20th Century Fox[]
1st logo (May 31, 1935-May 23, 1968)[]
Nicknames: "The Searchlights II", "Fox Structure", "Majestic Tower", "Futuristic Structure" "1930s Tower" "1940s Tower" "1950s Tower"
Logo: Same as the 20th Century Pictures, Inc. logo, except "FOX" appears in place of "PICTURES, INC.".
Audio Description Variant: 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".
Technique: The monument was created as a painting on several layers of glass, and the searchlights were traditionally animated frame-by-frame; this was done by the special effects department of the studio.
Audio: A redone variant of the 20th Century Pictures fanfare once again composed and conducted by Alfred Newman.
Audio Variants:
- On Love Under Fire, a different recording of the fanfare is heard.
- On some films, it is silent or has the film's opening theme.
- On some 20th Century Pictures films, such as one print of The Call of the Wild, the original TCP fanfare is heard due to sloppy plastering.
- Zorba the Greek, one of the last films to use this logo, uses the first half of the 1953 CinemaScope fanfare.
- On the 1994 Studio Classics VHS of Carmen Jones, the 1979 fanfare is heard, likely due to a reverse plastering error.
- On Seven Arts TV prints, the CinemaScope extension fanfare that debuted with the next logo is used (the extension is heard over the Seven Arts logo).
- The 20th Century Fox Hour uses that show's fanfare; a voice-over from Restoration of the 20th Century Fox Hour can be heard in the video.
Availability: It's still saved on just about every 20th Century Fox release from 1935 to 1968, with some exceptions.
- The logo premiered on Metropolitan (released on November 8, 1935) and made its final regular appearance on Prudence and the Pill (released on May 23, 1968). It later made some appearances on Deadfall (1968), Together Brothers, At Long Last Love, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, and All This and World War II.
- The logo first debuted in black and white, while it was introduced in color in 1936.
- The color version can be seen on the 2007 DVD release of The Little Princess (1939; 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.
- Some current prints of films such as The Blue Bird (1940), Leave Her to Heaven, Forever Amber, and David and Bathsheba plaster this logo with the next one.
- This was plastered by the 4th logo on an AMC airing of Young Mr. Lincoln from February 15, 1999.
- 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. This fanfare was sampled for The Weather Girls' 1982 track "Success".
- It made an appearance at the start of an early 1990s Seven Network Australia airing of Conan the Barbarian (1982) in place of the 4th logo.
- FoxVideo tacked it on at the start of the 1993 Studio Classics VHS release of Cavalcade (1933).
2nd logo (November 5, 1953-December 11, 1987)[]
Logo: A redrawn version of the previous logo, but the back of the structure now has a visible ending point, the "0" in "20th" is slanted at an angle and leans towards the right, the left searchlight is redesigned and sits higher atop its tower, and the two searchlights in front of the camera have been removed.
Trivia:
- This logo was designed by Pacific Title artist Rocky Longo, who also designed the next two logos. The "0" was slanted so it would fit within the new CinemaScope aspect ratio.
- The extended CinemaScope fanfare has appeared on the two Star Wars score albums. Many other albums also carry this fanfare (albeit rearranged), and can be found on iTunes.
- In December 1977, this logo was adapted as the label design of 20th Century-Fox Records, until the label was closed down in 1982.
Variants:
- 1953-1967: The searchlights are slimmed down, and the structure is placed in the center of the screen with a dark blue sky surrounding it.
- 1957-1987: Like the slanted zero version of the CinemaScope logo, but without the snipe and fades out.
- There is an extended version without the CinemaScope snipe, which only appeared on High Anxiety and 1981's History of the World, Part I.
- 1968-1987: 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-right of the logo.
- A shorter version of this logo exists.
- On older international prints of Chariots of Fire and Breaking Away (and on a recent TV airing of the former), the logo is zoomed in, as those films were shot in "open matte" and the logo was not adjusted for widescreen.
- Some pan-and-scan versions of widescreen films have certain colors filling in the empty black screen space. Some early 2000s HBO widescreen airings have a blue fill, while the 1992 Fox Video VHS of M*A*S*H has a green fill.
- On a USA 16mm print of Star Wars, the logo, and the entire film, is cropped to 2.76:1.
Snipes:
- CinemaScope: The logo fades to the text "TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX PRESENTS A CINEMASCOPE PRODUCTION/PICTURE".
- French Cinemascope snipe: On a French airing of Journey to the Center of the Earth, a French print of the movie is used, with the snipe reading: "20th Century-Fox présente" and "UN FILM CinemaScope".
