20th Century Fox Animation

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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, although critically acclaimed as being of Disney calibre and often mistaken as a Disney film, barely made a profit, taking in $58 million at the American box office on an estimated $53 million dollar budget [1]. Their next feature, Titan A.E., 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.

[edit] Films

• FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
• Once Upon a Forest (1993)
• The Pagemaster (1994)
• Anastasia (1997)
• Bartok the Magnificent (1999, made for video)
• Titan A.E. (2000)
• Ice Age (2002)
• Robots (2005)
• Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
• Everyone's Hero (2006)
• The Simpsons Movie (2007)
• Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
• Ice Age 3 (2008)
• Fox Dogs (2009)
• Robots 2 (2010)

[edit] Television series

• The Simpsons (1987–)
• King of the Hill (1997–)
• Family Guy (1999–)
• Futurama (1999–2003)
• American Dad! (2005–)