20th Century Studios

20th Century Studios (formerly known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film studio which is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. The studio is located on its namesake studio lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. For over 83 years, it was one of the "Big Six" major American film studios formed from the merger of the Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935, until its acquisition by Disney in 2019. It is most recognizable for its logo – a tower stacking the brand name surrounded by searchlights – and fanfare composed by Alfred Newman.
==History==
===Pre-Disney acquisition (1935–2019)===
The company began as two separate companies, Fox Film Corporation (founded on February 1, 1915, by William Fox) and Twentieth Century Pictures (founded in 1933 by Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck). The two companies merged to form 20th Century Fox on May 31, 1935. Walt Disney had contacted 20th's previous incarnation, Fox Film Corporation, back in 1928 in an attempt to strike a distribution deal to use as leverage against Winkler Pictures head Charles Mintz - Winkler had contracted Disney to animate the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons, and the two had been in a dispute over payment.
In 1985, the studio was acquired by News Corporation. The studio was succeeded by 21st Century Fox on June 28, 2013, following the spin-off of its publishing assets.
===Disney acquisition (2019–present)===
On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced plans to purchase the entertainment assets of 21st Century Fox, which includes 20th Century Fox, for $52.4 billion. On May 23, 2018, it was reported that Comcast was planning to out-bid Disney with an all-cash offer for approximately $60 billion and on June 13, Comcast officially announced its $65 billion all-cash offer for Fox assets. One week later, Disney counterbid with a $71.3 billion offer. On July 19, 2018, Comcast officially announced that it was dropping its bid on the Fox assets. On July 27, 2018, Disney and Fox's shareholders approved the merger between the two companies. Although the deal was completed on March 20, 2019, 20th Century Fox will not relocate to the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, but will instead continue to be headquartered on its studio lot in Century City, which is currently leased to Disney by the Fox Corporation, 21st Century Fox's successor, for seven years.
On January 17, 2020, it was announced that 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures would be renamed 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures respectively. The renaming was done to avoid brand confusion with the then-recently formed Fox Corporation.Disney Drops Fox Name, Will Rebrand as 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures
==Films produced before Disney's acquisition==
20th Century Studios has a gigantic library of films, but some of its biggest franchises are Avatar, The Simpsons, Futurama, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Kingsman, Alien, Ice Age, Rio, Planet of the Apes, its sequels, its remake, and reboot film series, Predator, The Sound of Music, Deadpool, The X-Files, Titanic, Anastasia, FernGully, , , Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Marley & Me, Dr. Dolittle, the non-musical comedy version starring Eddie Murphy (and its follow-up films), , Garfield (of which the franchise was acquired by Viacom a few months after), Star Wars (the first six films before Disney bought the entire franchise), Tooth Fairy, and .
Additionally, the company co-distributed anime films in the franchise with Toei Company from 2013 to 2018 (while Sony/Aniplex's owned Funimation have International distribution rights), including , , and .
When Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media had a disagreement about the budget of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Walden Media took the film to 20th Century Fox.
Mosts of the films made before Disney's acquisition can be streamed on Disney+ (or its sub-hub Star in International markets), including Hello, Dolly! and The Sound of Music.
Disney now owns all rights to the library following its acquisition of the studio in 2019.
==Films distributed by Disney under their ownership==
*Breakthrough (2019) (first 20th Century Fox film distributed under Disney ownership)
*Dark Phoenix (2019)
*Stuber (2019)
*The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)
*Ad Astra (2019)
*Judy (2019) (UK distribution shared with Pathé)
*Terminator: Dark Fate (2019; US distribution by Paramount Pictures)
*Ford v Ferrari (2019)
*Spies in Disguise (2019) (first and only Blue Sky Studios to be distributed under Disney ownership)
*Underwater (2020) (last film to use the 20th Century Fox name)
*The Call of the Wild (2020) (first film to use the 20th Century Studios name)
*Misbehaviour (2020) (UK distribution shared with Pathé)
*The New Mutants (2020)
*Macabro (2020)
*The Empty Man (2020)
*Alice & Só (2020)
*Lucicreide Vai pra Marte (2021)
*The Woman in the Window (2021; distributed by Netflix) (final film for Fox 2000 Pictures)
*Free Guy (2021)
*Vacation Friends (2021)
*Amarração do Amor (2021)
*Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021; distributed by Netflix)
*Fear Street Part Two: 1978 (2021; distributed by Netflix)
*Fear Street Part Three: 1666 (2021; distributed by Netflix)
*The Last Duel (2021)
*Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)
*Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
*Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2021)
*West Side Story (2021)
*The King's Man (2021)
*The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022)
*Death on the Nile (2022)
*No Exit (2022)
*Better Nate Than Ever (2022)
*Incompatível (2022)
*Deep Water (2022)
*The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022)
*The Princess (2022)
*Ela e Eu (2022)
*Prey (2022)
*Barbarian (2022)
*Avatar: Re-Release (2022)
*Amsterdam (2022)
*Rosaline (2022)
*Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again (2022)
*Darby and the Dead (2022)
*Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
*Titanic: 25th Anniversary Re-Release (2023) (US distribution by Paramount Pictures)
*Boston Strangler (2023)
*Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: 40th Anniversary Re-Release (2023)
*White Men Can't Jump (2023)
*The Boogeyman (2023)
*Vacation Friends 2 (2023)
*Nosso Lar Re-Release (2023)
*A Haunting in Venice (2023)
*No One Will Save You (2023)
*The Creator (2023)
*Nosso Lar 2: Os Mensageiros (2024)
*The First Omen (2024)
*Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
*Alien: Romulus (2024)
===Upcoming===
*The Amateur (2025)
*Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025)
*Untitled Predator film (2025)
*Predator: Badlands (2025)
*Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
*Ella McCay (2025)
*Swiped (2025)
*Ice Age 6 (2026)
*Avatar 4 (2029)
*Avatar 5 (2031)
*Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (TBA)
*Eenie Meanie (TBA)
*Enemy Mine (TBA)
*Kingsman: The Blue Blood (TBA)
*The King's Man: The Traitor King (TBA)
*The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (TBA)
*The Tourist (TBA)
*Untitled Dodgeball sequel (TBA)
*Untitled The Maze Runner reboot (TBA)
*Untitled Rio franchise film (TBA)
*Untitled Futurama: The Movie film (TBA)
*Untitled Family Guy (TBA)
*Untitled Planet of the Apes sequel (TBA)
*Untitled Alien: Romulus sequel (TBA)
*And Then There Were None (TBA)
*Witness for the Prosecution (TBA)
*Untitled Miss Marple film (TBA)
*Untitled The Fly spin-off (TBA)
Additionally, Disney also now owns the rights to 20th Century Fox’s pre-acquisition film library, with the exception of films originally released by Fox, but sold to other studios, including DreamWorks Animation's 2013-2017 library and the Terrytoons library, which are now owned by Universal Studios and Paramount Pictures, respectively.
