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Murdoch launched the Fox News Channel in October 1996 to 17 million subscribers; currently has 85 million subscribers, who dearly love their fascist propaganda from Fox.
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Books About Fox Studios
 | "The Studio" [1969] by John Gregory Dunne Non-fiction account of the year that Dunne spent with total access inside Twentieth Century Fox Studios in Hollywood, covering the development of hits & flops, including "The Boston Strangler", "Dr. Doolittle", "Hello Dolly", "Planet of The Apes" and "Star". Reviewed as "Thirty years later, [it] may still be our most minutely observed and therefore most uproar-iously funny portrait of the motion picture business." Vintage 8x5¼ pb [4/98] for $11.20 Limelight Editions 8¼x5½ pb [4/85] out of print/used FS&G Book Club 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1969] out of print/used FS&G 8¼x5½ hardcover [1969] out of print/used |
 | "The Fox Girls: Starring 15 Beautiful Vixens and One Adorable Cub" [1971] by James Robert Parish, with 850 b&w photographs featuring Theda Bara, Anne Baxter, Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Alice Faye, Janet Gaynor, Betty Grable, June Haver, skater Sonja Henie, Carmen Miranda, Marilyn Monroe, Sheree North, Shirley Temple {the 'cub'}, Gene Tierney, Raquel Welch & Loretta Young Arlington House hardcover [1972] out of print/used Arlington House hardcover [1971] out of print/many used |
 | "Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History" [1989] by Aubrey Solomon Scarecrow Press 8¼x5½ pb [10/88] for $40.95 Scarecrow Press 9x6 hardcover [1989] out of print/used |
 | "William Fox, Sol M. Wurtzel & The Early Fox Film Corporation: Letters, 1917-1923" [2001] Edited by {daughter} Lillian Wurtzel Semenov & Carla Winter McFarland & Co. 9x6 pb [2/2001] out of print/used |
 | "Twentieth Century Fox: Inside The Photo Archive" [2004] by Tom Rothman, with Rob Easterla, Kevin Murphy & Miles Scott; Foreword by Martin Scorsese Harry N. Abrams 10½x12 hardcover [12/2004] for $34.21 |
 | "William Fox: A Story of Early Hollywood, 1915-1930" [2006] by Susan Fox & Donald G. Rosellini Midnight Marquee Press 9x6 hardcover [3/2006] for $35.00 |
 | "The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography" [2011] by Aubrey Solomon McFarland & Co. 10x7 hardcover [4/2011] for $95.00 |
Movies About Fox Studios
 | "20th Century Fox: The First 50 Years" [1997 documentary TV special] Co-written, co-produced & directed by Kevin Burns Image Ent. 129-min. b&w/color DVD [8/2000] for $13.99 full credits at IMDb "20th Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years" [2000 documentary TV special] Co-written, co-produced & directed by Kevin Burns Image Ent. 113-min. b&w/color DVD [9/2002] for $13.99 full credits at IMDb |
The Film & Music Library
Magic Lantern's "The Grapes of Wrath" 1940 Movie Page
"Planet Of The Apes" [1968] and its sequels and prequels
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"The Films of Twentieth Century Fox: A Pictorial History" [1980] by Tony Thomas & Aubrey Solomon Citadel Press 12x8¾ pb [4/89] out of print/used Citadel Press 11x8½ hardcover 2nd edition [11/85] out of print/used Citadel Press 12x9¼ hardcover [2/80] out of print/used |
 | "Hidden Hollywood: Treasures From The 20th Century Fox Vaults" [1997 TV special] Co-written, co-produced & directed by Kevin Burns Volume 1: hosted by Joan Collins; the mostly song-and-dance clips include Walter Brennan, Dan Dailey, Jimmy Durante, Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Katherine Hepburn, Edward Everett Horton, Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman, Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson & Shirley Temple Image Ent. 90-min. color DVD [3/2002] for $13.99 full credits at IMDb |
 | Volume 2: hosted by Joan Collins; the mostly song-and-dance clips include Margaret Dumont, Alice Faye, W.C. Fields, Kay Francis, Betty Grable, skater Sonja Henie, Danny Kaye, Buster Keaton, Carole Landis, Victor Mature, Mitzi Mayfair, Carmen Miranda, the Nicholas Brothers, Martha Raye, the Ritz Brothers & Phil Silvers
Image Ent. 90-min. color DVD [3/2002] for $13.49 full credits at IMDb |
