{"id":20238,"date":"2014-10-05T19:15:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T23:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf235\/?p=20238"},"modified":"2014-12-01T15:56:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T20:56:35","slug":"20th-century-fox-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf235\/2014\/10\/05\/20th-century-fox-10\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Century Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Jessica Kim<\/pre>\n
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20th Century Fox Logo [1]<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n
Contact Information:<\/strong> [2]<\/a>
\nTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
\n10201 W Pico Blvd
\nLos Angeles, CA 90035
\nPhone: (310) 227-2211
\nWebsite: http:\/\/www.foxmovies.com<\/a><\/p>\n
Key Executives: <\/strong>[3]<\/a><\/p>\n
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Rupert Murdoch – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer<\/p><\/div>\n
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James N. Gianopulos – Chairman & CEO\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n
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Company Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation<\/a>, also known as 20th Century Fox, is one of the six major film studios in United States, and is the world’s second largest major film studio. It is located in Los Angeles, California. It is currently a subsidiary of News Corporation<\/a>\u00a0[4]<\/a>. 20th Century Fox was founded in Many 31, 1935, by merging between Fox Film Corporation, founded by William Fox\u00a0in 1915, and Twentieth Century Picture, founded in 1933 by Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck. Since their very first cinemascope production, The Robe<\/a> in 1953, they continue to create films that have great story, indelible characters, and take challenges for grafting\u00a0films with technological advances [5]<\/a>. Throughout their solid history, they produced and distributed many award-winning and widely known films such as Titanic<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, X-Men<\/a>, Avatar<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n
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Financials<\/strong><\/p>\n
From January 2014 to November 2014, 20th Century Fox made total of $1.5 billion gross domestically [6]<\/a>. During the 3rd quarter of 2014, they released 9 films and had a gross income of $427.6 million. This is 4.6% increased rate compare to their last year’s gross income [7]<\/a>. Gone Girl and The Book of Life, which were released in the 4th quarter, made $416 million of gross so far [8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Right Here, Right Now<\/strong><\/p>\n
From January to November 30 in year of 2014, 20th Century Fox produced and\/or distributed 16 films in the United States and in other countries. Films includes X-Men: Days of Future Past<\/a>, 12 Years of Slaves<\/a>, How to Train Your Dragon 2<\/a>, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes<\/a>. etc. Four films, Gone Girl, Penguins of Madagascar, The Maze Runner<\/a>, and The Book of Life<\/a> are still showing in theaters [9]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Gone Girl<\/p>\n
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Gone Girl poster, Courtesy from IMDb<\/p><\/div>\n
Gone Girl is based on Gillian Flynn<\/a>‘s famous novel. it is Drected by David Fincher<\/a>, and Ben Affleck<\/a>,\u00a0Rosamund Pike<\/a> and Neil Pattrick Harris<\/a> are lead actors of the film. The story of Gone Girl starts with\u00a0a husband, Nick Dunne, who reports that his wife is missing in their fifth wedding anniversary. \u00a0Under pressure and doubts from police, public and media, Nick starts lie and behave strangely. Soon majority of people starts to ask the same dark question. “Did he kill his wife?” [10]<\/a><\/p>\n