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DO NOT remove this notice once it has been placed on a page. See the Logo Timeline Wiki at risk of being shut down blog for details. Logo descriptions by Matt Williams, Kylejaker1988, and Hb1290 Logo captures by V of Doom, Eric S., Logoboy95, and others Editions by Eric S., iheartparamount, V of Doom, Nathan B., Donny Pearson, Chowchillah, Betamaxtheflyer, Shadeed A. Kelly, DaBigLogoCollector, Muzzarino and GoAnimateFan199Pro Video captures courtesy of simblos, Logic Smash, Peakpasha, BreadCrustCouncil, Jordan Rios, news5aksionfan661, galaxyOG, VideoEffects666 HD, licerin91, WorldIntroHD, and The Alifexable Creed Contents 1 20th Century Pictures, Inc. 1.1 (October 7, 1933-April 17, 1935) 2 20th Century Fox Film Corporation 2.1 1st Logo (November 8, 1935-May 23, 1968) 2.2 2nd Logo (September 16, 1953-December 11, 1987) 2.3 3rd Logo (May 19, 1981-August 5, 1994) 2.4 4th Logo (July 15, 1994-December 31, 2009,March 30, 2013) 2.5 5th Logo (January 1, 2010-January 10, 2020, October 23, 2020) 3 20th Century Studios 3.1 (February 4, 2020; February 21, 2020-) 20th Century Pictures, Inc.[]Background: Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. (also known as "20th Century Pictures, Inc.") was an independent Hollywood motion picture production company created in 1933 by Joseph M. Schenck, the former president of United Artists, Darryl F. Zanuck from Warner Bros. Pictures, William Goetz from Fox Film Corporation, and Raymond Griffith. Their material was released theatrically under United Artists. (October 7, 1933-April 17, 1935)[]  
Nicknames: "The Searchlights", "Futuristic Structure", "Majestic Tower"
Logo: On a dark sky background, 3 rows of words, "20th","CENTURY", and "PICTURES, INC.", apparently carved out of stone and/or metal, are seen. The words are "stacked" on top of each other, with similarly carved lines separating the rows. The "20th" is the biggest row, with "CENTURY" and "PICTURES, INC." a bit smaller. A circular stage-like structure juts out from the base of the "stack," with a light below the structure that shines in front of the "stack". There are pedestals on both sides of the stack, each with a non-moving searchlight. In the background, several searchlights scan the sky. This logo was designed by Emil Kosa, Jr. The logo was created as a painting on several layers of glass and animated frame-by-frame. Alternate Descriptive Video Transcription: Searchlights pierce a starry night sky, sweeping the clouds and illuminating a towering edifice in the form of "'20th 'CENTURY' PICTURES, 'INC." Closing Title: Superimposed on a special background or sometimes on the last scene of a movie, fade in the words "The End" with fonts that vary on different movies with the following closing texts: "A 20th Century Picture" and below in a smaller font "Released Thru United Artists". FX/SFX: The searchlights in the background. Music/Sounds: A marching drum intro leading into a 21-note full orchestra theme that ends with a horn flourish. The fanfare was composed and conducted by Alfred Newman. On some films, the 1st drum roll is cut off due to whatever surviving audio elements were used on the film print. Music/Sounds Variants: There were a couple of re-recordings of the fanfare that were different than the later re-recording used in the TCF logo. One of the two was used on 1935's Les Miserables and The Call of the Wild. Availability: Until recently, this logo was on the verge of extinction due to chronic plastering by any of the 20th Century Fox logos. Seen on streaming prints of The Bowery, the Cinema Archives DVD-R of Clive of India, and TV airings of The House of Rothschild along with Blood Money whenever they air on TCM or the Fox Movie Channel Block on FXM. The logo premiered on The Bowery' and made its final appearance on Folies-Bergère. Although most prints of The Call of the Wild (1935) have this plastered with the 1953 logo, this has recently resurfaced on the Blu-ray release (since it uses a new restoration). Editor's Note: The first appearance of the Fox identity, even though it wasn't even Fox yet. If you pay close attention in the background, there are two searchlights that bend, which is considered to be an impossible phenomenon. 20th Century Fox Film Corporation[]Background: In 1935, Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. and Fox Film Corporation merged together to form "Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation" (the hyphen between "Century" and "Fox" was dropped in 1985), or simply "20th Century Fox". Currently, it's a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox Inc., which was a company formed when News Corporation split up into two companies. As of July 2018, their two most financially successful films are Avatar, released in 2009, and Titanic (under international rights), released in 1997. Both films were directed by James Cameron. Fox's most highly acclaimed film, according to review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes (jointly owned by Universal and Warner Bros.), is All About Eve, released in 1950 and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. In December 2017, Disney announced its plans to buy the studio, which included a bidding war with Comcast; the acquisition process was completed on March 20, 2019, with the last pre-Disney release from the studio being Alita: Battle Angel, released on February 14, 2019. In January 2020, Disney announced that it would be dropping the word "Fox" from the company name, renaming it to "Twentieth Century Studios". 1st Logo (November 8, 1935-May 23, 1968)[]    Open Matte
