20th Century Fox Animation
20th Century Fox Animation is the animation division of film studio
20th Century Fox.
From 1994–2000, they operated
Fox Animation Studios, a
traditional animation studio which was started to compete with
Walt Disney Feature Animation, which was experiencing great success at the time with films such as
Beauty and the Beast,
Aladdin and
The Lion King. The Fox studio, however, was not as successful. Their first feature,
Anastasia barely made a profit, making $58 million at the box office on an estimated $53 million dollar budget [
1]. Their next feature,
Titan A.E., however was a large financial loss, taking back only $22 million of its estimated $75 million budget [
2]. The lack of box office success, coupled with the rise of
computer animation, led Fox to shut down the Fox Animation Studio after 2000.
At present, Fox owns
Blue Sky Studios, a computer animation company. Fox has had much more success with Blue Sky, and the box office receipts of their films are competitive with that of Pixar's. They have currently released three features: 2002's
Ice Age, 2005's
Robots, and 2006's
Ice Age: The Meltdown. Currently in production is a film version of the
Dr. Seuss book
Horton Hears A Who, slated to be released in 2008.
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FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
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Once Upon a Forest (1993)
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The Pagemaster (1994)
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Anastasia (1997)
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Bartok the Magnificent (1999, made for video)
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Titan A.E. (2000)
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Ice Age (2002)
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Robots (2005)
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Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
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Everyone's Hero (2006)
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The Simpsons Movie (2007)
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Fox Dogs (2009)
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Family Guy (1999–)
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American Dad (2005–)
