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| company_name = Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
| company_name = Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
| logo = [[File:20th century fox (2009).png|250px]]
| logo = [[File:20th century fox (2009).png|250px]]

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| company_type = [[Subsidiary]]
| foundation = {{start date|1935|5|31}},<ref name=Chronology>{{Cite web | title = 20th Century Fox: Chronology | url=http://www.thestudiotour.com/fox/chronology.shtml | accessdate = February 20, 2010 }}</ref> by merger of '''Fox Films''' (founded in 1914) and '''20th Century Pictures, Inc.''' (founded in 1933)
| location = [[Fox Plaza (Los Angeles)|Fox Plaza]], [[Century City, Los Angeles]], [[California]], United States
| key_people = Stephen Blairson, <small>[[Chief executive officer|CEO]]</small>
| industry = [[Film industry|Film]]
| products = [[Film|Motion pictures]], [[television film]]s
| owner = [[Independent business|Independent]] (1914–1985)<br />[[News Corporation]] (1985-present)
| num_employees =
| parent = [[Fox Entertainment Group]]
| divisions = [[20th Century Fox Animation]]<br />Fox 2000 Pictures
| subsid = [[Fox Searchlight Pictures]]<br />[[Fox Atomic]]<br />[[Fox Interactive]]<br />[[20th Century Fox Home Entertainment]]<br />[[Fox Television Studios]]<br />[[Blue Sky Studios]]<br />[[20th Television]]/[[20th Century Fox Television]]<br />[[Fox Star Studios]]
| homepage = [http://www.foxmovies.com www.foxmovies.com]
}}
}}
'''Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation''' ('''Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation''', with hyphen, from 1935 to 1985) — also known as '''20th Century Fox''', or simply '''20th''' or '''Fox''' — is one of the six [[major film studio|major American film studios]] {{As of|2011|lc=on}}. Located in the [[Century City, Los Angeles|Century City]] area of [[Los Angeles]], just west of [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]], the studio is a subsidiary of [[Rupert Murdoch]]'s [[News Corporation]].
'''Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation''' ('''Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation''', with hyphen, from 1935 to 1985) — also known as '''20th Century Fox''', or simply '''20th''' or '''Fox''' — is one of the six [[major film studio|major American film studios]] {{As of|2011|lc=on}}. Located in the [[Century City, Los Angeles|Century City]] area of [[Los Angeles]], just west of [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]], the studio is a subsidiary of [[Rupert Murdoch]]'s [[News Corporation]].

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, with hyphen, from 1935 to 1985) — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios as of 2011. Located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills, the studio is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

The company was founded on May 31, 1935,[1] 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.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Chronology was invoked but never defined (see the help page).