Disney, I know you're one of the greatest entertainment companies in history. You've brought so much magic to everyone for over 100 years with Mickey Mouse, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and everything else. But your biggest, dumbest, most expensive, and most unnecessary decision you ever made was acquiring the assets of 21st Century Fox, including 20th Century Fox, Fox SearchLight Pictures, 20th Century Fox Animation, 20th Century Fox Television, and 20th Century Fox Television Animation back on March 20, 2019.

It was a stupid and heartbreaking move. You didn't need to buy the whole studio just to get access to its incredible film and TV library for Disney+. You could've made a smart licensing deal with Fox instead, like you did with other content, and kept everything competitive and creative. But no, you went horizontal, swallowed one of Hollywood's most iconic names, and turned 20th Century Fox into just "20th Century Studios" in January 2020, stripped of its soul, its edge, its independence. This is just hypocritical since Disney used to have Touchstone Pictures and helped make Miramax an iconic name in Hollywood from 1993 to 2010. It's been devastating to the people of Hollywood, to thousands of jobs, and to fans who grew up with 20th Century Fox, since Fox used to be a huge, legendary movie and television studio and an important name in Hollywood for over 80 years. They gave us so many incredible things we all love:

Franchises like MAS*H, Home Alone, The Simpsons, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Alien, Predator, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Ice Age, Rio, Deadpool, Planet of the Apes, Die Hard, Kingsman, Avatar.

Iconic movie stars like Shirley Temple, Gregory Peck, Marilyn Monroe.

TV greats like Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama, Bob's Burgers, Glee, Modern Family, How I Met Your Mother, 24, Prison Break, Empire, This Is Us.

Greatest movies like The Sound of Music, The King and I, Speed, Titanic, Star Wars (the originals), Cast Away, Moulin Rouge, Miracle on 34th Street, The Grapes of Wrath, The French Connection, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Independence Day, The Revenant, Bohemian Rhapsody, and hundreds more.

And that's not even counting all the animation, video games, networks, and home video stuff they built. It was massive, just like Disney.

I understand Rupert Murdoch sold off most of 21st Century Fox's assets to Disney to focus more on sports and news, and the Fox ownership was putting a strain on his family for years, now spun off into Fox Corporation. But he needs to know the real truth about why Disney wanted to buy his movie studio and those assets in the first place. Also, Fox has made thousands of movies, TV shows, video games, home video units, and networks like Disney did, so it's weird that Fox's huge film-television library would fit in Disney's vault. I'm upset they shut down Fox's research lab at its studio lot and caused so many layoffs at Fox Studios because of the whole Disney-Fox merger. It also led to a lot of cancellations of movies in production at 20th Century Fox, such as Gambit (an X-Men spinoff), Mouse Guard, sequels to Alita: Battle Angel and The Greatest Showman, On The Come Up, News of The World, Mega Man, Chronicle 2, Flash Gordon, Magic: The Gathering, Play-Doh, Assassin's Creed 2, Hitman, The Sims, and more—which is devastating and sad.

They should've used their minds and made a deal with Fox to bring its film-television library to Disney+ to expand it, instead of acquiring the whole studio from the Murdoch family. While I'm mixed and fine with Disney acquiring ABC, Pixar, Lucasfilm (the creators of Star Wars), and Marvel, this whole Fox acquisition was just a dumb and unnecessary move and a desperate attempt to cash in on blockbuster content and expand Disney+. Not only did they buy Fox, but they ended up shutting down Blue Sky Studios in 2021 because of economic realities from the merger and COVID-19, and started milking some of Fox's franchises with horrible, crappy direct-to-streaming movies such as The Adventures of Buck Wild, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid animated trilogy, Home Sweet Home Alone, Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again. Even those self-promotional Simpsons shorts on Disney+ that just advertise your other stuff.

While I'm glad Disney has been making some better decisions lately, like focusing more on quality over quantity, getting the rights to Deadpool, Fantastic Four, and X-Men and bringing them into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and accessing the original prints of Star Wars from 20th Century Fox, the recent completion of the relocation of 20th Century Studios teams to the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank (ending the lease on the old Century City Fox lot by early 2026) just proves how much the independent Fox identity has been fully absorbed and erased. Films like Send Help (January 2026), Psycho Killer (February 2026), and upcoming ones like The Devil Wears Prada 2 (May 2026) show some activity under the 20th Century Studios banner, but it's all under Disney's tight control now—no real Fox spirit left, with the studio now fully operating as a production label within The Walt Disney Studios rather than an independent entity.

We need to sign, support, and share this petition and stand up to get the people at both Disney and Fox Corporation to reconsider and regret their big mistake over 7 years ago by getting Disney to sell back 20th Century Studios to Fox Corporation now. Cause I miss 20th Century-Fox as a huge entertainment studio in Hollywood, and Disney needs to reconsider and have a talk with the Murdochs about their horrible mistake (as Walt Disney said, "I don't make movies to make money, I make money to make more movies"). Sell the studio back to them, so Fox could become a major movie-entertainment powerhouse again. Consider bringing back Touchstone Pictures in some way, maybe start a new production office for Touchstone on the Disney lot, and revive RKO as another secondary studio to the company. Have the Fox movie-television library back in the vaults at Fox Studios and have many of them restored in 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray under the relaunched 20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment, and released on the big screen again.

Also, merge 20th Century Animation and 20th Television Animation into 20th Century-Fox Animation and revive Fox films cancelled by Disney. Disney has owned enough properties already, and they need to go back to Walt's original vision and lessen on the rules a bit, such as the theme park ideas (since people deserve the world more) and focusing on originality again. They should keep 20th Century Fox's library on Disney+ by still signing a deal with Fox to license them to the streaming platform and still make new content for its streaming service, and have Universal Studios keep The Simpsons in their theme parks for a few more years.

And finally, have Disney's CEO apologize to Fox Corp and everyone for the whole merger over 7 years ago. Come on, everyone, we must get this whole petition enough signatures and supporters to get Disney and Fox's attention through media coverage, so we can undo Disney's ownership of 20th Century-Fox and sell it back to Fox Corporation. I really miss 20th Century-Fox as a major entertainment powerhouse as it was before being bought by Disney in 2019, and we need to bring it back to the way it was before. #BringBack20thCenturyFox #Disney #Fox #DisneyFoxMerger #SaveFox, #HollywoodNostalgia