий к банкротству, Fox лишился империи и попал в тюрьму. Fox Film, с более чем 500 театрами, вступил в стадию ликвидации. Банк, санкционирующий реорганизацию, помог компании на некоторое время, но было ясно, что слияние — единственный способ для Fox Film, чтобы выжить. От имени нового президента Сидни Кента, новые владельцы начали переговоры с быстро развившимся, но мощным и независимым Twentieth Century Pictures в начале весны 1935 года.

Twentieth Century Pictures

Twentieth Century Pictures — независимая производственная Голливудская компания индустрии кинофильмов созданная в 1933 году Джозефом Шенком (Joseph Schenck) (бывший президент United Artists), Дэррилом Ф. Зануком из Warner Brothers, Уильямом Гетцем из Fox Films, и Рэймондом Гриффитом. Финансовая поддержка пришла от младшего брата Джозефа Шенка — Николаса Шенка и крестного отца Гетца — Луиса Б. Майер, главы MGM Studios. Продукт компании распространялся United Artists (UA), а также снимался в различных студиях. Шенк был президентом 20th Century, в то время как Занук назначен вице-президентом по производству, а Гетц служил в качестве вице-президента. Успешное с самого начала, их фильм Дом Ротшильдов (The House of Rothschild) номинирован на премию Американской киноакадемии за лучший фильм. В 1935 году они выпустили классический фильм Отверженные (Les Misérables), по роману Виктора Гюго, который также был номинирован на Лучший фильм.

В 1935 году его компания поглотила 20th Century Pictures и была переименована в 20th Century Fox^[1]. Первым президентом объединённого кинотреста стал Джозеф Шенк. Кинопроизводством фактически ведал Дэррил Занук. В начале 1950-х гг. после триумфа в прокате пеплума «Плащаница» он объявил о переходе на широкоэкранную технологию CinemaScope.

В 1970-е гг. студия 20th Century Fox выступила в роли локомотива новой эры блокбастеров, профинансировав создание киносаги «Звёздные войны». Для проектов в области независимого кино в 1994 г. было открыто подразделение Fox Searchlight.

Примечания

Ссылки

• Официальный международный веб-сайт кинообъединения 20th Century Fox  (англ.)
• Официальный русскоязычный веб-сайт кинообъединения «Двадцатый век Фокс СНГ»  (рус.)
• Официальный веб-сайт кинообъединения «Двадцатый век Фокс СНГ» для работы с журналистами и представителями киноиндустрии  (рус.)
• Страница компании на веб-сайте Internet Movie Database  (англ.)

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20th Century Studios

Logo used since January 17, 2020
Fox Studio Lot in Century City, Los Angeles
Trade name	20th Century-Fox (1935-1985) 20th Century Fox (1985-2020) 20th Century Studios (2020-present)
Formerly	Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (1935–1985) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (1985–2020)
Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Film
Predecessors	Fox Film Twentieth Century Pictures
Founded	May 31, 1935; 87 years ago
Founders	Joseph M. Schenck Darryl F. Zanuck William Fox Spyros Skouras
Headquarters	Fox Studio Lot Building 88, 10201 West Pico Boulevard, Century City, Los Angeles, California , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Steven Asbell (president)[1]
Products	Motion pictures Television films
Owner	Independent (1935-1985) News Corporation (1985–2013) 21st Century Fox (2013–2019) The Walt Disney Company (2019–present)
Number of employees	2,300 (2018)
Parent	Fox Entertainment Group (1990–2019) Walt Disney Studios (Disney Entertainment) (2019–present)
Divisions	20th Digital Studio 20th Century Animation 20th Century Family 20th Century Games
Subsidiaries	Regency Enterprises (20%)
Website	www.20thcenturystudios.com
Footnotes / references [2][3][4][5]

20th Century Studios (previously known as 20th Century Fox or 20th Century Fox Film Corporation) is an American film production company headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles.^[6] Since 2019, it serves as a film production arm of Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company.^[7] Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by 20th Century Studios in theatrical markets.^[8]

For over 80 years – beginning with its founding in 1935 and ending in 2019 (when it became part of Walt Disney Studios) – 20th Century Fox was one of the then «Big Six» major American film studios. It was formed in 1935 from the merger of the Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures and was originally known as the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (while owned by TCF Holdings) as one of the original Big Five among eight majors of Hollywood’s Golden Age. In 1985, the studio removed the hyphen in the name and renamed as Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, after being acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, which was shut down and replaced by 21st Century Fox in 2013, after spinning off its publishing assets. The acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney took place on March 20, 2019, including 20th Century Fox.^[9] The studio’s current name was adopted on January 17, 2020, to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation.^[10] On December 4, 2020, the company started using 20th Century Studios, Inc. for the copyright of 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures productions as a Disney subsidiary.

History[edit]

From founding to 1956[edit]

Twentieth Century Pictures’ Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck left United Artists over a stock dispute, and began merger talks with the management of financially struggling Fox Film, under President Sidney Kent.^[12][13]

Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, helped make it happen (and later became president of the new company).^[12] The company had been struggling since founder William Fox lost control of the company in 1930.^[14]

Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures merged in 1935. Initially, it was speculated in The New York Times that the newly merged company would be named «Fox-Twentieth Century». The new company, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31, 1935. Kent remained at the company, joining Schenck and Zanuck. Zanuck replaced Winfield Sheehan as the company’s production chief.

The company established a special training school. Lynn Bari, Patricia Farr and Anne Nagel were among 14 young women «launched on the trail of film stardom» on August 6, 1935, when they each received a six-month contract with 20th Century-Fox after spending 18 months in the school. The contracts included a studio option for renewal for as long as seven years.^[15]

For many years, 20th Century Fox identified themselves as having been founded in 1915, the year Fox Film was founded. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary. However, it has considered the 1935 merger as its founding in recent years, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915.^[16] The company’s films retained the 20th Century Pictures searchlight logo on their opening credits as well as its opening fanfare, but with the name changed to 20th Century-Fox.

After the merger was completed, Zanuck signed young actors to help carry 20th Century-Fox: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Sonja Henie, and Betty Grable. 20th Century-Fox also hired Alice Faye and Shirley Temple, who appeared in several major films for the studio in the 1930s.^[17][18]

Higher attendance during World War II helped 20th Century-Fox overtake RKO and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to become the third most profitable film studio. In 1941, Zanuck was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Signal Corps and assigned to supervise the production of U.S. Army training films. His partner, William Goetz, filled in at 20th Century-Fox.^[19]

In 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio.^[20] During the next few years, with pictures like Wilson (1944), The Razor’s Edge (1946), Boomerang, Gentleman’s Agreement (both 1947), The Snake Pit (1948), and Pinky (1949), Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films. 20th Century-Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams’ Leave Her to Heaven (1945), starring Gene Tierney, which was the highest-grossing 20th Century-Fox film of the 1940s. The studio also produced film versions of Broadway musicals, including the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, beginning with the musical version of State Fair (1945), the only work that the partnership wrote specially for films.

After the war, audiences slowly drifted away. 20th Century-Fox held on to its theaters until a court-mandated «divorce»; they were spun off as Fox National Theaters in 1953.^[21] That year, with attendance at half the 1946 level, 20th Century-Fox gambled on an unproven process. Noting that the two film sensations of 1952 had been Cinerama, which required three projectors to fill a giant curved screen, and «Natural Vision» 3D, which got its effects of depth by requiring the use of polarized glasses, 20th Century-Fox mortgaged its studio to buy rights to a French anamorphic projection system which gave a slight illusion of depth without glasses. President Spyros Skouras struck a deal with the inventor Henri Chrétien, leaving the other film studios empty-handed, and in 1953 introduced CinemaScope in the studio’s groundbreaking feature film The Robe.^[22]

Zanuck announced in February 1953 that henceforth all 20th Century-Fox pictures would be made in CinemaScope.^[23] To convince theater owners to install this new process, 20th Century-Fox agreed to help pay conversion costs (about $25,000 per screen); and to ensure enough product, 20th Century-Fox leased access to CinemaScope to any rival studio choosing to use it. Seeing the box-office for the first two CinemaScope features, The Robe and How to Marry a Millionaire (also 1953), Warner Bros., MGM, RKO, Universal-International, Columbia, UA, Allied Artists, and Disney quickly adopted the process. In 1956, 20th Century-Fox engaged Robert Lippert to establish a subsidiary company, Regal Pictures, later Associated Producers Incorporated to film B pictures in CinemaScope (but «branded» RegalScope). 20th Century-Fox produced new musicals using the CinemaScope process including Carousel and The King and I (both 1956).

CinemaScope brought a brief upturn in attendance, but by 1956 the numbers again began to slide.^[24][25] That year Darryl Zanuck announced his resignation as head of production. Zanuck moved to Paris, setting up as an independent producer, seldom being in the United States for many years.

Production and financial problems[edit]

Zanuck’s successor, producer Buddy Adler, died a year later.^[26] President Spyros Skouras brought in a series of production executives, but none had Zanuck’s success. By the early 1960s, 20th Century-Fox was in trouble. A new version of Cleopatra (1963) began production in 1959 with Joan Collins in the lead.^[27] As a publicity gimmick, producer Walter Wanger offered $1 million to Elizabeth Taylor if she would star;^[27] she accepted and costs for Cleopatra began to escalate. Richard Burton’s on-set romance with Taylor was surrounding the media. However, Skouras’ selfish preferences and inexperienced micromanagement on the film’s production did nothing to speed up production on Cleopatra.

Meanwhile, another remake—of the Cary Grant hit My Favorite Wife (1940)—was rushed into production in an attempt to turn over a quick profit to help keep 20th Century-Fox afloat. The romantic comedy entitled Something’s Got to Give paired Marilyn Monroe, 20th Century-Fox’s most bankable star of the 1950s, with Dean Martin and director George Cukor. The troubled Monroe caused delays daily, and it quickly descended into a costly debacle. As Cleopatra‘s budget passed $10 million, eventually costing around $40 million, 20th Century-Fox sold its back lot (now the site of Century City) to Alcoa in 1961 to raise funds. After several weeks of script rewrites on the Monroe picture and very little progress, mostly due to director George Cukor’s filming methods, in addition to Monroe’s chronic sinusitis, Monroe was fired from Something’s Got to Give^[27] and two months later she was found dead. According to 20th Century-Fox files, she was rehired within weeks for a two-picture deal totaling $1 million, $500,000 to finish Something’s Got to Give (plus a bonus at completion), and another $500,000 for What a Way to Go. Elizabeth Taylor’s disruptive reign on the Cleopatra set continued unchallenged from 1960 into 1962, though three 20th Century-Fox executives went to Rome in June 1962 to fire her. They learned that director Joseph L. Mankiewicz had filmed out of sequence and had only done interiors, so 20th Century-Fox was then forced to allow Taylor several more weeks of filming. In the meantime during that summer of 1962 Fox released nearly all of its contract stars to offset burgeoning costs, including Jayne Mansfield.^[28][29]

With few pictures on the schedule, Skouras wanted to rush Zanuck’s big-budget war epic The Longest Day (1962),^[27] an accurate account of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, with a huge international cast, into release as another source of quick cash. This offended Zanuck, still 20th Century-Fox’s largest shareholder, for whom The Longest Day was a labor of love that he had dearly wanted to produce for many years. After it became clear that Something’s Got to Give would not be able to progress without Monroe in the lead (Martin had refused to work with anyone else), Skouras finally decided that re-signing her was unavoidable. But days before filming was due to resume, she was found dead at her Los Angeles home and the picture resumed filming as Move Over, Darling, with Doris Day and James Garner in the leads. Released in 1963, the film was a hit.^[30] The unfinished scenes from Something’s Got to Give were shelved for nearly 40 years. Rather than being rushed into release as if it were a B-picture, The Longest Day was lovingly and carefully produced under Zanuck’s supervision. It was finally released at a length of three hours and was well received.

At the next board meeting, Zanuck spoke for eight hours, convincing directors that Skouras was mismanaging the company and that he was the only possible successor. Zanuck was installed as chairman, and then named his son Richard Zanuck as president.^[31] This new management group seized Cleopatra and rushed it to completion, shut down the studio, laid off the entire staff to save money, axed the long-running Movietone Newsreel (the archives of which are now owned by Fox News), and made a series of cheap, popular pictures that restored 20th Century-Fox as a major studio. The saving grace for the studio’s fortunes came from the tremendous success of The Sound of Music (1965),^[32] an expensive and handsomely produced film adaptation of the highly acclaimed Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical, which became a significant success at the box office and won five Academy Awards, including Best Director (Robert Wise) and Best Picture of the Year.

20th Century-Fox also had two big science-fiction hits in the decade: Fantastic Voyage (1966), and the original Planet of the Apes (1968), starring Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, and Roddy McDowall. Fantastic Voyage was the last film made in CinemaScope; the studio had held on to the format while Panavision lenses were being used elsewhere.