- Soviet Russian snipe: On a 35mm Soviet release of The 300 Spartans, the Cinemascope snipe is replaced by a blue background with white Russian text reading "ПРОИЗВОДСТВО 20-Й ВЕК ФОКС США", which translates to "PRODUCTION OF 20TH CENTURY FOX USA".
Technique: The monument was created as a painting on several layers of glass, and the searchlights were traditionally animated frame-by-frame; once again, this was done by the special effects department of the studio.
Audio:
- November 5, 1953-1960: The 1953 recording of the original fanfare, which debuted on How to Marry a Millionaire.
- April 30, 1954-1967: 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 once again conducted by Alfred Newman, and debuted on River of No Return. After CinemaScope was dropped in 1967, the 1935 fanfare was only used from this point on, until the CinemaScope extension returned on Star Wars in 1977.
- March 9, 1960: A different recording of the original fanfare, conducted by Nelson Riddle, debuted on Can-Can.
- 1965-October 31, 1981: The 1935 recording of the original fanfare.
- December 21, 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: A new recording of the CinemaScope fanfare, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by John Williams, which was used on The Empire Strikes Back.
Audio Variants:
- In other cases, the logo is silent or has the movie's opening theme.
- Marilyn Monroe's final and unfinished project Something's Got to Give has the 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 1962 variant of the 1954 CinemaScope fanfare. This can be heard on a few films such as Fire Sale, Damien: Omen II, Brubaker, Fatso, Willie & Phil, Magic (1978), and the TV movies Miracle on 34th Street (1973), Good Against Evil, and The Diary of Anne Frank (1980).
- Around 1962, the fanfare was slightly modified with reverb and chorus effects. Though, the regular version was still used until 1967. This would also be used on Star Wars and High Anxiety, both released in 1977.
- History of the World, Part I has a different arrangement of the CinemaScope fanfare by John Morris.
- There are lower-pitched versions of the 1935 and 1954 CinemaScope fanfares that exist on some films.
- Older prints of The Call of the Wild (1935) use the 20th Century Pictures fanfare.
- Recent prints of The Roots of Heaven 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 during the first half of the fanfare.
- Netflix prints of French Connection II use an abridged recording of the CinemaScope extension from The Empire Strikes Back (1999 arrangement).
- The VHS release of Young Guns II has this logo with the 1979 music playing over it instead.
- On a Spanish copy of History of the World: Part I, this logo has the 1981 Gaumont fanfare due to poor plastering.
- On a Swedish 16mm print of Star Wars (Stjärnornas krig), the second drum roll is repeated, cutting out the first.
- On Damnation Alley, the second half of the CinemaScope fanfare is cut.
Availability: With some exceptions, this logo is seen on releases from Fox from the time-period starting with The Robe, and used in tandem with the first logo and the next-two logos.
- This logo made its official debut with The Robe (released on September 16, 1953), the first motion picture filmed in CinemaScope. It allegedly made its final official appearance on Wall Street (released on December 11, 1987), but it remains unknown if it actually appeared on originally theatrical prints; all current prints of the film replace it with the 4th logo. Nonetheless, this logo is still retained on most Fox releases from this period.
- The CinemaScope variants aren't usually subject to plastering; however, an early 2000s AMC print of Satan Never Sleeps plastered it with the 4th logo.
- However, it is still retained on DVD releases of the film and on one FMC airing.
- Among the last films to use the CinemaScope variants in their original run were Von Ryan's Express, which was predominantly filmed in Panavision at the insistence of star Frank Sinatra, Fantastic Voyage, and the Flint films.
- This logo is retained on the original theatrical versions of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back on their 2006 DVD releases, but is still plastered with the 4th logo on the remastered "Special Edition" versions.
- The international version of Chariots of Fire also originally featured this logo, although the current UK DVD release plasters it with the 1994 logo. However, it was left intact on a recent Sky TV airing and on the Warner Blu-ray of the international version.
- The original Key Video VHS releases of Moving Violation and Thunder and Lightning plaster this with the 4th logo; the former restored it on current prints and the Shout! Factory DVD release, but the latter plasters it while keeping the original abridged fanfare.
- Some releases of Alien and its director's cut plaster this with the 3rd logo, but it is still retained on the original 1981 VHS, the 1999 theatrical DVD, and the recent Blu-ray releases.
