*** Welcome to piglix ***

Twentieth Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Subsidiary
Industry Film
Predecessor Fox Film
Twentieth Century Pictures
Founded May 31, 1935; 81 years ago (1935-05-31)
Founders William Fox
Joseph M. Schenck
Darryl F. Zanuck
Headquarters Fox Plaza
10201 West Pico Blvd,
Century City, Los Angeles, California, United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Stacey Snider
(Chairman and CEO)
Products Motion pictures, television films
Owner 21st Century Fox
Parent Fox Entertainment Group
Divisions 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Fox 21 Television Studios
20th Century Fox Television
20th Television
20th Century Fox Animation
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Zero Day Fox
Fox 2000 Pictures
Fox Digital Entertainment
Subsidiaries Blue Sky Studios
Fox Star Studios (India)
Fox Studios Australia
Website www.foxmovies.com

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (known as Twentieth Century-Fox with hyphen from 1935 until 1985, professionally as 20th Century Fox, Twentieth Century Fox or simply known as Fox) is an American film studio and film distributor currently owned by 21st Century Fox. It is one of the "Big Six" major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills. The studio was formerly owned by News Corporation.

20th Century Fox is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). In 2015, 20th Century Fox celebrated its 80th anniversary as a studio.

Twentieth Century Pictures' Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck left United Artists over a stock dispute, and began merger talks with the management of financially struggling Fox Film, under president Sidney Kent.Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, helped make it happen (and later became president of the new company). Aside from the theater chain and a first-rate studio lot, Zanuck and Schenck felt there was not much else to Fox, which had been reeling since the founder William Fox lost control of the company in 1930. The studio's biggest star, Will Rogers, died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its leading female star, Janet Gaynor, was fading in popularity and promising leading men James Dunn and Spencer Tracy had been dropped because of heavy drinking.


...
Wikipedia

...