20th Century Studios Logo History

## Fox Film Corporation

The Fox Film Corporation was an independent film production company that was formed in 1915 by the theater "chain" pioneer William Fox. Fox formed Fox Film Corporation by merging two companies he had established in 1913: Greater New York Film Rental, a distribution firm, which was part of the independents; and Fox (or "Box", depending on the source) Office Attractions Company, a production company.

## 20th Century Pictures

Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. (also known as "20th Century Pictures, Inc.") was an independent Hollywood motion picture production company created in 1932 by Joseph M. Schenck, the former president of United Artists, Darryl F. Zanuck from Warner Bros. Pictures, William Goetz from Fox Film Corporation, and Raymond Griffith. Their material was released theatrically under United Artists.

## 20th Century Fox

### 20th Century-Fox

In 1935, Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. and Fox Film Corporation merged together to form "Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation", or simply "20th Century-Fox". From 2013-2019, it was a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox Inc., which was a company formed when News Corporation split up into two companies. As of July 2018, their two most financially successful films are Avatar, released in 2009, and Titanic (under international rights), released in 1997. Both films were directed by James Cameron. Fox's most highly acclaimed film, according to review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes (jointly owned by Universal and Warner Bros.), is All About Eve, released in 1950 and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

#### 1935-1968

The structure was introduced without any searchlights (despite the fact that the on-screen logo used them) in their first print logo.

#### 1945-1972

The structure was discontinued in 1945 in favor of a simplified text.

#### 1972-1982

The structure was reintroduced with an arch located above the structure.

### 20th Century Fox

#### 1982-1994

This logo marked the first appearance of the searchlights (that have been in usage long before) on a print logo. The hyphen was dropped from the company name, effectively becoming 20th Centur**y F**ox after Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation purchased the company in March 1985. In 1987, the logo below replaced this on movie posters and such, but this was used in tandem with it, as this was used on VHS cases from Fox Video until 1994.

#### 1987-2020

The design of this logo is similar to before, with some differences, those being that the border has the rounded corners removed, the letters’ design was changed, extra pieces being added into the searchlights and the lines were added to distinguish the letters on the top row.

## 20th Century Studios

In December 2017, Disney announced its plans to buy most of 21st Century Fox's assets, which included a bidding war with Comcast; the acquisition process was completed on March 20, 2019 (Which would be where 21st Century Fox would go defunct), with the last pre-Disney release from the studio being *Alita: Battle Angel*, released on February 14, 2019. The remaining assets Disney didn't acquire, notably the Fox network and Fox News, were spun-off into a new company called Fox Corporation. In January 2020, Disney announced that it would be dropping the word "Fox" from the company name (and it's affiliations), presumably to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation, renaming it as "Twentieth Century Studios." However, the studio is still legally incorporated and traded as 20th Century Fox.

### 2020-present

On January 17, 2020, it was announced 20th Century Fox would be renamed to 20th Century **Studios**, following Disney's purchase of the company's assets the year prior and likely to avoid confusion with the now-separate Fox Corporation. The logo remained the same, but with the word "Fox" being changed to "Studios" and the "Century" was a bit taller to accommodate for it.

## See also

* 20th Television
* 20th Century Fox Television Distribution
* 20th Television (original)
* Fox Europe/Fox Europa
* 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment
* Searchlight Pictures
* 20th Century Animation
* 20th Century Studios Logo History/Actual logos