Nicknames: "The Searchlights II", "Fox Structure", "Majestic Tower II", "Futuristic Structure II", "20th Century Fox Structure", "Great Structure" Logo: Same as last time, but the text "PICTURES, INC." has been replaced by the word "FOX". This logo was once again designed by Emil Kosa, Jr. Alternate Descriptive Video Transcription: Searchlights pierce a starry night sky, sweeping the clouds and illuminating a towering edifice in the form of "20th CENTURY FOX". Variants: This logo first appeared in black and white, with a Technicolor version for color films debuting in 1936. On colorized prints, depending on how it was colorized, the logo would have different colors. The logo would either take place on a day or night sky. Fox Movietone News newsreels use a slightly altered version of the tower in the opening credits with "presents", in script, below it. For early color releases (except for The Little Princess), the structure is sepia-toned, the left searchlights are pink, the right searchlights are yellow and blue, the "stack" is blue, the middle searchlights are green, and the sky is dark purple. On the current print of Les Miserables, the logo fades into the NTA logo.Closing Titles: Superimposed on a special background or sometimes on the last scene of a movie, fade in the words "The End" with fonts vary on the movie with the following text: "Released through Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation", "Released by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation", "Produced and Released by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation" or "Produced and Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation". FX/SFX: The searchlights in the background. Music/Sounds: A redone variant of the 20th Century Pictures fanfare as composed and conducted by Alfred Newman once again, that has become one of the most famous pieces of music in the world. Music/Sounds Variants: On Love Under Fire, a different recording of the fanfare is heard. On a few films, it is silent or has the film's respective opening theme. On some 20th Century Pictures films, the original TCP fanfare is heard due to sloppy plastering. On The Girl Can't Help It and the Blu-ray (and possibly the DVD) release of Laura, the 1953 fanfare is heard. Zorba the Greek, one of the last films to use this logo, use the first half of the 1954 CinemaScope fanfare. On the 1994 Studio Classics VHS of Carmen Jones and French dubs of To the Shores of Tripoli and Batman: The Movie, the 1979 fanfare is heard. On Seven Arts TV prints, the full CinemaScope fanfare, with extension, is used (the extension is heard over the Seven Arts logo). On a Romanian dub of Batman: The Movie, both the 1935 and 1979 fanfares are heard.Availability: Very common. It's still saved on just about every 20th Century Fox release, with some exceptions. The color version can be seen on the 2007 DVD release of the 1939 version of The Little Princess (although some public domain prints of the film use the next logo, while other prints use either the black-and-white version or no logo at all) and some colorized prints of Bright Eyes and Heidi, as well as some newer colorized prints of Miracle on 34th Street. The logo premiered on Metropolitan and made its final (official) appearance on Prudence and the Pill, although the next logo premiered on The Robe. Some current releases of films such as The Blue Bird (1940), Leave Her to Heaven, Forever Amber, and David and Bathsheba in circulation plaster this logo with the next one. Older television prints of Return of the Fly plaster the next logo with this one, while retaining the CinemaScope fanfare, followed by the Seven Arts Television logo. Editor's Note: The majestic fanfare and the unique design makes this one of the most iconic logos of all time. 2nd Logo (September 16, 1953-December 11, 1987)[]         
Nicknames: "The Searchlights III", "Fox Structure II", "Majestic Tower III", "Futuristic Structure III", "Slanted Zero", "Star Wars Tower", "20th Century Fox Structure II", "Great Structure II" Logo: A redrawn and more clearer version of the logo from last time, but the "0" on the top has been crooked and two searchlights behind the tower have been removed. This logo was designed by Rocky Longo, who was an artist at Pacific Title and Art Studio, Inc. He also designed the next logo. Trivia: The extended CinemaScope fanfare has appeared in the two Star Wars 'original score' albums. Many other albums carry this fanfare (albeit rearranged). All of these albums can be found on iTunes. The second episode of The Simpsons 27th season, "Cue Detective", features the Cinemascope 55 "Regular 0" variant when Principal Skinner puts the 1967 version of Doctor Dolittle on for the children at Springfield Elementary. In typical biting-the-hand fashion, all the students shout "boo" when the Fox logo appears. The reason for the slanted "0" was to make the logo wide enough for its new aspect ratio.Variants: The Fox logo has had many renditions over the years. Here are some of them: November 5, 1953-August 15, 1981: The CinemaScope logo. The searchlights are slimmed down and the structure is placed in the center of the screen with a dark blue sky surrounding it. The logo fades to "TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX PRESENTS A CINEMASCOPE' PRODUCTION/PICTURE". November 16, 1956-September 30, 1967: Large-format (70mm, CinemaScope 55) films used a different Fox structure where the "0" wasn't slanted. It made its first appearance on Carousel. The one with the regular "0" also had this text: "A CINEMASCOPE PICTURE IN CINEMASCOPE 55". In 1961, The King and I was re-released in a 70mm version, called "GRANDEUR 70". September 10, 1960-June 26, 1965: For movies that were shot in 70mm/Todd-AO, such as 1960's Can-Can, 1963's Cleopatra, and 1965's The Agony and the Ecstasy, the 20th Century Fox logo with the regular "0" appears for five seconds and then fades to the words "TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX PRESENTS". The Bible (1966) contains the text "A TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX RELEASE" with copyright information below it. January 16, 1976-December 11, 1987: Like the slanted zero version of CinemaScope logo, but without the snipe and fades out. July 17, 1956-September 8, 1967: Like the standard zero logo, but does not have the snipe and fades out. There is an extended version of the 1953-1987 logo without the CinemaScope logo. It appeared only on two films, 1977's High Anxiety and 1981's History of the World, Part I, both directed by and starring Mel Brooks. The logo loops in reverse like the next logo. March 22, 1968-November 20, 1987: The structure and the sky background are off-center and shifted to the left. Starting in 1976 with The Omen, the registered trademark symbol "®" was added to the bottom of the logo. There was a short version of this logo. The logo would take place on either a day or a night sky. On older international prints of Chariots of Fire and Breaking Away (and a recent TV airing of the former film), the logo is zoomed in, because those films were shot in "open matte" and the logo was not adjusted for widescreen. On Quintet, the logo fades to a white snowstorm, revealing the start of the movie. An ultra dark variant due to film deterioration exists. Such films that have this variant are older prints of The Omen. There is an deteriorated variant that shakes only once. Some letterboxed widescreen variants have background colors filling