20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox is an American film studio currently owned by The Walt Disney Company. It specializes in best-seller films, such as The Sound of Music, Die Hard, Rio, Ferdinand, Murder on the Orient Express, Ice Age, Home Alone & The X-Men Franchise. The studio was established on May 31st 1935, following the merge between 20th Century Pictures, Inc. & Fox Film Corporation during the Great Depression. In December of 2017, Disney announced plans to purchase 20th Century Fox, which included a bidding war with Comcast. Acquisition went through on March 20th 2019. However, although 20th Century Fox had a 5-Year Distribution deal with DreamWorks Animation beforehand, Disney's deal did not include DreamWorks' movies as DreamWorks is Disney's animation rival. On January 17th 2020, Disney removed the word, Fox, from the studio title, renaming it to 20th Century Studios to avoid confusion with Fox Corp. However, some fans still refer to it by their old name.
== Logo: ==
A massive golden structure carved into a stacked tower sign that reads:
Originally: 20th Century Pictures, Inc.
Following the merge: 20th Century Fox (the hyphen was never included in the logo)
Following the name change: 20th Century Studios (still referred to as 20th Century Fox)
standing on a giant well decorated structure, with a spotlight shining up on the logo to make it easy for those who pass by see it. Few searchlights scan a sunset sky with few clouds. A stage sticks out from the bottom right corner, with an arch over-top next to the structure. The original concept of this logo was created by Emil Kosa, Jr. in the early 30's.
== History: ==
It started off as 2 separate movie studios in the early 20th century, hence the name of said studio. It was originally known as Fox Film Corporation, established by film producer William Fox on February 1st 1915. Fox produced a huge variety of best seller films throughout the most of the mid early 20th century. On June 26th 1933, 20th Century Pictures,Inc. was established by Joseph Schenck & Darryl F. Zanuck from Warner Bros. Pictures. 20th Century was an independent Hollywood motion picture studio. The iconic logo by that point was created by Emil Kosa, Jr. by using a technique of animated painting glass. The iconic fanfare that it used was written & conducted by Alfred Newman. During the great depression, Schenck & Zanuck had talks with William Fox Film Studio owner Sidney Kent about deals with help of film distribution during a lunch at Swanky Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, New York, which resulted eventually in the merge with 20th Century & Fox Studios, thus, 20th Century Fox was born. The logo & fanfare were carried on as a result to new new-found studio, which became a very popular icon in cinema history. Following the merge, it was originally known as 20th Century-Fox for 50 years. It was widely known by so many fans with it's recognizable intros. In its early years, 20th Century-Fox was 1 of Hollywood's most popular studios, along side Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, Warner Bros & Disney. William Fox was 1 of the objectors for the mergers, though respectively, they would leave in his name. As World War 2 broke out, Zanuck was filming a war-film with John Ford to produce "At The Front", which wasn't much of a big success. This resulted in an investigation for Hollywood who were given colonel statuses. Daryll Zanuck, although doing his job, was called on the investigation. He resigned from the army & returned to Hollywood. During his absence, William Goetz was in charge of production. In 1942, Sidney Kent died & was replaced by Spyros Skouras. Goetz tried to prevent Zanuck from returning to the studio, but gave up & formed International Pictures, which would later merge with Universal Studios. A Paramount Press was held eventually held, meaning that studios would no longer have to rush in big chains of movies, but also give them money. They would have to go big with the next big gadget, Television. Zanuck scoffed at the idea saying "Television wouldn't last because people would get tried of staring at a plywood box every night." Inevitably, however, Television came. When the 50s arrived, 20th Century-Fox decided to go big on the screening production. Spyros Skouras turned to Earl Spondale for a new idea for a new way to enjoy films. Earl remembered a French invention called an Anamorphoscope in 1926. These lanse would provide a new wider entertainment platform, prompting cinemas to impliment a new system: Cinemascope in 1952. In 1953, the logo was redesigned by Rocky Longo, though with the same concepts of the original logo. The 0 was slanted towards the lowercase T for widescreen portions. The same year, Alfred Newman extended the fanfare for releases on Cinema-Scope Movies, the 1st films being "The Robe", "How to Marry a Millionaire" & "Beneath the 12 Mile Reef". The films were smash hits when released. They gave the viewers a wider feel of the movie. 20th Century-Fox announced that their films would be filmed in this phenomenon from then on. Other studios like Warner Bros, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal-International, Columbia Pictures & Disney were impressed with this & would go on to do the same thing with their movies. Another version of the 1953 logo was a regular 0, but a cross-shaped t, depending on the font. 1 film that uses this logo is the iconic "The Sound of Music" released in the 60's, starring Julie Andrews. That film is well-noted for "My Favorite Things", which was eventually turned into a Holiday Carol. The studio would go on to produce flms such as, Cleopatra, Love Me Tender, Flaming Star, Carousel, The King & I, Something's Got To Give & Zorba The Greek, as well as the famous "Planet of the Apes". After some film being shot like The Agony of the Ecstasy, The Valley of the Dolls, Beyond The Valley of Dolls Myra Brekinrige, Daryll fired his son Richard as studio executive. During the 70s, 20th Century-Fox would go on to produce "The Poseidon Adventure", featuring the RMS Queen Mary as Poseidon, an ocean liner that is swamped upside down by a tsunami on New Years night. Warner Bros would go on to release its sequel "Beyond The Poseidon Adventure". 