Disney drops the "Fox" from 20th Century Fox

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/b...-fox-name.html

The 85-year-old studio will now be known as "20th Century."

Disney Drops Fox Name, Will Rebrand as 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures


The mouse has officially killed the fox.

In a move at once unsurprising and highly symbolic, the Walt Disney Company is dropping the “Fox” brand from the 21st Century Fox assets it acquired last March, Variety has learned. The 20th Century Fox film studio will become 20th Century Studios, and Fox Searchlight Pictures will become simply Searchlight Pictures.

On the TV side, however, no final decisions have been made about adjusting the monikers of production units 20th Century Fox Television and Fox 21 Television Studios. Discussions about a possible name change are underway, but no consensus has emerged, according to a source close to the situation.

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Those logos won’t be dramatically altered, just updated. The most notable change is that the word “Fox” has been removed from the logo marks. Otherwise, the signature elements — swirling klieg lights, monolith, triumphal fanfare — will remain the same.


https://variety.com/2020/film/news/d...os-1203470349/

Well, it’s come full circle. The studio began in 1933, and merged with Fox two years later. But during that two-year period, this is what moviegoers saw: