20th Century Studios

20th Century Studios, Inc. is an American film studio owned by the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, in turn a division of The Walt Disney Company.^[6] It is headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles, leased from Fox Corporation.^[7] Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by 20th Century Studios in theatrical markets.^[8]

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20th Century Studios, Inc.

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Fox Studio Lot in Century City, Los Angeles
Trade name	20th Century Studios
Formerly	Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (1935–1985) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (1985–2020)
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Film
Predecessors	Fox Film Twentieth Century Pictures
Founded	May 31, 1935; 88 years ago (1935-05-31)
Founders	Joseph M. Schenck Darryl F. Zanuck William Fox Spyros Skouras
Headquarters	Fox Studio Lot Building 88, 10201 West Pico Boulevard, Century City, Los Angeles, California , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	David Greenbaum (president) Steve Asbell (president, production)
Products	Motion pictures Television films
Number of employees	2,300 (2018)
Parent	The Walt Disney Studios
Divisions	20th Century Animation 20th Century Family 20th Century Games 20th Century Comics
Website	www.20thcenturystudios.com
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For over 80 years, 20th Century was one of the major American film studios. It was formed in 1935 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation^{[lower-alpha 1]} by the merger of Fox Film and Twentieth Century Pictures, and one of the original "Big Five" among eight majors of Hollywood's Golden Age. In 1985, the studio removed the hyphen in the name (becoming Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)^{[lower-alpha 2]} after being acquired by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which was renamed 21st Century Fox in 2013 after it spun-off its publishing assets. Disney purchased most of 21st Century Fox's assets, which included 20th Century Fox, on March 20, 2019.^[9] The studio adopted its current name as a trade name on January 17, 2020, in order to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation, and subsequently started to use it for the copyright of 20th Century and Searchlight Pictures productions on December 4.^[10]

The most commercially successful film series from 20th Century Studios include the first six Star Wars films, X-Men, Ice Age, Avatar, and Planet of the Apes.^[11] Additionally, the studio's library includes many individual films such as Titanic and The Sound of Music, both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and became the highest-grossing films of all time during their initial releases.^[12][13]