20th Century Studios
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Company type | Subsidiary | |
Industry | Film | |
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Founded | May 31, 1935 | |
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Headquarters | Fox Studio Lot Building 88, 10201 West Century City, Los Angeles, California , United States | |
Area served | Worldwide | |
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Website | www | |
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20th Century Studios, Inc., formerly 20th Century Fox, is an American film production and distribution company owned by the Walt Disney Studios, the film studios division of the Disney Entertainment business segment of the Walt Disney Company.[6] It is headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles, which is leased from Fox Corporation.[7] Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by this studio in theatrical markets.[8][9]
For over 80 years, 20th Century has been one of the
The most commercially successful film franchises from 20th Century Studios include the first six Star Wars films, X-Men, Ice Age, Avatar, and Planet of the Apes.[12] Additionally, the studio's library includes many individual films such as The Sound of Music and Titanic, both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and became the highest-grossing films of all time during their initial releases.[13][14]
History
From founding to 1956



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.[19]
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.[20] 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.[21][22]
Higher attendance during World War II helped 20th Century-Fox overtake
In 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio.[24] 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.
Zanuck announced in February 1953 that henceforth all 20th Century-Fox pictures would be made in CinemaScope.
CinemaScope brought a brief upturn in attendance, but by 1956 the numbers again began to slide.[28][29] 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.[30] 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.[31] As a publicity gimmick, producer Walter Wanger offered $1 million to Elizabeth Taylor if she would star;[31] 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[31] 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.[32][33]
With few pictures on the schedule, Skouras wanted to rush Zanuck's big-budget war epic
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
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 replacement by
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),[37] 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.[38]
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
In 1982, the company decided to try on capitalizing the video game industry by forming the company's first video game division, Fox Video Games, in order to sell cartridges for consoles and computers, under the "Games of the Century" slogan, but the division failed due to the video game crash of 1983.[40]
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.[41] In 1984 Marvin Davis bought out Marc Rich's 50% interest in 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation for an undisclosed amount,[41] reported to be $116 million.[42] 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.[42] Murdoch went ahead alone and bought the stations, and later bought out Davis' remaining stake in 20th Century-Fox for $325 million.[42] From 1985, the hyphen was permanently deleted from the brand name, with 20th Century-Fox changing to 20th Century Fox.[43][44]
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:
In August 1997, Fox's Los Angeles-based visual effects company, VIFX, acquired
In February 1998, following the success of Fox Animation Studios' first film
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.[62] 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.[63] 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, 20th Century Fox was the international distributor for
In 2006, 20th Century Fox terminated its production with
In late 2006, Fox Atomic was started up[64] under Fox Searchlight head Peter Rice and COO John Hegeman[65] as a sibling production division under Fox Filmed Entertainment.[64] 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.[65]
In 2008, 20th Century Fox announced an Asian subsidiary,
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.[68] 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.[69]
21st Century Fox era
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 operated the Fox Entertainment Group and 20th Century Fox. Murdoch considered the name of the new company a way to maintain the 20th Century Fox heritage.[70][71]
On September 20, 2017,
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.[75]
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.[76] To replace Morrison at Fox Animation, Andrea Miloro and Robert Baird were named co-presidents of 20th Century Fox Animation.[77]
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.[78]
Disney acquisition and ownership
On December 14, 2017, Disney announced plans to purchase most of 21st Century Fox, including 20th Century Fox, for $52.4 billion.
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 Star Wars, Home Alone, Cheaper by the Dozen, Night at the Museum, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Ice Age were later announced for Disney+.[85] These projects would later be fully revealed during Disney's Investor Day in December 2020 as feature films for the aforementioned streaming service.[86] The first of these projects was Home Sweet Home Alone, which was released on November 12, 2021.
On January 17, 2020, Disney renamed the studio to "20th Century Studios", which served to help avoid brand confusion with Fox Corporation.
