20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (known as Twentieth Century-Fox

Twentieth Century Fox
Film Corporation with hyphen from 1935 until 1985, stylized as 20th Century
Film Corporation
Fox or simply known as Fox or 20th Century Fox Pictures) is an American film
studio 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 owned by News Corporation from 1984 to
2013.

20th Century Fox is a member of theMotion Picture Association of America.[1]

Contents Type Subsidiary

Industry Film
1 History
1.1 Founding Predecessor Fox Film
1.2 Production and financial problems Twentieth Century
1.3 Marvin Davis and Rupert Murdoch Pictures

2 Television Founded May 31, 1935

2.1 Buyout of Four Star Founders William Fox
3 Music Joseph M. Schenck
4 Radio
Darryl F. Zanuck

5 Motion picture film processing Headquarters Fox Plaza

10201 West Pico
6 Logo
Blvd,
6.1 Legacy
Century City, Los
7 Highest-grossing films Angeles, California,
8 Films United States
9 Archive Area served Worldwide
10 See also Key people Stacey Snider
11 Notes (Chairman and CEO)

12 References Products Motion pictures,

12.1 Sources television films
12.2 Additional sources
Owner 21st Century Fox
13 External links
Parent Fox Entertainment
Group
Divisions 20th Century Fox
History Home
Entertainment
Fox 21 Television
Founding Studios
Twentieth Century Pictures' Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck left United Artists
20th Century Fox
Television
(UA) over a stock dispute, and began merger talks with the management of
20th Television
financially struggling Fox Film, under president Sidney Kent.[3] Spyros Skouras,
20th Century Fox
then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, helped make it happen (and later Animation
became president of the new company).[3] Aside from the theater chain and a first- Fox Searchlight
rate studio lot, Zanuck and Schenck felt there was not much else to Fox, which had Pictures
been reeling since the founderWilliam Fox lost control of the company in 1930. The Zero Day Fox
studio's biggest star, Will Rogers, died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its Fox 2000 Pictures
Fox Digital
leading female star, Janet Gaynor, was fading in popularity and promising leading
Entertainment
men James Dunn and Spencer Tracy had been dropped because of heavy drinking.
Subsidiaries Blue Sky Studios
At first, it was expected that the new company was originally to be called "Fox-20th Fox Star Studios
Century", even though 20th Century was the senior partner in the merger. However, (India)
20th Century brought more to the bargaining table besides Schenck and Zanuck; it Fox Studios
was more profitable than Fox and had considerably more talent. The new company, Australia
New Regency
20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31, 1935;[4] the hyphen
Productions (80%,
was dropped in 1985. Schenck became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, while
joint venture with
Kent remained as President. Zanuck became Vice President in Charge of Production,
Regency
replacing Fox's longtime production chiefWinfield Sheehan. Enterprises)

The company established a special training school. Lynn Bari, Patricia Farr and Website www.foxmovies
.com
Anne Nagel were among 14 young women "launched on the trail of film stardom"
on August 6, 1935, when they each received a six-month contract with 20th Century
Fox after spending 18 months in the school. The contracts included a studio option
for renewal for as long as seven years.[5]

For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have been founded in 1915, the year
Fox Film was founded. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary.
However, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even
[6]
though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915.

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

After the merger was completed, Zanuck quickly signed young actors who would
carry Twentieth Century-Fox for years:[7] Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Carmen
Miranda, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Sonja Henie, and Betty Grable.
Also on the Fox payroll he found two players who he built up into the studio's
leading assets, Alice Faye and seven-year-old Shirley Temple. Favoring popular
biographies and musicals, Zanuck built Fox back to profitability. Thanks to record
attendance during World War II, Fox overtook RKO and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
(Hollywood's biggest studio) to become the third most profitable film studio. While
Zanuck went off for eighteen months' war service, junior partner William Goetz kept
profits high by going for light entertainment. The studio'sindeed the industry's
biggest star was creamy blonde Betty Grable.

