Walt Disney Pictures Information
Walt Disney Pictures is an American film studio owned by The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Pictures and Television, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Studios and the main production company for live-action feature films within the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, based at the Walt Disney Studios, acquires and produces output that are released under the Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures banners. Their most commercially successful production partners in later years has been Pixar, Great Oaks, Caravan Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer, Marvel Studios, ImageMovers Digital, Spyglass Entertainment, Walden Media, Mandeville Films, Gunn Films and The Jim Henson Company.
Animated features produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, ImageMovers Digital, and DisneyToon Studios are usually released by Walt Disney Pictures under the Disney banner. Exceptions include Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Nightmare Before Christmas which were originally released under Disney's Touchstone imprint (The latter has since been re-released under the traditional Disney banner). These two films are also regarded as more like "Disney" films compared to other Touchstone films.
Walt Disney Pictures is noteworthy for being the only film studio to have three films that have surpassed the $1 billion mark, these being Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), Alice in Wonderland (2010), and Toy Story 3 (2010). In addition, Disney is the only major Hollywood studio which released two films in a single year (Alice in Wonderland and Toy Story 3), each of them having accumulated more than $1 billion worldwide at the box office.[1]
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Distribution
Walt Disney Pictures distributes most all of their own films internationally, via Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (formerly Buena Vista Distribution), with a few excepted movies to Canada. A very select amount of films by Walt Disney Pictures are distributed in Canada by another billion-dollar franchise known as Alliance Films with DVD rights to Universal Studios Home Entertainment, typically for films under Miramax Films, which was recently sold by Walt Disney Pictures to investors.
In Russia, Mexico, Brazil, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines, Walt Disney Pictures films had been distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment.[2]
In Turkey, Walt Disney Pictures films had been distributed by United International Pictures.
See also
- List of Disney feature films for a list of all features produced by Walt Disney Productions or released by Walt Disney Pictures
- List of Disney theatrical animated features for the animated Disney films released by Walt Disney Pictures
- Parent company, Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group
Film studios also under Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group and released by Walt Disney Pictures
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (Disney's film distribution arm)
- Walt Disney Animation Studios
- DisneyToon Studios
- Pixar
- Marvel Studios
Alternative film labels also under Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group
Film studios previously under Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group and released by Walt Disney Pictures
- Miramax Films (1993-2010)
- Dimension Films (1993-2005)
- ImageMovers Digital (2009-2011)
References
- ^ "Toy Story 3 reaches $1 billion dollars globally; The Pixar Blog". The Pixar Blog. August 27, 2010. http://pixarblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/toy-story-3-reaches-1-billion-dollars.html. Retrieved August 28, 2010.
- ^ Disney, Sony team up for Russian content, The Hollywood Reporter, December 27, 2006
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Categories: Film production companies of the United States | Walt Disney Company subsidiaries | Disney production studios | Companies established in 1983
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