In the same year, held-over production president Emma Watts left the company.[89] 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.[90]
On September 1, 2020, the Japanese branch of 20th Century Studios, 20th Century Fox Japan, was absorbed into Disney Japan; 20th Century Studios' previous involvement with
On February 9, 2021, Disney announced that

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 Devan 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.[98] The first film to this new strategy was Ron's Gone Wrong. Also in 2021, Disney had launched a video game based-studio 20th Century Games. Similar to its predecessors—FoxNext, Fox Interactive and 20th Century Fox Games—it acts as a distributor and has partnered with other triple-A game studios. Its first title was Aliens: Fireteam Elite.[99]
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.[100]
In March 2023, it was announced that Marvel Comics would be launching a 20th Century Studios imprint, which will release comics based on 20th Century franchises. The first comic under the label would be a Planet of the Apes comic.[101]
On February 26, 2024, Walt Disney Pictures president Sean Bailey was announced to be stepping down, with Searchlight Pictures president David Greenbaum assuming his position. Greenbaum will lead Walt Disney Pictures and co-lead 20th Century with Steve Asbell as president.[102]
Television division
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 20th Century Fox and National Telefilm Associates. 20th 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.[104]
Buyout of Four Star
Fox bought out the remaining assets of
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 20th Century Fox movies, first using material recorded and issued on
'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, PolyGram, Bertelsmann Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group. It would also go defunct on January 17, 2020, and was subsequently folded into Hollywood Records.
Newman Scoring Stage
The Newman Scoring Stage, named after composer Alfred Newman, is a large scoring studio located on the Fox Studio Lot, spanning almost 700 square meters, and is one of the largest music recording spaces in the world.[110] It is also equipped with a 96 Channel AMS Neve 88RS-SP mixing console.
Radio
The Twentieth Century Fox Presents radio series[111] 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,
Divisions
Current
- 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's president also pick up supervision of a Bob's Burgers film[76] and some existing deals with animation producers done via Gerard Bevan and Andy Watts, including Tonko House.[116] With the sale of 21st Century Fox to Disney in March 2019, rights to The Dam Keeper feature animated film returned to Tonko House.[117] With the August 2019 20th Century Fox slate overhaul announcement, 20th Century Fox properties such as Star Wars, 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.[85] On March 12, 2020, Morrison was named president, Streaming, Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production to oversee live action development and production and 20th Century Studios for Disney+.[90]
- Ice Age and Riofilm series.
- 20th Century Games is an American video game licensor that was founded in 2021.Vivendi Universal Gamesin March 2003 and later dissolved in 2006.
- 20th Century Comics is a comic publishing company formed in March 2023 in partnership with Marvel Comics.[101][118] Beforehand, Fox had its own comic division under the now-defunct Fox Atomic brand in collaboration with HarperCollins.
Former
- Alvin and the Chipmunks and Diary of a Wimpy Kidfilm series.
- 20th Digital Studio was 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. The division was dissolved in April 2023.[120]
- 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[121] 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).[122][123] 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.[124][125][84][126]
- 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[64] under Fox Searchlight head Peter Rice and COO John Hegeman[65] as a sibling production division under Fox Filmed Entertainment.[64] Debbie Liebling transferred to Fox Atomic in 2007 from Fox.[65] In January 2008, Atomic's marketing unit was transferred to Fox Searchlight and 20th Century Fox,[127] 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.[65]
- Carmike Theatres chains.[128] 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."[129] 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.
- 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 Buena Vista Theatricalon 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.[67] 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.[130] The company struck a development and production deal in November 2015 with Zhejiang Huace, a Chinese entertainment group.[131] 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.[132]
- 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 (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 Picturessince July 2021.
Logo and fanfare
The 20th Century Fox
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.[137] Alfred Newman also composed an extended version of the logo's fanfare 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.[138][139] In 1981, the logo was altered with the re-straightening of the "0" in "20th".[137]
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.[137][139]
In 2009, an updated logo created by Blue Sky Studios (a prototype version of the 2009 structure exists) debuted with the release of Avatar.[137] In 2013, the News Corporation byline was removed.