In 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio. Together with
Zanuck, who returned in 1943, they intended to make Fox's output more serious-
minded.[8] During the next few years, with pictures like The Razor's Edge, Wilson,
Gentleman's Agreement, The Snake Pit, Boomerang, and Pinky, Zanuck established Carmen Miranda in The Gang's All
a reputation for provocative, adult films. Fox also specialized in adaptations of best- Here. In 1946, she was the highest-
selling books such as Ben Ames Williams' Leave Her to Heaven (1945), starring paid actress in the United States.[2]
Gene Tierney, which was the highest-grossing Fox film of the 1940s. Fox also
produced film versions of Broadway musicals, including the Rodgers and
Hammerstein films, beginning with the musical version of State Fair, the only work that the famous team wrote especially for films,
in 1945, and continuing years later with Carousel in 1956, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. They also made the 1958 film
version of South Pacific. Fox released B pictures made by producers Edward L.
Alperson from the mid-1940s and Robert L. Lippert (Regal and later Associated
Pictures Inc.) in the mid-1950s.

After the war, and with the advent of television, audiences slowly drifted away.
Twentieth Century-Fox held on to its theaters until a court-mandated "divorce"; they
were spun off as Fox National Theaters in 1953.[9] That year, with attendance at half
the 1946 level, Twentieth Century-Fox gambled on an unproven gimmick. Noting
that the two film sensations of 1952 had been Cinerama, which required three
projectors to fill a giant curved screen, and "Natural Vision" 3D, which got its
effects of depth by requiring the use of polarized glasses, Fox mortgaged its studio
to buy rights to a French anamorphic projection system which gave a slight illusion
of depth without glasses. President Spyros Skouras struck a deal with the inventor
Henri Chrtien, leaving the other film studios empty-handed, and in 1953 introduced
CinemaScope in the studio's groundbreaking feature filmThe Robe.[10] Alice Faye, Don Ameche, and
Carmen Miranda in That Night in Rio,
The success of The Robe was large enough for Zanuck to announce in February produced by Fox in 1941.
1953 that henceforth all Fox pictures would be made in CinemaScope.[11] To
convince theater owners to install this new process, Fox agreed to help pay
conversion costs (about $25,000 per screen); and to ensure enough product, Fox
gave access to CinemaScope to any rival studio choosing to use it. Seeing the box-
office for the first two CinemaScope features, The Robe and How to Marry a
Millionaire, Warner Bros., MGM, Universal Pictures (then known as Universal-
International), Columbia Pictures and Disney quickly adopted the process. In 1956
Fox engaged Robert Lippert to establish a subsidiary company, Regal Pictures, later
Associated Producers Incorporated to film B pictures in CinemaScope (but
"branded" RegalScope).

CinemaScope brought a brief upturn in attendance, but by 1956 the numbers again From the 1952 film Viva Zapata!
began to slide.[12][13] That year Darryl Zanuck announced his resignation as head of
production. Zanuck moved to Paris, setting up as an independent producer, seldom
being in the United States for many years.

Production and financial problems

Zanuck's successor, producer Buddy Adler, died a year later.[14] President Spyros Skouras brought in a series of production
executives, but none had Zanuck's success. By the early 1960s Fox was in trouble. A new version of Cleopatra had begun in 1959
with Joan Collins in the lead.[15] As a publicity gimmick, producer Walter Wanger offered one million dollars to Elizabeth Taylor if
she would star;[15] she accepted, and costs for Cleopatra began to escalate, aggravated by Richard Burton's on-set romance with
Taylor, the surrounding media frenzy, and Skouras' selfish preferences and inexperienced micromanagement on the film's production.
Not even his showmanship made up for his considerable lack of filmmaking in speeding up production on
Cleopatra.

