20th Century Fox Gets Into The Theme Park Business With Rides Based on ALIENS, TITANIC, and More

Lionsgate is trying to capitalize on The Hunger Games success by licensing its movies out to theme parks around the world, and now it seems 20th Century Fox wants to get in on the action as well. Deadline reports that the studio has announced a new theme park and resort called 20th Century Fox World that will open in Dubai in 2018.

Attractions will be based on Fox properties including Ice Age, Rio, Planet Of The Apes, Aliens, Predator, Night At The Museum, Titanic, The Simpsons, and Sons Of Anarchy.

The studio already has a planned park set up to debut in 2017 in Malaysia, but this one "will have the first Fox-branded resort" as an added draw.

You can practically see the number-crunchers in Fox's accounting department with dollar signs in their eyes as they predict the hordes of people who are going to go through the turnstiles at a park like this. Theme parks are big moneymakers, so it's only natural that a studio with recognizable intellectual property would create a destination for fans to come and fork over some cash. Hollywood is a competitive place, and maybe some Fox execs just got sick of seeing Disney and Universal making tons of money from their long-running parks and figured, "If they can do that, why can't we?"

If you're planning a trip to Dubai on vacation, you may want to wait an extra few years so you can stop by and check this place out when it opens. In the meantime, hit the comments section with your ideas for what the rides and attractions based on these movies might be like.