FoxToons Movies

Trey Totowa

Elie Suave

Trey Totowa (chief creative officer, CEO)

Elie Suave (vice-president)

**FoxToons Movies** is an American film studio and a subsidiary of FoxToons Studios, which is owned by The Walt Disney Studios and its parent The Walt Disney Company. The subsidiary is the flagship producer of theatrical, direct-to-video and television motion pictures in the live-action and animation canons within the FoxToons Studios unit, and is based at the FoxToons Studios in Glendale, California. Films produced by FoxToons Animation Studios and Studio Town Studios are also released under this brand.

The 2019 hand-drawn/live-action/realistic CGI remake of *Dead Poets Society*, which was produced by FoxToons Animation Studios and released by Touchstone Pictures as ***Pied Trojans Society***, is the studio's highest-grossing film worldwide with $1.8 billion, and *Pirates of the Strangeterrain* is the studio's most successful non-romance-related franchise, with two of its sequels, released in 2017 and 2019, winning over $1 billion in worldwide box office gross.

## Background

Founded in 1910, the company released its first film T*he Dawn of Roxy* in 1912. It has produced family features and films based on FoxToons Network programs, as well as other adaptations, mature movies and original projects. The majority of its films, including their family-friendly titles, are co-produced and/or distributed by fellow Walt Disney Studios divisions Walt Disney Pictures, Marvel Studios, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax Films and Dimension Films and therefore also distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (currently known as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures since October 2007). The remainder of its films are co-produced and/or distributed by fellow ViacomCBS (established on 12/4/2019 as the re-merger with Viacom and CBS Corporation, although Viacom and CBS Corporation continue to operate as subsidiaries of ViacomCBS in the Studiopolis Universe only) division Paramount Pictures, 21st Century Fox divisions Twentieth Century Fox (now Twentieth Century Studios as of 1/17/2020 in the Simtopia Universe only) and Fox Searchlight Pictures (now Searchlight Pictures as of 1/17/2020 in the Simtopia Universe only), TimeWarner (now WarnerMedia LLC as of 6/12/2018, although the company continues to operate as TimeWarner Inc. in the Studiopolis Universe) divisions Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema, MGM, DreamWorks LLC division DreamWorks Pictures, and NBCUniversal division Universal Studios.

## Filmography

Main article: List of FoxToons Movies films

The studio's first live-action/realistic CGI/hand-drawn hybrid film was *The Dawn of Roxy* (1912). Animated films produced by FoxToons Animation Studios and Studio Town Studios are also released by FoxToons Movies. All movies that the studio released received numerous Academy Awards, including an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination.

### Highest-grossing films

FoxToons Movies has produced five live-action films that have grossed over $1 billion at the worldwide box office: *Pirates of the Strangeterrain: The Curse of the Black Pearl* (2017), *Pirates of the Strangeterrain: Dead Man's Chest* (2017), *Pirates of the Strangeterrain: At World's End* (2018), *Pirates of the Strangeterrain: On Strenger Tides* (2019), and *Pirates of the Strangeterrain: Dead Man Tell No Tales* (2020). They also have released five animated films that grossed over $100 million at the box office: *Philly-Saban: Brawl of the Wild* (2020), which grossed $306.5 million worldwide, *The Adventures of Arnold Mack II: The Stick of Truth* (2020), which also grossed $306.5 million worldwide, *Pied Trojans Society* (2019), which grossed $299.9 million worldwide, *The Adventures of Arnold Mack* (2019), which grossed $293.1 million worldwide, and *The Amazing Trendsetter's Legacy: The Movie* (2020), which grossed $292.9 million worldwide.