Meanwhile, another remakeof the 1940 Cary Grant hit My Favorite Wife was rushed into production in an attempt to turn over a
quick profit to help keep Fox afloat. The romantic comedy entitled Something's Got to Give paired Marilyn Monroe, Fox's most
bankable star of the 1950s, withDean Martin, and director George Cukor. The troubled Monroe caused delays on a daily basis, and it
quickly descended into a costly debacle. As Cleopatra's budget passed the ten-million-dollar mark, settling somewhere around $40
million, Fox sold its back lot (now the site of Century City) to Alcoa in 1961 to raise cash. After several weeks of script rewrites on
the Monroe picture and very little progress, mostly due to the director George Cukor's slow and repetitive filming, in addition to
Monroe's chronic sinusitus, Marilyn Monroe was fired from Something's Got to Give[15] and two months later she was found dead.
According to Fox files she was rehired within weeks for a two-picture deal totaling one million dollars, $500K to finish Something's
Got to Give, plus a bonus at completion, and $500K for What a Way to Go. Elizabeth Taylor's disruptive reign on the Cleopatra set
continued unchallenged from 1960 into 1962, though three Fox executives went to Rome in June 1962 to fire her. They learned that
director Joseph L. Mankiewicz had filmed out of sequence and had only done interiors, so Fox was then forced to allow Taylor
several more weeks of filming. In the meantime that summer of 1962, Fox released nearly all of its contract stars, including Jayne
Mansfield.[16][17]

With few pictures on the schedule, Skouras wanted to rush Zanuck's big-budget war epic The Longest Day,[15] a highly accurate
account of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, with a huge international cast, into release as another source of quick
cash. This offended Zanuck, still Fox's largest shareholder, for whom The Longest Day was a labor of love that he had dearly wanted
to produce for years. After it became clear that Something's Got to Give would not be able to progress without Monroe in the lead
(Martin had refused to work with anyone else), Skouras finally decided that something had to give and re-signed her. But days before
filming was due to resume, she was found dead at her Los Angeles home and the picture resumed filming as Move Over, Darling,
with Doris Day and James Garner in the leads. Released in 1963, the film was a hit.[18] The unfinished scenes from Something's Got
to Give were shelved for nearly 40 years. Rather than being rushed into release as if it were a B-picture, The Longest Day was
lovingly and carefully produced under Zanuck's supervision. It was finally released at a length of three hours, and went on to be
recognized as one of the great World War II films.

At the next board meeting, Zanuck spoke for eight hours, convincing directors that Skouras was mismanaging the company and that
he was the only possible successor. Zanuck was installed as chairman, and then named his son Richard Zanuck as president.[19] This
new management group seized Cleopatra and rushed it to completion, shut down the studio, laid off the entire staff to save money,
axed the long-running Movietone Newsreel and made a series of cheap, popular pictures that restored Fox as a major studio. The
saving grace to the studio's fortunes came from the tremendous success of The Sound of Music (1965),[20] an expensive and
handsomely produced film adaptation of the highly acclaimed Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical, which became one of
the all-time greatest box office hits and went on towin five Academy Awards, including Best Director (Robert Wise) and Best Picture
of the Year.

Fox also had two big science-fiction hits in the 1960s: Fantastic Voyage (which introduced Raquel Welch to film audiences) in 1966,
and the original Planet of the Apes, starring Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, and Roddy McDowall, in 1968. Fantastic Voyage was the
last film made in CinemaScope, which was ultimately replaced by Panavision lenses.

Zanuck stayed on as chairman until 1971, but there were several expensive flops in his last years, resulting in Fox posting losses from
1969 to 1971. Following his removal, and after an uncertain period, new management brought Fox back to health. Under president
Gordon T. Stulberg and production head Alan Ladd, Jr., Fox films connected with modern audiences. Stulberg used the profits to
acquire resort properties, soft-drink bottlers, Australian theaters, and other properties in an attempt to diversify enough to offset the
boom-or-bust cycle of picture-making.

Foreshadowing a pattern of film production still yet to come, in late 1973 Twentieth Century-Fox joined forces with Warner Bros. to
co-produce The Towering Inferno (1974),[21] an all-star action blockbuster from producerIrwin Allen. Both studios found themselves
owning the rights to books about burning skyscrapers. Allen insisted on a meeting with the heads of both studios and announced that
as Fox was already in the lead with their property it would be career suicide to have competing movies. And so the first joint venture
studio deal was struck. In hindsight whilst it may be common place now, back in the 1970s it was a risky, but revolutionary idea that
paid off handsomely at both the domestic and international box offices around the world.