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.[140]
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).[141][11][142]
For the 20th Century Studios logo, its print logo debuted on a movie poster of The New Mutants[143][144] 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.[145]
In 2020, 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), while MOCEAN animated Searchlight Pictures logo, based on Blue Sky Studios' animation. It features a different sky backdrop, the Los Angeles skyline is larger and more detailed, and the rest of the structure appears darker with more realistic lighting.[146][147]
Film library
Film series
Title | Release date | Notes |
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Charlie Chan | 1929–1942 | |
State Fair | 1933–1962 | |
Terry-Toons | 1935–1973 | Co-production with Terrytoons for theatrical cartoon shorts. |
My Friend Flicka | 1943–2012 | Co-production with Dune Entertainment .
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Anna and the King of Siam | 1946–1999 | Co-production with Fox 2000 Pictures and Lawrence Bender Productions. |
Cheaper by the Dozen | 1950–2022 | Co-production with Dune Entertainment, Robert Simonds, 21 Laps Entertainment, Khalabo Ink Society, and Walt Disney Pictures (2022).
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The Fly | 1958–1989 | Co-production with Associated Producers Inc., Lippert Films, and Brooksfilm .
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Derek Flint | 1966–1976 | |
Dr. Dolittle | 1967–2009 | Co-production with Eddie Murphy Productions, and Friendly Films .
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Planet of the Apes | 1968–present | Co-production with Dune Entertainment, and TSG Entertainment .
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The Omen | 1976–present | Co-production with Dune Entertainment, Mace Neufeld Productions, and Harvey Bernhard Productions .
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Star Wars | 1977–2005 | Co-production with Lucasfilm. |
Candy Candy | 1977–1992 | International distribution only; co-production with Toei Animation and Toei Company. |
Alien | 1979–present | Co-production with Dune Entertainment, and TSG Entertainment .
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Porky's | 1981–2009 | Co-production with Astral Films. |
Romancing the Stone | 1984–1985 | Co-production with The Stone Group. |
Revenge of the Nerds
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1984–1994 | Co-production with Interscope Communications. |
Cocoon | 1985–1988 | Co-production with Imagine Entertainment and The Zanuck Company. |
Mannequin | 1987–1991 | Co-production with Gladden Entertainment. |
Predator | 1987–present | Co-production with Dune Entertainment, Troublemaker Studios, and TSG Entertainment .
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Wall Street | 1987–2010 | Co-production with Edward Pressman Productions .
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Die Hard
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1988–2013 | Co-production with Dune Entertainment, Cheyenne Enterprises, TSG Entertainment, Giant Pictures, and Temple Hill Entertainment .
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Young Guns | 1988–1990 | Co-production with Morgan Creek Productions .
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Alien Nation | 1988–1997 | Co-production with American Entertainment Partners. |
Alien vs. Predator | 2004–2007 | Co-production with Dune Entertainment .
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Home Alone | 1990–present | Co-production with Hughes Entertainment. |
Hot Shots! | 1991–1993 | Co-production with Jim Abrahams Productions. |
FernGully | 1992–1998 | Co-production with CBS/Fox Video, Kroyer Films, and FAI Films .
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The Sandlot | 1993–2007 | Co-production with Island World. |
Speed | 1994–1997 | Co-production with The Mark Gordon Company and Blue Tulip Productions. |
Power Rangers | 1995–1997 | Co-production with Saban Entertainment, and Toei Company .
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Independence Day | 1996–2016 | Co-production with Centropolis Entertainment, Electric Entertainment, and TSG Entertainment. |
Anastasia | 1997–1999 | Co-production with 20th Century Animation and Fox Animation Studios. |
Big Momma's House | 2000–2011 | Co-production with Dune Entertainment .
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X-Men | 2000–2020 | Co-production with Dune Entertainment, and TSG Entertainment .