- This logo can also be found some early-to-mid-1980s films of the era, such as The Cannonball Run (albeit as a variant), older video releases of Bill Cosby: Himself, the original CBS/Fox Video release of Revenge of the Nerds, the original Key Video VHS release of The Buddy System, Moving Violations, and the CBS/Fox VHS release of Project X (1987). It is also intact on older U.S. cable prints of Young Guns and older VHS copies of Young Guns II; however, the letterbox LaserDisc release of the latter film uses the 4th logo. Later home video/DVD releases and TV prints of these films plaster it with the either the 4th logo or those from another distributor.
- Current prints of Avalanche Express (which Warner Bros. acquired from Fox with its purchase of the Lorimar film library) plaster this with the 1998 WB logo, but it is still intact on the Spanish R2 DVD release. No logo appears at all on the Warner Home Video VHS release thereof.
- This logo does not appar 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, The Cape Town Affair, The Day the Fish Came Out, Star!, Deadfall, Patton (some TV broadcasts spliced in a logo from another film), Tora! Tora! Tora!, Trouble Man, The Poseidon Adventure, U.S. prints of The Towering Inferno, At Long Last Love, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, Silent Movie, Prudence and the Pill, or All This and World War II.
- The 1976 revision makes an appearance on the Criterion Collection Blu-ray release of Naked Lunch.
- This logo can also be found on the Vestron VHS release of Fort Apache: The Bronx and on a Trifecta syndicated print of Oh Heavenly Dog! (which Paramount/Trifecta owns the television rights to via Mulberry Square Productions).
- Southern Comfort was originally seen with the 1976 revision of this logo; it can be seen on some older European copies of the film, preceded by the Overseas Filmgroup logo.
- The original Blay Video VHS release of Magic (1978) retains this logo, but not on the LaserDisc release; it's unknown if other releases of this film retain this logo.
- This logo is also seen at the beginning of the original CBS/Fox VHS release of the M*A*S*H series finale, "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen".
- This logo might also be seen on theatrical German/Argentine prints of titles from Walt Disney Productions/Pictures and Touchstone, as Fox had distribution rights to Disney's output in most countries such as Germany and Argentina until 1987.
- The audio from this logo also makes an appearance at the start of the launch trailer for the 2011 mobile game Angry Birds Rio.
- Additionally, this logo precedes the Toho logo on Criterion prints of Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha, and it is also seen on current international prints, but without the Toho logo.
Legacy: It was often given the unofficial nickname of "Slanted Zero" thanks to its intended design. Some have seen the zero in the logo as off-putting, though more have seen this logo in a more favorable light for its design and extended fanfare.
3rd logo (April 10, 1981-July 1, 1994)[]
Logo: Another redrawn version of the last logo. This time, the structure is as off-center left as the late 1960s variant of the 1953 logo. The searchlights now have a glow (possibly Scanimate) surrounding them, and the sky is in a lighter shade of blue (closer to daytime, as opposed to the night-blue shade of its predecessors), with the clouds looking more "blended". This design of the logo was used as the basis for the 1994 logo. Trivia: This logo was designed when Rocky Longo repainted the eight-layered glass panels, and straightened the zero. This logo is actually traced over the 1953 logo if one lines up both variants over each other. It also bears a large resemblance to the 1956 logo (particularly the number "20").
Variants:
- On some films, such as Porky's Revenge!, the front-left searchlight is pink.
- Some films used a dark, washed-out structure.
- On anamorphic 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 scope, though the first two Die Hard films and The Adventures of Ford Fairlane use a version where the logo is not squeezed, and thus is stretched out horizontally (at the request of the films' producer, Joel Silver, who liked the stretched look after a mishap with an editor accidentally splicing in a flat logo in the anamorphic print).
- There is another scope variant that was done for films shot in Super 35 where the 1.85 variant was cropped to 2.35/2.39.
- On a few films shot in scope, the logo is in extreme close-up.
- On a couple of films, the logo is placed at a very far distance.
- 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). This version was also seen on a Soviet release of Die Hard 2.
- On Jack the Bear, the right searchlight's animation syncs with the middle one's. This is the only variation that doesn't appear on any other film.
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, The Boy Who Could Fly, FernGully: The Last Rainforest and My Cousin Vinny, there was a variation which had "RELEASED BY" above the 20th Century Fox print logo.
- Sometimes, there is a variant where it reads "Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation" above the print logo, used on both films.
Technique: The monument was created as a painting on several layers of glass, and the searchlights were traditionally animated frame-by-frame; this time the logo was animated by Pacific Title.
Audio:
- April 10, 1981: The 1954 CinemaScope extension fanfare.
- December 25, 1981-October 1, 1993: The 1979 fanfare, which was used in tandem with the long version until Freaked. Most films would either use this or the long version.
