Company20th Century Foxlocation_cityCentury City, Los Angeles, California, United Statessource_urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century_Foxname20 Century Fox Film Corporationwikipedia_paragraphTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (spelled from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation), also known as 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, or simply Fox, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills, the studio is a subsidiary of News Corporation, the media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch. The company was founded in 1935, as the result of a merger of two entities, Fox Film Corporation founded by William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures, begun in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph Schenck, Raymond Griffith and William Goetz. Some of 20th Century Fox's most popular movie franchises include the Star Wars, Home Alone, Die Hard, Ice Age, Revenge of the Nerds, X-Men (film series), Alien and Predator series.wikipedia_inbound_page_count0founded1935, by merger of Fox Films (founded in 1915) and 20th Century Pictures, Inc. (founded in 1932)parent_companyFox Filmed Entertainment (News Corporation)products_producedMoviesownerNews Corporationorganization_typeSubsidiary of News Corporationkey_personJim Gianopoulos, Chairman & CEOcompany_industryMotion picturewebsitefoxmovies.comwebsitefoxstudios.comORGANIZATION