Zanuck stayed on as chairman until 1971, but there were several expensive flops in his last years, resulting in 20th Century-Fox posting losses from 1969 to 1971. Following his removal, and after an uncertain period, new management brought 20th Century-Fox back to health. Under president Gordon T. Stulberg and production head Alan Ladd, Jr., 20th Century-Fox films connected with modern audiences. Stulberg used the profits to acquire resort properties, soft-drink bottlers, Australian theaters and other properties in an attempt to diversify enough to offset the boom-or-bust cycle of picture-making.

Foreshadowing a pattern of film production still yet to come, in late 1973 20th Century-Fox joined forces with Warner Bros. to co-produce The Towering Inferno (1974),^[33] an all-star action blockbuster from producer Irwin Allen. Both studios found themselves owning the rights to books about burning skyscrapers. Allen insisted on a meeting with the heads of both studios and announced that as 20th Century-Fox was already in the lead with their property it would be career suicide to have competing movies. Thus the first joint-venture studio deal was struck. In hindsight, while it may be commonplace now, back in the 1970s, it was a risky, but revolutionary, idea that paid off handsomely at both domestic and international box offices around the world.

20th Century-Fox’s success reached new heights by backing the most profitable film made up to that time, Star Wars (1977). Substantial financial gains were realized as a result of the film’s unprecedented success: from a low of $6 in June 1976, stock prices more than quadrupled to almost $27 after Star Wars release; 1976 revenues of $195  million rose to $301  million in 1977.^[34]

Marvin Davis and Rupert Murdoch[edit]

With financial stability came new owners, when 20th Century-Fox was sold for $720 million on June 8, 1981, to investors Marc Rich and Marvin Davis.^[35] 20th Century-Fox’s assets included Pebble Beach Golf Links, the Aspen Skiing Company and a Century City property upon which Davis built and twice sold Fox Plaza.

By 1984, Rich had become a fugitive from justice, having fled to Switzerland after being charged by U.S. federal prosecutors with tax evasion, racketeering and illegal trading with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis. Rich’s assets were frozen by U.S. authorities.^[36] In 1984 Marvin Davis bought out Marc Rich’s 50% interest in 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation for an undisclosed amount,^[36] reported to be $116 million.^[37] Davis sold this interest to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation for $250 million in March 1985. Davis later backed out of a deal with Murdoch to purchase John Kluge’s Metromedia television stations.^[37] Murdoch went ahead alone and bought the stations, and later bought out Davis’ remaining stake in 20th Century-Fox for $325 million.^[37] From 1985, the hyphen was permanently deleted from the brand name, with 20th Century-Fox changing to 20th Century Fox.^[38][39]

To gain FCC approval of 20th Century-Fox’s purchase of Metromedia’s television holdings, once the stations of the long-dissolved DuMont network, Murdoch had to become a U.S. citizen. He did so in 1985, and in 1986 the new Fox Broadcasting Company took to the air. Over the next 20-odd years the network and owned-stations group expanded to become extremely profitable for News Corporation. Then in 1993, 20th Century Fox bought the superhero rights to the X-Men, while the Fantastic Four was bought in 1998. Then Bryan Singer directed the first film and the second film, while Brett Ratner was hired to direct the third film of the original trilogy.

In 1994, 20th Century Fox would establish four new divisions: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox Family Films, Fox Animation Studios, and Fox 2000 Pictures. Fox Searchlight would specialize in the specialty and indie film market, with Thomas Rothman, then president of production at The Samuel Goldwyn Company, being brought on to head up the new studio. It was soon given its name with Rothman as its founding president.^[40][41] Fox Family Films was tasked with producing films geared towards families, under John Matoian.^[42] Fox Animation Studios was established on August 9, 1994,^[43] designed to compete with Walt Disney Feature Animation, whom had found success in the Disney Renaissance. Don Bluth and Gary Goldman of the failing Sullivan Bluth Studios were appointed to head the new $100 million animation studio.^[44] Fox 2000 Pictures was formed to specialize in mid-budget-ranging films targeted towards underserved groups of audiences,^[45] with Laura Ziskin brought on as president.^[46]

In August 1997, Fox’s Los Angeles-based visual effects company, VIFX, acquired majority interest in Blue Sky Studios to form a new visual effects and animation company, temporarily renamed «Blue Sky/VIFX».^[47] Blue Sky had previously did the character animation of MTV Films’ first film Joe’s Apartment. Following the studio’s expansion, Blue Sky produced character animation for the films Alien Resurrection, A Simple Wish, Mouse Hunt, Star Trek: Insurrection and Fight Club.^[48] VIFX was later sold to another VFX studio Rhythm and Hues Studios in March 1999.^[49] According to Blue Sky founder Chris Wedge, Fox considered selling Blue Sky as well by 2000 due to financial difficulties in the visual effects industry in general.

In February 1998, following the success of Fox Animation Studios’ first film Anastasia, Fox Family Films changed its name to Fox Animation Studios and dropped its live action production. which would be picked up by other production units.^[50] The actual Fox Animation Studios would become a division of the formerly-named Fox Family Films, being referred to as the Phoenix studio. However, Fox Animation Studios in Los Angeles would be renamed to 20th Century Fox Animation between 1998 and 1999. The Phoenix studio would face financial problems, eventually with Fox laying off 300 of the nearly 380 people who worked at the Phoenix studio^[51] to «make films more efficiently». After the box-office failure of Titan A.E., Fox Animation Studios would shut down on June 26, 2000.^[52][53][54] Their last film set to be made would have been an adaptation of Wayne Barlowe’s illustrated novel Barlowe’s Inferno, and was set to be done entirely with computer animation.^[55] Another film they would have made was The Little Beauty King, an adult animated film directed by Steve Oedekerk, which would have been a satire of the films from the Disney Renaissance. It would predate Shrek (2001).^[56]

Chris Wedge, film producer Lori Forte, and Fox Animation executive Chris Meledandri presented Fox with a script for a comedy feature film titled Ice Age.^[57] Studio management pressured staff to sell their remaining shares and options to Fox on the promise of continued employment on feature-length films. The studio moved to White Plains, New York and started production on Ice Age. As the film wrapped, Fox, having little faith in the film, feared that it might bomb at the box office. Fox terminated half of the production staff and tried unsuccessfully to find a buyer for the film and the studio.^{[citation needed]} Instead, Ice Age was released by Fox in conjunction with 20th Century Fox Animation on March 15, 2002, to critical and commercial success, receiving a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards in 2003.^[58] Ice Age would spawn a franchise and bolster Blue Sky into producing feature films and becoming a household name in feature animation.

From 2000 to 2010, this company has been the international distributor for MGM/UA releases. In the 1980s, 20th Century Fox – through a joint venture with CBS called CBS/Fox Video – had distributed certain UA films on video; thus UA has come full circle by switching to 20th Century Fox for video distribution. 20th Century Fox also makes money distributing films for small independent film companies.

In 2006, 20th Century Fox terminated its production with Bad Hat Harry Productions for 5 years, because Bryan Singer left X-Men: The Last Stand to direct Superman Returns (2006) for Warner Bros. Pictures, then he returned to direct the first film and its sequel in the beginnings trilogy, starting in 2011.

In late 2006, Fox Atomic was started up^[59] under Fox Searchlight head Peter Rice and COO John Hegeman^[60] as a sibling production division under Fox Filmed Entertainment.^[59] In early 2008, Atomic’s marketing unit was transferred to Fox Searchlight and 20th Century Fox, when Hegeman moved to New Regency Productions. Debbie Liebling became president. After two middling successes and falling short with other films, the unit was shut down in April 2009. The remaining films under its Atomic label in production and post-productions were transferred to 20th Century Fox and Fox Spotlight with Liebling overseeing them.^[60]

In 2008, 20th Century Fox announced an Asian subsidiary, Fox STAR Studios, a joint venture with STAR TV, also owned by News Corporation. It was reported that Fox STAR would start by producing films for the Bollywood market, then expand to several Asian markets.^[61] In the same year, 20th Century Fox started Fox International Productions, but the division was closed in 2017.^[62]

Chernin Entertainment was founded by Peter Chernin after he stepped down as president of 20th Century Fox’s then-parent company News Corporation. in 2009.^[63] Chernin Entertainment’s five-year first-look deal for the film and television was signed with 20th Century Fox and 20th Century Fox TV in 2009.^[64]

21st Century Fox era[edit]

On June 28, 2012, Rupert Murdoch announced that News Corporation would be split into two publishing and media-oriented companies: a new News Corporation and 21st Century Fox, which operates the Fox Entertainment Group and 20th Century Fox. Murdoch considered the name of the new company a way to maintain the 20th Century Fox’s heritage.^[65][66]

Fox Stage Productions was formed in June 2013.^[67] In August, the same year, 20th Century Fox started a theatrical joint venture with a trio of producers, both film and theater, Kevin McCollum, John Davis and Tom McGrath.^[68]

On September 20, 2017, Locksmith Animation formed a multi-year production deal with 20th Century Fox, who would distribute Locksmith’s films under 20th Century Fox Animation, with Locksmith aiming to release a film every 12–18 months. The deal was to bolster Blue Sky’s output and replace the loss of distributing DreamWorks Animation films.^[69] The first film to be released under the production company was Ron’s Gone Wrong, which was released on October 22, 2021, by 20th Century Studios and was the only film to be released by the studio.

Technoprops, a VFX company that worked on Avatar and The Jungle Book, was purchased in April 2017 to operate as Fox VFX Lab. Technoprops’ founder Glenn Derry would continue to run the company as vice president of visual effect reporting to Gerard Bevan and John Kilkenny, VFX president.^[70]

On October 30, 2017, Vanessa Morrison was named president of a newly created 20th Century Fox division, Fox Family, reporting to the chairman & CEO and Vice Chairman of 20th Century Fox. The family division would develop films that appeal to younger moviegoers and their parents both animated films and films with live-action elements. Also, the division would oversee the studio’s family animated television business, which produces holiday television specials based on existing film properties, and oversee feature film adaptation of its TV shows.^[71] To replace Morrison at Fox Animation, Andrea Miloro and Robert Baird were named co-presidents of 20th Century Fox Animation.^[72]

20th Century Fox issued a default notice in regards to its licensing agreement for the under-construction 20th Century Fox World theme park in Malaysia by Genting Malaysia Bhd. In November 2018 Genting Malaysia filed suit in response and included soon to be parent The Walt Disney Company.^[73]

Disney acquisition[edit]

On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced plans to purchase most of the 21st Century Fox assets, including 20th Century Fox, for $52.4 billion.^[74] After a bid from Comcast (parent company of NBCUniversal) for $65 billion, Disney counterbid with $71.3 billion.^[75] On July 19, 2018, Comcast dropped out of the bid for 21st Century Fox in favor of Sky plc and Sky UK. Eight days later, Disney and 21st Century Fox shareholders approved the merger between the two companies.^[9] Although the deal was completed on March 20, 2019,^[76][77] 20th Century Fox was not planning to relocate to Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, but retained its headquarters at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles, which is currently leased to Disney by 21st Century Fox’s successor, Fox Corporation, for seven years.^[6] Various units were moved out from under 20th Century Fox at acquisition in months after the merger along with several rounds of layoffs. The Fox Research Library was folded into the Walt Disney Archives and Walt Disney Imagineering Archives in January 2020.^[78][79] The last film to use the «20th Century Fox» name was Underwater, which was released on January 10, 2020.

After the box office failures of films like Dark Phoenix and Stuber, Disney halted development on several projects, though films such as Free Guy and the Avatar sequels managed to continue production. Fox’s slate would be reduced to 10 films per year, half of them being made for the Hulu and then-upcoming Disney+ streaming services. Projects from 20th Century Fox franchises such as Home Alone, Cheaper by the Dozen, Night at the Museum, Diary of the Wimpy Kid, and Ice Age were later announced for Disney+.^[80] These projects would later be fully revealed during Disney’s Investor Day in December 2020 as feature films for the aforementioned streaming service.^[81] The first of these projects was Home Sweet Home Alone, which was released on November 12, 2021, and it became the first and only film released by 20th Century Fox on Disney+, as subsequent projects were transferred over to Walt Disney Pictures.^{[citation needed]}

On January 17, 2020, Disney renamed the studio to «20th Century Studios», which served to help avoid brand confusion with the Fox Corporation.^[82] Similar to other Disney film units, distribution of 20th Century Studios films is now handled in North America by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and internationally by their sub-division Buena Vista International, while Searchlight Pictures operates their own autonomous distribution and marketing unit.^[8][83] Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment distributes the films produced by 20th Century and Searchlight in home media under the 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment label. The first film released by Disney under the studio’s new name was The Call of the Wild, which was released on February 21, 2020.^[10] That same year, Ford vs. Ferrari (2019), among its four Academy Award nominations, earned the studio its first Best Picture nomination post-Disney acquisition.