In 1977, Fox's success reached new heights and produced the most profitable film made up to that time, Star Wars. Substantial
financial gains were realized as a result of the film's unprecedented success: from a low of $6 in June 1976, stock prices more than
[22]
quadrupled to almost $27 afterStar Wars' release; 1976 revenues of $195 million rose to $301 million in 1977.

Marvin Davis and Rupert Murdoch

With financial stability came new owners, when Fox was sold for more than $700 million in 1981 to investors Marc Rich and Marvin
Davis. Fox's assets included Pebble Beach Golf Links, the Aspen Skiing Company, and a Century City property upon which Davis
built and twice sold Fox Plaza.
By 1984, Rich had become a fugitive from justice, having fled to Switzerland after
being charged by U.S. federal prosecutors with tax evasion, racketeering, and illegal
trading with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis. Rich's assets were frozen by U.S.
authorities.[23] In 1984, Marvin Davis bought out Marc Rich's 50% interest in 20th
Century-Fox Film Corporation for an undisclosed amount,[23] reported to be $116
million.[24] Davis sold this interest to Rupert Murdoch for $250 million in March
1985. Davis later backed out of a deal with Murdoch to purchase John Kluge's
Metromedia television stations.[24] Murdoch went alone and bought the stations, and Fox Plaza, Century City
later bought out Davis' remaining stake in Fox for $325 [24]
million. headquarters completed in 1987.

To gain FCC approval of Fox's purchase of Metromedia's television holdings, once

the stations of the long dissolved DuMont network, Murdoch had to become a U.S. citizen. He did so in 1985, and in 1986 the new
Fox Broadcasting Company took to the air. Over the next 20-odd years, the network and owned-stations group expanded to become
extremely profitable for News Corp.

Since January 2000, this company has been the international distributor for MGM/UA releases. In the 1980s, Foxthrough a joint
venture with CBS, called CBS/Fox Videohad distributed certain UA films on video, thus UA has come full circle by switching to
Fox for video distribution. Fox also makes money distributing films for small independent film companies.

In 2008, Fox announced an Asian subsidiary, Fox STAR Studios, a joint venture with STAR TV, also owned by News Corporation. It
was reported that Fox STAR would start by producing films for theBollywood market, then expand to several Asian markets.[25]

In August 2012, 20th Century Fox signed a five-year deal with DreamWorks Animation to distribute in domestic and international
markets. However, the deal did not include the distribution rights of previously released films which DreamWorks Animation
acquired from Paramount Pictures later in 2014.[26] Fox's deal with DreamWorks Animation ended on June 2, 2017 with Captain
Underpants: The First Epic Movie, with Universal Pictures taking over the distribution deal with DreamWorks Animation due to
NBCUniversal's acquisition of DreamWorks Animation on August 22, 2016, starting on March 1, 2019 with the release of How to
Train Your Dragon 3.

In 2012, Rupert Murdoch announced that News Corp. would be split into two publishing and media-oriented companies; a new News
Corporation, and 21st Century Fox, which operates the Fox Entertainment Group and 20th Century Fox. Murdoch considered the
[27][28]
name of the new company a way to maintain the 20th Century Fox's heritage as the group advances into the future.

As of 2016, in Australia, 20th Century Fox has an expanded movie deal to replay movie and television content from television
broadcasters, Network Ten, Eleven and One occasionally also on Nine Network, 9Gem & 9Go!.

In Sweden, the Netherlands and in the Philippines, 20th Century Fox films are distributed by fellow rivalWarner Bros.

