I think the next studio history should be MGM. Been debating with a video essayist about the past and future of Disney, and I suddenly think that Disney could very well be the next MGM. People forgot that it was the most influential Hollywood studio in the golden age, if not all time. They both have formulas targeting mass family friendly audiences, exercise control over their stars and produce them like a factory, was the biggest film conglomerates around owning the most beloved movie franchises, and the definitive Hollywood studio of their decades of prominence. There are a lot of news, rumors and wishes of Disney implosions. I think its death is highly unlikely, but it could likely become another MGM. MGM could not survived after the golden age of musicals and could not win against television. Disney could be facing great disasters when superheroes era ended, and their likely defeat in the streaming wars. Almost all the youtube videos about MGM, are about how it falls, barely anything I can find, are about the massive influence that it brought to the film industry.

I love these deep dives. Interesting to hear the story of such an iconic studio. Thanks!

I truly love this series. It gives a whole new appreciation on where the studios are now. I'll be waiting for the RKO episode...

Naturally, this is information you can just read on Wikipedia, BUT to hear it spoken out loud accompanied by nifty visuals such as the detective noir aesthetic is actually more interesting, so I very much hope we get more of these videos; I really enjoyed the Paramount one. Having a favourite movie studio's never really something I've given much thought. Of course, Disney has their fans and for the more discerning cinephile, A24 has quite a following, but I probably would consider Fox to be my favourite; they're certainly the studio I've had the least issues with. They've got one of the most iconic opening logos with the monument and searchlights alongside that triumphant fanfare and they've pumped out some truly great films over the years like the original Star Wars trilogy, the original Planet of the Apes, Die Hard, Home Alone, Independence Day, the 1986 Fly, the first two Alien films, The Martian (my personal favourite), Alita, Logan and so on. Not to mention what's come from the Searchlight side with Full Monty, Three Billboards and Shape of Water. Plus, even if I haven't seen any of these following examples, I know that they're also considered classics with titles like Day the Earth Stood Still, How Green Was My Valley, Grapes of Wrath, Sound of Music, The Longest Day, MASH and Patton. And while they may be under the control of the Mouse House now (with the "Fox" part removed) and their output is sadly nowhere as frequent as it used to be, they are still putting out good stuff like Ford v Ferrari and Free Guy.

During his opening monologue, Jay Leno said at the opening of FOX Broadcasting "Welcome to the DuMont Network", he said this from the stage at the former WABD, the flagship station of the DuMont network.

That was a great history of 20th Century-Fox and thanks for my request.

Filmmaker IQ has always had the highest level of production quality and this film keep pushing the bar up. I would love to see a short fiction film so John can stretch his legs a bit.

Please do more of these

The Studios series is definitely awesome! Everything that's historically related to one Hollywood studio are all here and it's highly informative. Looking forward to other studio names in the future.

Boy! That was really well done explaining that whole mess.

Your studio series is so original and well done. I think your studio series is the first time I can really enjoy and take in a film noir-type movie, as well as learn a lot. The best of both worlds - entertaining and enlightening at the same time. Look forward to more such docs in this series as they appear.

I've been waiting for this for two years AT LEAST. EVERY notification I'd check, man oh man are the kids going to bed early tonight lol

EFFIN YES!!! I wasn't sure if we were gonna get any more from this series. The 1st 2 videos were awesome! I wish I was some kind of understudy / apprentice / whatever for John. His tone, & knowledge of the industry is so insightful, I could listen to and absorb everything he has to say for years.

I want more of these. At least about the other "8 studios" that existed when Paramount was 9th. I hope that given the time and all you're able to make many more of these studio history lessons. I especially love the film noir aesthetic you got going on. I find myself drinking a bourbon or two and smoking a cigar while watching you riff on the rise, fall, and resurrections of hollywood movie studios and the people who were involved.

Oh I SO want to see you tackle MGM and David O. Selznick next!

I always buy the 20 century fox dvds before they go out of print

A great speaker. You remind me of Orson Wells.

In other news, the separate Fox Corporation would also acquire companies such as Bento Box (the studio behind Bob's Burgers and formerly webseries Glove and Boots), Tubi, Credible Labs, and most recently, Gumby. Another fun fact is that Disney originally wanted to buy WB prior to Fox.

Love the one you did on Paramount. Can't wait to see what you do with this one.

What a heck of a history! And an even better presentation of it!! I admit I’ll have to watch it another time or three to catch everything

Like your research and production quality, mate. Keep it up! Also, I wanted to mention: the reason why Rupert Murdoch sold only his family's entertainment assets (20th Century Fox, Television, Interactive, and FX) to Disney and not someone else was due to the latter's streaming services, which Fox was looking for during the 2010's. Also to note, apparently tensions between him and his family's media empire lead him to sell valuable film and TV assets to Disney, leaving his younger brother, Lachlan, with a "much smaller inheritance dominated by controversial news outlets." Sources: National Public Radio, Independent, The New York Times, et al.

