

for the copyright of 20th Television productions as a Disney subsidiary. as copyright for 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures, while the company has been using 20th Television, Inc. As of December 4, 2020, the company has been using 20th Century Studios, Inc.

However, the studio was still legally incorporated and traded as Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation until December 4, 2020. On January 17, 2020, Disney announced that it would be dropping the word "Fox" from the company name, presumably to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation, renaming it to 20th Century Studios, along with Searchlight Pictures. Nevertheless, Disney continues to own perpetual rights to the 20th Century Fox name for the studio's legacy film library. The remaining assets Disney didn't acquire, notably the Fox network and Fox News, were spun-off into a new company called Fox Corporation. On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Studios announced its plans to buy most of 21st Century Fox's assets, which included a bidding war with Comcast the acquisition process was completed on March 20, 2019, with the last pre-Disney release from the studio being Alita: Battle Angel, released on February 14, 2019. 20th Century Fox also has a specialty division named Fox Searchlight Pictures (currently known as Searchlight Pictures) which the unit's titles were distributed internationally through 20th Century Fox until 2019.

Fox's most highly acclaimed film, according to review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes (jointly owned by Universal and Warner Bros.), is All About Eve, released in 1950 and directed by Joseph L. Both films were directed by James Cameron.

As of July 2018, their two most financially successful films are Avatar, released in 2009, and Titanic (under international rights), released in 1997. From 2013-2019, it was a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox Inc., which was a company formed when News Corporation split up into two companies. During the Golden Age of Hollywood it was one of the "Big Five" studios (the others were MGM, Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures and Warner Bros.). and Fox Film Corporation merged together to form Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (the hyphen between "Century" and "Fox" was dropped in 1985), or more simply 20th Century Fox.
