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20th Century Studios, Inc. is an American film studio owned by the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, in turn a division of The Walt Disney Company. It is headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles, leased from Fox Corporation. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by 20th Century Studios in theatrical markets.
For over 80 years, 20th Century was one of the major American film studios. It was formed in 1935 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation by the merger of Fox Film and Twentieth Century Pictures, and one of the original "Big Five" among eight majors of Hollywood's Golden Age. In 1985, the studio removed the hyphen in the name (becoming Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) after being acquired by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which was renamed 21st Century Fox in 2013 after it spun off its publishing assets. Disney purchased most of 21st Century Fox's assets, which included 20th Century Fox, on March 20, 2019. The studio adopted its current name as a trade name on January 17, 2020, in order to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation, and subsequently started to use it for the copyright of 20th Century and Searchlight Pictures productions on December 4.
The most commercially successful film series from 20th Century Studios include the first six Star Wars films, X-Men, Ice Age, Avatar, and Planet of the Apes. Additionally, the studio's library includes many individual films such as Titanic and The Sound of Music, both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and became the highest-grossing films of all time during their initial releases. (Full article...)
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The first and original incarnation of 20th Television was the syndication and distribution arm of 20th Century Fox Television until it was folded into Disney–ABC Domestic Television on August 10, 2020.
The company was originally established as the television production unit of 20th Century Studios (previously 20th Century Fox) since 1949. The original copyright holder for 20th Television's library was under 20th Century Fox until December 2020. The studio is best known for being the original programming supplier of the Fox network, and being the television distributor for the 20th Century Studios' film library.
20th Television was part of The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of the majority of 21st Century Fox's assets. Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox was completed on March 20, 2019. The company's current name was adopted on August 10, 2020. On December 4, 2020, the company started using 20th Television, Inc. for the copyright of 20th Television and 20th Television Animation productions as a Disney subsidiary.
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Nikita Khrushchev watches filming for the 1960 movie Can-Can during his 1959 state visit to the United States. The people in this image from left to right are: Nikita's daughter, Rada, son Sergei (standing behind Rada), Mrs. Eric Johnston, Spyras Skouras, Premier Khrushchev, interpreter Mrs. Buddy Adler (Anita Louise), Mrs. Khrushchev, Mrs. Skouras . Behind Alders is Nitkia other daughter Yulia, standing ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and Eric Johnston, Motion Picture Assn president.
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- Image 1Logo used as 20th Century Fox from 1986 to 2020. (from 20th Century Studios)
- Image 2Title card from a 1935 Fox Movietone News newsreel (from Fox Film)
- Image 3Alice Faye as Baroness Cecilia Duarte, Don Ameche as Larry Martin and Baron Manuel Duarte, and Carmen Miranda as Carmen in That Night in Rio, produced by Fox in 1941 (from 20th Century Studios)
- Image 4A horizontal version of 20th Century Studios' current print logo, used for branding films (mainly Hulu/Star originals produced by them). The first film to use this was Vacation Friends. (from 20th Century Studios)
- Image 5The 20th Century-Fox logo depicted in a 1939 advertisement in Boxoffice (from 20th Century Studios)
- Image 6Carmen Miranda as Dorita in The Gang's All Here. In 1946, she was the highest-paid actress in the United States. (from 20th Century Studios)
- Image 7This large stage at the Fox Studio on North Western Avenue was used as the men's dressing room when more than 2,000 people were needed for the Jerusalem street scenes in Theda Bara's Salomé (1918) (from Fox Film)
- Image 9Founder William Fox (from Fox Film)
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As a handsome, debonair leading man in 40 films over the next 14 years, he starred in comedies, dramas, and musicals. In the 1950s he worked on Broadway and in television, and was the host of NBC's International Showtimefrom 1961 to 1965. Returning to film work in his later years, Ameche enjoyed a fruitful revival of his career beginning with his role as a villain in Trading Places(1983) and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Cocoon (1985).
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