Murder on the Orient Express, based on the Agatha Christie novel and directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, is one of the latest films to come out of the 21st Century Fox stable Alamy21st Century Fox came into being four and a half years ago but traces its roots back to the original News Corporation that Rupert Murdoch founded in 1979 as a holding company for his newspaper businesses. News Corporation would go on to buy the 20th Century Fox film studio in the early 1980s and in 1986 acquired the Metromedia group of television and radio stations, leading to the launch of the Fox Broadcasting Company. By then News Corporation had also acquired The Times and The Sunday Times in Britain, adding the newspapers to a portfolio that included The Sun and News of the World. News Corporation went on to launch the Fox News Channel in 1996, growing it into America’s most popular cable news channel.…

Source: The Times December 14, 2017 16:41 UTC