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For over 80 years, 20th Century has been one of the major American film studios. It was formed in 1935 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation[a] by the merger of Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures, and one of the original "Big Five" among eight majors of Hollywood's Golden Age.
- Universal Pictures. Founded: 1912. Highest-Grossing Film: Jurassic World (2015) Universal is the oldest American film studio. In fact, the original president of Universal, Carl Laemmle, was the first movie executive to give actors on-screen credit, which eventually led to popular performers becoming box office draws.
- Paramount Pictures. Founded: 1912. Highest-Grossing Film: Titanic (1997) (co-production with 20th Century Fox) Paramount was founded as the Famous Players Film Company in 1912.
- Walt Disney Pictures (1923) Founded: 1923. Highest-Grossing Film: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) Walt Disney Pictures began its life as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, and was renamed after the massive success of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon character allowed the company to expand beyond traditional cartoon shorts.
- Warner Bros. Pictures (1923) Founded: 1923. Highest-Grossing Film: The Dark Knight (2008) was founded by four brothers — Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner.
Oct 24, 2024 · 20th Century Studios is a major American film studio formed in 1935 by the merger of Twentieth Century Pictures and the Fox Film Corporation. Since 2019 it has been a subsidiary of the Disney Company. Learn more about 20th Century Studios, including its notable films.
Twentieth Century Pictures created by Joseph Schenck (former president of United Artists), Darryl F. Zanuck from Warner Brothers, William Goetz from Fox Films and Raymond Griffith. 1935 (May 31)
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., U.S. movie studio. It was formed in 1935 by the merger of Twentieth Century Pictures (founded in 1933 by Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck) and the Fox Film Corp. (founded in 1915 by William Fox). The new studio produced mainly westerns and musicals into the 1940s, as well as notable films such as The Grapes ...
Mar 8, 2019 · The newly formed Twentieth Century-Fox ushered in a golden age of westerns, musicals, sweeping epics and the first movie filmed in proprietary CinemaScope, “The Robe.”
Twentieth Century Fox (or 20th Century Fox) was among the first and the last major Hollywood studios to coalesce, initially emerging in the mid-teens as the Fox Film Corporation but not taking on its ultimate configuration until a 1935 merger with 20th Century Pictures, an upstart independent production company run by the inimitable Darryl F ...