I've been hoping for more of these kinds of videos. It was well worth the wait! I also love the technical videos dealing with things like sound and aspect ratios. Keep up the great work!

The amount of work and quality delivered by you isn't in any means reflected by your view stats. Thanks for your amazing work

Love it! Nice to see you doing your storytelling again, John! Big fan of the noir style detective agency presentation.

Have been looking forward to this for a long time and it did not disappoint. Outstanding!

RIP Alan Ladd Jr.

Outstanding as always. I love these history episodes. Interestingly, my uncle R. J. O’Donnell was in film exhibition and passed to me a bunch of correspondence between him and Alan Ladd Jr., Bob Hope, and other Hollywood movers. Also, “cluster f@&k Cleopatra” 😂

I simply join the others - so happy to see new stuff of this kind! You're the best! 🤟🏼

This is fantastic.

This was like watching a movie in your head Thanks for this !!

Great vid! Though, I wish Disney would have merged 20th Century and Touchstone Pictures into 20th Century Touchstone; that would have been a better name than 20th Century Studios.

I wish they bring back the 20th Century Fox name...

These are great. I am loving these. I am an actor!

I Like How You Use Rudi H N H's 20th Century Fox 2009 Remake In The Thumbnail.

A whole lotta information packed into 40 minutes. Well done, sir!

Of all movie intros 20th Century is still my favorite with that great music. Especially when CinemaScope came. Today it is like all….just a $$Business$$. Actors are freelancers up for bid

Thanks for the History

I wonder who is next to join the party. Universal? Disney itself? Warner Bros.?

Thanks John, Love these videos!

Hey, Filmmaker IQ. You should definitely do a video on the history of Universal Pictures!

From the unsolicited suggestion desk: Have you done a segment on "The Longest Day "?

I know I'm super late to the party here, but I just discovered your channel today. I've watched the 'Moguls and Movie Stars' series, read books like 'The Last Mogul' about MCA and Lew Wasserman, viewed countless historic photos and articles through the years and all I can say is that your series and storytelling style is amazing!!! I hope you do more about the studios. Great work!!!

I've been hoping you do another THE STUDIO video after the last one on Paramount. The Production Quality is Outstanding.

Looking forward to this!

20th CENTURY FOX!

A most excellent education. Thank you!

Excellent video. I hope your going to do all the studios. Especially MGM and Warner Bros.

I really despise Disney for buying and gutting 20th Century Fox. It’s awful. Thanks for making this.

I really enjoyed this video and your accompanying video on William Fox as well. I really enjoyed that line about a worm frying on a hot Street (?), And your reference to the clusterf**k that was Cleopatra! You're very funny and the trench coat, hat and the I'm guessing bourbon is a very nice touch. SUBSCRIBED!

At some point, you should do one about RKO.

Fascinating!

I LOVE IT!! Thumbs up. Next two movie studio history videos I request for you do, one for MGM and the other for Columbia Pictures. Thanks. I also enjoyed the studio history of Paramount Pictures you've did in the summer of 2018. I recommended you for that.

Fascinating. Yet, I hate the Disney merging with 20th Century Fox thing. And I prefer 20th Century Fox as a Non- Disney film company not as part of the Disney company.

Oh baby this is soooo good! Is there any interesting story between movie theater moguls?

Simply Brilliant

Can you do: A brief history of MGM Studios

20th Century Fox was my favorite movie studio. It’s a pity what’s happened to them since Disney bought them. How they got away with being cleared by the government, I’ll never know because I feel Disney owns too much now. It’s a monopolization. Any way #RIP 20th Century Fox and thanks for all the great movies and TV shows.

Love the "Raiders idol" bottle stopper! I bet you wondered if anyone would notice!

Fantastic as always! I was suprised that you didn't mention Irwin Allen at all. He made Fox a ton of money over the years. Also, 20th Centery Fox Television was already a thing in the '60s. Best Wishes!

How I’ve waited years for this next episode and now it’s finally here! What studio will be next after this one? Columbia? Warner Bros? Or perhaps Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer?

That was excellent. So much behind the scenes. What's next? Universal?

Rupert Murdoch, as I can say, is the most famous owner of Fox because of expanding the brand, giving it more fame and also brought up the Fox Broadcasting Network.

Thanks for this really interesting history! I have just been reading George F Custen's TWENTIETH CENTURY'S FOX - DARRYL F ZANUCK AND THE CULTURE OF HOLLYWOOD which I thoroughly recommend. Cheers again!

