Institution Research

20th Century fox Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is one of the Big six major Film studios in America. This studio used to be a subsidiary of News Corporation but now is a subsidiary of 21st Century fox. It’s the world’s second largest film studio after Warner Bros. 20th Century Fox has distributed various commercially successful film series, including the live action Alvin and the Chipmunks, Avatar, Titanic, the first two Star Wars trilogies, Ice Age, X-Men, Die Hard, Planet of the Apes, Night at the Museum, Fantastic Four, Alien and Predator.

20th Century fox is a member of the Motion picture Association of America. (MPAA)

History

The fox film corporation was formed by merging two companies; Greater New York Film rental and Fox office attractions company (a production company). Always more of an entrepreneur than a showman, Fox concentrated on acquiring and building theaters; pictures were secondary. The company's first film studios were set up in Fort Lee, New Jersey where it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based at the beginning of the 20th century. With the introduction of sound technology, Fox moved to acquire the rights to a sound-on-film process. Later that year, the company began offering films with a music-and-effects track, and the following year Fox began the weekly Fox Movietone News feature, which ran until 1963. The growing company needed space, and in 1926 Fox acquired 300 acres (1.2 km2) in the open country west of Beverly Hills and built "Movietone City", the best-equipped studio of its time.

Over the years, the company faced a lot of financial and production problems but managed to rise up again with time. But one thing is certain, the company is successful right from the very beginning.

The company's films retained the 20th Century Films searchlight logo on their opening credits as well as the 20th Century opening fanfare, but with the name changed to 20th Century-Fox.

Television 20th Television is Fox's television syndication division. 20th Century Fox Television is the studio's television production division.

MusicFox Music has been Fox's music arm since 2000. It encompasses music publishing and licensing businesses, dealing primarily with Fox Entertainment Group television and film soundtracks.Prior to Fox Music, 20th Century Records was its music arm from 1958 to 1982.

RadioThe 'Twentieth Century Fox Presents' radio series were broadcast between 1936 and 1942. The shows were a radio preview featuring a medley of the songs and soundtracks from the latest movie being released into the theaters, to encourage folks to head down to their nearest Picture House.

Film and production From its earliest ventures into movie production, Fox Film Corporation operated its own processing laboratories. The original lab was located in Fort Lee, New Jersey along with the studios. A lab was included with the new studio built in Los Angeles in 1916. Headed by Alan E. Freedman, the Fort Lee lab was moved into the new Fox Studios building in Manhattan in 1919. He renamed the operation "DeLuxe Laboratories" which much later became DeLuxe Entertainment Services Group. In the 1940s Freedman sold the labs back to what was then 20th Century Fox and remained as president into the 1960s. Under Freedman's leadership, DeLuxe added two more labs in Chicago and Toronto and processed film from studios other than Fox.

To say it 2014 has been a very successful year for 20th Century Fox. The studio has crossed the $2 million mark domestically and $3 billion globally for 2014. They are the first studio to do so this year.

X-Men: Days of Future Past has been a huge help to this number, having taken $735 million worldwide.This is the second time the studio has hit this point after doing so in 2010. The majority of that money came from James Cameron’s Avatar.

20th Century Fox have now hit $2 billion globally for the last six years in a row.Here are the big contributors:Grand Budapest Hotel ($168 million)Rio 2 ($490 million)The Other Woman ($195 million)X-Men: Days of Future Past ($735 million)The Fault in our Stars ($243 million)How to Train Your Dragon 2 ($366 million)Dawn of the Planet of the Apes ($132 million)Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is currently in cinemas and is directed by Matt Reeves (Let Me In) with Andy Serkis returning as Caesar alongside Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty), Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight Rises), Keri Russell (Mission: Impossible III), Toby Kebbell (Wrath of the Titans), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me In), Enrique Murciano (Black Hawk Down), Kirk Acevedo (The Thin Red Line) and Judy Greer (13 Going on 30).

20th Century fox in 2014

Top grossing films of all times by 20th Century Fox

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