# Disney dropping Fox name from the studios they bought

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**Created:** [January 17, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dropping-fox-name-from-the-studios-they-bought/846583 "2020-01-17T20:22:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dropping-fox-name-from-the-studios-they-bought/846583/21 "2020-01-18T16:12:36Z")

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> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> I suspect that it holds no more particular cachet than the other old-line film studio brands, like Columbia and Paramount. Those brands may have stood for particular things decades ago, but, at this point, all of those are just brand names, and while fans may associate certain studios with certain film series (like Paramount with Star Trek), I agree that I think very few filmgoers particularly care.
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> And, as has already been noted, at least for the U.S., Fox News has highly politicized the Fox name, and probably made it more polarizing than Disney wants to deal with.

Yeah, I couldn’t tell you what studio is associated with what movie. That said, despite the name “20th Century Fox,” I don’t associate it at all with Fox. I wonder if I’m weird that way.

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**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dropping-fox-name-from-the-studios-they-bought/846583/22 "2020-01-18T16:55:59Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> Yeah, I couldn’t tell you what studio is associated with what movie. That said, despite the name “20th Century Fox,” I don’t associate it at all with Fox. I wonder if I’m weird that way.

I don’t really associate it with Fox either but, unlike “Pixar” or “Marvel”, it occurs to me that the Fox studio names are readily enough changed while keeping them familiar: 20th Century Studios is close enough. If Marvel had been 20th Century Marvel, maybe it wouldn’t have survived intact either. The “20th Century” part strikes me as more distinctive than the “Fox” part.

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**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dropping-fox-name-from-the-studios-they-bought/846583/23 "2020-01-19T01:14:08Z")

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Fox is now an appropriate brand for seniors’ sanitary and medical products, not Prime Demographic warez. Have Fox Vapes achieved any market penetration? Well, there you have it. 🆒

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