20th Digital Studio

{{Short description|American web series and web films production and distribution company}}

{{Infobox company

| name = 20th Digital Studio

| logo = 20th Digital Studio logo.svg

| logo_size = 200px

| former_name = Fox Digital Studio {{small|(2008–2014)}}
Zero Day Fox {{small|(2014–2020)}}

| type = Division

| industry = Digital Media

| genre = Web Films
Web series

| founded = {{start date and age|2008}}

| defunct = {{End date and age|2023|10|9}}

| fate = Closed

| successors = Walt Disney Pictures
20th Century Studios
20th Television
Searchlight Pictures
WorthenBrooks

| location = Century City, California, United States

| area_served = Worldwide

| num_employees = 450 (2017)

| owner =

| parent = 20th Century Studios

| website = {{URL|www.20thdigitalstudio.com}}

| footnotes = {{Cite news|url=https://www.thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-and-21st-century-fox-announce-per-share-value-in-connection-with-71-billion-acquisition/|title=Disney and 21st Century Fox Announce per Share Value in Connection with $71 Billion Acquisition|date=March 20, 2019|work=The Walt Disney Company}}

}}

20th Digital Studio[https://twitter.com/20thDigital/status/1292892384070516736 Tweet from August 10, 2020] (also known as 20th Digital, formerly known as Fox Digital Studio and Zero Day Fox) was an American web series and web films production company of 20th Century Studios. Founded in 2008 as a digital media, it was a subsidiary of 20th Century Studios,{{cite web|url=http://www.tubefilter.com/2013/04/01/fox-digital-studios-netflix/|title=Fox Digital Studios Drops New Series, Short Film On Netflix|date=1 April 2013|accessdate=22 August 2016}} a subsidiary of Disney Entertainment (under Walt Disney Studios), which is itself a division of The Walt Disney Company. Their focus evolved to funding and producing short-form genre content by new filmmakers from the digital and film festival worlds.

20th Digital Studios produced web series such as Vin Diesel's The Ropes, Wolfpack of Reseda, Let's Big Happy, Suit Up, Bad Samaritans, and Suit Up 2, as well as films like Shotgun Wedding. Suit Up, starring Marc Evan Jackson, is the first of the studio's shows to be picked up for a second season. It was produced in partnership with DirecTV.{{Cite web |url=http://foxdigitalstudio.com/ |title=Fox Digital Studio |access-date=2019-10-24 |archive-date=2019-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024001524/http://foxdigitalstudio.com/ |url-status=dead }}

20th Digital Studio is one of the 21st Century Fox studios that was acquired by Disney on March 20, 2019. The studio's current name was adopted on August 10, 2020 in order to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation. It was announced that the digital content division 20th Digital Studio was dissolved by Disney in April 2023 as part of a series of cutbacks and layoffs at the company and 20th Digital Studio's leading EVP David Worthen Brooks had been transitioned into a first-look deal with Hulu, 20th Digital's main distributor, as he became an independent producer with his new production entity titled WorthenBrooks.{{Cite news |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |date=April 26, 2023 |title=Disney Layoffs: 20th Digital Studio Folding, D23 Team Downsizing |work=Deadline Hollywood |url=https://deadline.com/2023/04/disney-layoffs-20th-digital-studio-d23-day-3-1235338152/}}

Films

Shotgun Wedding (2013)
How to Be a Man (2013)
E.T.X.R. (2014)
Parallels (2015)
Mono (2016)
Grimcutty (2022)
Matriarch (2022)
Clock (2023)
Jagged Mind (2023)
Appendage (2023)
The Mill (2023)

Television films and series

The Ropes (2011)
Wolfpack of Reseda (2012)
Let's Big Happy (2012)
Suit Up (2012)
Bad Samaritans (2013)
Suit Up 2 (2014)
Phenoms (2018)
Small Shots (2018)
Bite Size Halloween (2020)

Shorts

Carved (2018); co-production with Harding Films
The Hug (2018)
The Rizzle (2018); co-production with Perception Pictures

Logo

The original Fox Digital Studio logo was created in 2007 by UK-based motion graphics and 3D artist Robert Holtby.{{Cite web|url=http://www.robertholtby.com/|title=Home|website=www.robertholtby.com|access-date=2019-07-03|archive-date=2022-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007200339/http://robertholtby.com/|url-status=dead}} As of 2013, Holtby updated the logo to reflect the new Fox Digital Studio rebranding, as "Zero Day Fox" and to move it more in line with the other 20th Century Fox logos created by Blue Sky Studios.

A print logo for 20th Digital Studio was made in line with 20th Television's logo,{{Cite web|title=Disney Television Studios Will Rebrand Its Three Iconic Studios With New Names, Logos and 'Motion End Cards', Starting This Fall|url=https://www.wdtvpress.com/waltdisneytelevision/pressrelease/disney-television-studios-will-rebrand-its-three-iconic-studios-with-new-names-logos-and-motion-end-cards-starting-this-fall/|access-date=2020-08-21|archive-date=2020-08-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811025859/https://www.wdtvpress.com/waltdisneytelevision/pressrelease/disney-television-studios-will-rebrand-its-three-iconic-studios-with-new-names-logos-and-motion-end-cards-starting-this-fall/|url-status=dead}} following Disney's removal of the "Fox" brand from the 21st Century Fox assets acquired in 2019 to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation.

On December 1, 2022, the finishing shot of 20th Digital Studio’s new logo was leaked from a promotional Instagram and Twitter post of Hulu’s Grimcutty.{{cite web | url=https://www.instagram.com/p/ClpIPBppIya/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= | title=20th Digital Studio on Instagram: "It's December 1st. Give the gift of #GRIMCUTTY, now streaming on @hulu." }} On April 11, 2023 (just 2 weeks before the closure), Holtby posted an official onscreen intro along with two alternate variations on his YouTube channel, all of which are now based on Picturemill's design and Blue Sky Studios' animation.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRoq5u28Eaw|title=4K - 20th Digital Studio 2023 Logo - Day/Sunrise Variant|date=11 April 2023 |via=YouTube |access-date=April 12, 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjJOS6NS9s0|title=4K - 20th Digital Studio 2023 Logo - Day - Alternate - (unofficial variant)|date=12 April 2023 |via=YouTube |access-date=April 13, 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjbni35H4Ao|title=4K - 20th Digital Studio 2023 Logo - Night/Dark Variant|date=11 April 2023 |via=YouTube |access-date=April 12, 2023}}