Disney has shuttered Fox 2000, a studio that produced medium-budget films. That’s a bad sign for creativity and diversity in filmmaking.
From left, Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe after the screening of “Hidden Figures,” in the District in 2016. The film, which made $235 million despite costing only $25 million, is an example of the kind of “middle-class” film that Fox 2000 made. By Ann Hornaday Ann Hornaday Movie critic Email Bio Follow April 4 at 4:51 PM When two huge corporations merge, there’s bound to be some bloodletting.
On its face, the decision looks reasonable enough. Since its inception in the late 1990s, Fox 2000 has had a sometimes stellar, sometimes middling, sometimes awful track record at the box office, producing movies such as “Marley and Me” and “Catch That Kid.” Disney might understandably see that kind of wholesome, family-friendly film as redundant with its own slate.
Not every Fox 2000 production was a home run — last year’s “The Hate U Give,” based on Angie Thomas’s young-adult novel, was a disappointment — but Elizabeth Gabler, who has run Fox 2000 for the past 20 years, has earned admiration not only for making movies at a reasonable production cost but for specifically appealing to underserved audiences, especially women, giving them chances to prove time and again that they’re not niches but lucrative markets unto themselves.
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