in the empty screen space. Some early 2000's HBO widescreen airings have a blue fill. The 1992 Fox Video VHS of M*A*S*H has a green fill color.Closing Titles: November 5, 1953-June 26, 1965: Same as above, but the "The End" words were moved to the very top and the 20th Century-Fox text is pushed to the bottom to give space for the text "A CINEMASCOPE PRODUCTION" or "A CINEMASCOPE PICTURE".FX/SFX: The searchlights in the background. Music/Sounds: November 5, 1953-September 10, 1960: The 1953 recording of the original fanfare, which debuted on How to Marry a Millionaire. April 30, 1954-September 8, 1967: The original fanfare is extended for CinemaScope. After the point the original fanfare would've stopped, four ascending string notes play, followed by four horn notes. This repeats twice before ending in a majestic flourish. This version was performed by the 20th Century Fox Studio Orchestra and once again conducted by Alfred Newman and debuted on River of No Return; after CinemaScope was dropped in 1967, the 1935 fanfare is only used from this point on, until the CinemaScope extension returned on Star Wars in 1977. March 9, 1960-June 26, 1965: A different recording of the original fanfare, conducted by Nelson Riddle, debuted on Can-Can. September 17, 1965-October 31, 1981: The 1935 recording of the original fanfare. September 8, 1979-December 11, 1987: A rearranged version of the 1935 fanfare. The earliest known film to have used this fanfare is believed to be Scavenger Hunt. This arrangement is used on the next logo. May 21, 1980-May 19, 2005: A new recording of the CinemaScope fanfare, as performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by John Williams, which was used on The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and the Star Wars prequel films, but not other films scored by John Williams, such as Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Minority Report, Lincoln, The Book Thief and The Post. In other cases, it is silent or has the movie's opening theme.Music/Sounds Variants: Marilyn Monroe's final and unfinished project Something's Got to Give (1962) has a short, slower version of the 1997 fanfare conducted by David Newman. The film can be found as a bonus feature on The Seven Year Itch special edition DVD, and as the last third of the AMC documentary Marilyn: The Final Days. Pre-discovered prints probably didn't have a fanfare at all. An abridged version of the 1954 CinemaScope fanfare. This can be heard on quite a few films, such as Fire Sale, Damien: Omen II, Brubaker, Fatso, Willie & Phil, Magic (1978), The Fly (1986 remake) and the TV movies Miracle on 34th Street (1973), Good Against Evil (1977), and The Diary of Anne Frank (1980). On Star Wars (later known as Episode IV – A New Hope), the fanfare has both chorus and reverb effects, possibly due to it being done for the Dolby Stereo process. However, this also affects the mono mix of the film as well. High Anxiety, also released in 1977, had a slightly modified version of the CinemaScope fanfare that sounds like a combination of the regular 1954 fanfare and the Star Wars version. History of the World, Part I, released in 1981, has a different arrangement of the CinemaScope fanfare. There are low-pitched versions of the 1935 and 1954 CinemaScope fanfares that exist on some films. Older prints of 1935's The Call of the Wild have the 20th Century Pictures fanfare. On some current prints of The Two Little Bears, it uses the 1982 fanfare from the next logo over the CinemaScope variant. Recent prints of The Roots of Heaven and a German dub of Satan Never Sleeps have the 1994 fanfare play over the CinemaScope variant. The original 1977 Magnetic Video release of Fantastic Voyage has the opening flourish of the Magnetic Video music mistakenly play back during the first half of the fanfare. Netflix prints of French Connection II use an abridged version of the 1980 fanfare conducted by John Williams. The VHS release of Young Guns II and a French dub of The Blue Bird (1940) have this logo with the 1979 fanfare playing over it instead. On Damnation Alley, the second half of the CinemaScope fanfare is cut. Down with Love (2003), Logan: Noir Edition and a Portuguese dub of Rasputin the Mad Monk use the 1997 fanfare over the CinemaScope variant. On The Greatest Showman, it uses an abridged version of the 1997 fanfare. On a Portuguese dub of Rio Conchos, the 1980 fanfare conducted by John Williams, is heard over the CinemaScope variant. On an Italian dub of Alien, a low-pitched version of the first half of the 1994 fanfare is heard.Availability: Very common. It's still retained on just about every 20th Century Fox release, starting with The Robe, the first film to use this logo. The CinemaScope variants aren't usually subject to plastering, however one print of Satan Never Sleeps that aired a decade ago on AMC plastered it with the 4th logo, but is retained on DVD releases of said film and a FMC airing. Some films from the era such as Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back were also seen with this logo (which are kept on the original theatrical versions on the 2006 DVD releases of said films), but replaced with the 4th logo on all Special Edition versions. The International version of Chariots of Fire also originally had this logo, but plastered it with the 1994 logo on the current UK DVD release. However, it was intact on a recent TV airing on SKY and the Warner Blu-ray of the International version. The original VHS releases of Moving Violation (1976) and Thunder and Lightning by Key Video updated it with the 3rd logo; the former restored it on current prints and the Shout! Factory DVD, while the latter still plasters it but keeps the original abridged fanfare. Some releases of Alien and its Director's Cut version plaster it with the 3rd logo, though the first 1981 VHS, 1999 theatrical DVD, and the newest Blu-ray retain it. This logo possibly made its final official appearance on Wall Street, though all current prints update it with the 3rd logo. It is unknown if it originally appeared on theatrical prints as well. This logo can also be found some early-mid '80s films of the era, such as The Cannonball Run (variant), older video releases of Bill Cosby: Himself (1983), the original CBS/Fox Video release of Revenge of the Nerds (1984), the original Key Video VHS of The Buddy System (1984), Moving Violations (1985), the CBS/Fox VHS of Project X (1987), older cable prints of Young Guns (1988) and older VHS copies of Young Guns II (1990), though the latter film's letterbox LaserDisc