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For over 80 years, 20th Century has been one of the [[major film studios|major American film studios]]. It was formed in 1935 as '''Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation'''{{efn|Alternatively spelled as and shortened to '''20th Century-Fox'''}} by the merger of [[Fox Film Corporation]] and [[Twentieth Century Pictures]], and one of the original "[[studio system|Big Five]]" among eight majors of Hollywood's [[Cinema of the United States#Classical Hollywood cinema and the Golden Age of Hollywood|Golden Age]]. In 1985, the studio removed the hyphen in the name (becoming Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation){{efn|Shortened to '''20th Century Fox'''}} after being acquired by [[Rupert Murdoch]]'s [[News Corporation]], which was renamed [[21st Century Fox]] in 2013 after it spun off [[News Corp|its publishing assets]]. Disney [[Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney|purchased most of 21st Century Fox's assets]], which included 20th Century Fox, on March 20, 2019.<ref name="Approval">{{cite web |last=Williams |first=Trey |date=July 27, 2018 |title=Fox and Disney Shareholders Vote to Approve $71.3 Billion Merger |url=https://www.thewrap.com/fox-disney-shareholders-vote-approve-merger/ |access-date=July 27, 2018 |website=The Wrap}}</ref> The studio adopted its current name on January 17, 2020, in order to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation, and subsequently started to use it for the copyright of 20th Century and [[Searchlight Pictures]] productions on December 4.<ref name="vty-2CS" /> 20th Century is presentlycurrently one of five live-action film studios within the Walt Disney Studios, alongside [[Walt Disney Pictures]], [[Marvel Studios]], [[Lucasfilm]], and its sister speciality unit, [[Searchlight Pictures]]. 20th Century also releases animated films produced by its animation division [[20th Century Animation]].