With her rise in the coming months to chairman and CEO (as Gianopulos, 64, moves into an undefined "strategic role"), Snider, 55, will preside over the second-hottest studio at the 2016 box office (after Disney). Watts, 46, has become the envy of many of her counterparts at rival studios thanks to hits like The Martian ($630?million).

BIG WIN Deadpool ($778?million), another Watts film, is the top-grossing R-rated title ever.

BIG BET Will the executive shakeup work out? Fox's future is all about the next Avatar films — and filmmaker James Cameron's strongest relationship at the studio is with Gianopulos.

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What's the least powerful thing about your life?

SNIDER I don’t think about my life in terms of power. I think about my life in terms of meaning.

WATTS The list expands daily.

GIANOPULOS Managing my really smart and independent daughters.

I can't get through a day without …

SNIDER Quiet time to think (and tea!).

WATTS Many espressos.

GIANOPULOS Sugar-free Red Bull. (I know, don't tell me.)

Who's your most important adviser?

SNIDER My husband, Gary Jones.

WATTS Jonathan Krauss.

GIANOPULOS My wife, Ann, who is amazing, beloved by all (and certainly by me) and always tells me the truth while making it easier to accept.

In high school, I was …

SNIDER A lot like I am today.

WATTS Younger.

GIANOPULOS In a Rolling Stones cover band (and unsuccessfully pretending to be Keith Richards).

What's your hidden talent?

SNIDER I can change from work clothes to sweats in record time.

WATTS A really loud two-fingered whistle.

GIANOPULOS I can discern meaning in half-a-dozen languages I don't speak.

If I could have lunch with anyone, living or dead, I'd choose …

SNIDER Martin Luther King Jr.

WATTS Vanessa Nadal and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

GIANOPULOS Ernest Hemingway, and he could pick the place.

The first powerful person I ever met was …

SNIDER My teachers at Friends' Central School had the greatest influence on my life (after my parents). But, given their Quaker affiliation, they would not have considered themselves powerful.

WATTS Diane Von Furstenberg.

GIANOPULOS My father, who overcame odds that still humble anything I've done. And also, the Queen of England (but not at the same time).

Have you seen Hamilton and how many times?

SNIDER Yes, off-Broadway and then on Broadway.

WATTS Yes, I love it! I've been twice.

GIANOPULOS Yes, I've seen Hamilton, and even managed to close my dropped jaw long enough to think of something to say to Lin-Manuel Miranda. I told him I had never experienced anything so exalted that so surpassed its expectation.