- August 6, 1982, July 20, 1984-July 1, 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, (released on August 6, 1982, though it was not officially used until its premiere on Revenge of the Nerds) and the last to use it was Baby's Day Out (released on July 1, 1994).
Audio Variants:
- In other cases, the logo is silent or has the film's opening theme. Rookie of the Year coincidentally has opening music that starts with a drumroll similar to the one that normally would start the Fox fanfare.
- On some films, such as Porky's II: The Next Day, 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's silent, like on Hardly Working, or has the opening theme of the film.
- A slightly modified 1980 recording/arrangement by John Williams, as played by the London Symphony Orchestra, was used on Return of the Jedi. Similarly, Class Action and War of the Roses use James Horner's own arrangement, while some films scored by Jerry Goldsmith also use his own arrangement. An arrangement of the Alfred Newman fanfare with a heavy brass section was used on The Chase, composed by Charles Gerhardt.
- The DVD release of Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure and Battle for Endor: An Ewok Adventure, as the French audio track on the 1998 DTS DVD of Predator use the 1997 arrangement.
- On The Fly (1986), the abridged version of the 1953 CinemaScope fanfare is heard, possibly on purpose.
- On newer prints of Wizards, the logo is out of sync with the 1979 fanfare.
- On AMC's prints of Wall Street, a lower-pitched version of the 1979 fanfare is heard.
- TCM France's print of Inferno (1980) has the 1994 fanfare playing over this logo due to poor reverse plastering.
- On Amazon Prime Video and Syfy's prints of Die Hard 2, the 1997 fanfare is heard as a result of a reverse plaster, being based on the post-2007 print.
- On Young Guns (1988), the last note of the 1979 fanfare is cut short.
Availability: Seen on films from Fox from the time-period until 1994. During its first few years in use, this was used in tandem with the 1953 logo.
- Notable films to use this logo include Taps, The Verdict, theatrical versions of Return of the Jedi, Porky's II: The Next Day, Romancing the Stone, Porky's Revenge!, Commando, Aliens, Predator, Broadcast News, Big, Die Hard, Working Girl, Say Anything..., The War of the Roses, Die Hard 2, Home Alone, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Predator 2, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Edward Scissorhands, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Alien 3, Once Upon a Forest, The Sandlot, Mrs. Doubtfire, Speed, and Baby's Day Out, among others.
- This logo allegedly premiered on Star Wars IV: A New Hope (released under this title on April 10, 1981), which would use this logo on most fullscreen prints save for the HBO television premiere until the 2nd logo was restored to the film for the 1995 THX release. This logo made its first appearance as the regular logo on T*A*P*S and Modern Problems (both released that Christmas), and its final appearance on Airheads (released on August 5, 1994).
- This logo also plasters the 1953 logo on the video release of Chu Chu and the Philly Flash, 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, Wall Street, and Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise.
- Fox plastered/updated the 1st and 2nd logos with this on some colorized versions of its films in the 1980s, such as Miracle on 34th Street (1947; the original logo is restored on newer colorized prints however), and Technicolor films such as Halls of Montezuma.
- This logo also plastered the 3rd logo on late 1980s/early 1990s NBC airings of The Sound of Music.
- It can also be seen on international prints of Crocodile Dundee (except in Australia and New Zealand, where the film was released by Hoyts Distribution), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (except in Hong Kong, where it was released by Golden Harvest), as well as on 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. Later airings used the current 20th Television logo instead. A similar occurrence also happened when AMC aired Independence Day in 2008.
- Post-2007 prints of Die Hard 2 replace this with the next logo (except for Amazon Prime Video and Syfy's prints, where it is still left intact, albeit with the 1997 fanfare).
- The Hong Kong 1995 P&S LaserDisc release of Return of the Jedi removed this in favor of the CBS-FOX Video logo.
- The B&W variant of this logo can be found on some U.S. prints of The Sicilian (however, it does not appear on the Vestron Video VHS release thereof).
- The 1991 (not 1989) Vestron Video release of Young Guns, including the late 1990s 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 or, in the case of older pay-TV prints, plastered it with the 1953 logo.
- Other Fox releases of Morgan Creek films have this logo removed on Media Home Entertainment releases and current prints, but it is still retained on the CBS/Fox Video and Fox Video releases of The Exorcist III, Young Guns II and Pacific Heights, as well as Tubi's print of Nightbreed (the theatrical cut).
- It is also preserved on the original 1989 Vestron Video VHS release of Young Guns.