release used the third logo. These aforementioned were some of the few films from their respective years to use this logo. Sadly, most home video/DVD releases and TV prints of these films plaster it with the either the 3rd logo or those from another distributor. Current prints of Avalanche Express (a Lorimar film they distributed, which WB now owns due to the purchase of the former's library) plaster it with the current WB shield, but is intact on the Spanish R2 DVD. The logo was not seen at all on Carmen Jones, The Girl Can't Help It, A Circle of Deception, The Longest Day, Zorba the Greek, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Batman: The Movie, The Cape Town Affair, The Day the Fish Came Out, Star!, Deadfall, Patton' (some TV broadcasts spliced in the logo from another film), Tora! Tora! Tora!, Trouble Man, The Poseidon Adventure, USA prints of The Towering Inferno (as Fox owns primary North American distribution rights, while Warner Bros. owns most international rights, though both companies worked on the film together), At Long Last Love, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, Silent Movie, and All This and World War II. The "regular 0" variant without the CinemaScope snipe or "Twentieth Century-Fox presents" card following is seen on The Sound of Music, and the original 1967 Doctor Dolittle. The 1976 revision makes a very strange appearance on The Criterion Collection Blu-ray of Naked Lunch (a 1991 film). Appears on the Vestron VHS of Fort Apache: The Bronx (despite not mentioning TCF on the cover) and Trifecta's airing of Oh Heavenly Dog! Southern Comfort was originally seen with the 1976 revision of this logo before the Cinema Group ident; it can be seen on some older European copies, preceded by the Overseas Filmgroup logo.Editor's Note: The tilted zero can be an eyesore to look at for some, but it's still a majestic logo. 3rd Logo (May 19, 1981-August 5, 1994)[]  Open Matte
Nicknames: "The Searchlights IV", "Fox Structure III", "Majestic Tower IV", "Futuristic Structure IV", "Die Hard Tower", "Star Wars Tower II", "20th Century Fox Structure III", "Great Structure III", "80s Structure" Logo: Another redrawn version of the logo from last time. This time, the structure is as off-center left as the late 1960s variant of the 1953 logo. This logo was designed when Rocky Longo repainted the eight-layered glass panels, and straightened the zero. This design of the logo still continues to this day (albeit in a slightly modified form). Variants: On some films, such as Porky's Revenge!, the front-left searchlight is pink. Some films used a dark, washed-out structure. On widescreen (letterbox) films, the Fox logo would be squeezed to fit on standard 1.33:1 film and then stretched with special projector lenses so it could be shown in widescreen (2.35:1), though the first two Die Hard films use a version where the logo is not squeezed, and thus is stretched out horizontally. There is another scope variant that was done for films shot in Super 35 where the 1.85 variant was cropped to 2.35. On a few films shot in scope, the logo is in extreme close-up. On a couple films, the logo is placed at a very far distance. A black & white version of this logo exists. A 4:3 anamorphically-squished version was used on the 1989 CBS/Fox video release of Die Hard and the TV spots for The Fly (1986 remake).Closing Titles: Same as the previous, but the text reads as either: "Produced and Released by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation" or "Released by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation". In 1990, the text was shortened to either "Released by Twentieth Century Fox" or "Produced and Released by Twentieth Century Fox." On The Abyss and My Cousin Vinny, there was a variation which had "RELEASED BY" and below the 20th Century Fox print logo. FX/SFX: The searchlights in the background. One should note that the searchlights usually do particular movements. 2 right searchlights line up in the back while the left back light moves away to the left. While the 2nd right back light leans further to the right, either of these crosses between the first 2 back searchlights occurs: an "A" cross, a "slanted A" cross, or a "slanted X" cross. They're often looped/reversed. Music/Sounds: May 19, 1981-May 14, 1993: The 1979 fanfare, last heard on Freaked. This was used in tandem with the long version until that year; most films would either use the long version, have it silent, or with the film's opening theme. August 6, 1982-August 5, 1994: A new arrangement of the long version of the 20th Century Fox fanfare, as conducted by Lionel Newman. The first film to use this rendition was The Pirate Movie and the last to use it was Baby's Day Out. In other cases, silence or the film's opening music.Music/Sounds Variants: On some films, such as Porky's II: The Next Day, the Director's Cut of Alien, current prints of Halls of Montezuma a Ukrainian dub of Robin Hood (1991) and a Portuguese dub of Naked Lunch, the 1935 fanfare is heard. Some prints of pre-1981 films, such as Thunder and Lightning, are plastered with this logo, but keep their original fanfare or sometimes use the 1979 variant. In some cases it is silent, like on Hardly Working, or have the opening theme to the film. A slightly modified 1980 recording/arrangement, as played by the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor John Williams, was used on Return of the Jedi. Similarly, The War of the Roses and Class Action use James Horner's own arrangement; some films scored by Jerry Goldsmith also use his own arrangement. A strange arrangement of the Alfred Newman fanfare with a heavy brass section, as played by the National Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Charles Gerhardt, was used on The Chase. The DVD release of Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure and the French audio track on the 1998 DTS DVD of Predator use the 1997 fanfare. On The Fly (1986 remake), an abridged remix of the 1954 CinemaScope fanfare is surprisingly heard, possibly on purpose. On current prints of A Change of Seasons, a Portuguese dub of the Director's Cut of Alien and a Ukrainian dub of Working Girl, both the 1935 and 1979 fanfares are played together with this logo. On Alien 3, a different arrangement of the long version of the 20th Century Fox fanfare, as conducted by Elliot Goldenthal, freezes when it is nearly finished, complete with bending strings and wailing French horns until the fanfare finishes with a crash. On newer prints of Wizards (1977), the logo is out