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

During the mid-1950s features were released to television in the hope that they would broaden sponsorship and help distribution of
network programs. Blocks of one-hour programming of feature films to national sponsors on 128 stations was organized by
Twentieth Century Fox and National Telefilm Associates. Twentieth Century Fox received 50 percent interest in NTA Film network
after it sold its library to National Telefilm Associates. This gave 90 minutes of cleared time a week and syndicated feature films to
110 non-interconnected stations for sale to national sponsors.[29]

Buyout of Four Star

Rupert Murdoch's 20th Century Fox bought out the remaining assets of Four Star Television from Ronald Perelman's Compact Video
in 1996.[30] Most of Four Star Television's library of programs are controlled by 20th Century Fox Television today.[31][32][33] After
Murdoch's numerous buyouts during thebuyout era of the eighties, News Corporation had built up financial debts of $7 billion (much
from Sky TV in the UK), despite the many assets that were held by NewsCorp.[34] The high levels of debt caused Murdoch to sell
many of the American magazine interests he had acquired in the mid-1980s.

Music
Between 1933 and 1937, a custom record label called Fox Movietone was produced starting at F-100 and running through F-136. It
featured songs from Fox movies, first using material recorded and issued on Victor's Bluebird label and halfway through switched to
material recorded and issued on ARC's dime store labels (Melotone, Perfect, etc.). These scarce records were sold only at Fox
Theaters.

Fox 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.

Radio
The Twentieth Century Fox Presents radio series[35] were broadcast between 1936 and 1942. More often than not, the shows were a
radio preview featuring a medley of the songs and soundtracks from the latest movie being released into the theaters, much like the
modern day movie trailers we now see on TV
, to encourage folks to head down to their nearest Picture House.

The radio shows featured the original stars, with the announcer narrating a lead up that encapsulated the performance.

Motion picture film processing

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.[36]
Headed by Alan E. Freedman, the Fort Lee lab was moved into the new Fox Studios building in Manhattan in 1919.[37] In 1932,
Freedman bought the labs from Fox for $2,000,000 to bolster what at that time was a failing Fox liquidity.[38][39] 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.

Logo
20th Century Fox is known for its now-iconic searchlight structure logo. Its
fanfare was originally composed in 1933 by Alfred Newman, who became the
head of Twentieth Century-Fox's music department from 1940 until the 1960s.
It was re-recorded in 1935 when 20th Century-Fox was of
ficially established.

The original Art Deco iteration of the 20th Century-Fox logo, designed by
special effects animator and matte painting artist Emil Kosa Jr., was originally
made as the design for the 20th Century Pictures logo, with "Fox" replacing
20th Century Fox's second logo, used
"Pictures, Inc." in 1935. The logo was originally created as a matte painting on
from 1953 to 1987. This version was
several layers of glass and was animated frame-by-frame. Kosa's final major
designed by Pacific Title artist Rocky
work for Fox was a matte painting of the Statue of Liberty in the ending scene Longo, and was originally created for the
of Planet of the Apes (1968), shortly before his death. new CinemaScope process.

20th Century Fox's iconicCGI logo used
from 1994 to 2010. It can still be seen on
various of Fox's websites.
straightened the "0" in "20th". The Fox fanfare was re-orchestrated in 1981, as Longo's revised logo was being introduced.
In 1953, Rocky Longo, an artist at Pacific Title (now Pacific Title and Art),
was hired to recreate the original logo design for the new CinemaScope picture
process. Alfred Newman also re-composed the logo's fanfare with an extension
to be heard during the CinemaScope logo that would follow after the Fox logo
for CinemaScope-processed films. In order to give the design the required
width to fit into the CinemaScope frame, Longo tilted the number "0" in
"20th". The new fanfare was first used on the film How to Marry a Millionaire
(1953). The Robe, the first film released in the CinemaScope format, featured a
choir singing over the logo instead of the regular fanfare.
In 1981, Longo repainted and updated the logo design by recoloring it yellow,
redesigning it, placing the monument on a background of blue clouds and

