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20th Century Fox

Also Known As Fox Film Corporation
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An American film production and distribution studio formed on 31 May 1935 by the merger of William Fox's Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures, one of Hollywood's major studios for nearly ninety years until the Walt Disney Company acquired it in 2019. In 1953 it introduced CinemaScope, the widescreen anamorphic format that began the modern era of wide theatrical projection.

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1935 1
Formed 31 May 1935 by the merger of Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures; Fox Film itself dated to 1915.
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20th Century Studios, Inc., formerly Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, is an American film production and distribution company currently owned by the Walt Disney Studios.
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