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Industry | Film |
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Founded | June 26, 1933 |
Founders | Joseph Schenck Darryl F. Zanuck |
Defunct | May 31, 1935 |
Fate | Merged with Fox Film Corporation |
Successor | 20th Century-Fox (now 20th Century Studios) |
Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. was an American independent Hollywood motion picture production company created in 1933 by Joseph Schenck (the former president of United Artists) and Darryl F. Zanuck from Warner Bros., and co-founded by William Goetz from Fox Studios, and Raymond Griffith. The company product was distributed theatrically under United Artists (UA), and leased space at Samuel Goldwyn Studios.[1]
Schenck and Zanuck left UA over a stock dispute and began to negotiate with the Fox Film Corporation and the two companies merged that spring, forming 20th Century Fox in 1935.