By the 1970s, the Fox fanfare was being used in films sporadically.
20th Century Fox Fanfare
George Lucas enjoyed the Alfred Newman fanfare so much that he
insisted for it to be used on Star Wars (1977). As a result, the original 0:00

release of Star Wars featured the CinemaScope version of the logo, The fanfare from the 2005 film Star
but with the version of fanfare as conducted by Lionel Newman, as Wars: Episode III Revenge of the
Sith, plus the soundtracks of the
the original version by Alfred Newman had been misfiled. John
1980 film The Empire Strikes Back,
Williams composed the film's opening theme in the same key as the and the 1983 film Return of the
fanfare (B major), serving as an extension to it of sorts. In 1980, Jedi, conducted by John Williams.
Williams conducted a new version of the extended fanfare for The
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Empire Strikes Back. Williams' recording of the fanfare was then used
in every subsequent Star Wars film until Episode III Revenge of the Sith(2005). After the introduction of the CGI Fox logo in 1994,
the series used the final view of the new logo, replicating look of the first three released films' opening logos and allowing the
Lucasfilm logo to appear during the second part of the fanfare.

In 1994, after a few failed attempts (which even included trying to film the familiar monument as an actual three-dimensional model
),
Fox in-house television producerKevin Burns was hired to produce a new logo for the company
, this time using the then-new process
of computer-generated imagery (CGI). With the help of graphics producer Steve Soffer and his company Studio Productions (which
had recently given face-lifts to the Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios logos in 1986 and 1990, respectively), Burns insisted
that the new logo would contain more detail and animation, so that the longer 21-second Fox fanfare would be used as the
underscore. The new logo incorporated a virtual Los Angeles cityscape that was designed around the monument; in the background,
the Hollywood sign, which would give the monument an actual location (approximating Fox's actual address in Century City) can be
seen. One final touch was the addition of store-front signs, with each one bearing the name of Fox executives who worked with the
studio at the time. These include "Murdoch's Department Store" (referring to Rupert Murdoch, president of News Corporation, Fox's
parent at the time), "Chernin's" (referring to Peter Chernin), "Burns Tri-City Alarm" (an homage to Burns' late father, who owned a
burglar and fire alarm company in Upstate New York), "Steve's Place" (referring to Soffer) and "llinidi's". It was also the first time
Fox was recognized as a subsidiary of News Corporation, as a byline reading "A News Corporation Company" was incorporated into
the logo.

As the CGI logo was being prepared to premiere at the beginning of True Lies (1994), Burns asked Bruce Broughton to compose a
new version of the familiar fanfare by Alfred Newman. In 1997, Alfred's son David Newman recorded the new version of the fanfare
to reopen the Newman Scoring Stage (originally known as Fox Scoring Stage), and debuted with the release of Anastasia (1997).
This rendition is still in use as of 2017.

In 2009, a newly updated CGI logo produced by Blue Sky Studios debuted with the filmAvatar (2009). A "75th anniversary" version
of the logo was introduced to coincide with 20th Century Fox's 75th anniversary in 2010 (much akin to practices made by most of the
other American major film studios at the time), and made its official debut with Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
and made its final appearance withGulliver's Travels.[6]
Legacy
Numerous parodies of the fanfare have appeared in film and television. Variations have also been used by other Fox divisions and
affiliated television stations, including WTVT in Tampa, Florida, and the now-defunct Fox Kids Network. Fox Searchlight Pictures,
Foxstar Productions, and Fox Studios Australia are just a few of the other corporate entities that have used variations based on the
original logo's design. 21st Century Fox, the corporate successor to News Corporation, uses a logo incorporating a minimalist
[27]
representation of the searchlights featured in the logo.

