20th Century Pictures

By Shaban Jahan

History • Twentieth Century Fox is one of the six major American film studios today. It

is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, near west side of Beverly Hills. Twentieth Century Fox is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s news corporation.

• Twentieth Century Fox was founded on May 31st 1935 as the result of the merger of Fox Film Corporation, which was founded by William Fox in 1915 and Twentieth Century Pictures, which was founded in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck , Joseph Schenck, Raymond Griffith and William Goetz.

• Twentieth Century Fox most popular film franchises include Avatar, Star Wars, Ice Age, Garfield , Alvin and the Chipmunks, X-Man , Die Hard, Alien, Speed, Revenge of the Nerds, Plant of the Apes, Home Alone, Dr. Dolittle, Night at the Museum, Predator, Diary of Wimpy Kid and the Beach.

• Twentieth Century Fox are also famous for TV shows such as The Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad

• In addition Twentieth Century Fox also produced famous actors and actress for example Shirley Temple was one of the first film star for Twentieth Century Fox

List of Drama Films • Black Swan • Slumdog Millionaire • Australia • Avatar• Little Miss Sunshine • Master and Commander • Walk the Line

Most Successful

Why?

• Directed by James Cameron • Avatar is successful because of the technology used in the production to make Avatar due

to the technology for the film was not available • Special cameras used to film Avatar • Virtual camera system – a new was of directing motion-capture filmmaking • Pace Fusion 3D • Fusion Camera ( dual- strip 3-D) • CGI• Officially Avatar was budgeted at $237 million, however other estimates out the budget

between $280 million and $310 million for production and $150 for promotion• Avatar was released for traditional viewing, 3-D ( using the RealD 3D, Dolby 3D, XpanD 3D

and IMAX 3D formats) and 4-D viewing • Avatar was a successful breakthrough in cinematic technology

How Much did it earn?

• Officially Avatar was budgeted at $237 million, however other estimates out the budget between $280 million and $310 million for production and $150 for promotion

• Avatar was released for traditional viewing, 3-D ( using the RealD 3D, Dolby 3D, XpanD 3D and IMAX 3D formats) and 4-D viewing

• Avatar was a successful breakthrough in cinematic technology

• In the box Office Avatar made a profit of $ 2,782, 275,172

What technology was used?

• In Avatar a number of Visual Effects techniques was used in the production • For example director James Cameron planned to use photorealistic computer-

generated characters, created using new Motion- Capture animation technologies , which he had been developing

• James Cameron new innovations include a new system for lighting massive such as the Pandora’s jungle with a Motion-Capture Stage

• As well as an improved method of capturing facial expressions, which enabling full performance capture. In order to achieve the face capturing, therefore actors wore individually made Skull Caps fitted with a tiny camera positioned in front of the actor’s faces which then was collected and transmitted to computers

• This method according to James Cameron allows filmmakers to transfer 100% of actors physical performances to their digital counterparts

• Other technology used in Avatar are Pace Fusion 3D, Fusion Camera( dual-3-D) and CGI

What is Unconventional and Conventional?

Unconventional• The technology used to make Avatar was newly developed• Avatar’s storyline brings a new way of experiencing movie to the

audience since their is no books or products that is based on Avatar, therefore Avatar brings a fresh movie to the audience

• None famous actors or actress’s were used in the movie which is unconventional since most movies have a well known actor or actress to draw audience into the movie

Conventional• Avatar used CGI and visual effects such as Green Screen• Used actors and actress • General 3D cameras to film

What is the Institution working on now or planning next?

• Twentieth Century Fox is working on a production called Monte Carlo

• Monte Carlo is romantic comedy film• Directed by Tom Bezucha • produced by Nicole Kidman, Denise Di Novi, Arnon

Milchan and Alison Greenspan • Monte Carlo production began in Budapest on May

5, 2010• Stars Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester and Katie

Cassidy • Monte Carlo was released on July 1, 2011 • It also features the song “Who Says” form Selena

Gomez & the Scene