From the gritty streets of 1970s New York in The French Connection to the candy-colored roads of Mumbai in Fox Searchlight’s Slumdog Millionaire, 20th Century Fox never shied away from exploring the human condition-or the mutant condition, as the X-Men series, based on the Marvel Comics characters, continues to show.
Doubtfire became instant classics and brought families to the theater to enjoy watching movies together.Ģ0th Century Fox reimagined the bio-pic with films like Patton and Braveheart and captured the epic romance and tragedy of Titanic. 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.
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5 on Sight and Sound’s “The 50 Greatest Films of All Time” list, last updated July 30, 2018.Īfter merging with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935, which had produced many popular films in the 1930s including Moulin Rouge, Folies Bergère de Paris, and Les Misérables, the renamed 20th Century Fox began an unprecedented run of unforgettable films and movie-making firsts that continues to this day.įrom Fox’s 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, which used motion capture and reimagined 3D as modern breakthroughs in cinematic technology, Fox has never stopped exploring what movies could be.Īt a time when the world seemed to be less interested in movie musicals, Fox gave them the Academy Award ®-winning The Sound of Music, considered by many to be the best musical of all time. A marvel of technical prowess and inventive storytelling, the film was shot in multiple locations and on the Fox lot, where an elevated set was built using forced perspective. Among the milestone movies made in the 1920s were the Western Just Pals in 1920, the first Fox film from legendary director John Ford, and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), directed by German maestro F.W. In 1926, Fox purchased Movietone, a company that combined sound with moving pictures, creating newsreels shown around the world. In 1916, Fox left New York City for Los Angeles and launched the Fox Film Corporation, eventually purchasing 100 acres between Santa Monica and Pico Boulevards, west of Beverly Hills. By 1915, his single screen grew into a chain of 25 theaters around New York City. Fox, fresh from Hungary, amazed audiences with his magical, hand-cranked short films. The story of 20th Century Fox extends all the way back to 1904 and a tiny theater on New York’s Lower East Side, where 25-year-old William S. In honor of this historic day for our company, D23 wanted to take a look at the storied history of this legendary entertainment giant, which was rooted in the 20th Century Fox film studio, one that has specialized in creating cinema-and, later, television-that enters the collective imagination and is built on great stories and indelible characters. Today The Walt Disney Company completed its acquisition of 21st Century Fox.
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