20th Century Fox Animation

20th Century Fox Animation

Type	Division of 20th Century Fox
Industry	Traditional animation CGI animation Motion pictures
Founded	1997
Products	CGI animated films, animated sitcoms
Owner(s)	News Corporation
Parent	20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox Animation is the animation division of film studio 20th Century Fox.

History

Fox Animation Studios

Before 20th Century Fox started its animation division in 1997, 20th Century Fox released its first six animated films, such as Wizards, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (both released in 1977), Fire and Ice (released in 1983), FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Once Upon a Forest, and The Pagemaster. From 1997–2000, they operated Fox Animation Studios, a traditional animation studio which was started to compete with Walt Disney Animation Studios, which was experiencing great success at the time with films such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King. The Fox studio, however, was not as successful. Their first feature Anastasia, although critically acclaimed as being of Disney caliber and often mistaken as a Disney film, barely made a profit, taking in $58 million at the American box office on an estimated $53 million dollar budget. Their next feature, Titan A.E., was a large financial loss, taking back only $22 million of its estimated $75 million budget. The lack of box office success, coupled with the rise of computer animation, led Fox to shut down the Fox Animation Studio after 2000. However, FAS still releases animated films outsourced from other companies, such as the recent film version of Fantastic Mr. Fox (from Regency Enterprises).

• Anastasia (1997)
• Bartok the Magnificent (1999, made for VHS)
• Titan A.E. (2000)

Blue Sky Studios

At present, Fox owns Blue Sky Studios, a computer animation company. Fox has had much more success with Blue Sky, and the box office receipts of their films are competitive with that of Pixar's and DreamWorks's. They have released six features:

• Ice Age (2002)
• Robots (2005)
• Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
• Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
• Rio (2011)

Films based on television series

• Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005, made for DVD)
• The Simpsons Movie (2007)
• Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007, made for DVD)
• Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008, made for DVD)
• Futurama: Bender's Game (2008, made for DVD)
• Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009, made for DVD)

Theatrical short films

• Inside the CIA (2005)

Other films

• Waking Life (2001) (with Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• Monkeybone (2001) (co-production with Twitching Image Studio)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) (co-production with Indian Paintbrush, Regency Enterprises, and American Empirical Pictures)
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) (co-production with Color Force) (animated scenes only)

Upcoming films

• Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012, in production)
• Leaf Men (2013, in development)
• Walking with Dinosaurs (2013, in development)
• Spore (TBA, in development)
• Mutts (TBA)

Television series

• The Simpsons (1989–present)
• King of the Hill (1997–2009)
• Family Guy (1999–2002; 2005–present)
• Futurama (1999–2003; 2008–present)
• American Dad! (2005–present)
• Sit Down, Shut Up (2009)
• The Cleveland Show (2009–present)
• Glenn Martin, DDS (2009–present)
• Neighbors from Hell (2010)
• Bob's Burgers (2011–present)
• Allen Gregory (2011)
• Napoleon Dynamite (2012–present)

External links

• 20th Century Fox Animation at the Internet Movie Database