In the same year, held-over production president Emma Watts left the company.^[84] On March 12, 2020, Steve Asbell was named president, production of 20th Century Studios, while Morrison was named president, streaming, Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production to oversee live-action development and production of Walt Disney Pictures and 20th Century Studios for Disney+. Philip Steuer will now lead physical and post-production and VFX, as president of production at Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production. Randi Hiller will now lead casting as executive VP casting, overseeing both Walt Disney Pictures and 20th Century Studios. Steuer has served as executive VP of physical production for Walt Disney Studios since 2015, and Hiller has led casting for Walt Disney Studios since 2011. Both will dual-report to Asbell and Sean Bailey.^[1]

On February 9, 2021, Disney announced that Blue Sky Studios was shut down in April 2021, and was succeeded by 20th Century Animation.^[85][86] A spokesperson for the company explained that in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic’s continued economic impact on all of its businesses, it was no longer sustainable for them to run a third feature animation studio. In addition, production on a film adaptation of the webcomic Nimona,^[87] originally scheduled to be released on January 14, 2022, was cancelled as a result of its closure. The studio’s film library and intellectual properties are retained by Disney. Although Disney did not give an exact date as to when the studio would be closing down initially, former animator Rick Fournier confirmed on April 10 it was their last day of operation,^[88] three days after co-founder Chris Wedge released a farewell letter on social media.^[89] Nimona would be picked up by Annapurna Pictures in early 2022 for release on Netflix in 2023.^[90]

On November 22, 2021, Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution and WarnerMedia reached an agreement to allow select 20th Century Studios films be shared between Disney+, Hulu, and HBO Max through late 2022. The new agreement negotiated by Gerard Bevan and John Gelke is an amendment to the original agreement between 20th Century Fox and HBO that Disney inherited after its acquisition of Fox in 2019, and as such, is not expected to be renewed. Following the end of the 20th Century-HBO deal, Disney plans to retain the 20th Century films on their own streaming platforms going forward after 2022.^[91] The first film to this new strategy was Ron’s Gone Wrong, while the last film was Amsterdam.

On February 8, 2022, Steven Spielberg’s 2021 film version of West Side Story, among its seven Academy Award nominations, earned 20th Century Studios its first Best Picture nomination post-rebranding.^[92]

On March 3, 2022, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Studios president Steve Asbell stated that they plan to be making 10+ films a year for streaming starting in 2023, with their films being released on Hulu domestically and both Disney+ via the Star hub and Star+ internationally, and that two-to-three films would be released theatrically each year.^[93]

Television[edit]

20th Television is the television production division of 20th Century Studios. 20th Century Fox Television was the studio’s television production division, along with Fox 21 Television Studios until they were renamed 20th Television and Touchstone Television (who later absorbed by 20th TV and spun off by Searchlight Television in December 2020) respectively in 2020. 20th Television was also the studio’s television syndication division until it was folded into Disney-ABC Domestic Television in 2020.^[94]

During the mid-1950s, feature films were released to television in the hope that they would broaden sponsorship and help the distribution of network programs. Blocks of one-hour programming of feature films to national sponsors on 128 stations were organized by Twentieth Century Fox and National Telefilm Associates. Twentieth Century Fox received 50% interest in the NTA Film Network after it sold its library to National Telefilm Associates. This gave 90 minutes of cleared time a week and syndicated feature films (under the package title «Premiere Performance») to 110 non-interconnected stations for sale to national sponsors.^[95]

Buyout of Four Star[edit]

Fox bought out the remaining assets of Four Star Television from Ronald Perelman’s Compact Video in 1996.^[96] The majority of Four Star Television’s library of programs are controlled by 20th Television today.^[97][98][99] After Murdoch’s numerous buyouts during the buyout era of the eighties, News Corporation had built up financial debts of $7 billion (much from Sky TV in the UK), despite the many assets that were held by NewsCorp.^[100] The high levels of debt caused Murdoch to sell many of the American magazine interests he had acquired in the mid-1980s.

Music[edit]

Between 1933 and 1937, a custom record label called Fox Movietone was produced starting at F-100 and running through F-136. It featured songs from 20th Century Fox movies, first using material recorded and issued on Victor’s Bluebird label and halfway through switched to material recorded and issued on ARC’s dime store labels (Melotone, Perfect, etc.). These scarce records were sold only at Fox Theaters.

The music arm of 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Records, was founded in 1958. It would go defunct in 1981.

Fox Records was the 20th Century Fox’s music arm since 1992 before being renamed to Fox Music in 2000. It encompasses music publishing and licensing businesses, dealing primarily with Fox Entertainment Group’s television and film soundtracks under license by Universal Music Group, EMI, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group. It would also go defunct on January 17, 2020, and was subsequently folded into Hollywood Records.

Radio[edit]

The Twentieth Century Fox Presents radio series^[101] were broadcast between 1936 and 1942. More often than not, the shows were a radio preview featuring a medley of the songs and soundtracks from the latest movie being released into the theaters, much like the modern-day movie trailers we now see on TV, to encourage folks to head down to their nearest Picture House.

The radio shows featured the original stars, with the announcer narrating a lead-up that encapsulated the performance.

Motion picture film processing[edit]

From its earliest ventures into movie production, Fox Film Corporation operated its own processing laboratories. The original lab was located in Fort Lee, New Jersey along with the studios. A lab was included with the new studio built in Los Angeles in 1916.^[102] Headed by Alan E. Freedman, the Fort Lee lab was moved into the new Fox Studios building in Manhattan in 1919.^[103] In 1932, Freedman bought the labs from Fox for $2,000,000 to bolster what at that time was a failing Fox liquidity.^[104][105] He renamed the operation «DeLuxe Laboratories,» which much later became Deluxe Entertainment Services Group. In the 1940s Freedman sold the labs back to what was then 20th Century Fox and remained as president into the 1960s. Under Freedman’s leadership, DeLuxe added two more labs in Chicago and Toronto and processed film from studios other than Fox, such as UA and Universal.

Divisions[edit]

Current[edit]

• 20th Century Family is an American family-friendly production division of 20th Century Studios. Besides family-friendly theatrical films, the division oversees mixed media (live-action with animation), family animated holiday television specials based on film properties, and film features based on TV shows. On October 30, 2017, Morrison was transferred from her post as president of 20th Century Animation, the prior Fox Family Films, to be president of a newly created 20th Century Fox division, Fox Family, which as a mandate similar to Fox Family Films. The division pick up supervision of a Bob’s Burgers film^[71] and some existing deals with animation producers done via Gerard Bevan and Andy Watts, including Tonko House.^[106] With the sale of 21st Century Fox to Disney in March 2019, rights to The Dam Keeper feature animated film returned to Tonko House.^[107] With the August 2019 20th Century Fox slate overhaul announcement, 20th Century Fox properties such as Home Alone, Night at the Museum, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Cheaper by the Dozen, and the Ice Age spin-off have been assigned for Disney+ release and assigned to 20th Century Family.^[80] On March 12, 2020, Morrison was named president, Streaming, Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production to oversee live action development and production of Walt Disney Pictures and 20th Century Studios for Disney+.^[1]
• 20th Century Animation is an American animation studio organized as a division of 20th Century Studios, a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios. Originally formed in 1994 as its subsidiary, it is tasked with producing feature-length films. At one point divisions were Fox Animation Studios until 2000 and Blue Sky Studios until 2021. Its successful films and franchises include Don Bluth’s Anastasia, The Simpsons Movie, and Blue Sky’s Ice Age and Rio film series.
• 20th Digital Studio is an American web series and web films production and distribution company, founded in 2008 as a digital media, and is a subsidiary of 20th Century Studios.
• 20th Century Games is an American video game licensor and developer that was founded in 2022.^[108] Beforehand, Fox and later Disney used the standard 20th Century Fox/Studios brand for licensing video games. Before that, Fox had their own publishing division — Fox Interactive, which was founded in 1994 and sold to Vivendi Universal Games in March 2003 and later dissolved in 2006. In May 3, 2022, 20th Century Studios under The Walt Disney Company revived its game division, FoxNext (formerly 20th Century Fox Games) under the new name of 20th Century Games.

Former[edit]

• Fox 2000 Pictures was a former American sister studio of the larger film studios 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures specializing in producing independent films in mid-range releases that largely targeted mid-ranged groups.^[45] The company dissolved in May 2021 following the release of The Woman in the Window on Netflix, and the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company in March 2019.^[109][110] Its successful films include Marley & Me, Life of Pi, The Fault in Our Stars, Love, Simon, Fight Club, and both Alvin and the Chipmunks and Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series.
• Fox Studios was a former group of three major movie studios, each part of the defunct Fox Entertainment Group. The three film studios were Fox Studios Australia in Sydney, Australia, Fox Studios Baja in Lower California and the oldest studio, Fox Studios in Century City, home of 20th Century Fox. Disney continues to own Fox Studios Australia, now known as Disney Studios Australia. Fox Entertainment Group sold off the Baja Studios in 2007, and the Century City studios were retained by Fox Corporation, although Disney remains a major tenant at the facility.
• Fox VFX Lab was a former visual effects company division of 20th Century Fox that was acquired in 2017 known as Technoprops. It is led by president John Kilkenny. Besides their visual effects activities, the division oversaw different parts of the world to apply for and work on projects that include films such as Avatar, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Alita: Battle Angel, The Jungle Book, Rogue One, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Doctor Strange, and Warcraft^[111] and also video game properties like Need for Speed (2015), Battlefield 1, Rainbow Six Siege, Watch Dogs 2, Just Cause 3, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Mafia III, Halo 4, Street Fighter V, Call of Duty (Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Black Ops III), Far Cry (Far Cry 5 and Primal), Mortal Kombat (X and 11), and Sonic the Hedgehog (Forces and Team Sonic Racing).^[112][113] In 2020, Disney merged Fox VFX Lab into Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light & Magic, using the Technoprops brand for the labs technology division, the majority of employees and executives were reportedly fired.^{[114][115][116][117]}
• Fox Atomic is a former youth-focused film production company and division of Fox Filmed Entertainment that operated from 2006 to April 2009. Atomic was originally paired with either 20th Century Fox or its Fox Searchlight division under their same, respective leadership. In late 2006, Fox Atomic was started up^[59] under Fox Searchlight head Peter Rice and COO John Hegeman^[60] as a sibling production division under Fox Filmed Entertainment.^[59] Debbie Liebling transferred to Fox Atomic in 2007 from Fox.^[60] In January 2008, Atomic’s marketing unit was transferred to Fox Searchlight and 20th Century Fox,^[118] when Hegeman moved to Regency Enterprises. Debbie Liebling became president. After two middling successes and falling short with other films, the unit was shut down in April 2009. The remaining films under Atomic in production and post-productions were transferred to 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight with Liebling overseeing them.^[60]
  • Turistas (December 1, 2006)^[59]
  • The Hills Have Eyes 2 (March 23, 2007)^[59]
  • 28 Weeks Later (May 11, 2007)^[59]
  • Death Sentence (August 31, 2007)^[118]
  • The Comebacks (October 12, 2007)^[118]
  • Shutter (March 21, 2008)^[118]
  • Deception (April 25, 2008)^[118]
  • The Rocker (August 22, 2008)^[60]
  • Miss March (March 6, 2009)^[60]
  • 12 Rounds (March 27, 2009)^[60]
• Films transferred during production to other Fox units
  • I Love You, Beth Cooper (July 10, 2009)^[118] 20th Century Fox release, 1492 Pictures production company, directed by Chris Columbus and starring Hayden Panettiere^[60]
  • Post Grad (August 21, 2009) Fox Searchlight release, directed by Vicky Jenson and starring Alexis Bledel^[60]
  • Jennifer’s Body (September 18, 2009)^[118] 20th Century Fox release, directed by Karyn Kusama and starring Megan Fox^[60]
• Fox Faith is a former evangelical Christian-based film production company and division of Fox Filmed Entertainment that operated from 2006 to 2010. In addition to being paired with 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight, it was also paired with Fox’s home video division, though has had theatrical limited release agreements with AMC Theatres and Carmike Theatres chains.^[119] Fox Faith was considered from the studio as «morally-driven, family-friendly programming,» and requires them to «have overt Christian [c]ontent or be derived from the work of a Christian author.»^[120] Faith was located in the Republic of Palau within the Pacific Ocean until 2010 when the company ceased operations and was formed as 20th Century Fox Palau. Its final film, Mama, I Want to Sing!, was filmed in 2009, but was shelved until 2012 due to the studio’s closure.
  • Love’s Abiding Joy (September 1, 2006)
  • One Night with the King (October 13, 2006)
  • Thr3e (January 5, 2007)
  • The Last Sin Eater (February 9, 2007)
  • The Ultimate Gift (March 9, 2007)
  • The Final Inquiry / L’Inchiesta (May 25, 2007)
  • Saving Sarah Cain (August 19, 2007)
  • Moondance Alexander (October 19, 2007)
  • Ace of Hearts (May 6, 2008)
  • A Good Man Is Hard to Find (August 14, 2009)
  • Mama, I Want to Sing! (February 12, 2012)
• 20th Century Fox Consumer Products (also known as Fox Consumer Products) is a former American merchandising company founded in 1995. it is 20th Century Fox’s merchandise division. In 2019, 20th Century Fox Consumer Products was folded into Disney Consumer Products. TCFCP is the management of the rights derived from films and television series produced by the group. it used to license and market properties worldwide on behalf of 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Television and FX Networks, as well as third party lines. The division was aligned with 20th Century Fox Television, the flagship studio leading the industry in supplying award-winning and blockbuster primetime television programming and entertainment content and 20th Century Fox, one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of motion pictures throughout the world. 20th Century Fox Consumer Products engaged in merchandising of the Fox brand and Fox properties.
• Fox Stage Productions is the former Broadway-style music show branch founded in June 2013 by the 21st Century Fox conglomerate. after the acquisition in 2019, Fox Stage Productions was shut down to make way for Buena Vista Theatrical on July 3, 2019.
• Fox International Productions is the former division of 20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios) in charge of local production in 12 territories in China, Europe, India and Latin America from 2008 to 2017. In 2008, 20th Century Fox started Fox International Productions under president Sanford Panitch. The company had $900 million in box-office receipts by the time Panitch left the company for Sony Pictures on June 2, 2015.^[62] Co-president of worldwide theatrical marketing and distribution for 20th Century Fox Tomas Jegeus was named president of Fox International Productions effective September 1, 2015.^[121] The company struck a development and production deal in November 2015 with Zhejiang Huace, a Chinese entertainment group.^[122] In December 2017, 20th Century Fox film chairman-CEO Stacey Snider indicated that Fox International Productions would be dissolved in favor of each local and regional offices producing or acquiring projects.^[123]
• 20th Century Fox International is the former international division of 20th Century Fox, responsible for the distribution of films outside the United States and indirectly for the distribution of home videos and DVDs.

