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The Zanuck Company (formerly The Zanuck/Brown Company) is an American motion picture production company. It is responsible for such blockbusters as Jaws, The Sting, Cocoon, Driving Miss Daisy, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland.
The Zanuck Company has produced some of Hollywood’s most successful motion pictures.
In 1972, Zanuck joined with David Brown to form an independent production company called the Zanuck/Brown Company at Universal Pictures. Their first big hit was The Sting (1973), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in April 1974.
Darryl Francis Zanuck (/ ˈ z æ n ə k /; September 5, 1902 – December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era.
The Zanuck Company was an American film production company founded by Richard D. Zanuck and his wife Lili Fini. Zanuck had been a senior executive at Twentieth Century Fox and was closely involved in the production of both Planet of the Apes (1968) and Beneath the Planet of the Apes, as well as...
Dec 23, 2003 · The producer Richard D. Zanuck, 68, knows something about the relationship between fathers and sons. He tussled for many years with his father, the legendary cigar-chomping movie mogul Darryl F....
Nov 27, 2019 · DARRYL F. ZANUCK, 20th Century-Fox studio chief “Video won’t be able to hold onto any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