20th Century-Fox would go on to release famous films such as "Alien" in 1978. In the 1980's, Longo revisited the logo with a regular 0, as the Cinema-Scope days had passed through. Some films that used this logo were Home Alone, Die Hard & Predator. Austrailian TV Man, Rupert Murdoch purchased 20th Century-Fox to form Fox Brodcating services, such as Fox News, Fox Sports & Fox Movie Channel. In 1985, the hyphen was dropped from the name, simply having it as 20th Century Fox. In 1987, Chrix Wedge & Carlos Saldanah formed Blue Sky Studios, which was famous for its animated visuals in commersials & TV Spots. They would team up with 20th Century Fox sometime after. In 1994, the logo was redone in CGI under the direction of Kevin Burns at Flip Your Lid Animations, who also animated the logos for Universal Studios (1997-2012) & Paramount Pictures (1987-2003). This logo is adored by many fans. The 1st film to use this logo was "True Lies", featuring Arnold Schwartznegger. The same year, they formed sibling company "Fox Searchlight Pictures", Fox Family & Fox 2000 Pictures. In 1997, David Newman composed the modern version of the fanfare, starting with the animated film, "Anastasia". Following the release, the fanfare was used from then on, starting in 1998. The same year of 1997, James Cameron collaborated with 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures & Spygless Entertainment to release "Titanic", which immediately became a huge success. The movie is named after the ill-fated ocean liner that hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage & sank within 2 1/2 hours. The studio would also go on to release Marvel film profits such as X-Men & Fantastic 4, while other films like Spider-Man would be handed over to Sony & Punisher to Lionsgate, as well as Hulk to Universal. In 2002, the studio released Blue Sky's 1st film, Ice Age. The film was a huge success & would later go on to produce 4 more sequels. In 2009, Blue Sky Studios animated the 20th Century Fox logo with better realistic details. This iconic logo was used by the studio throughout the entirety of the 2010's decade. The 1st film to use this logo was "Avatar" & the 1st animated film to use this logo was "Rio", released in 2011. The animation was modified for the 75th anniversary of the studio's merge. In 2013, 20th Century Fox began a 5 year distribution deal with DreamWorks Animation. The "News Corporation" byline was removed in July, resulting in "Turbo", DreamWorks' 2nd film under 20th's distribution to be the 1st movie without the byline, as Rupert Murduch has split News Corporation into News Corp & 21st Century Fox. In 2017, the distribution deal ended on June 2nd, following the release of Captain Underpants, before distribution was carried over to Universal Studios. In December of the same year, The Walt Disney Company announced plans to purchase rights to 21st Century Fox assets of the studio. However, due to their owner ship of ABC, they couldn't purchase Fox News. In 2018, Disney ended up in a bidding war with Comcast, which owns Universal Studios. Ultimately, Disney won the bidding war. On March 20th 2019, 20th Century Fox became part of Disney, resulting in the Disney-Fox merge, while Fox Corporation, formed at the beginning of 2019, would hold all the rest of the Fox assets, but the deal did not include films produced by DreamWorks. Overtime, Disney-Fox Merger Productions produced a medium amount of movies, most notably, "Spies in Disguise" featuring Will Smith & Tom Holland, released on December 25th 2019, which would unfortunately be Blue Sky's final film. On January 17th 2020, about a week after the release of "Underwater", Disney removed the Fox title from the 20th Century Fox title, presumably to avoid confusion with Fox Corp, rebranding the studio to "20th Century Studios". The 1st film with the new brand was "The Call of the Wild", released on February 21st. "The New Mutants" was going to be released on April 28th, but due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, 20th was temporarily shut down & the film did not come to theaters until August 28th. Sadly, the same day, Chadwick Boseman, actor for Black Panther, died of cancer. The studio then released "The Empty Man" on October 23rd, but surprisingly using their former brand. This would cause some fans to believe that Disney may be reviving the Fox Title. However, this was a false claim as the logo appeared by accident because the film was produced a few years prior & was shelved until October 2020. In February 2021, Disney announced that they would shut down Blue Sky Studios in April, as they felt it was impossible to run a 3rd animation studio (others being Walt Disney Animation & Pixar) due to concerns of the Coronavirus Pandemic. This left tons of fans devastated, as well as workers. However, 833time stepped in & announced that it would save Blue Sky Studios by purchasing them, though still allowing the Disney-Fox Merge studios to distribute them respectively. Plans are still in motion today. Due to the Cornonavirus seeming to die down, the studio has tend to continue to release announcements & trailer for upcoming films. Newer films such as Free Guy, The Last Dual & Death On The Nile had been released as the COVID-19 pandemic contines to die down. In 2021, 833time announced fan-made promotional shorts.