• Fox-Paramount Home Entertainment is a former Nordic joint venture between 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment, founded in 2013 to manage manufacturing, distribution, marketing, and sales of each studio’s Blu-ray and DVD releases, as well as sales support for digital products in the Nordic region. In 2020, following the renaming for and folding of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (now 20th Century Home Entertainment), Fox-Paramount Home Entertainment was defunct and separated. Now home media releases for 20th Century Studios’ films in Nordic are directly managed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, while SF Studios only releasing its own films from Paramount Pictures since July 2021.

Logo and fanfare[edit]

20th Century Fox is perhaps best known for its production logo. The familiar 20th Century Fox logo originated as the logo of Twentieth Century Pictures and was adopted by 20th Century-Fox after the merger in 1935. It consists of a stacked block-letter three-dimensional, monolithic logotype (nicknamed «the Monument») surrounded by Art deco buildings and illuminated by searchlights.^[124] In the production logo that appears at the start of films, the searchlights are animated and the sequence is accompanied by a distinctive fanfare that was originally composed in 1933 by Alfred Newman.^[125] The original layout of the logo was designed by special effects animator and matte painting artist Emil Kosa Jr..^[126][127]

The 20th Century Fox logo and fanfare have been recognized as an iconic symbol of the Golden Age of Hollywood.

In 1953, Rocky Longo, an artist at Pacific Title, was hired to recreate the original logo design for the new CinemaScope picture process. Longo tilted the «0» in «20th» to have the logo maintain proportions in the wider CinemaScope format.^[128] Alfred Newman also re-composed the logo’s fanfare with an extension to be heard during the CinemaScope logo that would follow after the Fox logo. Although the format had since declined, director George Lucas specifically requested that the CinemaScope version of the fanfare be used for the opening titles of Star Wars (1977). Additionally, the film’s main theme was composed by John Williams in the same key as the fanfare (B♭ major), serving as an extension to it of sorts.^[129][130] In 1981, the logo was slightly altered with the re-straightening of the «0» in «20th».^[128]

In 1994, after a few failed attempts, Fox in-house television producer Kevin Burns was hired to produce a new logo for the company, this time using the then-new process of computer-generated imagery (CGI) adding more detail and animation, with the longer 21-second Fox fanfare arranged by Bruce Broughton used as the underscore, and a byline reading «A NEWS CORPORATION COMPANY». It would later be re-recorded by David Newman in 1997 and again in 1998.^[128][130] The logo was animated by Burns alongside Flip Your Lid Animation (also the studio made a prototype logos where are consindered lost until it was found on internet like YouTube and Archive.org) and made its debut on True Lies (1994). In 2005, an enhanced version debuted with Robots, and the logo made its final appearance on Tooth Fairy (2010).

In 2009, an updated logo created by Blue Sky Studios (a prototype version of the 2009 structure exists) debuted with the release of Avatar.^[128] Blue Sky Studios also created a «Celebrating 75 Years» variant in 2010, which was used from Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief to Gulliver’s Travels. In 2013, the logo without the News Corporation byline made its debut on DreamWorks Animation’s Turbo. The logo would be enhanced, but it was only used in the Blue Sky films Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Ferdinand (2017), and Spies in Disguise (2019), with the sole exception of Murder on the Orient Express (2017).

On September 16, 2014, 20th Century Fox posted a video showcasing all of the various versions of the logo, plus the «William Fox Presents» version of the Fox Film logo and the 20th Century Pictures logo, including some variations, up until the 2009 version of the logo, with the 1998 re-arrangement version of the 1997 version of the fanfare composed by David Newman, to promote the new Fox Movies website.^[131]

On January 17, 2020, it was reported that Disney had begun to phase out the «Fox» name from the studio’s branding as it is no longer tied to the current Fox Corporation, with 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures respectively renamed to 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures. Branding elements associated with the studio, including the searchlights, monolith, and fanfare, will remain in use. The first film that carries the new 20th Century Studios name is The Call of the Wild (coincidentally the original film adaptation was the original Twentieth Century Pictures’ final movie before its merger with Fox Film).^{[132][10][133]}

For the 20th Century Studios logo, its print logo debuted on a movie poster of The New Mutants^[134][135] while the on-screen logo debuted in a television advertisement for and the full version debuted on February 21, 2020, with the film The Call of the Wild.^[136]

The 20th Century Studios logo was animated by Picturemill (the prototype version of the 2020 structure and the 2021 structure with the 2009 sky background exists and appeared in some of Picturemill reels), based on Blue Sky Studios’ animation. It features a much different sky backdrop, the Los Angeles skyline is larger and more detailed, and the rest of the structure appears darker with more realistic lighting.^[137][138] On Picturemill’s spring 2020 reel and starting with Free Guy (2021), the logo is more enhanced with the sky backdrop in the logo resembling that of the backdrop in the 2009 logo. Additionally, a horizontal version of the print logo was introduced in 2021 starting with Vacation Friends and is mainly used for branding Hulu/Star/Star+ originals, though it was used in Hulu promotional materials for Death on the Nile (2022).

In the television series Futurama, a «30th Century Fox» logo appears after some episodes about its setting; in particular, the company is credited as «30th Century Fox Television» after every episode, and even on the side of the show’s DVDs. A fictional «30th» statue was also seen in the episode «That’s Lobstertainment!» as a literal statue and searchlights in Hollywood in the 31st century; a joke is also made that several movies were made each year of the pilots who were blinded by said searchlights and ended up crashing after flying by the statue, one example of which was seen while the characters were touring.

In Family Guy episode «All About Alana», the 20th Century Studios fanfare, with the 2013 revised version of the 2009 20th Century Fox logo, is played by a melodica.

Film library[edit]

Film series[edit]

Highest-grossing films[edit]

 Indicates films playing in theatres in the week commencing 3 March 2023.

— Includes theatrical reissue(s)

See also[edit]

• 20th Century Animation
• 20th Century Games
• Searchlight Pictures
• Star Studios
• 20th Television
• 20th Television Animation

References[edit]

Sources[edit]

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Additional sources[edit]

• Barkan, Elliot (2001). Making it in America: a Sourcebook on Eminent Ethnic Americans. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. p. 349. ISBN 978-1-57607-098-7.
• (First Edition) Custen, George F. (1997). Twentieth Century’s Fox: Darryl F. Zanuck and the Culture of Hollywood. New York City: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-07619-2.
• Chrissochoidis, Ilias (2013). Spyros P. Skouras, Memoirs (1893–1953). United States: Brave World. ISBN 978-0-615-76949-3.
• Chrissochoidis, Ilias (2013). CinemaScope: Selected Documents from the Spyros P. Skouras Archive. United States: Brave World. ISBN 978-0-615-89880-3.
• Chrissochoidis, Ilias (2013). The Cleopatra Files: Selected Documents from the Spyros P. Skouras Archive. United States: Brave World. ISBN 978-0-615-82919-7.

Archival sources[edit]

• Finding aid to the Earl I. Sponable papers, 1928-1968, at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

External links[edit]

• Official website
• 20th Century Studios from Box Office Mojo
• Finding aid authors: Morgan Crockett. «Twentieth Century Studios pressbooks». Prepared for the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Provo, UT.

Background

In 1935, Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. and Fox Film Corporation merged to form Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (the hyphen was dropped in 1984). During the Golden Age of Hollywood, it was one of the «Big Five» studios (the others were MGM, Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, and Warner Bros.). From 2013 to 2019, it was a subsidiary of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., which was formed when News Corporation split into two companies. As of January 2023, their three most financially successful films are Avatar, released in 2009, its sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, released in 2022, and Titanic (under international rights), released in 1997 (all of which were directed by James Cameron). 20th Century Fox also has a specialty division named Fox Searchlight Pictures (currently known as Searchlight Pictures), whose distributed its titles internationally until 2019.

On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced its plans to buy most of 21st Century Fox’s assets, which included a bidding war with Comcast. The process was completed on March 20, 2019, with the last pre-Disney release from the studio being Alita: Battle Angel, released on February 14, 2019. The remaining assets Disney didn’t acquire, notably the Fox network and Fox News, were spun-off into a new company called Fox Corporation. On January 17, 2020, Disney announced that it would be dropping the word «Fox» from the company name, presumably to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation, renaming it to 20th Century Studios, along with Searchlight Pictures. Nevertheless, Disney continues to own perpetual rights to the 20th Century Fox name for the studio’s legacy film library. However, the studio was still legally incorporated and traded as Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation until December 4, 2020. As of December 4, 2020, the company has been using 20th Century Studios, Inc. as copyright for 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures, while the company has been using 20th Television, Inc. for the copyright of 20th Television productions as a Disney subsidiary. As of early 2020, titles from 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures are released internationally through Buena Vista International.

20th Century Fox

Contents 1st Logo (November 8, 1935-September 11, 1968) 2nd Logo (September 16, 1953-December 11?, 1987) 3rd Logo (February 16, 1956-December 12, 1967) 4th Logo (August 28?, 1981-August 5, 1994) 5th Logo (July 12, 1994-January 22, 2010) 6th Logo (December 10, 2009-January 10, 2020)

20th Century Studios

Contents   (February 21, 2020-)

20th Century Fox

1st Logo (November 8, 1935-September 11, 1968)

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  Original version

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  1940 version

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  Pink version

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  Color version

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  Open-matte version

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  Color open-matte version

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  The 20th Century-Fox Hour version

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  Alternative color version

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  Enhanced color version

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  Enhanced widescreen color version

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  Soviet opening from 1941

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  Soviet opening from 1948

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  Soviet opening from 1950

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  Soviet opening from 1952

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  Soviet opening from 1952 (color version)

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  In-credit version

Logo: Same as the Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. logo, except «FOX» appears in place of «PICTURES, INC.«.

Alternate Descriptive Video Transcription: Searchlights pierce a starry night sky, sweeping the clouds and illuminating a towering edifice in the form of «20th CENTURY FOX».

Trivia: Like the original 20th Century Pictures logo, this was designed by Emil Kosa, Jr., who, among other things, created the Statue of Liberty matte shot in Planet of the Apes (1968).

Variants:

• On the 1942 Technicolor film The Black Swan, the logo is tinted in sepia.
• On colorized prints, depending on how it was colorized, the logo would have different colors.
• The logo would either take place against a day or night sky background.
• A Soviet version exists with the text in Russian. The text varies depending on the version. The 1941 version uses the text «20 BEK ФOCK». The 1950 version uses «20Й ВЕК ФОСК США». The 1952 version (of which a colored version exists) uses «20-Й ВЕК ФОСК». The 1948 version uses a black background and not the background with the structure and searchlights with the text «ПРОИЗВОДСТВО XX ВЕК—ФОКС США».
• Fox Movietone News newsreels use a slightly altered version of the tower in the opening credits with «presents», in script, below it.
• For early color releases (except for The Little Princess), the structure is sepia-toned, the left searchlights are pink, the right searchlights are yellow and blue, the «stack» is blue, the middle searchlights are green, and the sky is dark purple.
• On the current print of Les Miserables, the logo fades into the National Telefilm Associates logo.
• On the 2002 restoration of the 20th Century Fox Hour, the 0 is a bit more circular and has a bigger hole, and there are extra searchlights in front of the logo.

Closing Titles: Superimposed on a special background or sometimes on the last scene of a movie, the words «The End» fade in (with the font varying depending on the movie) with the following text: «Released through Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation», «Released by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation», «Produced and Released by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation», or «Produced and Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation».

