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2 days ago · The Italian superspectacle stimulated public demand for features and influenced such important directors as Cecil B. DeMille, Ernst Lubitsch, and especially D.W. Griffith. History of film - Silent Era, Movies, Directors: Multiple-reel films had appeared in the United States as early as 1907, when Adolph Zukor distributed Pathé’s three-reel ...
Jun 22, 2024 · William Fox (1879–1952) pictured with his daughter Belle (right) and his niece Elaine at his Long Island estate. Fox was hailed for his “rags to riches” story, which began when his family immigrated to New York City from Hungary. Fox worked a variety of jobs and in 1904, he purchased a nickelodeon in Brooklyn.
2 days ago · Fox went even farther, building the multimillion-dollar Movietone City in Westwood, California, in 1928 and acquiring controlling shares of both Loew’s, Inc., the parent corporation of MGM, and Gaumont British, England’s largest producer-distributor-exhibitor.
Jun 30, 2024 · (Vilmos Fried, 1879 – 1952) Producer, Founder of Fox Studios. Fox Film Corporation was one of the most powerful and creative studios of the silent era. At the peak of his power, Fox owned over 500 movie houses in the US (he bought control of the giant Loew’s, Inc.) and the Gaumont Theatres chain in Great Britain.
1 day ago · Though he was the executive vice president of feature film production at Twentieth Century Fox throughout the 1990s, Landau was best known as the producer of the 1997 mega blockbuster film “Titanic,” for which he won an Academy Award, and the producer of the “Avatar” franchise alongside Cameron.
3 hours ago · Jon Landau, an Oscar-winning producer of "Titanic" and "Avator" has died. He was 63 years old. Landau's death was confirmed Disney Entertainment co-chairman Alan Bergman, who called him a visionary.
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Jun 25, 2024 · In 1933 Darryl F. Zanuck and Joseph Schenck found Twentieth Century Pictures. The two companies then merged in 1935 to form Twentieth Century-Fox. From 1935 to 1955 Zanuck was head of production for the studio. During the late 1930’s and 40’s Twentieth Century-Fox produced mainly musicals, westerns, screen biographies and religious epics.
