20th Century Fox
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The Logo drawn in the Wimpy Kid Films
20th Century Fox Film Corporation (or simply 20th Century Fox) is an American movie studio. Fox was the distributor behind all four Diary of a Wimpy Kid films and for the Wimpy Kid films they made an outlined cartoonish logo.
History
The company was founded on May 31, 1935, 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.
After being owned by the News Corporation from 1984 to 2013, the studio was bought by The Walt Disney Company for $71.3 billion in 2018,[1][2] a deal that was completed on March 20, 2019.
20th Century Fox is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
References
- ↑ "The Walt Disney Company to acquire Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., after spin-off of certain businesses, for $52.4 billion in stock". The Walt Disney Company (December 17, 2017). Retrieved on December 17, 2017.
- ↑ Williams, Trey (July 27, 2018). "Fox and Disney Shareholders Vote to Approve $71.3 Billion Merger". The Wrap. Retrieved on July 27, 2018.