20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox is shorthand for Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation which is an American film studio located in the Century City area just west of Beverly Hills, California. The studio is presently a subsidiary of News Corporation, the Australian media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch.On July 23, 1926, Fox Film bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
Founder William Fox was forced out of Fox Film, and new leadership under president Sidney Kent in 1935 merged with Twentieth Century Pictures (formed 1933 when producer Darryl F. Zanuck left Warner Brothers to produce under Joseph Schenck, former head of United Artists and brother of Nicholas Schenck.)
