20Th Century Studios: American film studio owned by The Walt Disney Company

It is in the Century City area of Los Angeles, California, USA, just west of Beverly Hills.

20th Century Studios, Inc.

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Trade name	20th Century Studios
Formerly	Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (20th Century-Fox) (1935–1985) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (20th Century Fox) (1985–2020)
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Movies
Predecessors	Fox Film Twentieth Century Pictures
Founded	May 31, 1935; 88 years ago (1935-05-31)
Founders	Joseph M. Schenck Darryl F. Zanuck
Headquarters	Fox Studio Lot Building 88, 10201 West Pico Boulevard, Century City, Los Angeles, California , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Steve Asbell (president)
Products	Motion pictures, television movies
Number of employees	2,300 (2018)
Parent	News Corporation (1985-2013) 21st Century Fox (2013-2019) Fox Corporation(2019-Present) The Walt Disney Company (2019-Present)
Divisions	20th Digital Studio 20th Century Animation 20th Century Family
Subsidiaries	Disney Studios Australia Regency Enterprises (20%)
Website	www.20thcenturystudios.com
Footnotes / references

Before 2013, 20th Century Fox was a subsidiary of News Corporation before it was split into two companies. After that, one of those companies, 21st Century Fox, became the studio's owner. On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company of Fox Corporation said that it has acquired many of 21st Century Fox's subsidiaries, including 20th Century Fox. Thus, the studio is now owned by Disney and Fox became 20th Century Studios.(Fo

20th Century Studios was formed in 1935 when Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures joined together to form the company. 20th Television is a Fox Corporation part of the company that makes television series.

 

In 1935, Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. and Fox Film Corporation merged together to form "Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation" (the hyphen between "Century" and "Fox" was dropped in 1985), or simply "20th Century Fox". During the Golden Age of Hollywood it was one of the "Big Five" studios (the other were MGM, Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures).

From 2013 to 2019, it was a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox Inc., which was a company formed when News Corporation split up into two companies. As of July 2018, their two most financially successful movies are Avatar, released in 2009, and Titanic (under international rights), released in 1997. Both movies were directed by James Cameron. Fox's most highly acclaimed movie, according to review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes (jointly owned by Universal and Warner Bros.), is All About Eve, released in 1950 and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

In December 2017, Disney announced its plans to buy most of 21st Century Fox's assets, which included a bidding war with Comcast; the acquisition 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 "Twentieth Century Studios," along with Searchlight Pictures. 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 and 20th Century Fox in Australia under Gerard Bevan Group CEO and VP. for the copyright of 20th Television productions as a Disney subsidiary.

• List of 20th Century Studios movies