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: A redone variant of the 20th Century Pictures fanfare as composed and conducted by Alfred Newman once again, which has become one of the most famous pieces of music.

Music/Sounds Variants:

• On Love Under Fire, a different recording of the fanfare is heard.
• On some films, it is silent or has the film’s opening theme.
• On some 20th Century Pictures films, such as one print of The Call of the Wild, the original TCP fanfare is heard due to sloppy plastering.
• Zorba the Greek, one of the last films to use this logo, uses the first half of the 1953 CinemaScope fanfare.
• On the 1994 Studio Classics VHS of Carmen Jones, the 1979 fanfare is heard, likely due to a reverse plastering error.
• A strange error occurs on Seven Arts TV prints, with the CinemaScope extension fanfare being used (the extension is heard over the Seven Arts logo).
• The 20th Century Fox Hour uses that show’s fanfare; a voice-over from Restoration of the 20th Century Fox Hour can be heard in the video.

Availability: Very common. It’s still saved on just about every 20th Century Fox release from 1935 to 1968, with some exceptions.

• The logo premiered on Metropolitan (released on November 8, 1935) and made its final regular appearance on Prudence and the Pill (released on May 23, 1968). It later made some surprise appearances on Deadfall (1968), At Long Last Love, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother, and All This and World War II.
• The logo first debuted in black and white, while it was introduced in color in 1936.
• The color version can be seen on the 2007 DVD release of the 1939 version of The Little Princess (some public domain prints of the film use the next logo, while other prints use either the black-and-white version or no logo at all) and some colorized prints of Bright Eyes and Heidi, as well as some newer colorized prints of Miracle on 34th Street.
• Some current prints of films such as The Blue Bird (1940), Leave Her to Heaven, Forever Amber, and David and Bathsheba plaster this logo with the next one.
• This was plastered by the 4th logo on an AMC airing of Young Mr. Lincoln from February 15, 1999.
• Older television prints of Return of the Fly plaster the next logo with this one while retaining the CinemaScope fanfare, followed by the Seven Arts Television logo. This fanfare was sampled for The Weather Girls’ 1982 track «Success».
• It made a strange appearance at the start of an early 1990s Seven Network Australia airing of Conan the Barbarian (1982) in place of the 3rd/4th logo.

Legacy: The majestic fanfare and the unique design effectively marks this logo’s reputation as one of the most iconic logos of all time.

2nd Logo (September 16, 1953-December 11?, 1987)

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  Original version

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  Scope version

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  1954 version

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  1955 version

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  Fullscreen version

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  Black and white version

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  Black and white fullscreen version

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  Cropped scope version

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  Widescreen version

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  1976 version

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  1976 scope version

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  1976 widescreen version

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  Pan-and-scan version with blue fill

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  1977 alternate version

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  Rare alternate version

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  As seen on the cover of a 1977 press book

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  As seen on a 1993 calendar

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  Black and white version

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  Original version

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  1962 Rare Soviet variant

Logo: A redrawn version of the previous logo, but the back of the structure now has a visible ending point, the «0» in «20th» is slanted at a 45-degree angle, the left searchlight is redesigned, and the two searchlights in front of the camera have been removed.

Trivia:

• This logo was designed by Pacific Title artist Rocky Longo, who also designed the next two logos. The slanted «0» was intended to make the logo fit the new aspect ratio.
• The extended CinemaScope fanfare has appeared on the two Star Wars score albums. Many other albums also carry this fanfare (albeit rearranged), and can be found on iTunes.
• In December 1977, this logo was adapted as the label design of 20th Century-Fox Records, until the label was closed down in 1982.

Variants:

• 1953-1967: The searchlights are slimmed down and the structure is placed in the center of the screen with a dark blue sky surrounding it.
• 1957-1987: Like the slanted zero version of the CinemaScope logo, but without the snipe and fades out.
• There is an extended version without the CinemaScope snipe, which only appeared on High Anxiety (1977) and 1981’s History of the World, Part I (1981).
• 1968-1987: The structure and the sky background are off-center and shifted to the left. Starting in 1976 with The Omen, the registered trademark symbol «®» was added to the bottom-right of the logo.
• A shorter version of this logo exists.
• On older international prints of Chariots of Fire and Breaking Away (and on a recent TV airing of the former), the logo is zoomed in, as those films were shot in «open matte» and the logo was not adjusted for widescreen.
• On Quintet, the logo fades to a white snowstorm.
• Some pan-and-scan versions of widescreen films have certain colors filling in the empty black screen space. Some early 2000s HBO widescreen airings have a blue fill, while the 1992 Fox Video VHS of M*A*S*H has a green fill.

Snipes:

• CinemaScope: The logo fades to the text «TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX PRESENTS A CINEMASCOPE PRODUCTION/PICTURE».
• Soviet Russian snipe: On a 35mm Soviet release of The 300 Spartans, the Cinemascope snipe is replaced by a blue background with white Russian text reading «ПРОИЗВОДСТВО 20-Й ВЕК ФОКС США», which translates to «PRODUCTION OF 20TH CENTURY FOX USA».

Technique: Same as the previous logo.

Music/Sounds:

• November 5, 1953-1960: The 1953 recording of the original fanfare, which debuted on How to Marry a Millionaire.
• April 30, 1954-1967: The original fanfare is extended for CinemaScope. After the point the original fanfare would’ve stopped, four ascending string notes play, followed by four horn notes. This repeats twice before ending in a majestic flourish. This version was once again conducted by Alfred Newman, and debuted on River of No Return. After CinemaScope was dropped in 1967, the 1935 fanfare was only used from this point on, until the CinemaScope extension returned on Star Wars in 1977.
• March 9, 1960: A different recording of the original fanfare, conducted by Nelson Riddle, debuted on Can-Can.
• 1965-October 31, 1981: The 1935 recording of the original fanfare.
• December 21, 1979?-December 11, 1987: A re-orchestrated version of the 1935 fanfare. The earliest known film to have used this fanfare is believed to be Scavenger Hunt. This arrangement is used on the next logo.
• May 21, 1980: A new recording of the CinemaScope fanfare, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by John Williams, which was used on The Empire Strikes Back.
• In other cases, the logo is silent or has the movie’s opening theme.

Music/Sounds Variants:

• Marilyn Monroe’s final and unfinished project Something’s Got to Give (1962) has the short, slower version of the 1997 fanfare conducted by David Newman. The film can be found as a bonus feature on The Seven Year Itch special edition DVD, and as the last third of the AMC documentary Marilyn: The Final Days. Pre-discovered prints probably didn’t have a fanfare at all.
• An abridged version of the 1954 CinemaScope fanfare. This can be heard on a few films such as Fire Sale, Damien: Omen II, Brubaker, Fatso, Willie & Phil, Magic (1978), and the TV movies Miracle on 34th Street (1973), Good Against Evil (1977), and The Diary of Anne Frank (1980).
• On Star Wars (later known as Episode IV – A New Hope), the fanfare has both chorus and reverb effects, possibly due to it being done for the Dolby Stereo process. However, this also affects the mono mix of the film as well.
• High Anxiety, also released in 1977, had a slightly modified version of the CinemaScope fanfare that sounds like a combination of the regular 1954 fanfare and the Star Wars version.
• History of the World, Part I (1981) has a different re-orchestration of the CinemaScope fanfare.
• There are lower-pitched versions of the 1935 and 1954 CinemaScope fanfares that exist on some films.
• Older prints of The Call of the Wild (1935) use the 20th Century Pictures fanfare.
• Recent prints of The Roots of Heaven (1958) have the 1994 fanfare play over the CinemaScope variant.
• The original 1977 Magnetic Video release of Fantastic Voyage has the opening flourish of the Magnetic Video music mistakenly play during the first half of the fanfare.
• Netflix prints of French Connection II use an abridged recording of the CinemaScope extension from The Empire Strikes Back (1999 orchestration).
• The VHS release of Young Guns II has this logo with the 1979 music playing over it instead.
• On a Spanish copy of History of the World: Part I, this logo surprisingly has the 1981 Gaumont fanfare due to poor plastering.
• On a Swedish 16mm print of Star Wars (Stjärnornas krig), the second drum roll is repeated, cutting out the first.
• On Damnation Alley, the second half of the CinemaScope fanfare is cut.
• On Down with Love (2003), the 1997 fanfare is used.

Availability: Very common.

• This logo made its official debut with The Robe (released on September 16, 1953), the first motion picture filmed in CinemaScope. It allegedly made its final official appearance on Wall Street (released on December 11, 1987), but it remains unknown if it actually appeared on originally theatrical prints; all current prints of said film replace it with the 3rd logo. Nonetheless, this logo is still retained on most Fox releases from this period.
• The CinemaScope variants aren’t usually subject to plastering; however, an early 2000s AMC print of Satan Never Sleeps plastered it with the 4th logo. It’s still retained on DVD releases of said film and on one FMC airing.
• This logo is retained on the original theatrical versions of Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980) on their 2006 DVD releases, but is still plastered with the 4th logo on the remastered «Special Edition» versions.
• The international version of Chariots of Fire also originally had this logo, but the current UK DVD release plasters it with the 1994 logo. However, it was left intact on a recent Sky TV airing and on the Warner Blu-ray of the international version.
• The original Key Video VHS releases of Moving Violation (1976) and Thunder and Lightning plaster this with the 3rd logo; the former restored it on current prints and the Shout! Factory DVD, but the latter plasters it while keeping the original abridged fanfare.
• Some releases of Alien and its director’s cut plaster this with the 3rd logo, but it’s still retained on the original 1981 VHS, the 1999 theatrical DVD, and the recent Blu-ray release.
• This logo can also be found some early-to-mid-1980s films of the era, such as The Cannonball Run (albeit as a variant), older video releases of Bill Cosby: Himself (1983), the original CBS/Fox Video release of Revenge of the Nerds (1984), the original Key Video VHS of The Buddy System (1984), Moving Violations (1985), and the CBS/Fox VHS of Project X (1987). It also appears on older US cable prints of Young Guns (1988) and older VHS copies of Young Guns II (1990); however, the letterbox LaserDisc release of the latter film uses the 3rd logo. Later home video/DVD releases and TV prints of these films plaster it with the either the 3rd logo or those from another distributor.
• Current prints of Avalanche Express (which Warner Bros. acquired from Fox with its purchase of the Lorimar film library) plaster this with the 1998 WB logo, but it’s left intact on the Spanish R2 DVD. No logo appears at all on the Warner Home Video VHS.
• The logo was not seen at all on Carmen Jones, The Girl Can’t Help It, A Circle of Deception, The Longest Day, Zorba the Greek, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, The Cape Town Affair, The Day the Fish Came Out, Star!, Deadfall, Patton (some TV broadcasts spliced in a logo from another film), Tora! Tora! Tora!, Trouble Man, The Poseidon Adventure, US prints of The Towering Inferno, At Long Last Love, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother, Silent Movie, Prudence and the Pill, or All This and World War II.
• The 1976 revision makes a strange appearance on the Criterion Collection Blu-ray of Naked Lunch (1991).
• This also appears on the Vestron VHS of Fort Apache: The Bronx and on a Trifecta syndicated print of Oh Heavenly Dog! (which Paramount/Trifecta owns the television rights to via Mulberry Square Productions).
• Southern Comfort (1981) was originally seen with the 1976 revision of this logo; it can be seen on some older European copies of said film, preceded by the Overseas Filmgroup logo.
• The original Blay Video VHS of Magic (1978) retains this logo, but not on the LaserDisc release; it’s unknown if other releases of this film retain this logo.
• Appears at the beginning of the original CBS/Fox VHS of the M*A*S*H series finale, «Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen».
• This logo might also appear on theatrical German/Argentine prints of titles from Walt Disney Productions/Pictures and Touchstone, as Fox had distribution rights to Disney’s output in most countries such as Germany and Argentina until 1987.
• The audio from this logo makes a surprise appearance at the start of the launch trailer for the 2011 mobile game Angry Birds Rio.
• Additionally, it precedes the Toho logo on international prints of Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha.
• The CinemaScope variant of this logo (without the snipe) made surprise appearances in Lionsgate’s La La Land (2016) and on the broadcast of the 74th Golden Globe Awards (2017).

3rd Logo (February 16, 1956-December 12, 1967)

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  Original version

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  Dark version

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  Zoomed version

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  Open-matte version

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  Enhanced version

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  Dark enhanced version

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  Zoomed enhanced version

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  Rare CinemaScope version

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  Dark sky variant

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  Introducing CinemaScope 55 variant

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  CinemaScope 55 snipe

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  Alternate version

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  Color alternated version

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  Grandeur 70 snipe

Logo: A redrawn version of the last logo where the «0» is not slanted like the 1935 logo and the text is bolder than usual.

Trivia: The second episode of The Simpsons‘ 27th season, «Cue Detective», features the Cinemascope 55 «Regular 0» variant when Principal Skinner puts the 1967 version of Doctor Dolittle on for the children at Springfield Elementary. In typical biting-the-hand fashion, all the students shout «boo» when the Fox logo appears.

