20th Century Studios
American film production and distribution company
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| April 1 2025 | Disney announced its plan to vacate the Fox Studio Lot in Century City by the end of 2025, ending the seven-year lease agreement that was established immediately after the acquisition of 21st Century Fox. All operations from acquired assets (20th Century Studios, 20th Television, Searchlight Pictures, and FX Networks) will be relocated to the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank. |
| July 30 2024 | The First Omen became the first 20th Century Studios film to be released under the new Sony distribution agreement, marking the first home media release by Sony for 20th Century Studios. |
| June 21 2024 | The Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute announced that Fox Sports Mexico would be acquired by Fox Corporation and integrated into its Fox Sports Media Group after three years of management by Grupo Multimedia Lauman. |
| May 14 2024 | The National Company Law Tribunal approved the Disney and Reliance merger deal, with JioCinema streaming service being moved to the Digital18 unit. |
| March 2024 | Paramount Global confirmed the sale of its 13.01% stake in Viacom18 to Reliance for $517 million, pending regulatory approval and completion of the Disney-Viacom18 joint venture. |
| February 2024 | Disney entered into a home video distribution agreement with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, which would handle physical media production and distribution for Disney's home entertainment assets in the United States and Canada. |
| February 2024 | Disney and Reliance reached a $8.5 billion deal to merge their streaming and television assets, creating a joint venture that combines linear TV channels, sports channels, and streaming services like JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar. |
| February 26 2024 | David Greenbaum was announced to assume leadership of Walt Disney Pictures and co-lead 20th Century Studios with Steve Asbell. |
| 2023 | Lionsgate acquired Entertainment One and Lionsgate Home Entertainment took over the home media distribution rights of the company's catalogs. |
| December 2023 | Disney and Reliance signed a non-binding term sheet for a merger, with Reliance to hold 51% and Disney 49% of the merged company. |
| October 2023 | Disney was reported to be nearing a cash and stock deal with Reliance Industries for selling its operations in India, with assets valued around $7–8 billion. |
| September 2023 | Disney initiated preliminary talks with potential buyers including Reliance Industries, Gautam Adani, and Kalanithi Maran about selling its streaming and linear television assets in India. |
| July 2023 | Disney began exploring strategic options for its businesses in India, including potential sale or joint venture opportunities. |
| April 2023 | 20th Digital Studio was dissolved. |
| March 2023 | 20th Century Comics was formed in partnership with Marvel Comics. |
| 2022 | Blue Sky Studios was closed, initially causing the cancellation of the Nimona film project. |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water was released, becoming a major box office success with a gross of $684,075,767 |
| 2022 | Nimona film project was revived and moved from Blue Sky Studios to Netflix and Annapurna Pictures after Blue Sky's closure. |
| 2022 | The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild was produced and released under Walt Disney Pictures and 20th Century Animation after transitioning from Blue Sky Studios. |
| October 10 2022 | Fox Studios Australia was rebranded into Disney Studios Australia. |
| May 27 2022 | Disney began rebranding Fox's international studios, starting with Fox Star Studios being renamed to 'Star Studios'. |
| May 1 2022 | Fox Sports Premium was set to rebrand to ESPN Premium. |
| April 2022 | The distribution deal with Divisa Home Video expired when Arvi Licensing (a joint venture between Universal and Sony Pictures) signed a deal with Warner to distribute its library. |
| April 27 2022 | Sale of Fox Sports Argentina was approved by Argentina's National Commission for Competition Defense (CNDC). |
| April 13 2022 | The studio released its final production overall, the miniseries Ice Age: Scrat Tales, after its closure. |
| March 18 2022 | 20th Century Fox released the film 'Deep Water', a co-production with multiple production companies and distributed by Hulu in the United States and Amazon Prime Video internationally |
| March 1 2022 | Gimbal | true[X] (formerly true[X]) was rebranded into Infillion, approximately one year after Gimbal's purchase of the company from Disney. |
| February 15 2022 | Disney announced the sale of Fox Sports Argentina to Mediapro. |
| February 8 2022 | Steven Spielberg's West Side Story earned 20th Century Studios its first Best Picture nomination post-rebranding. |
| January 26 2022 | Tata Sky was rebranded into Tata Play. |
| January 20 2022 | Disney sold the Argentinian Fox Sports as part of the conditions of approval for the 21st Century Fox acquisition in Argentina. |
| 2021 | Released 'Fear Street Part One - 1994', 'Fear Street Part Two - 1978', and 'Fear Street Part Three - 1666' as uncredited co-production with Chernin Entertainment, distributed by Netflix under the 20th Century Fox name. |
| 2021 | Distributed 'Love Spell', produced by Paris Filmes and Downtown Filmes, under the 20th Century Fox Brazil name. |
| 2021 | Released 'Fear Street Part Three - 1666' as part of the Netflix Fear Street trilogy |
| 2021 | Released 'Fear Street Part Two - 1978' as part of the Netflix Fear Street trilogy |
| 2021 | Uncredited co-production with Chernin Entertainment of 'Fear Street Part One - 1994', released on Netflix under the 20th Century Fox name |
| 2021 | Uncredited co-production with Regency Enterprises of 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie', released with Film4 Productions and Warp Films under the 20th Century Fox name |
| November 23 2021 | A controlling interest in TeleColombia was sold to ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global). |
| November 22 2021 | Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution and WarnerMedia reached an agreement to share select 20th Century Studios films between Disney+, Hulu, and HBO Max. |
| November 4 2021 | Disney announced the rebranding of remaining Fox Sports Latin America feeds to ESPN 4 on December 1, excluding the Mexican channel. |
| October 28 2021 | ViacomCBS announced its purchase of TeleColombia from Disney, with sale expected to be approved in 2022. |
| October 22 2021 | Ron's Gone Wrong was released by 20th Century Studios, being the first and only film released under the Locksmith Animation production deal. |
| August 31 2021 | Disney announced the shutdown of Hotstar in the United States by late 2022, with content migration to Hulu and sports content moving to ESPN+. |
| July 2021 | Lionsgate's distribution deal with Fox expired, with Lionsgate subsequently signing a new distribution agreement with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for their film library and future releases in the US. |
| June 2021 | Disney sold Fox Sports Mexico to Grupo Multimedia Lauman, with the sale approved by regulators. |
| June 30 2021 | The physical and digital distribution agreement with Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment expired after Disney's purchase of Fox. |
| May 14 2021 | Released 'The Woman in the Window', which was the final Fox 2000 Pictures film, distributed by Netflix as a co-production with TSG Entertainment and Scott Rudin Productions |
| May 14 2021 | Fox 2000 Pictures was shut down. |
| April 27 2021 | Disney announced plans to shut down most Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific linear channels in two phases: October 2021 for Hong Kong and Southeast Asian countries, and January 2022 for Taiwan. |
| April 26 2021 | Fox Sports Go was rebranded as the Bally Sports app. |
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