- Older VHS, Laserdisc, VCD, and DVD copies of Speed plaster this with the next logo (which was originally intended to debut on the theatrical release of the film); however, it is still retained on the Blu-ray release and USA Network's print of the film (and presumably Syfy's as well).
- IVE releases of films from Gladden Entertainment Corporation, along with DVD releases from Live Entertainment and Artisan Entertainment, generally preserved this logo, but it was removed on the 1987 Media Home Entertainment release of Mannequin (replaced by the Cannon Films logo as part of a legal settlement between Cannon and Gladden), the 1991 Live Home Video release of Mannequin 2: On the Move, the Shout! Factory Blu-ray release of Millennium (1989), the Olive Films Blu-ray releases of Mannequin and Mannequin 2: On the Move, and the 1996 Avid Home Entertainment re-release of Weekend at Bernie's.
- It is also preserved on the Vestron Video VHS and Shout! Factory Blu-ray releases of The Sicilian.
- HBO's current print of Mannequin also preserves the Fox logo.
- This logo can also be found on the HBO/Cannon Video VHS release of Highlander.
- The Warner Home Video release of The King of Comedy plasters this with the Regency Enterprises logo, while the earlier RCA/Columbia release skips to the opening credits, and even blacks out the closing title.
- It is, however, preserved on all releases since Fox acquired the video rights to the early Regency library.
- This logo can be found on international theatrical prints of Brazil, including the Italian release distributed by Cecchi Gori Group, but most international home video releases either skip to the opening title card or plaster it with the Weintraub Entertainment Group logo, while the Fox Blu-ray releases use the 1994 logo.
- It is currently unknown whether this logo was seen on the international releases of Legend.
- Most U.S. VHS releases of The Princess Bride do not have this logo (with the exception of the 1998 MGM VHS release), as 20th Century Fox only held North American theatrical and television rights. As a result, it can be seen on U.S. TV prints of the film, including the 2021 Disney+ print. Amazon Prime Video prints use MGM masters, and therefore plaster this with the MGM logo. It is also retained on the film's current UK DVD releases and the Australian two-disc deluxe edition, despite the film being re-released by Lionsgate there.
- This logo was also seen on the U.S. theatrical prints of The Name of the Rose.
- However, all home video prints of the film just cut straight into the movie.
- The 1979 theme variant makes an appearance at the end of Sony Movie Channel's broadcast of the 1974 TV movie Death Cruise (a Spelling-Goldberg production), before the 2002 SPT logo, and it is also intact on Crackle's print of the title.
- This logo may also appear on theatrical German prints of titles from Walt Disney Pictures/Touchstone, as Fox had distribution rights to Disney's output in that region before Warner Bros.' German branch took over in 1987.
- This logo was also seen on international theatrical prints of Conan the Barbarian (1982), but current international prints have the 1997 logo in its place.
- However, this logo was retained on a recent Hits Movies airing.
- This logo was seen on trailers for True Lies, The Pagemaster, and Miracle on 34th Street (1994), all of which ended up using the next logo.
- It is intact on the current UK DVD and Blu-ray releases of Robin Hood: Men in Tights by Fabulous Films, which was released under license from Sony, which is taken from a Fox-owned master instead of a Sony-owned master.
- This logo is also preserved on the Vestron Video VHS release of Fort Apache, The Bronx.
- This logo may also have been seen on U.S. theatrical prints of Streets of Gold, The Manhattan Project, The Morning After, Power, The Boy Who Could Fly, Big Shots, Dreamscape, Fire & Ice (1983), Silkwood, Prizzi's Honor, Plenty, and Space Camp, but home video releases show no evidence.
- It is also preserved on the Vestron VHS releases of Mr. Mom, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, National Lampoon's Class Reunion, The Flamingo Kid, Loving Couples, and Impulse (1984).
- On the 1994 VHS of Speed, it uses the next logo instead.
- This logo is skipped on the Vestron VHS release of Blame it on Rio, but the 2000 MGM Movietime VHS release thereof still retains it.
4th logo (July 15, 1994-January 22, 2010)[]
Nicknames: "CGI Searchlights", "Ultra Majestic Tower", "The Searchlights V", "Futuristic Structure IV", "Majestic Tower IV", "Fox Structure IV", "2000s Tower"
Logo: On a black background, two searchlights swoop across the screen (first one by one and then both at the same time, in sync with the opening drumroll), revealing a top-down view of the 20th Century Fox structure, redone in CGI. The camera moves down and then around the structure, revealing a Los Angeles/Hollywood skyline in the distance and a starry, cloudy blue/purple/orange sky in the background. Midway through the camera's panning, a yellow light (most likely the sun) shines behind the structure as the second half of the extended fanfare begins, and the camera pans past an additional searchlight in front of the structure before settling into its more usual position and angle. The orange byline "A NEWS CORPORATION COMPANY" fades in at the bottom of the screen.