Fun Fact: Sky used to be owned by Murdock

you forgot to mention the studios top leading man TYRONE POWER!,he made all the hit films of the 1930s to 40s.

The Fox affiliate in Rockford Illinois shares the same studios as the ABC affiliate .

rest in peace 20th century fox studio

I was counting every movie fox made. They had 3845 movies from 1914-2023

Your work is fantastic. Adding you to my list of people to send money if I win the lottery! Thank you!

I wish Disney never bought 21st Century Fox. The Disney/Fox merger was never a good idea.

I can’t wait to see the history of Universal Pictures

Brilliant

There's a fun bit: so you see when in 2000 X-men got released with Marvel it was with Fox who was then linked with Lucasfilm making Star Wars Disney couldn't buy Marvel yet that changed when Paramount opted to do something with Universal launch companion superheroes for Iron Man to link up Hulk & Captain America that worked and in 2010 Disney decided it's time to start expanding so Disney kept the same but bought ESPN National Geographic Pixar Star which distributes all shows from Seoul, Southern Korea Marvel which all superheroes go into which ASMR quickly adopted the characters for night time roleplay plus when Disney bought Fox later on X-men which had mutants long ago obscured were integrated into the series allowing ladies to do roleplay while fighting crime a similar method for Lucasfilm Limited's Star Wars which all lady characters including laser swordsmen and swordswomen (i.e. samurai and lady samurai knights from Kingdoms game) plus clone soldiers were attached forming a ground planetary strike naval strike group air bombing strike group and rear guard group which are then combined with ASMR for more roleplay with Lego to grow it so fast while also gaining extra purpose fighting tribal separatists in guerrilla warfare conventional historical warfare like Ancient Rome then World War 1 in space for tricking the Imperials Original series used Warring States samurai & Western gunslinger warfare while using space wizard mentor to completely bypass Imperials and blow up super weapons which we think is a no-no while using air force like Top Gun's flying and dogfight scenes then using gunslinger style warfare to blow up Pyke fish faced aliens away using Shand Fennec & Cara Dune but in the sequels it used Maverick's style of warfare with historical Crusades plus Eastern Byzantine style warfare with Vikings (pirates) to completely drive Germans away this final act caused panic hard.

I need to know where you got that Raiders bottle stopper, John 😆

Damn, there's a reason why 20th Century Studios got changed because that movie is for the 85th Anniversary by remaking it in the 2020s, that's not bad, but I hope and at least Disney Enterprises will have rights, without being greedy like a take over of course.

When will you make the histories of Warner Bros and Disney?

Fox made higest grossing movie ever Avatar for 10yrs...and distributed 2nd highest grossing movie Titanic in international markets... Superised when FOX said it's quitting film industry

40:04 I got that book two years ago.

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6:08 I remember someone on Twitter once said when Disney took over 20th Century Fox that "William Fox would not allow such a merger to happen." Yet, here he was in 1935 objecting to the 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation merger, shortly before he pleaded guilty to bribery, lol. Nonetheless, very well done video!

I like how you still refer to it as 20th Century Fox even though it's been it's new name for almost 4 years now,which I don't even like to say it's current name now. But to me it will always be 20th Century Fox.

Please do one for Warner Brothers.

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Marshall & Noonan had a profitable film in 1959 it was about the only film 20th Century Fox made at the time and the only one that made money. They made Swinging along in 1962, that was less successful when it needed to be more successful. Thus, we got Hollywood Squares . . . .

Will you be reviewing Avatar 2 and its use of high frame rate?

Another great video buddy thanks, you tell a great tale, keep em coming. Subscribe....

I feel and wished 20th Century Fox should’ve merged with Verizon instead of Disney in the first place,so that way the mouse would’ve never won again and Fox would still be alive as a major movie company. It’s the lesser of two evils.

Can Universal be next?

I am the 1000th Liker of this video Yay 😃🎉

Can you do MGM next?

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it seems you have put a lot of work on this .

Funny, watching this with the same bourbon. WT 101. Wonder if you actually drink any of it.

Interesting how many early Studio Execs and other Bigwigs were immigrants. Maybe it offered a more objective view of American Society (in the broadest sense) that allowed them to make more pragmatic and successful business decisions.

how did the son Richard meet up with David Brown and Universal? that’s almost sleeping with the enemy 😄 per say….

Randy West Love ❤All The Movies From Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox Movies Studio in Hollywood Los Angeles, California USA 🇺🇲 Don't Not Like Disney Buy 20th Century Fox Movies Studios and Walt Disney Company Big Mistake in the Company History.

Disney shouldn't be allowed to own 20th century fox, Like this comment if you agree.