Variants:

• 1960-1966: For movies that were shot in 70mm/Todd-AO, such as 1960’s Can-Can, 1963’s Cleopatra, and 1965’s The Agony and the Ecstasy, the logo is enhanced with an improved sky and tweaked colors in the structure and searchlights, which animate a bit slower. It appears for five seconds and then fades to the words «TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX PRESENTS». The Bible (1966) contains the text «A TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX RELEASE» with copyright information below it.
• 1965-1967: The logo does not have the CinemaScope snipe and fades out.
• A zoomed-in variant exists on VHS prints of The King & I.

Snipes:

• CinemaScope 55: The logo fades to: «A CINEMASCOPE PICTURE IN (or INTRODUCING) CINEMASCOPE 55»
• Grandeur 70: In 1961, The King and I was re-released in a 70mm version, called «GRANDEUR 70», so the CinemaScope snipe was replaced with a Grandeur 70 snipe, which is the text «IN» with the Grandeur 70 logo below it.

Technique: Same as the previous logo, also done by Rocky Longo.

Music/Sounds: The CinemaScope fanfare from the previous logo.

Music/Sounds Variants:

• On The Sound of Music (1965), the logo is silent.
• On Doctor Dolittle, the logo appears at the tail-end of the overture, with the music finishing underneath it. HBO Max’s print cuts out the overture, but leaves the logo and music intact. However, on older TV prints (including when it aired on The Disney Channel), the 1935 fanfare was used.

Availability: Seen on large-format (70mm, CinemaScope 55) films. It made its first known appearance on Carousel. The «regular 0» variant without the CinemaScope snipe or «Twentieth Century-Fox presents» card following is seen on The Sound of Music and Doctor Dolittle (1967).

4th Logo (August 28?, 1981-August 5, 1994)

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  Open matte version

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  Widescreen version

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  Cropped Scope version

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  Scope version

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  Alternate scope version

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  Alternate scope version, zoomed in

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  Alternate Widescreen version

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  Fullscreen version

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  B&W version

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  Alternate open matte version

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  Dark open matte version

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  Alternate fullscreen version

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  Soviet/Russian stretched version

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  1989 closing version

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  1992 closing version

Logo: Another redrawn version of the last logo. This time, the structure is as off-center left as the late 1960s variant of the 1953 logo. This design of the logo still continues to this day (albeit in a slightly modified form).

Trivia: This logo was designed when Rocky Longo repainted the eight-layered glass panels, and straightened the zero. This logo is actually traced over the 1953 logo if one lines up both variants over each other.

Variants:

• On some films, such as Porky’s Revenge!, the front-left searchlight is pink.
• Some films used a dark, washed-out structure.
• On widescreen (letterbox) films, the Fox logo would be squeezed to fit on standard 1.33:1 film and then stretched with special projector lenses so it could be shown in widescreen (2.35:1), though the first two Die Hard films use a version where the logo is not squeezed, and thus is stretched out horizontally.
• There is another scope variant that was done for films shot in Super 35 where the 1.85 variant was cropped to 2.35.
• On a few films shot in scope, the logo is in extreme close-up.
• On a couple films, the logo is placed at a very far distance.
• A black & white version of this logo exists.
• A 4:3 anamorphically-squished version was used on the 1989 CBS/Fox Video release of Die Hard and the TV spots for The Fly (1986 remake). This version was also seen on a Soviet release of Die Hard II.

Closing Titles:

• Same as the previous, but the text reads as either «Produced and Released by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation» or «Released by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation».
• In 1990, the text was shortened to either «Released by Twentieth Century Fox» or «Produced and Released by Twentieth Century Fox».
• On The Abyss, The Boy Who Could Fly, FernGully: The Last Rainforest and My Cousin Vinny, there was a variation which had «RELEASED BY» above the 20th Century Fox print logo.

Technique: Traditional animation.

Music/Sounds:

• August 28?, 1981-October 1, 1993: The 1979 fanfare, which was used in tandem with the long version until Freaked. Most films would either use the long version, have it silent, or with the film’s opening theme.
• August 6, 1982-July 1, 1994: A re-orchestration of the long version of the 20th Century Fox fanfare, as conducted by Lionel Newman. The first film to use this rendition was The Pirate Movie (released on August 6, 1982), and the last to use it was Baby’s Day Out (released on July 1, 1994).
• In other cases, the logo is silent or has the film’s opening theme. Rookie of the Year coincidentally has opening music that starts with a drumroll similar to the one that normally would start the Fox fanfare.

Music/Sounds Variants:

• On some films, such as Porky’s II: The Next Day, the 1935 fanfare is heard.
• Some prints of pre-1981 films, such as Thunder and Lightning, are plastered with this logo, but keep their original fanfare or sometimes use the 1979 variant. In some cases, it’s silent, like on Hardly Working, or has the opening theme of the film.
• A slightly modified 1980 recording/re-orchestration, as played by the London Symphony Orchestra and arranged by John Williams, was used on Return of the Jedi. Similarly, Class Action and War of the Roses use James Horner’s own re-orchestration, while some films scored by Jerry Goldsmith also use his own re-orchestration. A strange re-orchestration of the Alfred Newman fanfare with a heavy brass section was used on The Chase.
• The DVD release of Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure and the French audio track on the 1998 DTS DVD of Predator use the 1997 orchestration.
• On the 1986 remake of The Fly, the abridged version of the 1953 CinemaScope fanfare is heard, possibly on purpose.
• On newer prints of Wizards (1977), the logo is out of sync with the 1979 fanfare.
• On AMC’s prints of Wall Street, a lower-pitched version of the 1979 fanfare is heard.
• TCM France’s print of Inferno (1980) has the 1994 fanfare playing over this logo due to poor reverse plastering.

Availability: Very common.

• Notable films to use this logo include Taps, The Verdict, theatrical versions of Return of the Jedi, Porky’s II: The Next Day, Romancing the Stone, Porky’s Revenge!, Commando, Aliens, Predator, Broadcast News, Big, Die Hard, Working Girl, Say Anything…, The War of the Roses, Die Hard 2, Home Alone, Predator 2, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Edward Scissorhands, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Alien 3, Once Upon a Forest, The Sandlot, Mrs. Doubtfire, Speed, and Baby’s Day Out, among others.
• This logo allegedly premiered on Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (released on August 28, 1981), and appears on VHS copies of said film; however, there are theatrical copies in existence with the previous logo. This logo made its final appearance on Airheads (released on August 5, 1994).
• This also plasters the 1953 logo on full frame VHS releases of Star Wars from 1982 to 1992 (it was retained on the film’s HBO premiere in 1983 and on widescreen releases on VHS and LaserDisc in 1989, 1992 and 1993; it was reinstated to the full frame version in 1995 on VHS) and current prints of Thunder and Lightning (with the abridged CinemaScope fanfare), Wizards, the director’s cut of Alien, My Bodyguard, Revenge of the Nerds, Bad Medicine, Moving Violations, Wall Street, and Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise.
• Fox plastered/updated the 1st and 2nd logos with this on some colorized versions of its films in the 1980s, such as the 1947 version of Miracle on 34th Street (the original logo is restored on newer colorized prints), and Technicolor films such as Halls of Montezuma.
• This also plastered the 3rd logo on late 1980s/early 1990s NBC airings of The Sound of Music.
• This can also be seen on international prints of Crocodile Dundee (except in Australia and New Zealand, where the film was released by Hoyts Distribution), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (except in Hong Kong, where it was released by Golden Harvest), as well as on the trailer for Deck the Halls.
• When History of the World: Part I (one of the last films to use the 2nd logo) aired on AMC in the mid-2000s, the extended version of this logo popped up at the very end. Later airings used the current 20th Television logo instead. A similar occurrence happened when AMC aired Independence Day (1996) in 2008.
• Post-2007 prints of Die Hard 2 replace this with the next logo.
• The Hong Kong 1995 P&S LD of Return of the Jedi removed this in favor of the CBS-FOX Video logo.
• The black and white variant of this logo, while extremely rare, appears on some US prints of The Sicilian (it doesn’t appear on the Vestron Video VHS).
• The 1991 (not 1989) Vestron Video release of Young Guns, including the late 1990s LIVE reprint which uses that master, plastered the TCF logo with a sped-up silent version of the Vestron Pictures logo, while other prints omit the logo or, in the case of older pay-TV prints, plastered it with the 1953 logo.
• Other Fox releases of Morgan Creek films have this logo removed on Media Home Entertainment releases and current prints, but it’s retained on the CBS/Fox Video and Fox Video releases of The Exorcist III, Young Guns II and Pacific Heights, as well as Tubi’s print of Nightbreed (the theatrical cut).
• Older VHS, Laserdisc, VCD, and DVD copies of Speed plaster this with the next logo (which was originally intended to debut on the theatrical release of said film); however, it’s retained on the Blu-ray.
• IVE releases of films from Gladden Entertainment Corporation, along with DVDs from Live Entertainment and Artisan Entertainment, generally preserved this logo, but it was removed on the 1991 Live Home Video release of Mannequin 2: On the Move, the Shout! Factory Blu-ray release of Millennium (1989), the Olive Films Blu-ray releases of Mannequin and Mannequin 2: On the Move, and the 1996 Avid Home Entertainment re-release of Weekend at Bernie’s. It’s preserved on the Vestron Video VHS and Shout! Factory Blu-ray of The Sicilian.
• The Warner Home Video release of The King of Comedy plasters this with the Regency Enterprises logo, while the earlier RCA/Columbia release skips to the opening credits, and even blacks out the closing title. It is, however, preserved on all releases since Fox acquired the video rights to the early Regency library.
• This logo appears on international theatrical prints of Brazil, including the Italian release distributed by Cecchi Gori Group, but most international home video releases either skip to the opening title card or plaster it with the Weintraub Entertainment Group logo, while the Fox Blu-rays use the 1994 logo.
• It is currently unknown whether this logo appeared on international releases of Legend.
• Most US home video releases of The Princess Bride do not have this logo (with the exception of the 1998 MGM VHS), as 20th Century Fox only held North American theatrical and television rights. As a result, it can be seen on US TV prints of said film, including the 2021 Disney+ print. Amazon Prime Video prints use MGM masters, and therefore plaster this with the MGM logo. However, it’s retained on the film’s current UK DVD releases and the Australian two-disc deluxe edition, despite the film being re-released by Lionsgate there.
• This logo also appeared on US theatrical prints of The Name of the Rose; however, all home video prints of said film just cut straight into the movie.
• The 1979 theme variant makes a surprise appearance at the end of Sony Movie Channel’s broadcast of the 1974 TV movie Death Cruise (a Spelling-Goldberg production), before the SPT logo. This is also intact on Crackle’s print of said title.
• This logo may also appear on theatrical German prints of titles from Walt Disney Pictures/Touchstone, as Fox had distribution rights to Disney’s output in that region before Warner Bros.’ German branch took over in 1987.
• This appeared on international theatrical prints of Conan the Barbarian (1982), but current international prints have the 1997 logo in its place. It was, however, retained on a recent Hits Movies airing.
• This logo was used on trailers for True Lies, The Pagemaster and the 1994 remake of Miracle on 34th Street, all of which ended up using the next logo.
• It is intact on the current UK DVD and Blu-ray release of Robin Hood: Men in Tights by Fabulous Films, which was released under license from Sony, which is taken from a Fox-owned master instead of a Sony-owned master.

5th Logo (July 12, 1994-January 22, 2010)

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  Open matte version

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  Scope version

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  2005 recolor version

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  2007 enhanced version

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  3:2 screen format

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  35mm screen format #1

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  35mm screen format #2, only seen on film scan prints of Ice Age

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  1993 prototype version

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  1994 prototype version

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  Early corporate logo

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  Corporate logo

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  Full corporate logo

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  Later corporate logo

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  Bylineless version

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  Closing variant

Logo: On a black background, two searchlights swoop across the screen (first one by one and then both at the same time, in sync with the opening drumroll), revealing a top aerial view of the 20th Century Fox structure, redone in CGI. The camera moves down and then around the structure, revealing a Los Angeles/Hollywood skyline in the distance and a starry, cloudy blue/purple/orange sky in the background. Midway through the camera’s panning, a yellow light (most likely the sun) shines behind the structure as the second half of the extended fanfare begins, and the camera pans past an additional searchlight in front of the structure before settling into its more usual position and angle. The orange byline «A NEWS CORPORATION COMPANY» fades in at the bottom of the screen.

Trivia:

• If one looks very closely, several hidden details can be found in the background, such as the Hollywood sign in the distance and the signage of fictional restaurants/stores behind the structure, including «Steve’s Place» (referring to Steve Bell, former network production president of 20th Century Fox Television), «Burns’ Tri-City Alarm» (a homage to Studio Productions animator Kevin Burns’ late father, who owned a burglar and fire alarm company in Upstate New York), «Murdoch’s» (referring to then-Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch), and «Chernin’s» (referring to former News Corporation president and Chernin Entertainment owner Peter Chernin). There’s also a sign reading «STUDIO PRODUCTIONS», which, of course, refers to the company that animated this logo.
• The structure looks similar to the 1981 logo.
• This logo’s design had been used earlier for the 1992 20th Television logo.
• It should be noted that the panning animation is similar to that of the 1993-1995 Fox Video logo.

