20th Century FoxINSTITUTION RESEARCH

History An American film studio, distributor and one of the six major American film

studios. 20th Century Fox’s story begins in a tiny theatre on New York’s Lower East

Side. In 1904, fresh from Hungary, 25-year-old William Fox amazed audiences with

his magical hand-cranked films. The beginnings were humble – folding chairs, a painted wall for a screen but

the desire to entertain and move people has been at the core of what 20th Century Fox has been doing ever since.  

By 1915, Fox’s five-cent movie shows were wildly popular and his single screen grew first into a chain of 25 theaters around New York City and then into a movie making business. 

William Fox starts the Fox Film Foundation with studios built in New Jersey and Hollywood.

From the first Cinemascope production The Robe in 1953, which electrified audiences and changed the way movies were shot and shown, to Avatar, the highest-grossing picture of all time, whose use of motion capture and re-imagined 3-D are regarded as modern breakthroughs in cinematic technology, Fox has never stopped exploring what movies could be.

Midway Progress

When the world wanted to bury the movie musical, Fox gave it the Academy Award winning Sound of Music, considered by many to be the best musical of all time.

Fox showed the world a new vision of Science Fiction with Star Wars and ushered in the modern action hero with the Die Hard series.

Comedies like Home Alone and Mrs. Doubtfire became instant classics and brought whole families back to the theater to enjoy watching movies together.

Drawing inspiration from real life, 20th Century Fox re-imagined the biopic with films like Patton and Braveheart and captured the epic romance and tragedy of Titanic.

From the gritty streets of 1970s New York in The French Connection to the candy-colored streets of Mumbai in Slumdog Millionaire, 20th Century Fox never shied away from exploring the human condition -- or the mutant condition, as the X-Men series continues to show.  

Apart from drawing inspiration from real life, they brought to the screen beloved works of literature, like Life of Pi and The Fault In Our Stars.

20th Century Fox Television

It is the television production subsidiary of 20th Century Fox, and a production arm of the Fox Television Group.

Formed in 1949 as other studios were branching out into television production as well.

Following a 1994 restructuring of Fox's television production companies, 20th Television was refocused on syndication and "non-traditional programs", while network television programming once more came under the 20th Century Fox Television banner and returned to being a division of the movie studio.

Notable Television Shows M*A*S*H, Glee, How I Met Your Mother, Bones, Empire, Family Guy, 24,

Modern Family, American Dad!, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Futurama, New Girl, and most notably The X-Files and The Simpsons.

Blue Sky Studios

Blue Sky Studios is an American computer animation film studio, founded in 1987.

Blue Sky Studios has been owned by 20th Century Fox since 1997.

Using its in-house rendering software, the studio had worked on visual effects for commercials and films before completely dedicating itself to animated film production in 2002 with the release of Ice Age.

The studio is best known for its franchises Ice Age and Rio, and its most critically acclaimed film The Peanuts Movie.

Notable Films by Blue Sky Studios

Ice Age Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! Rio Epic Rio 2 The Peanuts Movie Ice Age: Collision Course

Honorary MentionThe studio is best known for its franchises Ice Age and Rio, and its most critically acclaimed film The Peanuts Movie that earned a total of

$246.2 million

Since I will be making a romantic film, below are some of the most popular romantic films by 20th Century Fox:

The Fault In Our StarsPaper TownsThe Other WomanTitanicThe Longest Ride

Why have I chosen 20th Century Fox?

20th Century Fox being one of the big six studios in Hollywood Film Industry got my attention. My film would be based on a romantic genre and 20th Century Fox have made some amazing romantic movies that speak of a compelling narrative, strong grounded characters, and an unconventional trait that is not followed in typical romantic movies. Notably, The Fault In Our Stars, Paper Towns, Titanic are such movie examples that do not conclude on a happy note which I feel is challenging the stereotype and conventional romantic film storylines. Not all characters in the film are given a fixed resolution of a conflict that arises in the course of the storyline however the essence of romance is still not lost.

Bottom Line!

As the digital revolution reshapes all aspects of the entertainment industry, 20th Century Fox remains on the forefront, embracing new technologies that take their audience deeper into our films.

From thrilling animated features to visual effects that make their superheroes leap and fly of the screen, their mission is the same as it was over a century ago, give people the simple pleasure of being transported by a story on a screen.