A2 20th Century Fox Research

20th Century Fox is one of the six major American film studios as of 2011. The studio is a subsidiary of News Corporation.

 The company was founded on May 31, 1935,as the result of the merger of Fox Film Corporation, founded by William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures, founded in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph Schenck, Raymond Griffith and William Goetz.

Some of the most famous actors to come out of this studio were Shirley Temple, who was 20th Century Fox's first movie star, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield.

Here is are a few franchises owned by 20th Century Fox

• 24 (on behalf of 20th Century Fox Television and Imagine Television)
• Alien
• Die Hard
• Dr. Dolittle
• Family Guy (on behalf of 20th Century Fox Television)
• Home Alone
• Ice Age (on behalf of Blue Sky Studios)
• Night at the Museum
• Planet of the Apes
• Predator
• Star Wars (on behalf of Lucasfilm)
• The Chronicles of Narnia (on behalf of Walden Media, and previously distributed by Walt Disney Pictures)
• The Simpsons (on behalf of 20th Century Fox Television)
• X-Men (on behalf of Marvel Studios)