20th Century Fox Animation

20th Century Fox Animation

Type	Division of 20th Century Fox
Industry	Traditional animation CGI animation Motion pictures
Founded	1997
Headquarters	Century City, Los Angeles, California, U.S
Key people	Vanessa Morrison (President)
Products	CGI animated films
Owner	21st Century Fox
Parent	20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox Animation is the animation division of film studio 20th Century Fox, tasked for production feature-length animated film.

History

Fox Animation Studios

Before 20th Century Fox started its animation division in 1997, 20th Century Fox released its first six animated films, such as Wizards, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (both released in 1977), Fire and Ice (released in 1983), FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Once Upon a Forest and The Pagemaster. From 1994–2000, they operated Fox Animation Studios, a traditional animation studio which was started to compete with Walt Disney Animation Studios, which was experiencing great success at the time with films such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King. The Fox studio, however, was not as successful. Their first feature Anastasia, although critically acclaimed as being of Disney caliber and often mistaken as a Disney film, barely made a profit, taking in nearly $140 million at the worldwide box office on a $53 million budget. Their next feature, Titan A.E., was a large financial loss, as it made less than $37 million worldwide against its $75 million budget. The lack of box office success, coupled with the rise of computer animation, led Fox to shut down the Fox Animation Studios after 2000.

• Anastasia (1997)
• Bartok the Magnificent (1999, made for VHS)
• Titan A.E. (2000)

Blue Sky Studios

Premiere of Blue Sky Studio's Rio at the Connecticut Science Center: Vanessa Morrison, 20th Century Fox Animation president; Jim Gianopulos, Fox Entertainment Group chairman and CEO; Dannel Malloy, governor of Connecticut; Brian Keane, Blue Sky Studios COO; and Chris Dodd, MPAA chairman.

Since 1997, Fox owns Blue Sky Studios, a computer animation company. Fox has had much more success with Blue Sky, and the box office receipts of their films are competitive with those of Pixar and DreamWorks. They have released nine features:

• Ice Age (2002)
• Robots (2005)
• Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
• Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
• Rio (2011)
• Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
• Epic (2013)
• Rio 2 (2014)
• The Peanuts Movie (2015)

Other films

• The Simpsons Movie (2007) (co-production with Gracie Films and Film Roman)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) (co-production with Indian Paintbrush, Regency Enterprises, and American Empirical Pictures)
• The Book of Life (2014) (co-production with Reel FX)

Short films

Produced with Blue Sky Studios

• Bunny (1998)
• Gone Nutty (2002)
• Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty (2005)
• No Time for Nuts (2006)
• Surviving Sid (2008)
• Umbrellacorn (2013)
• Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe (2015)

Other films

• The Longest Daycare (2012) (co-production with Gracie Films and Film Roman)
• The Adventures of Chuy (2015) (co-production with Reel FX)

Upcoming films

• Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)
• Ferdinand (2017)
• Anubis (2018)
• Mutts (TBA)
• Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom (TBA)
• Cardboard (TBA)
• Alienology (TBA)
• Welcome to the Jungle (TBA)
• Mr. Men Little Miss
• Nimona (TBA)

See also

• Fox Television Animation division of 20th Century Fox Television
• DreamWorks Animation
• Fox Interactive
• Terrytoons

External links

• 20th Century Fox Animation at the Internet Movie Database