As the acquisition of Fox completed this week, The Walt Disney Company has begun the process of deciding what parts of their newly acquired businesses they do and don’t want to continue to pursue, something that could result in 4,000 layoffs if not more as redundancies are identified across the company.
The first of these decisions that has seemingly been made on the film side is that the Fox 2000 label will be retired. Deadline reports that the division of the company, run by executive Elizabeth Gabler, will cease to exist after the release of Woman in the Window by Joe Wright this October. Any projects set up at the label that remained in development may no longer move forward.
The Fox 2000 label was most well known for producing mid-budget range movies for the studio with some of their more popular tiles including Walk the Line, The Fault In Our Stars, The Devil Wears Prada, and Marley & Me. Other notable films from the label include Hidden Figures, which grossed $235 million worldwide and was nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Picture; and recent films like Love, Simon and The Hate U Give.
It remains to be seen if other films of this nature will still be produced under the “20th Century Fox” film label moving forward, but it seems unlikely as Disney is a studio built on franchise IP.
Hidden Figures
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DF-01466_R - Janelle Monáe stars as Mary Jackson in HIDDEN FIGURES. Photo Credit: Hopper Stone.
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DF-02518_R - Taraji P. Henson stars as Katherine Johnson in HIDDEN FIGURES. Photo Credit: Hopper Stone.
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DF-04856_R2 - Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), flanked by fellow mathematicians Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) meet the man they helped send into orbit, John Glenn (Glen Powell), in HIDDEN FIGURES. Photo Credit: Hopper Stone.
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DF-06401_R - Kevin Costner stars as NASA official Al Harrison, in HIDDEN FIGURES. Photo Credit: Hopper Stone.
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Hidden Figures
HF-049 - Janelle Monáe stars as Mary Jackson in HIDDEN FIGURES. Photo Credit: Hopper Stone.
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Hidden Figures
HF-049 - Octavia Spencer stars as Dorothy Vaughan in HIDDEN FIGURES. Photo Credit: Hopper Stone.
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Hidden Figures
HF-207 - Taraji P. Henson as Katherine G. Johnson and Janelle Monáe as Mary Jackson in HIDDEN FIGURES. Photo Credit: Hopper Stone.
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HF-207 - Jim Parsons as Paul Stafford, Taraji P. Henson as Katherine G. Johnson, and Kevin Costner as Al Harrison in HIDDEN FIGURES. Photo Credit: Hopper Stone.
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Hidden Figures
HF-209 - Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), stands out amid her team of fellow mathematicians that helped send into orbit John Glenn. Photo Credit: Hopper Stone.
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HF-214 - Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) makes one of many key contributions to the effort to send John Glenn into orbit. Photo Credit: Hopper Stone.
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Hidden Figures
HF-216 - Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) makes one of many key contributions to the effort to send John Glenn into orbit. Photo Credit: Hopper Stone.
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HF-228 - Octavia Spencer stars as Dorothy Vaughan in HIDDEN FIGURES. Photo Credit: Hopper Stone.
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Hidden Figures
HF-049 - Director Ted Melfi on the set of HIDDEN FIGURES. Photo Credit: Hopper Stone.
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