of sync with the 1979 fanfare. On AMC's prints of Wall Street, Big and Home Alone, a low-pitched version of the 1979 fanfare is heard. On TCM France's print of Inferno (1980), a Hungarian dub of Revenge of the Nerds, a Ukrainian dub of Lucas and a Portuguese dub of Alien 3, the 1994 fanfare is heard. On Amazon Prime Video's print of Die Hard 2, an Italian dub of Young Guns II and a Romanian dub of Predator 2, the 1997 fanfare is heard. On a Portuguese dub of The Verdict, the first half of the 1994 fanfare is heard. On a Portuguese dub of Johnny Dangerously, a short, slower version of the 1997 fanfare is heard. On a Portuguese dub of Aliens, the 1960 fanfare conducted by Nelson Riddle, is heard. On a Polish dub of The Fly (1986 remake), an abridged version of the 1994 fanfare is heard. On a Hungarian dub of Predator, both the 1982 and 1994 fanfares are heard. On a Romanian dub of Predator, both the 1982 and 1997 fanfares are heard. On a Mandarin dub of My Cousin Vinny, a slower version of the first half of the 1997 fanfare is heard. On a Spanish dub of Speed, both low-pitched versions of the 1982 and 1997 fanfares are heardAvailability: Very common. Notable films to use this logo are Taps, The Verdict, theatrical versions of Return of the Jedi, Porky's II: The Next Day, Porky's Revenge!, Commando, Aliens, Predator, Broadcast News, Big, Die Hard, Predator 2, Home Alone, Die Hard 2, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Alien 3, Speed, and Baby's Day Out, among others. It unknown that it was premiered on Chu Chu and the Philly Flash, or there are theatrical prints with the previous logo. This logo made its final appearance on Airheads, while the next logo debuted on True Lies. This also plasters the 2nd logo on full frame VHS releases of Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) from 1982 to 1992 (it was retained on the film's HBO premiere in 1983 and widescreen releases of the film on VHS and laserdisc in 1989, 1992 and 1993. It was reinstated to the full frame version in 1995 on VHS) and current prints of Thunder and Lightning (with the abridged CinemaScope fanfare), Wizards, the Director's Cut of Alien, My Bodyguard, Revenge of the Nerds, Bad Medicine, Moving Violations (1985), Wall Street, and Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise. Fox plastered/updated the 2nd logo with this on some colorized versions of its films in the 1980s, such as Miracle on 34th Street (although its original logo is restored on newer colorized prints), and Technicolor films such as Halls of Montezuma. This can also be seen on international prints of Crocodile Dundee (and on Australian prints of Crocodile Dundee 2) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (which surprisingly appeared on a bootleg Blu-ray) & III, as well as the trailer for Deck the Halls'. When History of the World: Part I (one of the last films to use the 2nd logo) aired on AMC in the mid-2000s, the extended version of this logo popped up at the very end; recent airings on AMC now use the current 20th Television logo instead. Post-2007 releases of Die Hard 2 update this with the 1997 logo. The Hong Kong 1995 P&S LD of Return of the Jedi removes this in favor of CBS-FOX Video. The B&W variant, though extremely rare, appears on some American prints of The Sicilian (don't expect to see this on the Vestron Video VHS). The 1991 (not 1989) Vestron Video release of Young Guns, including the late '90s LIVE reprint which uses that master, plastered the TCF logo with a sped-up silent version of the Vestron Pictures logo, while other prints omit the logo. Other Fox releases of Morgan Creek movies have this logo removed on Media Home Entertainment releases and current prints, but is retained on the CBS/Fox Video/Fox Video releases of The Exorcist III, Young Guns II and Pacific Heights and TubiTV's print of Nightbreed (the theatrical cut). Older VHS and DVD copies of Speed have this logo plastered over with the next one; However, it's retained on the Blu-ray. IVE's releases, along with DVDs from Live Entertainment and Artisan Entertainment, of films from Gladden Entertainment Corporation generally preserved this logo, but it was removed on the 1991 release of Mannequin 2: On the Move by Live Home Video, the Blu-ray of Millennium (1989) from Shout! Factory, the Olive Films Blu-ray releases of Mannequin and Mannequin 2: On the Move,and the 1996 re-release of Weekend at Bernie's by Avid Home Entertainment. It's also preserved on the Vestron Video VHS and Shout! Factory Blu-ray of The Sicilian. It is believed that international theatrical prints of Brazil had this logo, but most home video releases go straight to the opening title card while the Fox Blu-rays have the 1994 logo. Most U.S. home video releases of The Princess Bride do not have this logo, with the exception of the 1998 MGM VHS, as they only have North American television and theatrical rights and as a result, it can be seen on U.S. TV prints of said film.Editor's Note: A return to the more accurately drawn Fox tower. This would serve as a template for the next logo below. 4th Logo (July 15, 1994-December 31, 2009,March 30, 2013)[]      
Nicknames: "CGI Searchlights", "Ultra Majestic Tower", "The Searchlights V", "Futuristic Structure", "Majestic Tower V", "Futuristic Structure V", "Fox Structure IV", "Die Hard Tower II", "Star Wars Tower III", "20th Century Fox Structure IV", "Great Structure IV", "90s Tower". "00s Tower" Logo: We start on a black background. Then two searchlights swoop across the screen, revealing a top aerial view of the 20th Century Fox structure, redone in CGI. The camera pans down and then across the logo, revealing the starry and cloudy blue/purple/orange Los Angeles and Hollywood evening skyline in the distance, before settling into its more customary position and angle. The byline "A NEWS CORPORATION COMPANY" fades in at the bottom of the screen. The structure looks similar to the 1981 logo. Trivia: If one looks very close in the far right-hand corner before approaching the main structure, one can see the Hollywood sign. It is not very big, but it is visible if one looks hard enough. Also, if you look hard enough, you can see stars in the BG at the end of the logo. This logo was designed by Kevin Burns and animated at Studio Productions (now known as "Flip Your Lid Animation"), who also animated the 1990-1997 Universal logo and the 1986-2003 Paramount logo. The design was used earlier for the 1992 20th Television logo. If you look very closely (especially if you're watching it in HD), you can see the names