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24 | 2001–2017 | Co-production with Imagine Entertainment. |
Joy Ride | 2001–2014 | Co-production with Regency Enterprises, Bad Robot, and LivePlanet. |
Behind Enemy Lines | Co-production with Davis Entertainment. | |
Super Troopers | 2001–2018 | Co-production with Broken Lizard. |
Ice Age | 2002–present | Co-production with 20th Century Animation and Blue Sky Studios. |
The Transporter
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2002–2015 | US distribution only (except for the third which was distributed by Lionsgate); produced and released elsewhere by EuropaCorp. |
Drumline | 2002–2014 | Co-production with N'Credible Entertainment, Wendy Finerman Productions, and Fox 2000 Pictures .
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28 Days Later | 2002–2007 | US distribution only; produced and released in the UK by UK Film Council; co-production with DNA Films. |
Wrong Turn | 2003–2014 | US distribution only; co-production with Regency Enterprises; produced and released elsewhere by Constantin Film and Summit Entertainment. |
Garfield
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2004–2009 | Co-production with Davis Entertainment, Dune Entertainment, and Paws, Inc. |
Fantastic Four | 2005–2015 | Co-production with 1492 Pictures, Constantin Film, Genre Films , Marvel Entertainment, and TSG Entertainment.
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The Hills Have Eyes | 2006–2007 | Co-production with Dune Entertainment and Craven/Maddalena Films. |
The Marine | 2006–2018 | Co-production with Dune Entertainment and WWE Studios .
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Night at the Museum
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2006–present | Co-production with 21 Laps Entertainment, 1492 Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, Atomic Cartoons, Alibaba Pictures and TSG Entertainment. |
Hitman | 2007–2015 | US distribution only; produced and released elsewhere by EuropaCorp; co-production with TSG Entertainment, Eidos Interactive, IO Interactive, and Square Enix. |
Alvin and the Chipmunks | Co-production with . | |
Mirrors | 2008–2010 | Co-production with Dune Entertainment and Regency Enterprises .
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Street Kings | 2008–2011 | Co-production with Dune Entertainment and 3 Arts Entertainment .
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Marley & Me | Co-production with Dune Entertainment and Regency Enterprises .
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Taken | 2009–2015 (US only), 2008-2014 (elsewhere) | US distribution only; produced and released elsewhere by EuropaCorp. |
12 Rounds | 2009–2015 | Co-production with Dune Entertainment and WWE Studios .
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Dragonball
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2009–2018 | Co-production with Sony Pictures .
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Avatar | 2009–present | Co-production with Lightstorm Entertainment. |
Wolverine | 2009–2017 | Co-production with Dune Entertainment, TSG Entertainment, Genre Films, Marvel Entertainment, and Seed Productions. |
Tooth Fairy | 2010–2013 | Co-production with . |
Percy Jackson | Co-production with 1492 Pictures, and TSG Entertainment .
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid | 2010–present | Co-production with Color Force, Walt Disney Pictures, and Bardel Entertainment .
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Rio | 2011–present | Co-production with 20th Century Animation and Blue Sky Studios. |
Maze Runner | 2014–2018 | Co-production with TSG Entertainment, Oddball Entertainment, Gotham Group, and Temple Hill Entertainment. |
Kingsman | 2014–2021 | Co-production with Marv Films .
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Deadpool | 2016–2018 | Co-production with TSG Entertainment, Maximum Effort, Genre Films, and Marvel Entertainment. |
Hercule Poirot | 2017–present | Co-production with TSG Entertainment, Genre Films, Scott Free Productions, and The Mark Gordon Company. |
Vacation Friends | 2021–present | Co-production with Hulu and Broken Road Productions |
Brahmastra (Astraverse)
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2022–present | Co-production with Star Studios, Dharma Productions, Prime Focus, Starlight Pictures, and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. |
Hellraiser | Co-production with Hulu, Spyglass Media Group, Phantom Four Films, and Disney Platform Distribution. |
Highest-grossing films
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- † Indicates films playing in theatres in the week commencing February 7, 2025.