Trivia:
- The first movie to use this logo was True Lies, released on July 15, 1994. 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's design had been 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. The byline also fades late. 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. Also seen on many trailers and TV spots for Fox films.
- 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. 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 later Flip Your Lid Animation demo reel and at the end of the aforementioned 20th Century Fox: The First 50 Years.
- Open matte and bylineless versions exist.
- On 4:3 fullscreen prints of many films from 1999 onward starting with Never Been Kissed, the logo is zoomed out to a much farther distance than usual.
- On international releases of The Art of War, the 4:3 version of this logo is used, stretched to widescreen.
- On the 1995 VHS UK and the 2002 DVD release of Speed (1994), the camera-panning animation is different.
- Starting with Robots, released on March 11, 2005. the colors in this logo were enhanced.
- The logo was enhanced again with brighter colors on July 27, 2007, starting with The Simpsons Movie (albeit using a variant). Used in tandem with the previous variant.
- On Volcano (1997), the 1994 20th Century Fox logo animates as usual. After it forms, the logo has a gold tint and moves up until the screen's completely dark and the opening credits start.
Closing Titles:
- Same as the last logo until 2006.
- 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.
- A short version with only the final shot (similar to the variant seen on the "Special Edition" remastered versions of the Star Wars trilogy from 1997 onward and the Star Wars prequel trilogy) is seen at the end of some HBO First Look behind the scenes documentaries such as Daredevil, usually with a copyright notice under the logo.
FX/SFX: CGI directed by Kevin Burns at Studio Productions (now Flip Your Lid Animation), who had previously animated the logos for Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Buena Vista Television, and Morgan Creek. Animated in collaboration with Image Savant and Topix.
Audio:
- 1994-1998: A new arrangement of the extended CinemaScope fanfare, 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 and larger brass/string sections than other fanfares.
- 1998-present: 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.
- On The Legend of Bagger Vance and most international prints of Braveheart, the opening short of the movie is heard over the logo instead.
- 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, a Portuguese dub of Johnny Dangerously with the 3rd logo and Marilyn Monroe's unfinished project Something's Got to Give (1962) with the 2nd logo. An abridged version was used on the final 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment logo.
- On some prints of Speed and the first two Die Hard films, the 1981-1994 fanfare is heard due to plastering the 4th logo. Other prints may use the 1994 or 1997 fanfares.
- On Speed 2: Cruise Control, a different arrangement of the Fox Video 1993-1995 fanfare. as conducted by Mark Mancina, plays.
- On Anastasia (the 1997 fanfare)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 the "Special Edition" remastered versions of the Star Wars films from The Empire Strikes Back to Return of the Jedi as part of the visual effects comparison, the 1980 fanfare conducted by John Williams, is heard during the logo before the 20th Century Fox logo fades out and the 1997 Lucasfilm Ltd. logo appears on screen as the second half of the 20th Century Fox fanfare plays over the said logo.
- On AMC airings of films Transporter 2, Grandma's Boy, X-Men Origins: Wolverine the 1997 fanfare is in a lower pitch.
Availability: Very common. The logo premiered on True Lies, and made its final appearance on Tooth Fairy.
- The 1994 fanfare first appeared in True Lies and was last used in Great Expectations.
- The 1997 fanfare was officially debuted in Anastasia.
- It can also be seen on Blue Sky films from Ice Age (2002) to Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009). 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 next 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 makes a strange appearance at the end of The Dolphin.
- On digital copies of Star Wars Episodes I-III and V, VI, the Fox logo is removed and only shows the Lucasfilm ident 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 the News Corporation byline).
- It first appeared on the 1994 VHS of Speed, plastering the previous logo.
5th logo (August 20, 2009-October 23, 2020)[]
Nicknames: "CGI Searchlights II", "Ultra Majestic Tower II", "Enhanced Searchlights", "The Searchlights VI", "Majestic Tower V", "Fox Structure V", "Decade Tower", "2010 Fox", "20th's 75th", "Happy Anniversary, Fox!", "Happy 75th Fox", "2010s Tower", "Celebrating 75 Years of 20th Century Fox"
Logo: A complete redesign of the structure, with many elements of the logo sharing little resemblance to their 1956/1981/1994 counterparts. This time, it is in a dark/orange evening environment, and the structure has a more realistic appearance, complete with a rectangular pattern in the center stage. Extra emphasis is placed on the searchlights around the rear (hidden in previous logos), with two appearing in the intro and after the camera stops moving respectively.
