20TH CENTURY FOX

BOOK

SCOTT EYMAN | RUNNING PRESS

Disney’s buyout of 20th Century Fox opened a window for the studio’s whole story to be told - which Eyman does at a cracking, accessible, occasionally hyperbolic pace. If the final 50 years feel especially compressed (seek deeper accounts of signature hits like Star Wars and Titanic elsewhere), that’s because Eyman’s key focus is long-time Fox boss Darryl F. Zanuck and his rivetingly Oedipal clashes with son Richard. Bonus mark for a picture section complemented not so much by captions as essays.