Fox Animation Studios

Fox Animation Studios is an American animation production company located in Phoenix, Arizona and is a division of 20th Century Fox. After the bankruptcy of Sullivan Bluth Studios in Ireland in 1994, animators Don Bluth and Gary Goldman returned to the United States and were hired by 20th Century Fox's Bill Mechanic to be the creative heads of the animation studio. Bill Mechanic and John Matoian, President of Fox Family Films, also brought in Stephen Brain, Executive VP at Silver Pictures, as Senior VP/General Manager to oversee the startup of the studio and run day-to-day operations of the division. The studio closed in response to the 2000 financial failure of Titan A.E., however, Fox revived the Fox Animation Studios label in 2009. The first movie produced by the resurrected Fox Animation Studios was the film version of Fantastic Mr. Fox (from Regency Enterprises).