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).
- 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.
Variants:
- For the logo's first official year (2010), while the logo finishes moving into position, the camera pans up and two streaks of light draw "75", as two searchlights turned on, after the "75" finishes drawing, with the word "CELEBRATING", appearing letter by letter, 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. Also, the front searchlight the camera usually passes leans more to the left before going off-screen, and a searchlight behind the structure has been removed.
- The prototype version had a much darker red-orange sunset sky, harder shading, and different searchlight positions.
- The version where the wireframe fades in on the 3D geometry at the end of the logo sequence is part of Dave Strick's environment reel video. The details including his email address is also at the beginning where the logo starts blurry and then gains focus.
- 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).
- An open matte version exists. This was seen on TV spots for Runner Runner and The Counselor, The Peanuts Movie (albeit using a variant), on video games based on 20th Century Fox properties, and on 35mm uncropped film scan prints of films originally produced in 1.85:1 flat ratio.
- 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 enhanced version of this logo exists. Here, the searchlight sequence is improved, the textures are more detailed and the "X" in "FOX" is brighter than usual. This variant was exclusively seen on Blue Sky films Ice Age: Collision Course, Ferdinand and Spies in Disguise. Only one non-Blue Sky film Murder on the Orient Express, and was later used as a closing variant on Terminator: Dark Fate.
- On Gone Girl and A Cure for Wellness, the logo is darker and later fades out early.
Closing Titles: 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, the 2015 remake of Poltergeist, Bridge of Spies and Terminator: Dark Fate, 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.
- At the end of the majority of their films starting in 2012 (including the final Blue Sky films from Epic to Spies in Disguise), text (usually white) appears on a black background, stating: "The making and authorized distribution of the film supported over (number) jobs and involved hundreds of thousands of/over one million work hours."
Technique: CGI designed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha and animated at Twentieth Century Fox's now-defunct sibling company Blue Sky Studios. This was made using Autodesk Maya.
Audio: Same David Newman's fanfare from the previous logo.
- In rare cases, such as The Monuments Men, The Greatest Showman, Gone Girl, Ad Astra, A Cure for Wellness, The Post, and Terminator: Dark Fate, the film's opening music plays over the logo instead.
- On Joy, only the first half short Cry the opening theme of the movie are heard on the rest of the logo.
- In very rare instances, such as Bridge of Spies, the logo is silent.
- 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.
- The 2016 enhanced variant has the fanfare being slightly modified that sounds like a combination of the regular 1997 and the Anastasia version.
- For the short version, none, the movie's closing theme, or the trailer's opening theme.
- On most dubbed international prints of Ford v. Ferrari, the music is in a lower pitch, along with those of TSG's and Chernin's logos.
Availability: Very common.
- First appeared on Avatar, and the trailer for Aliens vs. Predator (PlayStation 3/XBOX 360). It can also be seen on all Blue Sky films from Rio to Spies In Disguise.
- 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 from 2010 onwards, starting with Hot Tub Time Machine.
- Also appears on some video games based on 20th Century Fox films, such as the Alien vs. Predator game, Rio, Ice Age: Continental Drift - Arctic Games, and Snoopy's Grand Adventure.
- The last film to use this logo with the News Corporation byline was The Heat, released on June 28, 2013.
- The logo wasn't seen at all on 127 Hours, it was seen at the start of DreamWorks Animation films before the DreamWorks Animation logo, beginning with The Croods and ending with Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie.
- Newer releases may plaster this logo with the 2013 Universal logo.
- This additionally plasters the previous logo on Star Wars Episode 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.
- The final film to use this logo was Underwater, due 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).
However, as the 20th Century Fox name made a surprise reappearance on The Empty Man, released on October 23, 2020, despite its trailer and posters using the 20th Century Studios logo. Occasionally, it appears at the end of some international prints of old Warner Bros-produced Regency titles (which Fox owns as of today), including Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and The Negotiator.
20th Century Studios[]
(February 21, 2020-Present)[]
Logo: A reworking of the final 20th Century Fox logo, with the word "STUDIOS" replacing "FOX" and "CENTURY" being largely taller to accommodate for it. Shading, modelling and texturing also largely differ from the previous logo, including an enhanced finish on the structure, shinier and sleeker searchlights with wider light beams, a different sky backdrop, different palm trees, and a larger and more detailed Los Angeles landscape.
