   thumb|right|entrance to 20th century fox studio lot. twentieth century fox film corporation (twentieth century-fox film corporation, with hyphen, from 1935 to 1985)âalso known as 20th century fox, 20th century fox pictures, or simply fox, is an american film studio and one of the six major american film studios. located in the century city area of los angeles, just west of beverly hills, the studio used to be a subsidiary of news corporation, but now it is currently a subsidiary of 21st century fox. it's the world's second largest major film studio, after warner bros. 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 1915, and twentieth century pictures, founded in 1933 by darryl f. zanuck and joseph m. schenck. 20th century fox has distributed various commercially successful film series, including avatar, the first two star wars trilogies, ice age, x-men, die hard, planet of the apes, [[night at t
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