Variants:

• A prototype version of this logo exists in which the sky background is different and the camera starts at the default angle before zooming past the structure into the sky. This was created by Richard «Doc» Baily of Image Savant for Studio Productions, and can be found on a Image Savant demo reel dated October 22, 1993, as well as on the 1997 documentary 20th Century Fox: The First 50 Years (albeit in reverse).
• Another prototype version exists in which the rear searchlights animate differently and the front-right searchlight leans further left. Also, the Hollywood sign is located directly behind the structure, and the Hollywood hills behind the cityscape look different. The byline also fades in late. This version appeared on a demo reel from Flip Your Lid Animation.
• On the «Special Edition» reissues of the Star Wars trilogy from 1997 onward, and on the Star Wars prequel trilogy, only the final shot of the finished logo is seen during the first half of the fanfare, followed by the 1996 Lucasfilm logo during the second half (much akin to the original releases of the first three films). On Disney+/4K prints, the News Corporation byline is removed from the Fox logo, and the Lucasfilm logo is replaced with its 2015 revision.
• A short version of this logo appears on The Making of The Pagemaster and the CBS television special I Walk the Line: A Night for Johnny Cash. Also seen on trailers and TV spots for Fox films.
• There is an unedited open matte version with neither the byline nor the «®» symbol. It also runs at a smoother frame rate since it wasn’t transferred to film. While this variant isn’t used on any films or programming, the end shot was used for the 1995-2008 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment logo. It was also found on a later Flip Your Lid demo reel and at the end of the aforementioned 20th Century Fox: The First 50 Years.
• On 4:3 fullscreen prints of certain films from 1999 onward, starting with Never Been Kissed, the logo is zoomed out further than usual.
• On international releases of The Art of War, the 4:3 version of this logo is stretched to widescreen.
• This plasters the 1981 logo on the 1995 UK VHS and the 2002 DVD release of Speed, but is off-center.
• Starting with the Blue Sky Studios movie Robots (released on March 11, 2005), the colors in the logo were adjusted.
• Starting with The Simpsons Movie (albeit as a variant), released on July 27, 2007, the logo was enhanced again with brighter colors. Used in tandem with the previous variant.

Closing Titles:

• Like the last logo, until Ice Age: The Meltdown, the text either reads «Released by Twentieth Century Fox» or «Produced and Released by Twentieth Century Fox».
• On international prints of Titanic, the text reads «Produced and Released by Twentieth Century Fox and Paramount Pictures».
• On The Magic Pudding, the print logo is seen instead of the «Twentieth Century Fox» text, alongside the logos for Icon Productions and Energee Entertainment.
• On In the Mix, the print logo scrolls in the credits along with the Lions Gate Films logo.
• On The Dolphin: Story of a Dreamer, the entire logo is used as a closing logo for some reason.
• At the end of the first two X-Men films and Death Sentence, the print logo is shown.
• At the end of the DVD film Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, the 1995 20th Century Fox Television logo is used instead.
• On most post-2006 films, and the 2016 films Dislike and Santa Claus: Battle of the Magi, no closing logo or in-credit notice is shown at all.

Technique: CGI directed by the late Kevin Burns at Studio Productions (now Flip Your Lid Animation), who had previously animated the logos for Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Buena Vista Television, and Morgan Creek.

Music/Sounds:

• July 12, 1994-January 30, 1998: A re-orchestration of the extended CinemaScope fanfare, conducted by Bruce Broughton in the same stage in which the original 1935 fanfare was recorded. The orchestra is three times bigger, and the fanfare has more reverberation and larger brass/string sections than other fanfares. The last release (officially) to use this fanfare was Great Expectations. However, The Object of My Affection (1998), Wing Commander (1999), some prints of Lake Placid 2 (2007), and German productions such as Krabat (2008) and John Rabe (2009), used this fanfare instead of the 1997 recording. An E! News story on Bruce’s fanfare can be seen here.
• November 14, 1997, March 27, 1998-: A slower re-orchestration of the long TCF fanfare, as performed by the 20th Century Fox Studio Orchestra and conducted by David Newman, whose father Alfred Newman composed the original fanfare in 1933, as well as its extended counterpart in 1954. According to the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast, this fanfare was recorded to coincide with the re-opening of the Newman Scoring Stage at the Fox Studio Lot in 1997. The first film to use this fanfare was 1997’s Anastasia; Fox films kept using the 1994 fanfare until January 1998. It would be used for the promo of the new Fox Movies website in 2014, which featured the different variants, along with its various versions of the logo, including this and the next, plus the William Fox variant of the 1st version of the Fox Film logo and the 20th Century Pictures logo. The drumroll is heard twice in the promo; it can be viewed here.

Music/Sounds Variants:

• On some 1994-1998 films, the amount of reverberation/echo can vary.
• The «Special Edition» version of the Star Wars trilogy uses the modified 1954 recording of the fanfare as played by the 20th Century Fox Studio Orchestra and conductor Alfred Newman, and the 1980/83 recording of the fanfare as played by the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor John Williams, respectively. Re-orchestrations of John Williams’ fanfare were used on the Star Wars prequel films.
• On The Legend of Bagger Vance and most international prints of Braveheart, the opening theme of the film is heard over the logo instead.
• On the UK, Australian and New Zealand releases of Shine a Light, the logo is silent.
• On the 1993 Image Savant prototype variant, the first 14 seconds of «Sweet Lullaby (Ambient Mix)» by Deep Forest is heard.
• There is a short version of the 1997 fanfare. The only films to use it are The Darjeeling Limited with the short version of the Fox Searchlight Pictures logo and Marilyn Monroe’s unfinished project Something’s Got to Give (1962) with the 2nd logo. This was also used on the final 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment logo.
• On some prints of Speed and the first two Die Hard films, the 1981-1994 fanfare is heard due to plastering the 3rd logo. Other prints may use the 1994 or 1997 fanfares.
• On Anastasia (the 1997 fanfare’s debut film), Ever After: A Cinderella Story, some dubs of X2: X-Men United, and Joy Ride 3: Roadkill, the fanfare has a different arrangement than the one that’s currently used. This was also conducted by David Newman. A similar version would be used on Ice Age: Collision Course and Spies in Disguise with the next logo.
• On Asian Blu-ray releases of Robots, if the Mainland Chinese 2.0 track is selected, the logo (and the rest of the film) is in PAL-pitch despite being presented in its original film frame rate (notice the audio stuttering from the time stretch used). This is possibly due to it being sourced from TV broadcasts of the film when shown in China, since PAL is the country’s video standard there.

Availability: Very common.

• This logo made its theatrical debut on the North American, Italian and French prints of True Lies (released on July 12, 1994), and appeared in front of almost every subsequent 20th Century Fox film until Tooth Fairy (released on January 22, 2010). Surprisingly, this also appears on some trailers, behind-the-scenes clips and interviews for Predators, as well as the international trailer for Vampires Suck, in tandem with the next logo.
• Also appears on some video games based on 20th Century Fox films, starting with all versions of both Fantastic Four and Eragon (not counting Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, with the final Fox Interactive logo on the GBA version and no Fox logo at all on all other versions).
• This logo was used in tandem with the next logo until mid-2010, and seen on direct-to-video releases of that year such as Flicka 2 and Mirrors 2, while Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back used no Fox logo at all.
• It plasters the 2nd logo on international DVD releases of Chariots of Fire and Conan the Barbarian (1982) as 20th Century Fox holds distribution rights.
• This logo strangely doesn’t appear on Epic Movie.
• Despite this logo ending regular usage on January 22, 2010, it continued to appear until October 19, 2010, and made a surprise reappearance on the Toei Animation production Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (March 30, 2013). It even remains unchanged on that film’s US Funimation DVD and Blu-ray release. This was also still used for the CIS branch of the company from January 5, 2012 to December 24, 2016 (except for a few films released by the branch), beginning with We Are Family and ending with Santa Claus: Battle of the Magi. It also appeared with the News Corporation byline on Fright Night 2: New Blood (September 30, 2013), and Joy Ride 3: Roadkill (June 3, 2014).
• This logo also appears on Argentine theatrical prints of The Mask (La mascara), preceding the New Line Cinema logo.
• On newer prints of some pre-1997 films (such as Nell, The Pagemaster, US prints of Asterix Conquers America (Astérix et les Indiens), and Jingle all the Way), the 1994 fanfare is replaced by the 1997 re-recording.
• This logo was once removed from digital prints of Star Wars Episodes I-III, V and VI, and replaced with the fanfare in the Lucasfilm logo with a custom Star Wars theme, likely due to Disney’s ownership of the franchise since 2012. However, following Disney’s purchase of Fox, recent Disney+ and 2020 digital and home video prints have the Fox logo restored (excluding the registered trademark symbol and News Corporation byline), and may also appear on TV airings in the future.
• It unexpectedly appears at the end of some prints (including a True Entertainment UK broadcast) of the 2005 TV movie Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas, which is actually a Fox Television Studios production.
• Surprisingly, it’s retained on the 2003 HiT Entertainment US DVD of the 1997 film The Wiggles Movie (under the title Magical Adventure! A Wiggly Movie).
• On certain films, the original filmed logo is «plastered» with a videotaped version. This can be seen on current prints of Independence Day and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
• It also appears at the beginning of the DVD film Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (after a brief prologue and fake trailers created for the film).
• It also appears on some international prints of The Art of War, as well as that film’s PAL DVD release.
• It also appears on international theatrical and home media prints of Delgo, as Freestyle Releasing released the film in the US.
• It strangely appears at the end of 7flix airings of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011), despite the film itself using a variant of the next logo at the beginning.

Legacy: With this logo being redone in CGI, it ultimately became a favorite to many, both inside and outside the logo community.

6th Logo (December 10, 2009-January 10, 2020)

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  2009 version

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  2009 widescreen version

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  2009 anamorphic version

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  2009 open-matte version

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  75 years version (1)

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  75 Years version (2)

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  75 years version, open-matte (1)

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  75 years version, open-matte (2)

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  2013 widescreen version

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  2013 anamorphic version

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  2013 open-matte version

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  2013 open-matte fullscreen version

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  2016 enhanced version

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  Prototype version

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  Blue Sky Studios development reel version

Logo: A redone, more realistic version of the 1994 logo. This time, it is in a dark/orange evening environment. When the structure is in its distance, we can see an extra searchlight and a pair of palm trees on the bottom right hand corner.

Trivia:

• This logo made its first appearance on a trailer for Avatar, before making its official theatrical debut with said film on December 10, 2009.
• Like the previous logo, if one looks very close in the far right-hand corner before approaching the main structure, one can see the Hollywood sign (not very big, but still visible if one looks hard enough).
  • One can also see an Ice Age billboard, cars in the city, and stars at the end of the logo, but there are fewer than the previous logo.
• This structure, like the 1994 one, also looks similar to the 1981 logo.
• Following the release of Avatar, Fox’s movies used the 1994 logo until the movie Tooth Fairy, released on January 22, 2010.
• The «Celebrating 75 Years» variant for TCF’s 75th anniversary is a well-done contemporary throwback of—and a contemporary homage to—the 20th Century Fox CinemaScope logo, where the 20th logo faded after 10 seconds into the CinemaScope logo; the overall branding for the «Celebrating 75 Years» anniversary including the text included in the logos was created in collaboration with Struck Librarian, an agency in Salt Lake City, Utah. More information on the collaboration, including various unused designs, can be found here.
• Furthermore, on September 16, 2014, 20th Century Fox posted a compilation of the logos and its variants (including the «William Fox Presents» version of the Fox Film Corporation logo), backed by the 1998 re-recording of the 1997 fanfare (albeit with the drum roll played twice), as a promotion of the new Fox Movies website, on the studio’s YouTube channel here.
• This logo also appeared on a season 3 episode of This Is Us (despite 20th Century Fox Television producing that show) as well as the Family Guy season 20 episode, «All About Alana».

Alternate Descriptive Video Descriptions:

• 2009-2015: In a logo, a towering block of gold letters reads «20th Century Fox». Hollywood spotlights criss-cross their shining skyward beams.
  • 2009-2013 (News Corporation byline, after the above description): More words appear: «A News Corporation Company.»
• 2015-2020: Searchlights sweep an evening sky, piercing clouds, and illuminating a towering edifice in the form of 20th Century Fox, with the lights of Hollywood, palm trees, and the hills beyond.

