3. Overview
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, with hyphen, from 1935 to 1985) —
also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios as of 2011.
Located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills, the studio is a subsidiary of Rupert
Murdoch's News Corporation
The company was founded on May 31, 1935,[1] as the result of the merger of Fox Film Corporation, founded by
William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures, founded in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph Schenck, Raymond
Griffith and William Goetz.
20th Century Fox's most popular film franchises include Avatar, Star Wars, Ice Age, Garfield, Alvin and the
Chipmunks, X-Men, Die Hard, Alien, Speed, Revenge of the Nerds, Planet of the Apes, Home Alone, Dr. Dolittle, Night
at the Museum, Predator, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and The Chronicles of Narnia (which was previously distributed by
Walt Disney Pictures), The Beach, plus famous TV shows such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad!.
Some of the most famous actors to come out of this studio were Shirley Temple, who was 20th Century Fox's first film
star, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. The studio also contracted the first African-
American cinema star, Dorothy Dandridge.
Their most commercially successful production partners in later years have been 1492 Pictures, Lucasfilm, Lightstorm
Entertainment, Davis Entertainment, Walden Media, Regency Enterprises, Blue Sky Studios, Troublemaker
Studios, Marvel Studios, Ingenious Film Partners, Scott Free Productions, Gracie Films, EuropaCorp, Color
Force, Centropolis Entertainment, Conundrum Entertainment, Bad Hat Harry Productions, Red Hour
Productions, Village Roadshow Pictures, Dune Entertainment, Chernin Entertainment, The Donners' Company, 21
Laps Entertainment and Spyglass Entertainment.
4. Films distributed
Over 3000 films have been distributed by 20th century fox. These
include.
Rise of the planet of the apes
X-Men: first class
A-team
Meet the Spartans
Hitman
5. Target audience
the sitter has been given an R rating because it
has sexual content, bad language and
violence. This would mean that he would lose a
lot of money because of the rating that they
have given it because an R rated film in
America is usually rated 18 in Britain.