Alternate Descriptive Video Description: Searchlights sweep an evening sky, piercing clouds, and illuminating a towering edifice in the form of "20th Century Studios", with the lights of Hollywood, palm trees, and the hills beyond.
Variants:
- As a de-facto home video logo on current 20th Century Studios home media releases, the logo is cut short to the middle, similar to the variant seen on the 3D re-release of The Phantom Menace.
- On Picturemill's Spring 2020 reel and on movies starting with Free Guy, an enhanced version of the sky backdrop from the final 20th Century Fox logo is used.
- Starting with Vacation Friends (except for Death on the Nile), the "®" symbol is removed.
- An open matte version exists.
- A 48fps version exists, which is seen on Avatar (plastering the final TCF logo on the 2022 re-release), the international prints of the 25th Anniversary re-release of Titanic (plastering the 1994 and 2009 TCF logos), and on films starting with Avatar: The Way of Water, for both 2D and 3D versions.
Closing Title: Usually, it's the same closing text from the previous logo.
Technique: CGI by Picturemill (based on Blue Sky's design), who also animated the 1997 Universal Pictures logo, the enhanced/New Line Cinema versions of the Warner Bros. Pictures logo, and the 2008 Nickelodeon Movies logo.
Audio: The 1997 Fox fanfare composed and conducted by David Newman.
Audio 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 fanfare is heard, just like with the 2012 3D and 2017 Dolby Vision re-releases with the final TCF logo.
Availability: This logo can be seen on the majority of its films released since February 21, 2020.
- This logo was first seen on a TV spot for The Call of the Wild (2020) on February 3, before debuting on the film itself 18 days later.
- This logo does not appear on Everybody's Talking About Jamie, as Disney sold the distribution rights to the film to Amazon Studios. However, the trailer does feature this logo.
- This logo also does not appear on The Empty Man, and on Brazilian films since Alice & Só, which all feature the final 20th Century Fox logo instead (as mentioned above), nor does it appear on some films produced for the Disney+ service, such as Better Nate Than Ever, Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2021), Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2022), The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Cheaper by the Dozen (2022), Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again, Crater, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever, which all use the 2011 version of the 2006 Walt Disney Pictures logo, and the latter using the 2022 logo, because they were moved from the company during production.
- It also additionally does not appear on Deep Water and Deadpool & Wolverine, despite the company producing the latter film and its print logo appearing on the marketing.
- The short version is also used as a de-facto home video logo on post-2020 20th Century Studios DVD and Blu-ray releases (not counting 2020s reprints of all pre-2020 movies, retaining their old logos until then), after the final TCFHE logo retired. It does not appear on 4K Ultra HD releases, as they all skip it. It is still unknown whenever the 20th Century Home Entertainment logo will appear in future 4K releases.
- Movies that do not use the closing text include The Call of the Wild (the first film under the 20th Century Studios name), Ron's Gone Wrong (this logo's animated debut), Home Sweet Home Alone (the first Disney+ original film released by the company), No Exit, Fantastic Beasts: Secrets Of Dumbledore, The Bob's Burgers Movie, The Princess, Rosaline, Avatar: The Way of Water, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, etc.
- The last film to use the original version was the Netflix film The Woman in the Window, released on May 14, 2021. However, it makes an appearance on the first two trailers of Prey (2022), trailers for White Men Can't Jump (2023), and is still being used as a de-facto home video logo.
- This logo does not appear on the 20th Century Home Entertainment 4K release of the Regency film Heat; only the aforementioned logo appears,
- As stated above, this logo plasters the final 20th Century Fox logo on the remastered re-release of Avatar, though the ABC premiere in December 2022 retains the final 20th Century Fox logo, and it also plasters said logo on the 25th Anniversary re-release of Titanic. It is currently unknown that any other plastering will happen as of now.
- This logo is seen at the end of each episode of the miniseries Faraway Downs, likely because that series is a TV adaptation of the 2008 film Australia.
- As of today, despite the acquisition of 21st Century Fox's properties (including 20th Century Studios; formerly 20th Century Fox at the time) by Disney in 2019, it is currently unknown whether 20th Century Studios films would feature the credit "Distributed by WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES", at the end as they currently instead use either a closing title, none, or on international prints, the Buena Vista International (BVI) logo (theatrical prints only; omitted on home video and streaming releases).
Legacy: Some consider this a suitable update to the previous logo, although the name change at first was not as well-received.