Bylines:

• December 10, 2009-June 28, 2013: «A NEWS CORPORATION COMPANY«
• July 17, 2013-January 10, 2020: Bylineless

Variants:

• February 12-December 25, 2010: For the logo’s first official year (2010), while the logo finishes its move into position, the camera pans up and two streaks of light draw «75», as two searchlights turned on, after the «75» finishes drawing, with the word «CELEBRATING», appearing letter by letter, above the numbers and «YEARS» below both in spaced-out letters. The camera pans the words and numbers in position. Also, the registered trademark symbol «®» and the News Corporation byline are engraved on different parts of the structure. Also, the front searchlight we usually pass animates.
• The prototype version had a much darker red-orange sunset sky, harder shading, and different searchlight positions.
• Another prototype version appears on two CGI environment reels by Dave Strick, a designer at Blue Sky Studios. A much different sky is used and the searchlights are less realistic, the front-left searchlight is located in a slightly different position and wireframes fade in on most of the 3D geometry at the end of the logo sequence. It also lacks the flash before the front searchlight passes in. One version of this has Blue Sky’s logo and copyright info (dated to 2008) along the bottom of the screen, while another version has details (including Strick’s email address) at the beginning where the logo starts blurry and then gains focus. The latter version can be seen here.
• A short version with a portion of the animation appears on licensed video games, such as Rio: The Video Game, Aliens vs. Predator, and Snoopy’s Grand Adventure.
• A still print version can be seen on other games, such as Ice Age: Continental Drift — Arctic Games.
• On some movies with this logo, like Avatar (the logo’s debut film) and Penguins of Madagascar there is an error with the two opening searchlight beams during the fanfare’s drumroll. Also, the camera-panning animation is different.
• The final half of this logo’s camera-panning sequence can be seen at the beginning of Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace 3D (plastering the 1994 logo variant, before the Lucasfilm logo).
• Starting with Turbo, released on July 17, 2013, the News Corporation byline is excluded and the logo is bylineless for the first time since the 3rd logo, due to the aforementioned split.
• An open matte version exists. This was only seen on TV spots for Runner Runner and The Counselor, The Peanuts Movie (albeit as a variant) and on video games based on 20th Century Fox properties.
• An enhanced variant of this logo exists. This variant includes an improved searchlight opening at the beginning, wider beams of light, and more detailed textures. Also, the «X’ in «FOX» is brighter than usual. This variant was only used on Ice Age: Collision Course, Murder on the Orient Express, Ferdinand, Terminator: Dark Fate (only at the end, the beginning uses a variant), and Spies in Disguise (also the final Blue Sky Studios film).
• A sped-up version of the 75 Years variant with the ending theme playing over it has been spotted at the end of a Polish airing of the Warner Bros./Regency film Under Siege 2: Dark Territory.
• Sometimes, such as on My Name is Khan, Joy, and Maze Runner: The Death Cure, the logo cuts to black instead of fading out as it usually would.

Closing Titles: None for the most part, but there are a few variants:

• A short version with only the final shot (similar to the variant seen on trailers and TV spots for many Fox films) is seen at the end of Lincoln, the 2015 remake of Poltergeist, all DreamWorks Animation films from The Croods to Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (removed from post-2018 prints), Terminator: Dark Fate, the TV specials Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas and Ice Age: The Great Egg-scapade (TV airings only), and 7flix airings to Ice Age: Collision Course. Surprisingly, it’s also seen on the short films Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare, «Rocky and Bullwinkle», Almost Home, and Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe as an opening logo.
• At the end of Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace 3D, the text «Released by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation» is shown.
• At the end of Parental Guidance, the print logo is shown.
• At the end of the majority of Fox films starting in 2012 (including Blue Sky films from Epic to Spies in Disguise), text (usually in white) appears on a black background, reading «The making and authorized distribution of the film supported over (number) jobs and involved hundreds of thousands of/over one million work hours.»

Technique: CGI designed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha and animated at Fox’s now-defunct sibling company Blue Sky Studios.

Music/Sounds: The 1997 Fox fanfare composed by David Newman, same as the one from the previous logo.

Music/Sounds Variants:

• The 2005 recording of the 1989 20th Century Fox Television fanfare is heard at the end of Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas.
• The 1999 recording of the 1980 re-orchestrated fanfare was retained at the beginning of Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace 3D, with only the final shot of this logo seen, followed by the Lucasfilm logo (similar to what was done for the original prequel trilogy).
• Starting with the 3D re-release, the 1994 fanfare is heard on international prints of Titanic. This is also heard on the German films Rico, Oskar und die Tieferschatten (2014) and Rico, Oskar und das Herzgebreche (2015), but not Rico, Oskar und der Diebstahlstein (2016), as the 1998 fanfare was used instead.
• The 1981 fanfare is heard on the 3D version of Predator.
• In rare cases, such as The Monuments Men (US release), The Greatest Showman, Gone Girl, Ad Astra, the Russian film The Balkan Line, and Terminator: Dark Fate (both US and international versions), the film’s opening theme is used instead.
• In rarer instances, such as US prints of Bridge of Spies, the logo is silent.
• The 2012 recording of the 1989 20th Century Fox Television fanfare is heard at the end of Ice Age: The Great Egg-scapade, albeit quieter.
• For the short version, none, the movie’s closing theme, or the trailer’s opening theme.
• On most dubbed international prints to Ford v. Ferrari, the music is in a lower pitch, along with those of TSG’s and Chernin’s logos.
• On a 2020 ABC broadcast of The Greatest Showman, the opening theme of the second half of the movie’s logo variant (including the 1953 logo variant in the first half and the broadcast itself) is higher-pitched, due to the usage of the PAL print.

Availability: Very common, despite no longer being current.

• Seen on nearly every film from the company until the renaming in 2020, starting with Avatar (released on December 10, 2009) and ending with Underwater (released on January 10, 2020).
• The prototype versions are found on trailers and TV spots for Avatar, as well as various newer 20th Century Fox games.
• The 75 Years variant made its debut on Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (released on February 12, 2010), and last appeared on Gulliver’s Travels (released on December 25, 2010).
• It also appears on some international theatrical release prints of Hot Tub Time Machine.
• Also appears on some video games based on 20th Century Fox films, such as the Alien vs. Predator game, Rio, Ice Age: Continental Drift — Arctic Games, and Snoopy’s Grand Adventure.
• The last film to use this logo with the News Corporation byline was The Heat (released on June 28, 2013).
• From March 22, 2013 to June 2, 2017, it was seen at both the start and end of DreamWorks Animation films, right before said company’s logo, beginning with The Croods and ending with Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie. On post-2018 prints of all these movies, this is plastered by the current Universal Pictures logo, although some prints after 2018 may retain it.
  • However, on BBC prints of How to Train Your Dragon 2, Penguins of Madagascar, Home, Kung Fu Panda 3, and Trolls, it’s instead plastered by the 2011 Paramount Pictures logo, even though Paramount ended its distribution deal with DreamWorks in 2012. In the case of HTTYD 2, Penguins of Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda 3, it’s possible that this was done to maintain consistency with each film’s predecessor, which were all distributed by Paramount.
  • In addition, this logo was plastered with the Oriental DreamWorks and CJ Entertainment logo on Chinese and Korean releases of DWA films respectively. Additionally, Kung Fu Panda 3 has the China Film Co., Ltd. logo precede the former on Chinese prints.
• This also precedes the STXfilms logo on Malaysian theatrical prints of UglyDolls, similar to VVS Films on Canadian prints, and Huaxia Film Distribution on Chinese prints.
• This additionally plasters the previous logo on Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace (3D prints only) and international prints of Titanic since 2012, and the 1981 logo on Predator (3D prints only) since 2013.
• Similar to current prints of Titanic as stated above, this plasters the 2012 Paramount logo on British prints of Selma.
• Despite the company’s renaming in early 2020, the «20th Century Fox» name still sporadically appears on some newer productions. For example, despite using the next logo in trailers and promotional material, The Empty Man (released on October 23, 2020) likely used this logo due to having been shelved for three years after being shot in 2017. It also appears on the 2021 Brazilian film Amarração do Amor.
• Occasionally, it appears at the end of some international prints of old Warner Bros.-produced Regency titles (which 20th Century Studios owns as of today, unless WB ever gets the rights back), including Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and The Negotiator. With 20th Century Studios’ deal with Regency being extended in late 2021, it’s unknown if Regency will ever find a new distributor. Unlike WB and especially TCF’s parent company Disney, Fox does not have a closing logo, so the animated closing variant is used.

Legacy: Many consider this logo as a suitable successor to the original CGI logo.

20th Century Studios

(February 21, 2020-)

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  Scope version

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  1.85:1 version

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  16:9 / Home Entertainment version

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  Open-matte version

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  Corporate version

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  Social Media version

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  Banner version

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  Scope version with enhanced 2009 sky

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  18:9 version with enhanced 2009 sky and no ® symbol

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  16:9 version with enhanced 2009 sky and no ® symbol

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  Scope version with enhanced 2009 sky and no ® symbol

Logo: Nearly the same as the final 20th Century Fox logo, except «FOX» is replaced with «STUDIOS», and the word «CENTURY» is made slightly taller to accommodate for it. The logo has also been enhanced with more realistic lighting and textures, a slightly different sky backdrop, different palm trees, sleeker and shinier searchlights, and a larger, more detailed Los Angeles cityscape.

Alternate Descriptive Video Description: Searchlights sweep an evening sky, piercing clouds, and illuminating a towering edifice in the form of «20th Century Studios», with the lights of Hollywood, palm trees, and the hills beyond.

Variants:

• As a de-facto home video logo on current 20th Century Studios home media releases, the logo is cut short to the middle, similar to variant seen on the 3D re-release of The Phantom Menace.
• On Picturemill’s Spring 2020 reel and on movies starting with Free Guy, an enhanced version of the sky backdrop from the final 20th Century Fox logo is used.
• Starting with Vacation Friends (except for Death on the Nile), the «®» symbol is removed.
• A 48fps version exists on Avatar (plastering the final TCF logo on the 2022 re-release), Titanic (plastering the 1994 and 2009 TCF logos), and on films starting with Avatar: The Way of Water, for both 2D and 3D versions.

Closing Title: Usually, it’s the same text that reads «The making and authorized distribution of this film supported over (number) jobs and involved hundreds of thousands of/over one million work hours.» as the previous logo.

Technique: Truly outstanding CGI produced and animated by Picturemill (based on Blue Sky’s design), who also did the 2002/2005 versions of the 1997 Universal Pictures logo and the 2008-09 Nickelodeon Movies logo.

Music/Sounds: The 1997 Fox fanfare arrangement composed by David Newman, the same as the final two 20th Century Fox logos.

Music/Sounds Variants:

• The short version has the same short version as the final 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment logo.
• Sometimes, the opening theme of the film is used.
• On the 25th Anniversary re-release of Titanic, the 1994 fanfare is heard, just like with the 2012 3D and 2017 Dolby Vision re-releases with the final TCF logo.

Availability: Current and common. It can be seen on the majority of its films released since February 2020.

• It was first seen on a TV spot for The Call of the Wild (2020) on February 3, before debuting on the film itself 18 days later.
• This logo does not appear on Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, as Disney sold the distribution rights to the film to Amazon Studios. However, the trailer does feature this logo.
• This logo also did not appear on The Empty Man and Amarração do Amor, which both feature the final 20th Century Fox logo instead (as mentioned above), nor does it appear on most films produced for the Disney+ service, such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2021), Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2022), The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Cheaper by the Dozen (2022), and Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Strikes Again, which all use the 2011 version of the 2006 Walt Disney Pictures logo, because they were moved from the company during production. It additionally did not appear on Deep Water, going straight to the opening titles.
• The short version is also used as a de-facto home video logo on post-2020 20th Century Studios DVD and Blu-ray releases (not counting 2020s reprints of all pre-2020 movies, retaining their old logos until then), after the final TCFHE logo retired. It does not appear on 4K Ultra HD releases, as they all skip it.
• Movies that do not use the closing text include The Call of the Wild (the first film under the 20th Century Studios name), Ron’s Gone Wrong (this logo’s animated debut), Home Sweet Home Alone (the first Disney+ original film released by the company), No Exit, The Bob’s Burgers Movie, The Princess and Rosaline.
• It is possible that the early sky variant was retired in 2022, as most movies as of Free Guy use the current variant. However, it makes a surprise appearance on the first two trailers of Prey (2022), trailers for White Men Can’t Jump (2023), and is still being used as the home video logo.
• This or the Time Warner Entertainment byline variant of the 1984 Warner Bros. Pictures logo do not appear at all on the 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment 4K release of the Regency film Heat, only the Regency logo appears instead.
• As stated above, this plasters the final 20th Century Fox logo on the remastered re-release of Avatar (2009), though the ABC premiere in December 2022 retains the final 20th Century Fox logo. This also plasters said logo on the 25th Anniversary re-release of Titanic. It is currently unknown that any other plastering will happen as of now.
• So far, no 20th Century Studios film has featured the credit «Distributed by WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES» at the end, using either a closing title, none or on international prints, the BVI logo.

Legacy: Some consider this a suitable update to the previous logo, although the name change at first was not as well-received.

Copyright stamps

• 1935-1984: Copyright © [YEAR] Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
• 1984-2020: Copyright © [YEAR] Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
• 2020-: Copyright © [YEAR] 20th Century Studios, Inc.

External Links

• 20th Century Studios article on Wikipedia
• Official Website for 20th Century Studios
• 20th Century Studios credits on IMDb
• 20th Century Fox credits on IMDb