History

• The Fox Film Corporation was formed by William Fox in 1915.

• Twentieth Century Pictures was an independent Hollywood motion picture production company created by Joseph Scheneck in 1933.

• These two companies agreed to a merger and began trading as The Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1935.

Subsidiary Company

• 20th Century Fox Animation• Fox Faith• Blue Sky Studios• New Regency• Fox Animation Studios• Fox Searchlight

Animation

• 20th Century Fox Animation is the animation division of 20th Century Fox which was created in 1997, before this the Fox Animation Studios were responsible for many of 20th Century Fox films.

• Fox also owns Blue Sky Studios, a computer animation company, from which they have had much more success than the 20th Century Fox Animation, with the box office receipts of their films being highly competitive with the work of Pixar and DreamWorks.

20th Century Fox's most popular films include…

AvatarStar warsIce agex-menDie hardNight at the museumPlanet of the apesThe Chronicles of Narnia.

Also famous TV shows such as Family Guy, The Simpsons and American Dad.

Avatar20th Century Fox most famous film is Avatar.

Avatar beat Titanic's worldwide gross to become the highest grossing film worldwide.

It is the first film to earn over $2 billion in foreign box office receipts.

IMAX ticket sales account for $228 million of its worldwide gross, more than double the previous record.

The IMAX opening weekend also broke box office records, with 178 theatres generating approximately $9.5 million.