==Gallery==
Fox Film.png|Print logo used for Fox Film Corporation from 1929-1935
20th Century Pictures Print Logo 1933.png|Print logo used for 20th Century Pictures, Inc. from 1933 to 1935.
20thCenturyFox1935.png|1935-1968 printed logo
20thCenturyFox1945.png|1945-1972 printed logo
20thCenturyFox1972.png|1972-1982 printed logo
20thCenturyFox1982.png|1982-1994 printed logo
20thCenturyFox1987.png|1987-2020 printed logo
20th Century Fox print logo (1986-2020) (vectorised).svg|1987-2020 printed logo (updated)
20th Century Fox 1987 Alternative.png|Alternate Version of the 1987-2020 print logo.
20th Century Fox (Inverted).png|Inverted print logo from 1987-2020.
20th Century FOX Logo 1915.jpg|On-screen logo used for Fox Film Corporation from 1915 to 1935
20th Century Pictures, Inc.jpg|On-screen logo used for 20th Century Pictures, Inc. from 1933 to 1935
20th Century FOX Logoo 1935 Alt.PNG.png|Prototype version of the 1935 on-screen logo.
20thCenturyFox1935 (Black and White variant).png|Black and white version of the 1935–1968 on-screen logo.
20thCenturyFox1935 (Full Color variant).jpg|Full color version of the 1935–1968 on-screen logo.
FOX-42.jpg|Sepia-toned version of the 1935 on-screen logo.
20thCenturyFox1953.jpg|1953–1968 on-screen logo
20thCenturyFox1968.jpg|1968–1987 on-screen logo
20thCenturyFox1955.png|1955–1956 on-screen logo
20thCenturyFox1960.jpg|1960–1967 on-screen logo
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File:20th Century Fox (1982) Walt Disney Studios.jpg
20thCenturyFox1981.png|1981-1994 on-screen logo
20th-Century-Fox-1992-unused.png|1992 unused logo
20th Century Fox (1993-Studio Productions).png|The prototype version of the 20th Century Fox logo from October 22, 1993.
20th Century Fox 1994 Prototype Logo.jpg|The prototype version of the 20th Century Fox logo from June 1994.
20th Century Fox logo (1994).jpg|1994-2005 on-screen logo
20th Century Fox Logo (2005).jpg|2005-2009 on-screen logo
20th Century Fox 2009-2013 logo.png|2009-2013 on-screen logo
20th Century Fox 2013-2020 logo.jpg|2013-2020 on-screen logo
20th Century Studios Home Entertainment on-screen logo.png|2020 on-screen logo, "Studios" replaces the "Fox". It's also used as the home video distribution label under Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.
20th Century Studios on-screen logo.jpeg|2020 on-screen logo, in 2:39:1
20th Century Studios (2020) Walt Disney.png|2020 on-screen logo, in 1:85:1
20th Century Studios (2021, Widescreen 16x9).png|2021 on-screen logo
20th Century Studios (2021) Disney.png|2021 on-screen logo, in 2:39:1
20th Century Studios (2021, Scope, No Registered Symbol).png|2021 on-screen logo, in 2:39:1, minus the Registered trademark "®" symbol.
20th Century Studios (2021) Walt Disney.png|2021 on-screen logo, in 1:85:1
==Notes==
*Despite not being co-produced nor co-branded with "Disney", all of the 20th Century Studios films (while itself continue to produce those) are distributed under the Walt Disney Pictures label (minus the Disney castle logo and the studio's credit itself) with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures currently handling distribution.
*Despite Disney owning the rights to 20th Century Fox's pre-acquisition library, not all of their films are on Disney+ and/or Hulu. As Disney still licenses them to premium platforms like HBO and Starz, and free platforms like Tubi and YouTube.
*It is still unknown whenever all of the 20th Century Studios films has a credit reads "Distributed By WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES" at the end.
*Spies in Disguise was released theatrically in December 2019, except Japan (which the film itself was released on Disney+ in the country in 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic).
*In Deadpool & Wolverine, there is a buried statue of the logo in the Void.
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