of fictional restaurants/stores behind the structure, such as "Steve's Place", "Great Treasure", "Burns Tri-City Alarm", and "Chernin's".Variants: There is a prototype version of this logo where the rear searchlights animate differently and the front-right searchlight leans further left. Also, the aforementioned Hollywood sign is located directly behind the structure and the Hollywood hills behind the cityscape look different. This version appeared on a demo reel from Flip Your Lid Animation. On the "Special Edition" remastered versions of the Star Wars trilogy from 1997 onward and the Star Wars prequel trilogy, there is no camera panning; it just remains in its usual place until it fades to the Lucasfilm Ltd. logo, which is shown over the CinemaScope music extension. A short version of this logo appears on The Making of The Pagemaster and the CBS television special I Walk the Line: A Night for Johnny Cash. There is an unedited open matte version with neither the byline nor the "®" symbol. It also runs at a smoother framerate, because it wasn't transferred to film yet. While this variant isn't used on any films or programming, the ending of it was used for the box on the 1995-2008 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment logo. It was found on a different version of a Flip Your Lid Animation demo reel and at the end of 20th Century Fox: The First 50 Years. Open matte and bylineless versions exist. On 4:3 prints of many films from 1999 onward starting with Never Been Kissed, the logo zooms out to a much farther distance than usual.Closing Titles: On Titanic, the text reads as: "Produced and Released by Twentieth Century Fox and Paramount Pictures". On The Magic Pudding, the print logo is seen instead of the "Twentieth Century Fox" text alongside the Icon Productions and Energee Entertainment print logos. At the end of the first two X-Men films and Death Sentence, the print logo is shown.FX/SFX: The panning of the camera across the Fox structure, the moving searchlights, and the News Corporation byline fading in. Music/Sounds: July 15, 1994-January 30, 1998: A new arrangement of the extended CinemaScope fanfare, as conducted by Bruce Broughton in the 20th Century Fox Scoring Stage (now the Newman Scoring Stage), in which the original 1935 fanfare was recorded. The orchestra is three times bigger and the fanfare has more reverberation/echo and larger brass/string sections than other fanfares. The first release to use this fanfare was True Lies and the last release (officially) to use it was Great Expectations. However, a Russian dub of The Newton Boys (1998), The Object of My Affection (1998), Wing Commander (1999), a Russian dub of Brokedown Palace (1999), some prints of Lake Placid 2, (2007), and German productions, such as Krabat (2008) and John Rabe (2009), used this fanfare instead of the 1997 recording for some reason. November 14, 1997, March 27, 1998- : A slower arrangement of the long TCF fanfare, as performed by the 20th Century Fox Studio Orchestra and conducted by David Newman, whose father Alfred Newman composed the original fanfare in 1933, as well as its extended counterpart in 1954. According to the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast, this fanfare was recorded to coincide with the re-opening of the Newman Scoring Stage at the Fox Studio Lot in 1997. The first film to use this fanfare was 1997's Anastasia. Fox films kept using the 1994 fanfare until January 1998.Music/Sounds Variants: On some 1994-1998 films, the amount of reverberation/echo can vary. The "Special Edition" version of the Star Wars trilogy uses the modified 1954 recording of the fanfare as played by the 20th Century Fox Studio Orchestra and conductor Alfred Newman, and the 1980/83 recording of the fanfare as played by the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor John Williams, respectively. The Star Wars prequel films use John Williams' arrangement of the fanfare. On The Legend of Baggar Vance and most international prints of Braveheart, the opening theme of the movie is heard over the logo. On the Australian, New Zealand and UK releases of Shine a Light, the logo is silent. There is a short version of the 1997 fanfare. The only films to use it are The Darjeeling Limited with the short version of the Fox Searchlight Pictures logo and Marilyn Monroe's unfinished project Something's Got to Give (1962) with the 2nd logo. On some prints of Speed and the first two Die Hard films, the 1982 fanfare is heard due to plastering the 3rd logo. Other prints may use the 1994 or 1997 fanfares. On Speed 2: Cruise Control, a different arrangement of the long TCF fanfare, as conducted by Mark Mancina, plays. On Anastasia (the 1997 fanfare's debut film), Ever After: A Cinderella Story, some dubs of X2: X-Men United and Joy Ride 3: Roadkill, the fanfare has a slightly different arrangement than the one that's currently used. This was also conducted by David Newman. On older prints of Casper: A Spirited Beginning and Portuguese dubs of Romeo + Juliet and Alien Resurrection, the 1980 fanfare conducted by John Williams, is heard. On AMC's prints of Die Hard with a Vengeance and a Portuguese dub of Ever After: A Cinderella Story, a low-pitched version of the 1994 fanfare is heard.Availability: Very common. First seen on True Lies, and in front of almost every subsequent 20th Century Fox film from this time period up to Tooth Fairy. Surprisingly, this also appears on some trailers, behind-the-scenes clips and interviews for Predators, as well as the international trailer for Vampires Suck, in tandem with the new logo. Also appears on some video games based on 20th Century Fox films. This logo was used in tandem with the next logo until mid-2010, and seen on direct-to-video releases of that year such as Flicka 2, Mirrors 2, and Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back, among others. It plasters the 2nd logo on international DVD releases of Chariots of Fire as 20th Century Fox holds distribution rights. This makes a strange re-appearance on the Toei Animation production Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013), and still remains unchanged on the U.S Funimation DVD and Blu-ray release. It was also surprisingly preserved on the American DVD release of The Wiggles Movie, where it was retitled Magical Adventure! A Wiggly Movie, despite the U.S. DVD being from HiT Entertainment. On newer prints of some pre-1997 films (an example being Nell), the 1994 fanfare is replaced by the 1997 one. On digital copies of Star Wars Episodes V-III, the Fox logo is removed and only shows the Lucasfilm logo with a custom Star Wars theme, as this is likely due to Disney's ownership of the latter since 2012. However, following Disney's purchase of the studio, recent Disney+ prints have the logo restored (excluding the registered trademark symbol and News Corporation byline). Editor's Note: This logo had amazing CGI that still holds up decently well, and it ultimately became a favorite of many logo fans. 5th Logo (January 1, 2010-January 10, 2020, October 23, 2020)[]   