 | "20th Century Fox: 75 Years of Great Film Music" [2010] Varese Records soundtrack CD [12/2010] 60 tracks on 3 disks for $21.85 mostly main titles or end credits music from "The Abyss" [1989], "Alien" [1979], "All About Eve" [1950], "Author! Author!" [1982], "Big" [1988], "Broadcast News" [1987], "Captain From Castile" [1947], "Cast Away" [2005], "Cleopatra" [1963], "Commando" [1985], "Conrack" [1974], "The Day The Earth Stood Still" [1951], "Die Hard" [1988], "Fantastic Four" [2005], "The Fly" [1986], "The French Connection" [1971], "From The Terrace" [1960], "The Fury" [1978], "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" [1947], "Hoffa" [1992], "Horton Hears A Who!" [2008], "How |
| Green Was My Valley" [1941], "How To Marry A Millionaire" [1953], "I, Robot" [2004], "Ice Age" [2002], "Independence Day" [1996], "Laura" [1944], "The Long, Hot Summer" [1958], "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" [1955], "Lucas" [1986], "Magic" [1978], "Max Dugan Returns" [1983], "Mrs. Doubtfire" [1993], "My Cousin Rachel" [1952], "Night At The Museum" [2006], "Norma Rae" [1979], "The Omen" [1976], "The Paper Chase" [1973], "Patton" [1970], "Planet Of The Apes" [1968], "The Poseidon Adventure" [1972], "Predator" [1986], "Prince Valiant" [1954], "The Rains of Ranchipur" [1955], "Raising Arizona" [1987], "The Robe" [1953], "Romancing The Stone" [1984], "The Sand Pebbles" [1966], "The Seven Year Itch" [1955] directed by Billy Wilder, "The Song of Bernadette" [1943], "Speed" [1994], "Three Coins In The Fountain" [1954], "Tora! Tora! Tora!" [1970], "Twelve O'Clock High" [1948], "Unfaithful" [2002], "Untamed" [1955], "Viva Zapata!" [1952], and Oliver Stone's "Wall Street" [1987] |
Major Divisions
Fox Filmed Entertainment
Fox Entertainment Group animation
Also known as Fox Filmed Entertainment; subdividions include 20th Century Fox Film Corp., Fox Studios, Fox Searchlight, Fox 2000, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Fox Animation, 20th Century Fox Television [est. 1949], Fox Television Stations Group, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Movie Channel, Fox News Channel, National Geographic Channel, many others
Fox's Baja Studios [est. 1996] in Mexico
Fox Studios Australia [est. 1998]
Fox Star Studios in Mumbai, India
Blue Skies Studios animation [est. 1987]
official website
Wikipedia
hit franchise "Ice Age" [2002, "Ice Age 2: The Meltdown" [2006], "Ice Age 3: Dawn of The
Dinosaurs" [2009], "Ice Age 4: A Mammoth Christmas" TV special [DUE Nov 2011]
& "Ice Age 5: Continental Drift" [DUE July 2012]
hit Dr. Seuss feature "Horton Hears a Who!" [2008]
hit feature "Rio" [2011]
FOX News Channel
| Launched in October 1996 to 17 million subscribers; currently has 85 million subscribers. {Also known as the Faux News Network, the Fox Noise Network, and the F-word Network, based on their fascist bias.} |
FOX News Channel entry at Wikipedia
"The problem with Fox [News] is not that it's conservative. It's that it lies." — Eric Alterman
 | "Fair and Balanced, My Ass!: An Unbridled Look At The Bizarre Reality of Fox News" [2007] by Joseph Minton Amann & Tom Breuer Nation Books 8x5½ pb [4/2007] for $11.66 |
Fox Searchlight Pictures specialty division
| Founded in 1994 to produce and-or distribute independent films; founded sub-division Fox Atomic in 2006 to distribute genre films for young adults. |
Fox Searchlight entry at Wikipedia
Fox Atomic official website {requires Flash}
Fox Atomic entry at Wikipedia
Fox 2000 Pictures specialty division
2/2012: Elizabeth Gabler signed a new contract as president of Fox 2000 Pictures, under Fox Ent. Group
Regency Enterprises / New Regency Productions
Founded in 1991 by producer Arnon Milchan; distributed by Warner Bros. until 1998;
1998 distribution pact with Fox extended in 2011 to 2022.
Regency Enterprises entry at Wikipedia
New Regency official website
New Regency entry at Wikipedia
Fox Movietone News
[USA 1928-63, U.K. 1929-79, Australia 1929-75]
Inspired by same-day footage of Charles Lindberg's historic flight shown in New York theaters; Movietone's weekly newsreels
were regularly narrated by journalist Lowell Thomas. The archived newsreel content is available for licensing from facilities
in New York City, North Carolina, and Los Angeles.
