20^th Century Fox

20^th Century Fox is a subsidiary of 21^st Century Fox. Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck founded it May 31, 1935. The headquarters is located in Fox Plaza, Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills. They produce motion pictures and television films and holds ten subsidiaries; among them are TSG Entertainment, Fox Studio Australia, FNM Films and Blue Sky Studios. (Wikipedia, 2015)

Fox plaza

Fox plaza was a complete building in February 1987. It holds the headquarters of 20^th Century Fox. The building is 492 feet high (150m) and holds 34 floors. The Irvine Company owns it and the architects were Scott Johnson, Bill Fain and William L. Pereira. Another name for the plaza is the Nakatomi Plaza, and it is the place of Bruce Wills’ first outing as John McLane in Die Hard. (theStudiotour, 2015) (theStudioTour, 2015)

Subsidiaries

As mentioned 20^th Century Fox has ten subsidiaries. Which means they own ten small corporation. All ten are; Fox Digital Entertainment, Blue Sky Studios, Fox Star Studios, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Fox Television Studios, 20th Television, 20th Century Fox Television, 20th Century Fox Japan, Fox Studios Australia, TSG Entertainment and FNM Films. (Wikipedia, 2015) 20^th Television, Fox Television Studios and 20^th Century Fox Television is Fox’ televisions syndication divisions. Fox hoped that they would broaden sponsorship and help distribution of network programs.

History

It all started when Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck left United Artists over a stock dispute. They began merger talks with the management of financially struggling Fox Film, then owned by Sidney Kent. Zanuck and Schenck got support from Spyros Skouras, then the manager of the Fox West Coast Theatres, who later became president of the new company. Even though the company was much smaller than Fox, they were senior partners in the merge. The Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation began trading on May 31, 1935. After the merge was complete, the Vice President in Charge of Production, Zanuck, started to sign young actors who would carry the corporation for many years. Among them were Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Henry Fonda and Don Ameche. After World War 2, Fox overtook RKO and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Hollywood’s biggest studios, and became the third most profitable film studio. After the war, the corporation went through a “dark period”. However, in 1953, they made a movie called The Robe, and it was a success.

Fox Film Entertainment

Fox Film Entertainment is the “parent” of 20^th Century Fox. (Wikipedia, 2015) The corporation is named after the creator of the original Fox Film Corporation, William Fox, born Wilhelm Fuchs. Jim Gianopulos is the chairman of Fox Entertainment Group. Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos shared this position until 2012 when Tom resigned. Fox Film Entertainment is divided into four sections; filmed entertainment, television broadcast networks, television stations and cable network programming. (Wikipedia, 2015)

21^st Century Fox

21^st Century Fox, also called Fox, is an American multinational mass media corporation. Rupert Murdoch founded Fox in 1979. 21^st Century Fox deals in the film and television industries. The corporation holds another corporation; the Fox Entertainment Group that are the owners of 20^th Century Fox and Fox Television network. (Wikipedia, 2015)

Films through the years

In 1942, the Presidents, Kent and Zanuck, intended to make Fox’s production more serious-minded. The next few years they made movies like The Razor’s Edge, Wilson, The Snake Pit and Leave Her to Heaven. The former was a best-selling book by Ben Ames Williams, the movie came out in 1945 starring Gene Tierney and was the highest-grossing Fox film of the 1940s. 

20^th Century Fox made 21 movies in 2014. Among them were The Maze Runner, Gone Girl, Taken 3, The Fault in Our Stars and Rio 2. The most popular movie, as you can see in the table, which they earned 760,507,625 American dollars on, was Avatar, which was made in 2009. (Wikipedia, 2015)

Actors

Some famous actors who have been acting in movies produced by 20^th Century Fox are Henry Fonda (1905-1982) and Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962). They are not alive today, but are well remembered. (Wikipedia, 2015) (Wikipedia, 2015) Some actors who are alive and well are Dylan O’Brien, Ansel Elgort, Meryl Streep, Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock. They are only few out of many. (Foxmovies, 2015)

Conclusion

The Fox-family is a big one with a lot of history behind its development. 20^th Century Fox is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills. 20^th Century Fox is a corporation that produces movies. They made 21 movies in 2014. The company who holds 20^th Century Fox is Fox Filmed Entertainment and 20^th Century Fox holds ten subsidiaries.

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