20th Century Studios

**20th Century Studios** (also shortened to **20th Century** and formerly and still informally known as **20th Century Fox** before 2020 and shortened to **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. While unofficial, Homer Simpson is widely considered to be the company's mascot.

## Why They’re So **Foxy** and Famous

1. *Dante's Inferno* was the first film to be made by the studio, and that started it all... Fox style.
	* If you take Fox Film Corporation and 20th Century Pictures, the two studios that merged to form 20th Century Fox into consideration, then *Gertie the Dinosaur* was the first film to be made by the studio.
2. Many great films they made, such asː
	* *Ice Age*
	* *The Simpsons Movie*
	* *Home Alone*
	* *Home Alone 2ː Lost in New York*
	* *Lincoln*
	* *The Sandlot*
	* *Planet of the Apes*
	* *Alien*
	* *Die Hard*
	* *Predator*
	* *Night at the Museum*
	* *Diary of a Wimpy Kid*
	* *Rio*
	* *X-Men*
	* *Daredevil*
	* *Deadpool*
	* *Deadpool 2*
	* *X2: X-Men Reunited*
	* *Ice Age: The Meltdown*
	* *The Wolverine*
	* *Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs*
	* *Logan*
	* ***Star Wars*** (pre-*The Force Awakens*)
	* *Mrs. Doubtfire*
	* *Titanic*
	* *Free Guy*
	* The *Hercule Poirot* trilogy (*Murder on the Orient Express*, *Death on the Nile* and *A Haunting In Venice*)
	* *Avatar*
	* *Patton*
	* *Jennifer's Body*
	* *Anastasia*
	* *The Book of Life*
	* *Robots*
	* *Horton Hears a Who!*
	* *Epic*
	* *The Peanuts Movie*
	* *Ferdinand*
	* *Spies in Disguise*
	* *Ron's Gone Wrong*
	* *Spy*
3. It spawned many merchandise based on the films such as books, video games, DVDs, clothes and more.
4. It has its very own television network, the Fox Broadcasting Company, which was launched in 1987.
5. While they continued producing and distributing films, they still managed to loved every films for the decades.
6. The logo itself is amazing and realistic, and the accompanying fanfare is epic as well.
7. It released some of the aforementioned films for their other studios like Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century (Fox) Animation, 20th Century (Fox) Family, Fox 2000 Pictures, and (Fox) Searchlight Pictures.
8. Even if they were brought by Disney and going downhill, they made plenty of great films.
9. Disney's acquisition of them has a lot of potential.
	* X-Men, Fantastic Four, Deadpool and other characters related to them are now permitted to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
	* The acquisition also reunites the first six *Star Wars* films (Which are The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi) with every *Star Wars* movie produced since *The Force Awakens* under the same roof since Fox distributed the original and prequel trilogy, and Disney distributed the sequel trilogy.
	* Another consequence of this acquisition is that the titular character from *Anastasia* is now open to join the *Disney Princesses*, marking the first Disney Princess to be acquired and the first Russian Disney Princess, first Slavic Disney Princess and the first Disney Princess to come from Eastern Europe. Only time will tell if Disney makes her one.

## Bad Qualities

1. Disney's acquisition of the company marked the studio going downhill, as it has some adverse effects.
	* Despite Disney+ being the primary reason for Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox, a lot of Fox's films have been temporarily removed from the service in the United States due to pre-existing contracts with premium channels like HBO and Starz. When one of their films is removed from Disney+, it spends several months on either of the aforementioned premium channels and their respective streaming services before leaving those services and finally returning to Disney+, except this time they thankfully stay on Disney+ permanently. The pre-existing deals with those aforementioned premium channels are set to expire in 2022 and 2025 perspectively, so in a few years, this will no longer be an issue, as Disney will soon have their complete Fox library on their streaming services worldwide.
	* On January 17, 2020, the studio was renamed to 20th Century *Studios*, which caused controversy among 20th Century Fox fans and the logo community, who thought it was unnecessary because the Fox Corporation, including its TV network and stations (including the infamous Fox News) were named after the 20th Century Fox film studio, not vice versa. Some say the name shoud've reverted back to 20th Century Pictures, its original pre-merger name, instead, or they could have kept the 20th Century Fox name.
2. Like their current parent company (and ex-competitor), they do have several bad and mediocre movies such as:
	* *Cheaper by the Dozen*
	* *Cheaper by the Dozen 2*
	* *Alvin and the Chipmunks*
	* *Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel*
	* *Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked*
	* *Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip*
	* *Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief*
	* *Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters*
	* *Date Movie*
	* *Epic Movie*
	* *Digimon: The Movie*
	* *Meet the Spartans*
	* *Vampires Suck*
	* *Garfield: The Movie*
	* *Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties*
	* *Fantastic Four*
	* *Freddy Got Fingered*
	* *Eragon*
	* *Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul*
	* *A Troll in Central Park*
	* *Glitter*
	* *Paper Towns*
	* *Kung Pow! Enter the Fist*
	* *Speed 2: Cruise Control*
	* *Home Alone 3*
	* *Home Alone 4*
	* *Home Alone: The Holiday Heist*
	* *Home Sweet Home Alone*
	* *Dr. Dolittle 3*
	* *Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief*
	* *Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts*
	* *Marmaduke*
	* *Alien 3*
	* *Alien: Resurrection*
	* *Dragonball: Evolution*
	* *The Happening*
	* the 2001 remake of *Planet of the Apes*
	* the 2006 remake of *The Omen*
	* *The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*
	* *Dark Phoenix*
	* *The Darkest Minds*
	* the 2015 remake of *Fantastic Four*
	* *Poltergeist*
	* *Elektra*
	* *Ice Age: Continental Drift*
	* *Ice Age: Collision Course*
	* *The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild* (with their parent company)
	* *Independence Day: Resurgence*
	* *Wing Commander*
	* *A Good Day to Die Hard*
	* *The Three Stooges*
	* *Rio 2*
	* *Fat Albert*
	* *Home*
	* *The Boss Baby*
3. Some of their films, even during COVID-19 and before Disney bought the company, were box office bombs.
4. Some of their films like *Anastasia* were butchered through horrible Broadway adaptations, like how the costumes were changed from colorful flowy costumes to more historically accurate dresses, Rasputin was taken out in favor of Gleb Vaganov, and all the animal characters and magic were removed in favor of historical accuracy, which was only done to appease Russian Orthodox Christians.
5. They started the trend of lazy home video re-release covers where you just stick the title and a close-up picture of the main character on a simple color background.
6. They have a bad habit of keeping franchises around longer than they should. And only expand them more just fot the sake of making money. Like Home Alone, Ice Age, Planet of the Apes, Night at the Museum, and more. Not to mention renewing The Simpsons and Family Guy for more seasons.

## Trivia

* 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.
* According to Disney CEO Bob Iger, Disney had purchased 21st Century Fox (excluding the Fox network, Fox News, Fox Sports, and Fox Television Stations) with Disney+ in mind.
* 20th Century Fox is the only major American film studio in history to have a number in its name.