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20th Century Studios (formerly known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film studio. Located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills, the studio used to be a subsidiary of News Corporation, then 21st Century Fox. and now it's owned by Walt Disney Studios a division of The Walt Disney Company.
The company as we know today, was formed on May 31, 1935, as the result of the merger between Fox Film Corporation, founded by William Fox in 1914, and Twentieth Century Pictures, founded in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck and Joseph M. Schenck. The first popular many found 20th Century Fox's one well known famous iconic launched protagonist female heroine film star character including Marilyn Monroe in were created 1946 respectively. Among the most famous actress to come out of this studio were 20th Century Fox who was Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, Shirley Temple and Jayne Mansfield. The studio also contracted the first African-American cinema star, Dorothy Dandridge.
20th Century Studios has distributed various commercially successful film series, including the live action Alvin and the Chipmunks, Avatar, Titanic, Star Wars, Anastasia, Ice Age, Rio, The Big Trip, X-Men, Die Hard, Planet of the Apes, Night at the Museum, Fantastic Four. 20th Century Studios is known for The Simpsons.
History[]
William Fox, Joseph M. Schenck, Darryl F. Zanuck and Rupert Murdoch is studio company of the 20th Century Fox (formers Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures), 20th Century Fox becomes 20th Century Studios (commonly known as 20th Century Fox). William Fox, Joseph M. Schenck, Darryl F. Zanuck and Rupert Murdoch such as 20th Century Fox company were essential in introducing one well known protagonist female star heroine character to life: Marilyn Monroe.
History of 20th Century Studios[]
- 1914 - Fox Film Corporation
- 1933 - Twentieth Century Pictures
- 1935 - Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures formers becomes 20th Century Fox
- 1946 - First appearance of Marilyn Monroe
- 1977 - 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm the first film Star Wars
- 1987 - Matt Groening the first cartoon The Simpsons
- 1997 - Anastasia and Titanic
- 2002 - Blue Sky Studios the first computer-animated film Ice Age
- 2017 - Disney buys Fox for $52.4 billion
- 2020 - 20th Century Fox changes it's name to 20th Century Studios
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Filmography[]
20th Century Studios/Fox Fanfare[]
The music accompanying the Fox logo was composed in 1933 by Alfred Newman, longtime head of Fox's music department. [1]
In 1954, an extended version was created for CinemaScope films, and debuted on the film River of No Return. The version currently used before films is this extended version.[2]
In 1980, composer John Williams conducted the fanfare for The Empire Strikes Back
DreamWorks[]
The Croods was the first DreamWorks Animation film to be distributed by 20th Century Fox after the departure of Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox subsidiary of News Corporation with the founder Rupert Murdoch. A total of ten DreamWorks Animation films were distributed by this company from 2013 to 2017 beginning with The Croods and ending with Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie.
On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced plan to buy 21st Century Fox assets for $52.4 billion. The deal was completed on March 20, 2019. The deal did not include the DreamWorks films distributed by the company (DreamWorks Animation was brought by Universal in 2016) which the deal ends afterwards, nor does it include Fox Broadcasting Company. On January 17, 2020, the studio was renamed to "20th Century Studios".
Outside of Dreamworks, the company's most notable films and franchises include Ice Age (2002-present), The Simpsons (1989-present), Home Alone (1990-present), The Sandlot (1993), Planet of the Apes (1968-present), Alien (1979-present), Die Hard (1988-present), Predator (1987-present), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992-present), The X-Files (1993-present), Night at the Museum (2006-present), Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010-present), Rio (2011-present), X-Men (2000-2020; the rights were transferred to Marvel Studios after 20th Century Fox was acquired by Disney in 2019), Daredevil (2003), Deadpool (2016-2018; the rights were transferred to Marvel Studios after 20th Century Fox was acquired by Disney in 2019), Star Wars (1977-2005; the first six films before Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Titanic (1997; Fox handled the films distribution outside North America while the North American distribution was handled by Paramount Pictures), Free Guy (2021), Avatar (2009-present), Patton (1970), Jennifer's Body (2009), Anastasia (1997-present), The Book of Life (2014), Robots (2005), Dr. Suess' Horton Hears a Who! (2008), Epic (2013), The Peanuts Movie (2015), Ferdinand (2017), Spies in Disguise (2019) and Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)