78° and sunny. Not a bad day to be on the Fox lot. Love taking lunch meetings here. Feels like the Golden Era of showbiz. The food here is actually pretty good and affordable. The studio prefers staff to lunch on the lot to minimize travel time and maximize productivity. read more

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### 2023 review 58/100 ### Always fun to visit the studio lot during FYC screening season. Detailed instructions on gate entry and parking are emailed ahead of screening day. Get ID ready to check-in at the gate with security. read more

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I had been working on at least 3 different tv shows in the past year, using different stages for multiple sets, getting here in the morning might be an issue if you're stuck in the LA traffic, but I am always on time if not early :) Parking was plenty and accessible, the security team was super friendly, everyone on the production's team also nice to me. I noticed they had a screening room for guests, also a somewhat semi studio tour, although smaller than Universal and Warner Bros, catering was ok in some occasions, I just hate walkaway lunch, food at the cafeteria was expensive than most, but I enjoyed working here regardless read more

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I absolutely loved coming here to Fox Studios! Andre at the front gate greeting me in started out the vibe to my productive lunch meeting off with incredible energy! To walk down the hallways where Marilyn Monroe, Shirley Temple, and so many other talented creatives roamed was such an honor and treat today. It's a city of so many amazing people. All so sweet and inviting which made my day very magical! read more

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Visited Fox Studios, an active entertainment hub for production and post-production movies and TV shows, for a screening recently and enjoyed informally touring the grounds and theater. With 2 million square feet housing Fox corporate and production personnel, the facility has 15 sound stages, on-lot production services, dressing rooms, screening rooms, eateries, and post-production editing bays. Sights ranging from a New York lot to Simpsons and Star Wars murals abound. The process of getting onto the lot and screening was unusually confusing and tedious - the screening organizers could use some help - but the full-size theater was spacious and clean, and the screening was excellent. read more

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Employees of the studio are most likely not to ever write a review because it's a conflict of interest and could impact job security. Rupert Murdock recently sold his share in this to Disney. That's a good thing. The only time I'm on this lot is to work. As an actor or a voice actor. Every experience is unique and enjoyable. And I look forward to the next. read more

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After our lunch at the Fox Studio Commissary, my two friends and I continued our tour, walking around Fox Studios grounds. To gain access here, you have to know an employee that works here. Luckily, one of my friend's friend works here, and so he was able to get us in, yay! (Thanks again, B and my two friends, T&T!). Walking around Fox Studios lot, it was definitely fun and interesting. My friend, who used to work here, she gave us the rundown on which building she used to work, to where the Writers' House was, and to where different sets and buildings are here and used to be here. The grounds are clean and spacious, well-kept and lawns nicely manicured. I see a lot of employees bring out their lunches and chill wherever. Tons of nice places to hang out at. My two-favorite studio lots of course - The Simpsons and Family Guy, yay! It was nice seeing the lot from afar. Bummer, there were no voice-over actors walking out, hehe! Even though we didn't see any celebrities, we did run into two extras from Orville, who were gracious enough to let us take their pics. Hehe, we even ended up seeing them again when we got to the Orville lot. Overall, the Fox Studios tour that my friend gave us was pretty cool. Next time around, we're all hoping that when my friend's actual friend gets back, he can give us the real, in-depth tour. Until then, we had a fun time! read more

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It's always great to visit a movie/tv studio lot. I had the best time at FOXStudios! The lot was clean and well maintained.

Unfortunately I worked there and it's a horrible place to work. I've never seen so many unhappy employees lol. The HR dept is ridiculous as is "management ". Luckily I was fired after 3 years and sued and collected enough money to retire. Thanks Well 4 years later Disney bought em and promptly fired people that suffered working there for years hoping to get that pension plan. Just hope disney changes the name of Fox Studios so I don't have to flip the bird every time I'm at the movies and their logo comes up lol read more

Loved the private screening of jojo rabbit. Great private theatre with comfortable seats and lots of space. The after cocktail party was nice and the staff were very attentive of the guest needs. read more