Nicknames: "CGI Searchlights II", "Ultra Majestic Tower II", "The Searchlights VI", "Majestic Tower VI", 'Fox Structure V", "Decade Tower", "2010s Fox", "20th's 75th", "Happy Birthday/Anniversary, Fox!" "Happy 75th, 20th!", "2010s Tower", "75 Years of 20th Century Fox", "Die Hard Tower III", "Star Wars Tower IV", "20th Century Fox Structure V", "Great Structure V" Logo: It's a redone and more realistic version of the 1994 tower. This time, it is in a dark/orange evening environment. When the structure is in its distance, we can see an extra searchlight and a pair of palm trees on the bottom right hand corner. This structure, like the 1994 structure, also looks similar to the 3rd logo. This logo was designed by Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha, and Steve Martino, and was animated at Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century's sibling company and creator of Ice Age and Robots. Trivia: This logo debuted on a trailer for Avatar on August 20, 2009 for the very first time. Afterwards, the logo first appeared on the aforementioned film, released on December 18, 2009 (though earlier premiering in London on December 10, 2009). Like the previous logo, if one looks very close in the far right-hand corner before approaching the main structure, one can see the Hollywood sign (not very big, but still visible if one looks hard enough). One can also see stars at the end of the logo, but there are fewer than the previous logo. The "Celebrating 75 Years" variant for TCF's 75th anniversary is a well done contemporary throwback of--and a contemporary homage to--the 20th Century Fox CinemaScope logo, where the 20th logo faded after 10 seconds into the CinemaScope logo. Surprisingly, this has made an appearance on a season 3 episode of This Is Us. Bylines: This logo was Bylined By News Corporation. There is also seen on. December 10, 2009-June 28, 2013: "A NEWS CORPORATION COMPANY" July 17, 2013-January 10, 2020, October 23, 2020: BylinelessVariants: For the logo's first official year (2010, even though the logo actually debuted in 2009), while the logo finishes its move into position, the camera pans up and two streaks of light draw "75" with the word "CELEBRATING" above the numbers and "YEARS" below both in spaced-out letters. The camera pans the words and numbers in position. Also, the Registered trademark symbol "®" and the News Corporation byline are engraved on different parts of the structure. The prototype version had a much darker red-orange sunset sky, harder shading, and different searchlight positions. Another prototype version appears on two CGI environment reels by Dave Strick, a designer at Blue Sky Studios. The searchlights are less realistic, the front-left searchlight is located in a slightly different position and wireframes fade in on most of the 3D geometry at the end of the logo sequence. One version of this has Blue Sky's logo and copyright info (dated to 2008) along the bottom of the screen, while another version has details (including Strick's email address) at the beginning where the logo starts blurry and then gains focus. This version can be seen here and here. A short version with the final seconds of the animation appears on licensed video games, such as Rio: The Video Game, Aliens vs. Predator and Ice Age: Continental Drift. The final half of this logo's camera-panning sequence can be seen at the beginning of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 3D (before the Lucasfilm logo). Starting with the release of Turbo on July 17, 2013, the News Corporation byline is excluded and the logo is bylineless for the first time since the 3rd logo, due to the aforementioned split on June 28, 2013. An Open Matte version exists. There is another open matte version of this logo, this time, it zooms out to a much farther distance than usual. An enhanced variant of this logo exists. This variant includes an improved searchlight opening at the beginning and more detailed textures. Also, the "X' in "FOX" was brighter than usual. This variant was used exclusively in Blue Sky films Ice Age: Collision Course, Ferdinand, and Spies in Disguise, while both Rio movies, Ice Age: Continental Drift, and Epic have the normal version, and The Peanuts Movie has the open matte version. Only one non-Blue Sky film, Murder on the Orient Express, used this variant and as a closing logo was used for Terminator: Dark Fate. A speedup version of the 75 Years variant with the ending theme playing over it has been spotted at the end of a Polish television broadcast of Under Siege 2: Dark Territory.Closing Title: For the most part, none. There are a few closing variants, however: A short version (with very subtle camera pan) is seen at the end of Lincoln and the 2015 remake of Poltergeist, DreamWorks Animation films starting with The Croods, and Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (TV airings only). Surprisingly, it's also seen on The Simpsons short film The Longest Daycare as an opening logo. A bylineless version appears at the end of Ice Age: The Great Egg-scapade. At the end of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 3D, the text "Released by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation" is shown. At the end of Parental Guidance, the print logo is shown.FX/SFX: Extraordinary CGI. Music/Sounds: The 1997 Fox fanfare conducted by David Newman, same as the one from the previous logo. Music/Sound Variants: The 2007 recording of the 1989 20th Century Fox Television fanfare is heard at the end of Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas. The 1980 Fox fanfare conducted by John Williams, is heard at the beginning of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 3D. The 1982 Fox fanfare conducted by Lionel Newman, is heard on the 3D version of Predator. The 1994 Fox fanfare conducted by Bruce Broughton, is heard on current prints of The Sound of Music and international prints of Titanic, starting with the 2012 3D re-release. This is also heard on the films Klitschko (2011; German prints