Highest-grossing films
Highest-grossing films in North America[40] Highest-grossing films worldwide

Box office Box office

Rank Title Year Rank Title Year
gross gross

1 Avatar 2009 $760,507,625 1 Avatar 2009 $2,787,965,087

2 Titanic 2 1997 $658,672,302 2 Titanic 2 1997 $2,186,772,302

Star Wars: Episode I Star Wars: Episode I

3 The Phantom Menace 1999 $474,544,677 3 The Phantom 1999 $1,027,044,677
1 Menace 1

4 Star Wars 3 1977 $460,998,007 Ice Age: Dawn of the

4 2009 $886,686,817
Dinosaurs
Star Wars: Episode III
5 Revenge of the Sith 2005 $380,270,577 Ice Age: Continental
5 2012 $877,244,782
1 Drift

6 Deadpool 2016 $363,070,709 Star Wars: Episode

6 III Revenge of the 2005 $848,754,768
Star Wars: Episode II Sith 1
7 Attack of the Clones 2002 $310,676,740
1 7 Independence Day 1996 $817,400,891
8 Deadpool 2016 $783,112,979
8 Return of the Jedi 1 1983 $309,306,177

9 Independence Day 1996 $306,169,268

9 Star Wars 3 1977 $775,398,007

The Empire Strikes X-Men: Days of

10 2014 $747,862,775
10 1980 $290,475,067 Future Past
Back 1
Dawn of the Planet
11 Home Alone 1990 $285,761,243 11 2014 $710,644,566
of the Apes
12 Night at the Museum 2006 $250,863,268
Ice Age: The
12 2006 $660,940,780
X-Men: The Last Meltdown
13 2006 $234,362,462
Stand
Star Wars: Episode II
X-Men: Days of Future 13 Attack of the 2002 $649,398,328
14 2014 $233,921,534
Past Clones 1
15 Cast Away 2000 $233,632,142 14 The Martian 2015 $630,161,890
16 The Martian 2015 $228,433,663 How to Train Your
15 2014 $621,537,519
Dragon 2 4
17 Logan 2017 $226,277,068
16 Logan 2017 $616,225,934
Alvin and the
18 Chipmunks: The 2009 $219,614,612 17 Life of Pi 2012 $609,016,565
Squeakquel
18 The Croods 4 2013 $587,204,668
19 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 $219,195,243
19 Night at the Museum 2006 $574,480,841
Alvin and the
20 2007 $217,326,974
Chipmunks The Day After
20 2004 $544,272,402
Tomorrow
21 X2: X-Men United 2003 $214,949,694
The Empire Strikes
22 Dawn of the Planet of 2014 $208,545,589 21 1980 $547,969,004
Back 1
the Apes
 22 X-Men: Apocalypse 2016 $543,934,787
Ice Age: Dawn of the
23 2009 $196,573,705
Dinosaurs 23 The Revenant 2015 $532,950,503
24 Ice Age: The Meltdown 2006 $195,330,621 24 The Simpsons Movie 2007 $527,071,022
25 The Croods 4 2013 $187,168,425 25 Kung Fu Panda 3 4 2016 $521,170,825

Includes theatrical reissue(s).

Films

Archive
The Academy Film Archive houses the 20th Century Fox Features Collection which contains features, trailers, and production
[41]
elements mostly from the Fox, Twentieth Century, and Twentieth Century-Fox studios, from the late 1920s1950s.

See also
Fox Entertainment Group
Related products:

20th Century Fox Studio Classics A premium DVD collection

Fox Family Fun A family DVD collection

Notes
1. ^ Theatrical and home media distribution rights will be transferred from 20th Century Fox to
Walt Disney Studios in
May 2020.[42] The digital distribution rights belong toWalt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, as Lucasfilm
.[43]
retained the film's digital distribution rights prior to its acquisition by Disney
2. ^ International distribution only. Released by Paramount Pictures domestically in North America.
3. ^ Although the theatrical and home video distribution rights to all other Star W
ars films will be transferred to Walt
[42]
Disney Studios by May 2020, 20th Century Fox will continue to own theatrical, home video, digital, and broadcast
[43]
distribution rights to the first film for the foreseeable future.
4. ^ Though NBCUniversal bought DreamWorks Animation,[44][45] the film's distribution rights will remain with 20th
Century Fox for a certain period of time before reverting toUniversal Pictures.

References
1. "Our Story" (http://www.mpaa.org/our-story). MPAA.
2. Livingston 2005, p. 101.
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