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I have been working at this lot for a long time. My BIGGEST disappointment is how Dirty this lot is. It's disgusting.Cigarettes butts EVERWHERE! There should be allocated smoking areas. I'm SICK and tired of having to walk through a cloud of smoke. People have NO respect, especially for non-smokers. And don't get me started about people spitting everywhere! The parking situation leaves much to be desired as well. read more

I called regarding information on sending over a gift, the operator was so rude and didn't provide help. She instead clicked on me. I called back she picked up and clicked. really rude!!! read more

I love going to free PGA screenings at this lot. They have ample parking and nice staff. Enter on Pico! read more

Fox Studio Lot - Video/Film Production Near Me - Los Angeles, California

Considering I spend around 12 hours or so at this place on average a work day, I guess it's amazing I haven't reviewed it yet. 20th century fox television studios is a wonderland of a place. No where else can you make a simple street look and reflect Washington D.C., New York City and various other locations around the world with a quick number of background set fixings. You've probably seen the same street a billion times used in different ways from How I met your mother to 24 to arrested development, bones and even that ball shot of Samuel L. Jackson from Die Hard 3. The studio store offers a shit ton of dirt cheap Fox merchandise as well as DVD/Bluerays. Coffee mugs and what not. There was this one time I had a stack of copies of Firefly and about to check out and Nathan Fillion was behind me. Yeah, I had a little nerd moment then. The studio lot is huge. Very huge. Also interesting how its changed and how it's stayed the same over the years. I've seen buildings go up, new food spots open -- Moe's is a great place to eat a burger if you want a simpsons experience. The one iconic thing I always wonder in awe when walking by is the Empire Strikes Back Vader/Luke lightsaber battle on cloud city mural on a sound stage. It always unleashes my inner nerd. Not sure how often non-employees can really get on the grounds. I guess guest passes are there for a reason. If you happen to make it on though, you'll be amazed at the amount of history. Just reading the plaque in front of a sound stage will show you the history of a show. I'm often near the one that was home to arrested development (pours out a 40 for my fallen homies) and Angel. The Robert Zemeckis theater is probably one of the best places to catch a screening. The luxury will ruin you from most theater going experiences after you see something there. While their news coverage and the company as a whole is more conservative. This socialist has never felt like the grounds of the fox lot is anything but your average liberal mix of folks. So hey, I guess they are fair and balanced. read more

Who doesn't love visiting a Hollywood set?! Came here as a extra on Ted 2 for fun. So, we got to go inside the sets and waiting area, Fun times. Studio magic is awesome where they can just create and take down a set fast! NEW YORK SET It's just so cool to see where How I Met Your Mother was filmed. I love that show. It's awesome. Each studio has a painting on their walls... one with Simpsons, Star Wars, etc. This is a fun tour. PARKING: Inside structure and a outside structure. You need to be invited by an employee, working, or doing a tour to come in. read more

Awesome back lot, getting into the parking lot could be a huge struggle. Although their parking structure is pretty big, it still takes a while to get in if there is a long line. Cool experience if you get the chance to go! :) read more

I tend to disagree with Ron, but i will say this much the time spent on making the movie was clearly evident and they did a great job with all the effects and editing and so forth. The movie was honestly too long, such a drag, the middle hour was the worst! the first climax was great and the last(end of movie) was incredible but the middle was horrendous i fell asleep for 15 minutes, seriously. Avatar was a good movie not a great one, and I do not regret going and watching it but i just felt a little something was missing, in a way cheated, was expecting a little more, The storyline was ok, typical, happily ever after...ending... (spoiler alert) or did i already give it away! loll take care guys and go watch it, make sure its 3D i herd regular sucks! TFR read more

You need a reason to come here as they don't offer public tours like Warner or Universal do so your opportunity to walk the place are limited. I came here for business, a meeting at Fox Networks that occupies one of the newer building. Getting through security requires an appointment and a parking pass reservation. My parking spot was underground and then I got to walk outside on the lot. I always like the feeling of walking on a studio lot, did so numerous times around town but this was my first time here (been to Universal, Disney, Warner and Paramount along with a few independents before). When you are expected, people are nice and welcoming. The atmosphere on the west coast is always a lot friendlier than in the east. The day I was here, there weather was nice and sunny which help to make the place and it's open spaces feel good. They do have a back lot although it is less extensive than others and it is always nice to try to to remember what "street" was used in what movie or show. Visit if you can! read more