only), Ausgerechnet Sibirien (2012), Rico, Oskar und die Tieferschatten (2014) and Rico, Oskar und das Herzgebreche (2015), but not Rico, Oskar und der Diebstahlstein (2016), as the 1997 fanfare was used instead. On Rio 2, a samba remix of the fanfare plays. This is also the first track on the film's score. On Joy, only the first half of the 1997 fanfare and the opening theme of the movie are heard on the rest of the logo. On The Peanuts Movie, the fanfare is accompanied by Schroeder on his toy piano. On Bohemian Rhapsody, the fanfare is played on an electric guitar. On War for the Planet of the Apes, the fanfare is played in an ominous tribal manner. On The Flip Side, the fanfare is played on a xylophone. On the trailer for The Book of Life (which has a custom variant that didn't make it into the final movie), the fanfare is played by a mariachi band. The film itself has the normal fanfare. In rare cases, such as on US prints of The Monuments Men as well as Ad Astra, the film's opening music plays over the logo. In very rare instances, such as Bridge of Spies, the logo is silent. On Gone Girl, a different and ominous theme plays, continuing into the Regency logo. The 2012 recording of the 1989 20th Century Fox Television fanfare is heard at the end of Ice Age: The Great Egg-scapade, though it's slightly quieter and has a small amount of echo at the end. On Ice Age: Collision Course, Spies in Disguise and Underwater the fanfare has another slightly different arrangement, similar to Anastasia, Ever After: A Cinderella Story, some dubs of X2: X-Men United and Joy Ride 3: Roadkill. For the short version, usually none, the movie's closing theme or the trailer's opening theme.Availability: Very common. First appeared on Avatar, and the trailer for Aliens vs. Predator (PS3/XBOX 360). The prototype versions are found on the trailers and TV spots for Avatar, as well as various newer 20th Century Fox games. This logo with the phrase "Celebrating 75 Years" and an engraved News Corporation byline officially first appeared on Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, released on February 12, 2010, and was seen for the last time on Gulliver's Travels, released on December 25, 2010. Also appears on most international theatrical releases of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films, starting with Hot Tub Time Machine. Also appears on some video games based on 20th Century Fox films. The last film to use this logo with the News Corporation byline was The Heat, released on June 28, 2013. Also appears on international prints of Yours, Mine & Ours (2005 remake). The last film to use this logo with the News Corporation byline was The Heat, released on June 28, 2013. From March 22nd, 2013 to June 2nd, 2017, it was seen at the start of DreamWorks Animation films before the 2010 DreamWorks Animation logo, beginning with The Croods and ending with Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie. Newer releases may plaster this logo with the Universal Pictures logo. This additionally plasters the previous logo on Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace (3D prints only) and international prints of Titanic since 2012, and the 1981 logo on Predator (3D prints only) since 2013. This logo is expected to be retired with the impending rename of the studio to drop the "Fox" in the name (mostly due to people associating TCF with other Fox properties, most notably Fox News Channel, which is no longer under common ownership with the studio). The final film to use this logo prior to the rename of the studio dropping the "Fox" in the name (mostly due to people associating TCF with other Fox properties, most notably Fox News, which is no longer under common ownership with the studio) was Underwater, released on January 10, 2020. However, the 2009 logo with the "20th Century Fox" name made a surprise reappearance on The Empty Man, released on October 23, 2020, despite its trailer and poster using the next logo.Editor's Note: It's a suitable successor to 20th Century Fox's original CGI searchlights. 20th Century Studios[] (February 4, 2020; February 21, 2020-)[] Nicknames: "CGI Searchlights III", "Ultra-Majestic Tower III", "CGI City Skyline Searchlights III", "Enhanced City Skyline Searchlights II", "The Searchlights VI", "Majestic Tower VI", "Decade Tower II", "2020s Tower", "Futuristic Structure VI", "20th Structure VI", "Post-Fox Structure", "20th Century Studios Structure", "Post-20th Century Fox Structure", "Great Structure VI", "Disney Tower", "Avatar Tower II", "Die Hard Tower IV" Logo: Nearly the same as the final 20th Century Fox logo, except "FOX" is replaced with "STUDIOS", and "CENTURY" is taller to accommodate for it. The logo has also been enhanced with more realistic lighting and textures, a different sky backdrop, different palm trees, sleeker looking searchlights, and a larger and more detailed Los Angeles cityscape. Variant: A shortened version exists on DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and Ultra HD Blu-rays as a de-facto home entertainment logo. At least one release plays the full animation. FX/SFX: Same as the previous logo. Truly outstanding CGI produced and animated by Picturemill, based on Blue Sky's design. Music/Sounds: The 1997 Fox fanfare conducted by David Newman, the same as the final two 20th Century Fox logos. Music/Sounds Variants: The short version has the same short version as the final 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment logo. On the international prints of the 25th Anniversary re-release of Titanic, the 1994 Fox fanfare conducted by Bruce Broughton, is heard, just like with the 2012 3D and 2017 Dolby Vision re-releases with the final TCF logo.Availability: Brand new. First seen on a TV spot for The Call of the Wild (2020), and then debuted on the aforementioned film itself, and also appeared on The New Mutants. This logo is expected to appear on future films from the company such as Free Guy and Ron's Gone Wrong. This does not appear on The Empty Man (2020), which strangely plasters this logo with the final 20th Century Fox logo. It is also used as a de-facto home video logo on current 20th Century Studios home media releases (like the 2020 re-releases of Ice Age and Home Alone, and those three aforementioned films), after the final TCFHE logo retired. Editor's Note: This is quite a nice update to the last 20th Century Fox logo, although it can be somewhat hard trying to get used to the name change. Regardless, this is an excellent logo. |
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