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Fox Partnering with DreamWorks on Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’

Fox Partnering with DreamWorks on Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’

Twentieth Century Fox is boarding and co-financing DreamWorks’ Lincoln, Steven Spielberg’s next film. Fox will handle international distribution duties,...

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Tony Scott to Direct Drug Smuggling Thriller ‘Narco Sub’ For Fox

Tony Scott to Direct Drug Smuggling Thriller ‘Narco Sub’ For Fox

Well, it’s not nearly as good as Peter Weir going back to Master and Commander, but at least someone at Fox is interested in making a nautical thriller. Kind...

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‘X-Men: First Class’ Writers to Adapt Fantasy Novel ‘The Magicians’ for Fox

‘X-Men: First Class’ Writers to Adapt Fantasy Novel ‘The Magicians’ for Fox

Keeping with the trend of contemporary fantasy series, a la ABC’s Once Upon a Time and NBC’s Grimm, Fox has given a script order to an hourlong drama based...

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Shawn Levy Officially Directing Fox’s ‘Frankenstein’

Shawn Levy Officially Directing Fox’s ‘Frankenstein’

Last week, rumors circled that Real Steel director Shawn Levy was thinking of leaving the 3D remake of Fantastic Voyage and looking to jump ship to another Fox...

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Fox Buys Graphic Novel ‘Rust,’ An Adventure Story With a Jet Pack

Fox Buys Graphic Novel ‘Rust,’ An Adventure Story With a Jet Pack

Royden Lepp‘s family-friendly graphic novel Rust won’t hit stores until September but all the major studios got a crack at it this week and, it seems, 20th...

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Fox Offers ‘The Wolverine’ to Director James Mangold

Fox Offers ‘The Wolverine’ to Director James Mangold

James Mangold is Fox’s choice to take over The Wolverine after Darren Aronofsky walked away months ago. The director has been offered the job, but hasn’t signed...

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King Kong To Be Animated And Updated By Fox

King Kong To Be Animated And Updated By Fox

The original 1933 King Kong has been remade with almost every different film technology imaginable. The 1976 Jeff Bridges film used mechanical creature effects...

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Fox, Huayi Brothers, Sundream Team for ‘Love in Space’

Fox, Huayi Brothers, Sundream Team for ‘Love in Space’

Twentieth Century Fox International, China’s Huayi Brothers and Hong Kong’s Sundream Motion Pictures announced the production of Love in Space on Tuesday, the...

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Oren Aviv Named Chief Marketing Officer for Fox

Oren Aviv Named Chief Marketing Officer for Fox

Returning to his roots, former top Disney exec Oren Aviv has finalized a deal to run 20th Century Fox’s film marketing operation with Tony Sella. He’ll...

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Warner Bros. Edges Out Fox For 2010 Int’l Box Office Crown

Warner Bros. Edges Out Fox For 2010 Int’l Box Office Crown

Warner Bros. announced Tuesday that it has narrowly won the 2010 international box-office crown, collecting $2.93 billion in grosses to $2.90 billion for Fox. But...

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Fox Signs Two-Year Deal With Darren Aronofsky

Fox Signs Two-Year Deal With Darren Aronofsky

Yet another reason why Darren Aronofsky is making The Wolverine for 20th Century Fox. The film studio has signed a two year overall deal with Aronofsky’s production...

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Fox to Make Jukebox Musical Set to the Music of The Beach Boys

Fox to Make Jukebox Musical Set to the Music of The Beach Boys

First we had Across the Universe featuring songs by The Beatles, then a feature adaptation of Mamma Mia! with the songs of ABBA, and now 20th Century Fox has won...

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