This lot is huge! Bring a skateboard and cruise to your calling area. But be careful, security will be after you! They haven't caught me yet! (TheSkateBandit) read more

Warning! Do not get on the shuttle with this rude obnoxious trashy shuttle driver(pictured). She starts screaming at me about how this is the last time she is going to pick me up and how dangerous it is to get into a moving shuttle. What? A. Why didn't she just tell me she couldn't pick me up 10ft away from the designated area? It would of been over. B. She stopped the shuttle to let me on, so how did I jump into the shuttle while it was moving? I asked whats with all the rude behavior and she didn't like that at all. Arguing with me and stating "you can get out" "you can walk if you like" completely unprofessional and trashy. I replied so you're going to let me out in the middle of the street? Ms. Rude then says , no I would let you out at a safe spot. Oh how kind of you. Yelling at me because I wasn't a Fox employee with a badge. Because I wasn't an employee of Fox you can treat someone like dirt? Its not good enough if you worked on the lot that day so be ready to get the navy seal instructor treatment. A complete joke and why is she in this position? Send her to anger management class. Horrible! read more

Fox Studio Lot - Video/Film Production Near Me - Los Angeles, California

i work here. Its ok. Its a Job. Pays my Bills. read more

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Reception with Sir Elton John on the commissary lawn. Followed by a screening and then we're off to THE MONROES wrap party in NoHo.

Super fun studio lot where you can see several sets they use to shoot many of TV's scenes. My friends who work there invited me out to lunch on this unusually hot (85 F) February on the lot, then I got a personal tour of the studio. The studio is spread out across a large lot and many of the office buildings are used as a backdrop for those Law & Order type shows and sit-coms on TV. Some highlights include the New York lot (seen in the Bruno Mars video Uptown Funk, the Nakatomi building from Die Hard movie, the famous Diner seen in several movies and shows, set pieces from New Girl, and several older buildings which have kept the original architectural looks from the 1950's over the decades though the insides have been modernized. There are hangars which we weren't allowed into though because they were filming. Really a fun time and a cool experience! Bonus star sightings: Got to randomly see Jesse Tyler Ferguson riding a bike and Collin Hanks and his fellow co-stars walking to a set. read more

As far as work environments at major studios go, Fox is the cream of the crop! I worked here in finance of all departments, which is traditionally a version of hell. Which Fox finance is, definately, without a doubt, a version of hell. But the masochist in me loved aspects of it. Wonderful supportive coworkers and an infectious camraderie throughout the lot made the wage slave hours (60 hours on a light week, 80 plus hours during spring budget season) somewhat palatable. That 24 hour all nighter at year end close was such a bonding experience for my crew! My bff on the team rocked madonna while we tediously logged journal entries that really should have been done weeks earlier as a simple accrual. Our hilariously incompetant boss simply would not allow us to make preemptive moves to make things go smoother, it was her way or no way. Always. Inquiries with HR regarding transfers were stonewalled until requirements of tenure were met. Corporate rules. The overwhelming unhappiness that was voiced by everyone on the team regarding the intense stupidity and cruelty of our boss and the archaic systems we were forced to use fell on the deaf ears of corporate drones who only pretended to care but were really only interested in protecting the company from lawsuits. At this point in the season, our boss had been in HR mandated anger management therapy for six months. (Note to HR: therapy doesn't work on people with personality disorders, next time try shock therapy paired with narcotics.) I grew ill, but continued to work slavish hours, never missing days, taking appointments over lunch. Fast forward to the holidays and I now require surgery for ulcers, a sweet reward for my devotion. I scheduled surgery around the holidays while things were slow and was out a week and a half. Yet the boss was still gravely inconvenienced, and let me know with her screaming and stomping of feet when I had to do a post -op. Though I loved Fox, they didn't pay me enough to make me their corporate whore. But really, compared to Disney? Fox is a cake walk. read more

