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Article: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
10201 West Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90035
U.S.A.
(213)277-2211
Wholly owned subsidiary of The News Corporation
Incorporated:
1915 as Fox Film Corporation
Employees:
2,200
Sales:
$850 million
Twentieth Century Fox has had its up and downs. Over the years, this venerable Hollywood institution has saved itself from bankruptcy twice by producing blockbuster movies
(The Sound of Music
and
Star Wars,
two of the biggest box-office hits ever). After a fairly tumultuous 1980s, the company today is owned by Rupert Murdoch
’
s News Corporation, the Australian media conglomerate.
In 1904 William Fox, a 25-year-old Hungarian immigrant, bought his ...