== Trivia: ==
The Empty Man was released on October 23rd 2020 & while the trailers & posters used the 20th Century Studios trademark, the 2009 bylineless 20th Century Fox logo surprisingly appeared at the beginning rather than the 20th Century Studios logo. This was the time the logo would appear on cinema screens once more. This would eventually spark the theory that Disney is secretly changing the studio back to it's old namesake & resurrecting the Fox title. However, as the studio is under Disney's ownership, this is yet to be confirmed. It was revealed though that the return of the 2009 logo trademak was an accidental error revealed when the film was released, though this made tons of fans overjoy.
Since the studio is now owned by Disney, it was imagined that the pixie arch would fly over the structure as the camera was about to settle into its stable position, with a Disney byline once the camera does so.
While the studio's logo has made tons of appearances on the channel, ultimately resulting in tons of views due to popularity, a print version of the logo made a surprise appearance on a dish, as the dish was from the company's dining hall & dined on by several Famous Hollywood Actors.
At the beginning of Volume 2, Seth the Dirtblock, Purple Shep's friend, is seen playing the fanfare on piano in front of a Minecraft structure build of the logo (mainly inspired by The Peanuts Movie) although he mainly tends to be a dirtblock who is only understood well by Purple Shep.
Sadly, the studio may no longer distribute animated films, as Disney had decided to shut down Blue Sky Studios due to the high significance of COVID-19, despite 833time continuing plans to purchase the closed latter. However, this is false as the studio's YouTube Channel posted for an upcoming film trailer for Longsmith's "Ron's Gone Wrong" that was reacted to by Love Ted & Wallop. Even more so, 833time still plans to purchase & reopen Blue Sky Studios, but still allow 20th Century Fox (respectively by former name) & Disney to distribute upcoming films, starting with the planned animated film "Nimona". A few months after the reaction, 833time released a fan-made promotional short where Wallop is training an army of B-Bots in Military Boot Camp. However, 1 of the B-Bots is actually a criminal impostor known as Darth Drunkey.
Often, due to fandom, the studio is randomly credited at the beginning of videos via opening logo & fanfare, starting off before anything else. Sometimes, although not owning anything in the video, the company's logo will appear at the beginning in several different art styles (the searchlights being tinted yellow). This is done to show admiration of the studio. It even appears in mentions, such as when Wallop suggests that the new My Little Pony CGI Gen 5 Netflix be distributed by them, despite the plans being Paramount Pictures oringinally distribute the film.
Despite the name change, it is still credited under its old name respectively on 833time (even though it is sometimes called under Disney's rebranding).
It was discovered that that Disney had been tricked by Fox News into changing the studio's name, which caused fans to blame Disney for "ruining everything", thus refusing to credit them under The Walt Disney Company banner. The evidence shows that 20th Century Fox merged together in 1935, whereas Fox News was established in 1996, 61 years after the merge. The name change meant that not only would people no longer realize the merge, but also that Fox News was getting away with stealing 20th Century Fox's former brand & name. This also means that Disney was framed.
It is imagined that since Disney owns the rights to the entire 20th Century Fox production company, Pixar, Disney's 1st CGI Company, would animate a newer version of the studio's logo.
In a video covering a possible aftermath of Scarlett Johannson's lawsuit against Disney (mainly due to the film Black Widow being released on Disney+ & in theaters altogether), it is explained that 20th Century Fox, being 1 of the largest Hollywood studios before acquistion by Disney, would take over, obtaining all Disney studio rights & assets, as well as reopen Blue Sky Studios.
The company was not credited in any of the Marvel Conematic Universe properties, mainly due to not having any involvement, but was respectively credited as 20th Century Fox in 833time's MCU fan-fic "Avengers: Next Generation- The Temple Book 2". During the credits, it was also credited as an extended "20th Century Fox Studios, Inc." in the special selection.
833time did give a sincere apology to the studio for the constant use of the logo at the beginning of fan-fic works, but still credits them for fan-made promotional shorts.
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