Fox Studios sometimes offers screenings of its new releases to employees and other associates and since I'm a family member of an employee, I've been able to go to a few. The lot itself is spectacular, for example one one studio there's a huge Star Wars mural with Luke Skywalker having a light saber battle with Darth Vader in front of a window looking out into space, and on another there's the entire Simpsons family on one side, and the extended cast (Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Moe, etc) on another. It's a magical place both for kids and adults. The screenings are in a full size theater with comfortable seats. It's a real theater - the kind I used to pay $8.50 a ticket for when I was younger, and that now costs about twice that. And it's clean, because there's no food and drink allowed Sometimes they also show 3D movies there, and hand out the glasses. The best part of the experience is the audience - both enthusiastic and well behaved. Nobody's talking on their phone or kicking the back of your seat or crunching potato chips right beside you. They pay attention to the movie and gasp when the leads is in danger and cheer when they get out. Even the children's movies I've been to are like that. Definitely be sure to clap at the end, as some of the people who worked on the movie may be in the audience. One of the best places to see the best movies. read more

Have seen a few movies at the Zanuck Theater as a guest of an employee. Nice if you get the chance. It's cool to be on the lot and the movie is free! read more

This is simply a review of the Zanuck Theater not of TCFFC as a company. I think it is a great perk to be given the opportunity to see new films for free on the lot and invite up to three guests. I recently saw the "Glee" movie which I would not have paid to see. It didn't really need to be in 3D but it did make me wish I had gone to see the "Glee" concert live. I had no idea Courtney Galiano from "So You Think You Can Dance" was on the tour and I'm a big fan. The film was very entertaining. The Zanuck seating is comfortable and it is nice that you can get a cup of free bottled water. I have to say that I was surprised that the noise made by the line we were in waiting to see the movie would impact the shoot of "Modern Family" on the adjacent soundstage. It would have been nice if the PA had explained any impact instead of just yelling "quiet!" read more

I once saw Stephen Root walking into the commissary looking somewhat grumpy, I almost hit Hugh Laurie with my car, and Jason Segel hangs out on the back of parked golf carts sometimes. There's also a 50ft. tall Marilyn Monroe. Really, what more are you after? read more

Not really sure how to review a movie studio LOL. I came here for a private screening of the upcoming film "12 years A Slave"...great film. The studio grounds are massive and you can easily get lost here if you aren't familiar. Passed the offices for "The Simpsons" and a few other shows...its fun to be amidst the buzz of all of the behind-the-scenes action of TV & Film :) read more

Need I tell you that this is a great studio? Probably not, however I have been here many times at a professional capacity and I have to say that every time I walk around this lot it impreses the hell out of me. As soon as you pull up to the gate to call your contact you are literally looking right down the street of a makeshift city that looks like it was just removed from a time capsul! I have not worked on these sets, just walked around on them while meeting with executives in the offices for Fox Sports West and Fox Sports, but still fun. read more

I went here with some friends, one who works at a CG studio and got free screening of The Croods. The lot was super cute and we were able to get on quickly. There was ample parking and I thought it was cool to see where shows were filed (Seinfeld, back in the day and Bones currently). The staff was very good at corralling everyone to where they needed to go. If I have the chance to do another screening there I would go, especially since it is close to my home :-) read more

