CASE STUDY: CONGLOMERATE

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

FILMS MADE

INTRODUCTION Keith Rupert Murdoch, (born in Melborne,Victoria,Australia)

is the chairman of the company. The company is the merger of Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures founded by William Fox and Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph M. Schenck. Motion Pictures and Television Pictures are products of 20th Century Fox. Different studios are for making of films like for example Fox television studios.

Rupert Murdoch

Joseph M. Schenck

Darryl F. Zanuck

HISTORY 20th Century Fox has distributed various commercially successful

film series, including Avatar, Ice Age, The secret life of Walter Mitty etc. Its television series produced by Fox include The Simpsons, How I met your mother etc. 20th Century Fox is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

The company was formed and merged in 1935. From then onwards it has been expanded so widely and has various products and studios of its own. Like “ Night at the museum ” has been produced by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment from different countries around the world. It is one of the six major American film studios as of 2011. Located in the Century City are of Los Angeles, the studio used to be a subsidiary of News Corporation, but now it is currently a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

MOST SUCCESSFUL MOVIES MADE BY 20TH CENTURY FOX

MOST SUCCESSFUL FILM

Budget:$ 246 millionBox Office:$ 749,766,139Released: 10th December 2009Directed by: James Cameron