Rank | Title | Year | Box office gross |
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1 | Avatar ‡ | 2009 | $785,221,649 |
2 | Avatar: The Way of Water | 2022 | $684,075,767 |
3 | Titanic‡ | 1997 | $674,292,608 |
4 | Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace ‡ | 1999 | $487,576,624 |
5 | Star Wars ‡ | 1977 | $460,998,007 |
6 | Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | $380,270,577 |
7 | Deadpool | 2016 | $363,070,709 |
8 | Deadpool 2 | 2018 | $324,535,803 |
9 | Return of the Jedi ‡ | 1983 | $315,476,701 |
10 | Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones | 2002 | $310,676,740 |
11 | Independence Day | 1996 | $306,169,268 |
12 | The Empire Strikes Back ‡ | 1980 | $290,475,067 |
13 | Home Alone | 1990 | $285,761,243 |
14 | Night at the Museum | 2006 | $250,863,268 |
15 | X-Men: The Last Stand | $234,362,462 | |
16 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | 2014 | $233,921,534 |
17 | Cast Away | 2000 | $233,632,142 |
18 | The Martian | 2015 | $228,433,663 |
19 | Logan | 2017 | $226,277,068 |
20 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | 2009 | $219,614,612 |
21 | Mrs. Doubtfire | 1993 | $219,195,243 |
22 | Alvin and the Chipmunks | 2007 | $217,326,974 |
23 | Bohemian Rhapsody | 2018 | $216,428,042 |
24 | X2 | 2003 | $214,949,694 |
25 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | 2014 | $208,545,589 |
Rank | Title | Year | Box office gross |
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1 | Avatar ‡ | 2009 | $2,922,917,914 |
2 | Avatar: The Way of Water | 2022 | $2,320,250,281 |
3 | Titanic ‡ | 1997 | $2,256,003,352 |
4 | Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace ‡ | 1999 | $1,046,515,409 |
5 | Bohemian Rhapsody | 2018 | $903,655,259 |
6 | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | 2009 | $886,686,817 |
7 | Ice Age: Continental Drift | 2012 | $877,244,782 |
8 | Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | $848,754,768 |
9 | Independence Day | 1996 | $817,400,891 |
10 | Deadpool 2 | 2018 | $785,046,920 |
11 | Deadpool | 2016 | $783,112,979 |
12 | Star Wars ‡ | 1977 | $775,398,007 |
13 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | 2014 | $747,862,775 |
14 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | $710,644,566 | |
15 | Ice Age: The Meltdown ‡ | 2006 | $660,940,780 |
16 | Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones | 2002 | $649,398,328 |
17 | The Martian | 2015 | $630,161,890 |
18 | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | 2014 | $621,537,519 |
19 | Logan | 2017 | $616,225,934 |
20 | Life of Pi | 2012 | $609,016,565 |
21 | The Croods | 2013 | $587,204,668 |
22 | Night at the Museum | 2006 | $574,480,841 |
23 | The Empire Strikes Back ‡ | 1980 | $547,969,004 |
24 | The Day After Tomorrow | 2004 | $544,272,402 |
25 | X-Men: Apocalypse | 2016 | $543,934,787 |
‡ — Includes theatrical reissue(s)
See also
- 20th Century Animation
- 20th Century Family
- Searchlight Pictures
- Star Studios
- 20th Television
- 20th Television Animation
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- (First edition) Strait, Raymond (1992). Here They Are Jayne Mansfield. New York City: S.P.I. Books. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-56171-146-8.
- (Kindle edition) Watson, John V. (2015). 'The Modern Miracle You See Without Glasses' - CinemaScope: 1953–1954: 'Twentieth Century-Fox presents A CinemaScope Production': 1953–1954 (Films made in CinemaScope from 1953 to 1956). better source needed]
- Troyan, Michael; Thompson, Jeffrey Paul; Sylvester, Stephen X. (August 15, 2017). Twentieth Century Fox: A Century of Entertainment. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781630761431.
- Tzioumakis, Yannis (2013). Hollywood's Indies. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-6453-5. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
Further reading
- Barkan, Elliot (2001). Making it in America: a Sourcebook on Eminent Ethnic Americans. 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: 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.
External links
- 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.