Anyone who comments, publicly and with scorn, that Avatar's plotline is "simple" or "hackneyed" does so at his or her peril. There are several constructs in virtually ANY form of artistic expression that almost always work: the "Fish Out of Water" the "Faust Story" and, of course, the "Reluctant Conquering Hero" being three of them that spring to mind. How many times you have seen these "overused" story and plotlines in evidence matters not. It's human nature to cotton to them (and we're talking human nature from the birth or recorded history, now) and it's the way they are carried out that determines the success of a given project. Did you like the "Matrix" films? The "Star Wars" films? What about Frodo and his friends overcoming insurmountable odds and defeating the evil Sauron? There's your "Reluctant Conquering Hero" in spades. How about "Dances With Wolves" or the "Back to the Future" movies? "Fish Out of Water". And how's about any movie where the character gets more than what he or she bargained for? Your "Faust" story. Yes, the simple fact is "Avatar" displays, and rather well I believe, all three of these themes. After his identical twin brother is killed, Corporal Jake Sully, a Marine who's been wounded and has lost the use of his legs, is sent to the planet Pandora and recruited into a mission meant to ease a group of indigenous creatures, The Na'Vi, out of an area that greedy human corporatists covet for its considerable mineral wealth. He's seduced into taking up the challenge by a blood-thirsty military commander, Colonel Miles Quaritch, who promises, in Faustian fashion, that he'll arrange for a surgical procedure necessary for Sully to regain the use of his legs IF he reports back on the Na'Vi's vulnerabilities. Sully agrees and becomes part of a program, which installs his human consciousness into a Na'Vi body, making it possible for his "Avatar" to move about freely (without the use of a portable breathing apparatus) on the planet's oxygen-poor surface. During an initial expedition, Sully becomes separated from his group and is left behind. During the night, he meets a NA'Vi princess, Neytiri, who saves him from a pack of wild dog-like creatures. She scolds him for his oafishness and takes him to her people who, because she has seen "a sign" sent from the NA'Vi's sacred "Tree of Souls", allow him to live amongst them and learn their ways. With each ensuing trip, Sully's "Fish Out of Water" becomes better acquainted with the way of the NA'Vi and, finally, he takes their side in the growing conflict. This, of course, infuriates the Colonel, ignites the ire of the mining company, and all bets are off. What happens next, yes, is somewhat predictable. You know the NA'Vi, under Sully's formerly reluctant "conquering hero" will be triumphant. You know the bad guy will be vanquished and the mining company sent packing. But, I argue, these are things we WANT to see as human beings and why these devices and themes are used over and over (and over) again. They WORK. So, it's "all been done before". So what? Clichés betray honest and universal truths. This is why they are used so often and why they exist, sublimely, as clichés. This film, for all its time-tested, ironclad plot devices, is absolutely astonishing in its newness. We've never seen anything like this planet or its inhabitants, humanoid or otherwise. The visuals are magnificent as one might expect, but it's the interaction between the NA'Vi and Sully and his resulting transformation that are at the core of the film's success. I was amazed by how moved I was by this "simple" story, by the kindness and nobility of the NA'Vi and their connection with their land. James Cameron has borrowed some not-so-simple, current real-life human themes and placed them in what is a very timely story, much in the same tradition as great TV science fiction, such as Star Trek TOS and its offspring. That $300 to $500 million was spent to bring this film to life means little as the film will more than make back its money and every single cent is up there on the screen. I just wish would-be movie snobs would shut the hell up about their having "seen this all before". The simple fact is, they haven't. read more

i went and saw avatar today in one of the studios theaters. what a great movie to see in 3d but not in imax. that's ok because the screens at the studio are so big. the whole movie, it's 3d affects,the special affects, the actors & actress and the story line were unbelievable. i don't want to say much about the movie just in case you haven't seen it yet. if you haven't you better. you'll be amazed read more

This is regarding the Zanuck theatre! and the galaxy parking lot! they hire complete morons for the movie screenings and parking attendants at the entrance! not organization once so ever! will never return! read more

ahhh! I hate this place. auditions are held all the time here. And I get callbacks on callbacks but never book!! Also got lost here for 30 minutes walking back to car. Locked my keys in the car here. and saw my favorite actor talking like a complete douche-bag. ITS DEPRESSING!!! agent : hey zonkers, you have an audition today for ******** at century fox studios" me: awwwww crap. read more

Zanuck Theater--the best theater in the city. Excellent audio, dark as fuck when the lights go out, no food, no drinks, no sound of people eating with their mouths open, no assholes on their phones, no one kicking your chair, no crying babies, no one fighting over seats, no commercials or previews, free parking (for me anyway). Just pure movie experience in a state of the art theater. Perfect. read more