Movietone News entry at Wikipedia
Fox Movietone News archive in NYC
Fox News Movietone archive website
Australian Movietone News archive website
 | "Movietone Presents The Twentieth Century" [1976] by Lawrence Cohn, Introduction by Lowell Thomas Andre Deutsch, Ltd. pb [9/77] out of print/used St. Martin's Press hardcover [7/80] out of print/used St. Martin's Press hardcover [1976] out of print/used |
parent company News Corp.
| Australian Rupert Murdoch re-incorporated his holdings as News Corp. in 1980; bought half of Fox in 1981, the other half in 1984; Murdoch became a U.S. citizen to allow purchase of Metromedia's television stations, which were renamed Fox Broadcasting in 1986; launched the 24-hour Fox News Channel in 1996; purchased 34% of Hughes Electronics (DirecTV) in 2003; purchased 64% of the Wall Street Journal & Dow-Jones companies for $5.6 billion in August 2007. In February 2008, News Corp. traded its controlling interest in DirecTV for News Corp. shares owned by Liberty Media (John Malone & family.) In July 2011, Britain's News of The World tabloid newspaper - largest-selling paper in the world - shut down as a result of a phone-tapping and bribery scandal involving Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp. conglomerate. |
 | "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism" [Brave New Films June 2004]
"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." A.J. Liebling "film made possible by MoveOn.Org and The Center for American Progress" Co-produced & directed by Robert Greenwald Disinformation Co. color DVD [7/2004] for $9.95 full credits from IMDb official movie site companion book [2005] by Alexandra Kitty, Introduction by Robert Greenwald Disinformation Co. 8¾x6 pb [4/2005] for $10.36 |
 | "The Man Who Owns The News: Inside The Secret World of Rupert Murdoch" [2008] by Michael Wolff Broadway Books 8x5¼ pb [5/2010] for $13.78 Broadway Books bargain priced 9¼x6¼ hardcover [12/2008] for $11.11 Broadway Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [12/2008] out of print/dozens used |
![Robert Greenwald's "Fox Attacks" website [est. Feb 2007]](images/bFoxAttacksRG.gif){kind=small}
Newspaper Division
News Limited of Australia
News International Limited in U.K.
News of The World tabloid newspaper [1843-2011]
The New York Post
Dow Jones & Company [bot by Murdoch in 2007]
Barron's weekly financial markets magazine
Dow Jones Newswires & Indexes
The Wall Street Journal [est. 1889]
http://www.amazon.com/War-Wall-Street-Journal-Struggle/dp/0547152434/
Publishing Division
News Corp. bought book publisher Harper & Row in 1987, then bought Collins in 1989 and combined the names as HarperCollins Publishers. In 1999, News Corp. bought Hearst Book Group, which consisted of William Morrow and Avon Books.
In 2011, HarperCollins acquired rights to the majority of titles published by Newmarket Press, the respected independent publisher of film-related books, including its Shooting Script series and illustrated movie tie-in books. Other current imprints include Caedmon audiobooks, Ecco Press, Fontana {U.K.), Harper Perennial, Harper Torch, Regan Books & Zondervan.
Fox Entertainment Group
| U.S.-based umbrella corporation over 20th Century Fox Film Corp., Fox Studios, Fox Television Stations, Fox Broadcasting, and Fox News & other cable network channels. |
http://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Like-Fox-Inside-Story/dp/B00080W3KW/
http://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Network-Broke-Reinvented-Television/dp/1566635721/
Fox Broadcasting Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company
News Corp.s Fox International Channels
Spanish-language channel MundoFox will launch in late 2012, in partnership with Colombia's R.C.N. Television
News Corp. Digital Media
formerly Fox Interactive Media
Based in Beverly Hills, California; oversees News Corp. & Fox 'new media acquisitions', which include Fox Broadcasting
{below}, MSN/Foxsports, I.G.N. Entertainment [est. 1996] (formerly Imagine Games Network), MySpace [est. 2003],
Photobucket [est. 2003], and other entities.
no separate website for News Corp. Digital Media
News Corp. Digital Media entry at Wikipedia
FOX Broadcasting Co.
| Founded in 1986 after News Corp.'s purchase of Metromedia's television stations; the current network is 25 owned-and-operated stations and 175 affiliates. |
FOX Broadcasting entry at Wikipedia
MySpace
http://www.amazon.com/Stealing-MySpace-Control-Popular-Website/dp/B004JZWMYY/
Moguls & Executives
William Fox
Joseph Schenck
Spyros Skouras
Darryl F. Zanuck
"Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker" docufilm from A&E Biography
Richard Zanuck
Dennis Stanfill
half-owner Marc Rich
half-owner Marvin Davis
owner Rupert Murdoch
http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Ruperts-Brain-Portfolio-Monica/dp/B0036DE608/
http://www.amazon.com/Murdoch-William-Shawcross/dp/0684830159/
http://www.amazon.com/Rupert-Murdochs-China-Adventures-Powerful/dp/B003A02YYC/
http://www.amazon.com/Rupert-Murdoch-Untold-Worlds-Greatest/dp/0609610384/
http://www.amazon.com/Rupert-Murdoch-Creator-Worldwide-Empire/dp/1587982242/
http://www.amazon.com/Murdoch-Mission-Digital-Transformation-Empire/dp/0471383600/
Fox News President Roger Ailes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Genius-Influential-Legendary-Political/dp/1402754450/
Barry Diller
Jim Gianopulos, co-chair of Fox Filmed Entertainment
Tom Rothman, co-chair of Fox Filmed Entertainment
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