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20th Century Fox films

  • Aliens (film)Aliens, the 1986 science fiction-action film written and directed by James Cameron, opens with a woman who has been asleep for 57 years.
  • Alien (film)Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film that begins with a single, deceptively quiet transmission. A commercial starship called the Nostromo is hauling…
  • Star Wars (film)Star Wars opened on the 25th of May 1977, in just 32 theaters across the United States. The cast and crew believed it would be a failure.
  • Star Wars original trilogyStar Wars opened in theaters on the 25th of May 1977, and within weeks had displaced Jaws as the highest-grossing film ever made.
  • Return of the JediReturn of the Jedi opened in American theaters on the 25th of May 1983. Lucas booked that date deliberately, exactly six years after the original Star Wars…
  • The Day the Earth Stood StillIn 1951, a flying saucer landed on the National Mall in Washington D.C. The United States Army surrounded it with tanks and soldiers.
  • Star Wars prequel trilogyThe Star Wars prequel trilogy begins with a nine-year-old slave boy on the desert planet Tatooine. Two Jedi Knights stumble upon Anakin Skywalker almost by…
  • Fight ClubFight Club, the 1999 film directed by David Fincher, opens on a scene that still unsettles viewers: a gun barrel pushed down the throat of an unnamed man…
  • The Empire Strikes BackThe Empire Strikes Back opens with a single haunting image: probe droids scattered across the galaxy, hunting. It was the 21st of May 1980, and audiences…
  • Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom MenaceStar Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace was still shooting in the Tunisian desert outside the city of Tozeur when disaster struck.
  • Titanic (1997 film)Titanic, the 1997 film written and directed by James Cameron, began not on a Hollywood lot but at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • Highlander (film)Highlander, the 1986 fantasy action-adventure film directed by Russell Mulcahy, opens on a parking garage beneath Madison Square Garden where a sword fight…
  • Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the ClonesStar Wars: Episode II, Attack of the Clones premiered on Sunday, the 12th of May 2002. The screening took place at the BMCC Performing Arts Center in New…
  • The Name of the Rose (film)The Name of the Rose arrived in cinemas in 1986 with a puzzle at its heart: how do you turn a labyrinthine medieval novel into a film people will actually…
  • The Day After TomorrowThe Day After Tomorrow opened in American theaters on the 28th of May, 2004, and within four days had pulled in more than $85 million at the domestic box…
  • Star Wars sequel trilogyThe Star Wars sequel trilogy begins with a confession George Lucas made in 1976, before the first film had even opened. He told Mark Hamill, who plays Luke…
  • Lincoln (film)Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's 2012 biographical drama, opens not with a battle or a speech but with a political puzzle: how does a president end slavery when…
  • All This and World War IIProducer Russ Regan conceived the project after experiencing vivid dreams about Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden. He imagined these scenes set to the Beatles…
  • Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)Conan the Barbarian arrived in North American theaters on the 14th of May 1982, opening in 1,400 theaters simultaneously.
  • Alita: Battle AngelAlita: Battle Angel existed as nothing more than a registered domain name years before it became a movie. Around June 2000, 20th Century Fox registered…
  • The Great SilenceThe Great Silence opens not on desert sun and showdowns, but on a frozen Utah frontier where survival itself is illegal.
  • Give My Regards to Broad Street (film)Give My Regards to Broad Street arrived in cinemas in 1984 with Paul McCartney's name above the title and a story he had written himself.