If “Futurama” is any indication they will. The closing credits show “30th Century Fox”.
“If you had manifested fatigue upon noticing that you had been an ass, that would have been logical, that would have been rational; whereas it seems to me that to manifest surprise was to be again an ass.”
Mark Twain Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Some ingenious, or faster, guy got the rights to 21st Century Fox. Fox refuses to pay his asking price for the rights and therefore will be calling themselves Fox 2000.
According to Leslie Halliwell’s THE FILMGOER’S COMPANION, the name of the company was official changed to Twenty-First Century Fox in 1969. (That’s not a typo. They planned ahead for this.)
The company was the result of a merger (in around 1933 or '34, I think) of 20th Century and Fox, so it’s actually hyphenated as “20th Century-Fox.” It would be a shame if 20th Century just got ditched, I’m glad they’re not changing it to just “Fox.”
They should have planned a less change-prone name, like, oh, Vitagraph, or American Mutoscope and Biograph. Or somethin’.
As I remember, the 1969 board decision was that the name would change with the century.
There was a British magazine called “The 19th Century”. Come 1901, it changed its name to “The 19th Century and After”. It finally got around to changing its name to “The 20th Century” in 1951.
John W. Kennedy
“Compact is becoming contract; man only earns and pays.”
– Charles Williams