Fox Entertainment Group was an American entertainment company specialised in filmed entertainment owned by

21st Century Fox Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., doing business as 21st Century Fox (21CF), was an American multinational mass media corporation that was based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was one of the two companies formed on June 28, 2013, fo ...

. Following the

acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney The acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney was announced on December 14, 2017, and was completed on March 20, 2019. Among other key assets, the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by the Walt Disney Company included the 20th Century Fox film and ...

, the group's assets were folded into various

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units. The film studios

20th Century Fox 20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film production company headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. As of 2019, it serves as a film production arm of Walt Disn ...

(now known as 20th Century Studios), Fox Searchlight Pictures (now known as Searchlight Pictures) and

Blue Sky Studios Blue Sky Studios, Inc. was an American computer animation studio based in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was founded on February 22, 1987 by Chris Wedge, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown, and Eugene Troubetzkoy after their e ...

were transferred to Walt Disney Studios, whilst Fox Star Studios (now known as Star Studios) transferred to Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International. Its former owner, 21st Century Fox, was formerly known as

News Corporation News Corporation (abbreviated News Corp.), also variously known as News Corporation Limited, was an American multinational mass media corporation controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch and headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in New ...

, which acquired all the stock of Fox Entertainment Group in 2005. In 2013, News Corporation was renamed 21st Century Fox and its publishing assets were spun off into the newly formed

News Corp News Corporation, stylized as News Corp, is an American mass media and publishing company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The second incarnation of the original News Corporation, it was formed on June 28, 2013, following a ...

as part of a corporate re-organization. It was named after William Fox who created the original

20th Century Fox Film Corporation 20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film production company headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. As of 2019, it serves as a film production arm of Walt Disn ...

(alongside

Joseph M. Schenck Joseph Michael Schenck (; December 25, 1876 – October 22, 1961) was a Russian-born American film studio executive. Life and career Schenck was born to a Jewish family in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russian Empire. He emigrated to New York City ...

and Darryl F. Zanuck).

History

Fox Entertainment Group formed in the 1980s after the purchase of the

Metromedia Metromedia (also often MetroMedia) was an American media company that owned radio and television stations in the United States from 1956 to 1986 and controlled Orion Pictures from 1988 to 1997. Metromedia was established in 1956 after the DuMon ...

-owned independent stations by the

film studio, at the time jointly owned by Australian-American media mogul

Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch ( ; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American business magnate. Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including ...

, and

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billionaire Marvin Davis. These stations would later become the foundation of the Fox television network (launched in October 1986), which would become the foundation of the company (named after the TV network) itself. Not long after the Metromedia deal was made, Murdoch purchased Davis's shares and News Corp assumed full control of the film studio, which was then placed within Fox Entertainment Group. In 1995, Saban entered into a joint venture with the Fox children's television network to form Fox Kids Worldwide, which was best known for the first ten ''

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'' series. In 1997 it was renamed Fox Family Worldwide. On July 23, 2001, it was announced that Fox Family Worldwide (now ABC Family Worldwide Inc.) would be sold to

from

and businessperson Haim Saban. On October 24, 2001, the sale was completed. On August 14, 1998, Fox launched an

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as a publicly traded company, trading on the

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(NYSE,) while Fox Entertainment Group's address has been moved from Los Angeles to New York City. The company has traded on the NYSE since its launch under ticker symbol FOX until its acquisition in 2005 by News Corporation. In January 2005, shortly after News Corporation reincorporation in the United States, News Corp announced that it was buying out Fox. The maneuver delisted Fox from the

; Fox Entertainment Group traded on the NYSE under the ticker FOX. In 2012,

announced that News Corporation would be split into two publishing and media-oriented companies: a new News Corporation, and

, which operated the Fox Entertainment Group and

and other studios. Murdoch considered the name of the new company a way to maintain the 20th Century Fox's heritage as the group advances into the future. In January 2017, Fox Entertainment Group and

formed FoxNext, which would handle video game developments, VR experiences and theme park businesses. After Disney completed the acquisition of the 21st Century Fox assets on March 20, 2019, Fox Entertainment Group assets became Disney properties and are now reorganized under other Disney units. The Fox Entertainment name would later be used by the

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for its entertainment assets.

Units

Transferred to The Walt Disney Studios

* 20th Century Fox Animation *

* 20th Century Fox Consumer Products * Fox Family Entertainment * Fox Stage Productions * Fox 2000 Pictures * Fox Searchlight Pictures * New Regency Productions (80%, joint venture with Regency Enterprises) *

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(minority stake) * Fox Studios Australia *

Zero Day Fox 20th Digital Studio (also known onscreen as simply 20th Digital and formerly known as Fox Digital Studio from 2008 to 2013 and Zero Day Fox from 2013 to 2020) is an American web series and web films production and distribution company founded i ...

* Fox Music

Transferred to Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International

* Fox Star Studios *

Hulu Hulu () is an American subscription streaming service majority-owned by The Walt Disney Company, with Comcast's NBCUniversal holding a minority stake. It was launched on October 29, 2007 and it offers a library of films and television series ...

(30%) * Hulu Documentary Films * 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment * Fox-Paramount Home Entertainment (joint venture with

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)

Transferred to
Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, Inc., formerly Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. and informally known as Disney Parks, is one of The Walt Disney Company's five major business segments and a subsidiary. It was founded on Apri ...

* FoxNext * Aftershock Studios * 20th Century Fox World (licence to Resort World by

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)

References

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History

Units

Transferred to The Walt Disney Studios

Transferred to Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International

See also

References