20th Century Fox is one of the major film studios in America and is currently a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It has distributed many commercially successful film franchises like Avatar, Titanic, Star Wars, X-Men, Ice Age, and Alien. The studio was formed in 1915 through the merger of two companies and was originally based in Fort Lee, New Jersey before moving to its current lot in Los Angeles. 20th Century Fox has also had success in television production and music publishing to accompany its films.

1. Institution Research
20th Century fox
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is one of the Big
six major Film studios in America. This studio used to be a
subsidiary of News Corporation but now is a subsidiary of
21st Century fox. It’s the world’s second largest film studio
after Warner Bros.
20th Century Fox has distributed various commercially
successful film series, including the live actionAlvin and the
Chipmunks ,Avatar,Titanic , the first two Star
Wars trilogies, Ice Age,X-Men,Die Hard,Planet of the
Apes , Night at the Museum, Fantastic
Four ,Alien and Predator .
20th Century fox is a member of the Motion picture
Association of America. (MPAA)

2. History
The fox film corporation was formed by merging two companies; Greater New York Film
rental and Fox office attractions company (a production company).
Always more of an entrepreneur than a showman, Fox concentrated on acquiring and building
theaters; pictures were secondary. The company's first film studios were set up in Fort Lee, New
Jersey where it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were
based at the beginning of the 20th century.
With the introduction of sound technology, Fox moved to acquire the rights to a sound-on-film
process. Later that year, the company began offering films with a music-and-effects track, and
the following year Fox began the weekly Fox Movietone News feature, which ran until 1963. The
growing company needed space, and in 1926 Fox acquired 300 acres (1.2 km2) in the open country
west of Beverly Hills and built "Movietone City", the best-equipped studio of its time.
Over the years, the company faced a lot of financial and production problems but managed to rise
up again with time. But one thing is certain, the company is successful right from the very
beginning.
The company's films retained the 20th Century Films searchlight logo on their opening credits as
well as the 20th Century opening fanfare, but with the name changed to 20th Century-Fox.

3. Television
20th Television is Fox's television syndication division. 20th Century Fox Television is the studio's television
production division.
Music
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 were broadcast between 1936 and 1942. The
shows were a radio preview featuring a medley of the songs and soundtracks from the latest
movie being released into the theaters, to encourage folks to head down to their nearest
Picture House.
Film and production
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. Headed
by Alan E. Freedman, the Fort Lee lab was moved into the new Fox Studios building in
Manhattan in 1919. 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.

4. 20th Century fox in 2014
To say it 2014 has been a very successful year for 20th Century Fox. The studio has crossed the $2 million
mark domestically and $3 billion globally for 2014. They are the first studio to do so this year.
X-Men: Days of Future Past has been a huge help to this number, having taken $735 million worldwide.
This is the second time the studio has hit this point after doing so in 2010. The majority of that money came
from James Cameron’s Avatar.
20th Century Fox have now hit $2 billion globally for the last six years in a row.
Here are the big contributors:
Grand Budapest Hotel ($168 million)
Rio 2 ($490 million)
The Other Woman ($195 million)
X-Men: Days of Future Past ($735 million)
The Fault in our Stars ($243 million)
How to Train Your Dragon 2 ($366 million)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes ($132 million)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is currently in cinemas and is directed by Matt Reeves (Let Me In) with Andy
Serkis returning as Caesar alongside Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty), Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight
Rises), Keri Russell (Mission: Impossible III), Toby Kebbell (Wrath of the Titans), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me
In), Enrique Murciano (Black Hawk Down), Kirk Acevedo (The Thin Red Line) and Judy Greer (13 Going on
30).

5. Top grossing films of all times by 20th Century Fox

7. Sources
Pictures: www.google.com
Text: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century_Fox
Charts: www.google.com
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