Disney has now removed the name “Fox” from Fox Studios and Fox Searchlight and will now be known as 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures.
As The NY Times’ Brooks Barnes writes:
The Walt Disney Company bought most of Mr. Murdoch’s entertainment assets last year in a $71.3 billion deal. That included the 20th Century Fox studio and its art-house sibling, Fox Searchlight. On Friday, employees at the main movie studio arrived to a new email format (@20thcenturystudios) without the Fox. A Disney spokesman confirmed that both labels, now officially known as 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures, would drop Fox from their logos. Disney had no further comment.
What’s the logic? Buy a legendary brand and strip it of everything that made it legendary? Meanwhile, Disney boss Bob Iger is taking a pay cut down to $47.5 million.
https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/bob-iger-disney-2019-compensation-47-5-million-1203471380/
I think we should crowdfund to help him get through winter.
The logic is Fox News is still called Fox News. Tainted. I’d change it too. Seeing as how the studio was first called 20th Century Studios before the Fox merger, I don’t understand the issue.
Lol! 20th Century Pictures existed for a grand total of 2 years between 1933 and 1935 when it merged with Fox Film and went on to produce some of the most iconic Hollywood films over the next eight decades, all of which bear the no less iconic 20th Century Fox logo playing to the iconic 20th Century Fox music. Fox News, which I’m sorry to say remains one of the few successful divisions of the Fox empire, cannot be blamed for the poor decisions made by its namesake film studio in recent years.
Are we in the 20th century or the 21st century? I get it confused.
Matt Groening went even further at the end of Futurama:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VErRlHvCeXY/hqdefault.jpg
Fox disapproved as they considered their brand was too sacred to be tempered with… oh, how times change.
As long as they do not remove it from the older films… there were fun versions of it, for The Rocky Horror Picture Show and for Moulin Rouge!
Well according to the video the first 20th century logo (1933) didn’t include “fox” so that makes it seem less weird. I’m just glad they’re not getting rid of “searchlight” altogether. I remember hearing that was a possibility at the beginning of the merger.
What’s the logic? Buy a legendary brand and strip it of everything that made it legendary? Meanwhile, Disney boss Bob Iger is taking a pay cut down to $47.5 million.
https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/bob-iger-disney-2019-compensation-47-5-million-1203471380/
I think we should crowdfund to help him get through winter.
Unfortunately, the word Fox as a media entity is now synonymous with ‘garbage’ so this is probably a good decision.
My deepest condolences to actual foxes whose reputations have been besmirched by our president’s pacifying security-blanket network.
The Walt Disney Company immediately updated its Wikipedia page. FX has been able to retain its Fox-derived name.
Easier to bury the back catalog with.
What an awful choice. Particularly Searchlight Pictures sounds like nothing
How about Mouse Searchlight? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5d5b2e5955582123fe634bc80f2de01ac65eec9fd0ee07e043547de68b5229a5.gif
Call me stupid but this is kinda sad. The end of an era.
I totally agree. Darryl Zanuck is spinning in his grave. Murdoch is the mendacious Johnny-come-lately usurper of this storied studio’s name. This gutless Disney erasure is allowing Murdoch to win. This removal is so craven and misguided.
Fight for history! No one ever claimed that Fox was a perfect place. But literally thousands of people worked for decades to make Fox movies a recognizable, sought-after brand. Murdoch isn’t remotely the professional that most of those people were, nowhere near their class.
You’ve got no guts, Disney. No guts.
Well that a load of nonsense if ever i heard that- Fact is individually seperately from Disney part ownership of overall ’20th century fox’ brand..i think many would agree here…the branding that it a property of ‘Murdoch Empire’ which fair and square has combined assets far more than Disney which, for Hollywood standards is garagantuan but globally Murdoch dominates..And truth be told…Disney is coming of age- hardly any credibility to your false claim of Disney ‘not showing guts’ – Disney since founding by great legendary Walt Disney- has always much more so than Fox risen above scandal- a la look no futher than storyline of movie ‘bombshell’ Disney are rightfully starting a clean slate- i not saying they scandal proof but far more often than not what Disney say and what they deliver has enthralled, inspired, uplifted and engaged and fulfilled audiences wishes NONE MORE SO than the heroic legendary heights of Avengers Endgame.
Unlike Murdoch, the reality is Disney’s ego does NOT dominate other partnered studios like Marvel- which, while it owes ensures to let Marvel execs, producers and marketers scope to incorporate their branding on their copyright products. On numerous occassions Fox has been diluted by scandal- none moreso than the ‘bombshell’ storyline. (a movie i will not see as it anti- trump mulch like last year overblown Vice which thankfully won nothingor hardly anything at the oscars anyway).
Fox has been hit and miss for too long now far from majority of films being critical and box office smash at best in last 15 years at least, Fox has had very very mixed results- for every box office hit 2 more were ok and underperformed at best.
Murdoch was losing interest anyway Disney did not pressure or bully or bribe Murdoch made executive decision to put Fox up for sale. Nobody on Disney side urged him too he needed buyer Disney made a pitch and Disney have earnt more than any other film studio and taking into account the record combined60+ nominations by a single studio for oscars and being most popular profitable hollywood studio studio film wise globally..they earnt this so for you to trash Disney reputation in vain is pretty damn low by anyone who suggestin so i commend Disney for wiling to stamp their authority esp after paying 70 bill. for aquisition of a company. Do YOU think Murdoch would agree to a sale of Fox if he really wasn’t prepared to sell it? think through garbage you say here.
Finally some say ‘mr. Zunuk would turn in his grave’ well no not at all..as filmmaker and producer part of Fox he was keen to push branding etc of HIS own studio so if anything he be proud even if it rival studio Disney takes on legacy of the Zunuk spirit and takes opportunity and elevates their company not just for their own sake but for benefit of filmgoers and Disney fans world over..
Maybe if this years Academy took into account TRUE function of partiuclarly biggest film studios let alone ALL hollywood studios to immerxe make films with public in mind not just critic elites and socialist pigs perverting cyberspace and online propaganda, maybe JUST MAYBE AVENGERS ENDGAME WOULD GET BEST PICTURE NOMINATION and Disbney would be paid respect they earnt from Hollywood and the Academy too few wins historically for it record breaking of oscar nominations NO OTHER FILM STUDIO HAS EARNT OSCAR WINS LIKE DISNEY has i cannot believe th arrogance of some of you to piss on Disney way you are..
are YOU founder and executive of most sensational impressive publicly concientious studio that serves public more than any other film studio? are you on board of organisation l;ike Disney? so many false claims here esp your comments
You and I will have to agree to disagree.