Showing posts with label Avatar Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Avatar Film. Show all posts

Thursday, January 5, 2012

20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film also known as 20th Century Fox, or just 20th or Fox is one of the six main American film studios as of 2011. The company was found on May 31, 1935, as the effect of the merger of Fox Film Corporation, founded by William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures, establish in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph Schenck, Raymond Griffith and William Goetz. 20th Century Fox's mainly popular film franchises include Avatar, Star Wars, Ice Age, Garfield, plus famous TV shows such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad!. Some of the most well-known actors to come out of this studio were Shirley Temple, who was 20th Century Fox's opening film star, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield.

Their most commercially winning production partners in later years have been 1492 Pictures, Lucasfilm, Lightstorm Entertainment, Davis Entertainment, Walden Media, Regency Enterprises, Blue Sky Studios, Troublemaker Studios, Ingenious Film Partners, Scott Free Productions, Marvel Studios, Gracie Films, EuropaCorp, Color Force, Centropolis Entertainment, Conundrum Entertainment, Bad Hat Harry Productions, Red Hour Productions, Dune Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures, Chernin Entertainment, The Donners' Company, 21 Laps Entertainment and Spyglass Entertainment. 20th Century Fox is a associate of the Motion Picture Association of America.

20th Century Fox

Industry
Film

Headquarters
Fox Plaza, Century City, Los Angeles, California, United States

Owner(s)
Independent (1914–1985)
News Corporation (1985-present)

Products
Motion pictures, television films

Key people
Stephen Blairson, CEO

Parent
Fox Entertainment Group

Divisions
20th Century Fox Animation
Fox 2000 Pictures

Subsidiaries
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Fox Atomic
Fox Interactive
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Fox Television Studios
Blue Sky Studios
20th Television/20th Century Fox Television
Fox Star Studios

Monday, October 4, 2010

Avatar Film-2009- Highest Earning Hollywood movies

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Avatar is a 2009 American epic science fiction film written with directed by James Cameron and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, and Joel David Moore. The film is set in 2154, when humans are mining a costly mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system. The growth of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local people of Na'vi—a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The film's title refers to the heritably engineered Na'vi-human hybrid bodies use by a team of researchers to interact with the natives of Pandora.

Development on Avatar began in 1994, when Cameron writes an 80-page scriptment for the film. Filming was theoretical to take place after the completion of Cameron's 1997 film Titanic, for a planned release in 1999, but according to Cameron, the essential technology was not yet available to achieve his vision of the film. Work on the language for the film's space beings began in summer 2005, and Cameron began increasing the screenplay and fictional universe in early 2006.

Avatar was authoritatively budgeted at $237 million. Other estimates put the cost between $280 million and $310 million for production and at $150 million for endorsement. The film was released for traditional 2-D viewing, 3-D viewing, and "4-D" viewing. The stereoscopics filmmaking was touting as a breakthrough in cinematic technology. Avatar premiered in London on December 10, 2009, and was released abroad on December 16 and in the United States and Canada on December 18, to critical acclaim and commercial success.

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Directed by

James Cameron

Produced by

James Cameron, Jon Landau

Written by

James Cameron

Music by

James Horner

Cinematography

Mauro Fiore

Editing by

James Cameron, John Refoua, Stephen E. Rivkin

Studio

Lightstorm Entertainment, Dune Entertainment,

Ingenious Film Partners

Distributed by

20th Century Fox

Running time

162 minutes

Country

United States

Language

English

Budget

$237 million

$9 million+ (Re-release)

Gross revenue

$2,770,179,282