- The Walt Disney Studios - also known as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Group and formerly known as Buena Vista Motion Picures Group and Buena Vista Film Group - is an American entertainment industry company division.
- The studio, which is one of Hollywood's major film studios, is based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.
- Walt Disney Studios' film division is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
- Walt Disney Studios is the main production arm for Disney's motion pictures.
- They develop scripts and oversee theatrical production for The Walt Disney Company's production companies and imprints (founded in 1995).
- These include:
Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Touchstone Pictures, Disneynature and Lucasfilm
Animated features produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, DisneyToon Studios and Studio Ghibli (North America distribution) are usually released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.
Beginning in 2011, the studio's production logo and on-screen credit was shortened to simply 'Disney'.
Walt Disney Animation Studios:
Headquartered in Burbank, California, Walt Disney Animation Studios is an American animation studio which creates animated feature films and animated short films for The Walt Disney Company.
Founded on October 16, 1923 as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the studio has produced 52 feature films, beginning with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), and most recently with Wreck-It Ralph (2012).
In 2006, Pixar executives Edwin Catmull and John Lasseter assumed Walt Disney Animation Studios as president and Chief Creative Officer, respectively.
Since the release of Meet The Robinsons the following year, the studio has had a new logo to make themselves separate from Pixar. The logo features Mickey Mouse in the classic short, Steamboat Willie.
Walt Disney Animation Studios is noted for creating a number of now-standard innovations in the animation industry:
Beauty and the Beast (1991) - the first animated feature to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the only nominee for Best Picture to be traditionally-animated;
The Lion King (1994) - the highest grossing traditionally animated film of all time;
Tangled (2010) - the most expensive animated film ever made costing $260 million
(to name a few)
Pixar Animation Studios:
A computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California.
The studio is best known for its CGI-animated feature films created with Photorealistic RenderMan, its own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan image-rendering application programming interface used to generate high-quality images.
Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the computer division of Lucasfilm, before its spin-out as a corporation in 1986 with funding by Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder.
Pixar has produced thirteen feature films, beginning with Toy Story (1995), and also several short films.
Twelve of the films have received both critical and financial success, with the notable exception being Cars 2, which, while commercially successful, has received substantially less praise than Pixar's other productions.
As of February 2012, its feature films have made over $7 billion worldwide, with its $602 million average gross by far the highest of any studio in the industry.
Three of Pixar's films - Finding Nemo, Up, and Toy Story 3 - are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, and all of Pixar's films are among the highest-grossing animated films, with Toy Story 3 being the all-time highest, grossing over $1 billion worldwide.
The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and eleven Grammy Awards.
Touchstone Pictures:
Established in 1984 as Touchstone Films, it typically releases films that feature more mature themes and darker tones than those that are released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.
Touchstone Pictures is merely a label (similar to a record label) and does not exist as a separate company: the two companies behind it are the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group and Walt Disney Pictures and Television.
The Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group entered into a long-term, 30-picture distribution deal with DreamWorks by which DreamWorks' productions would be released through the Touchstone Pictures banner over the next five years beginning in 2011.
Disneynature:
Founded on April 21, 2008 as a division of the Walt Disney Studios, Disneynature is an independent film label of The Walt Disney Company devoted to nature documentary productions.
Headquarted in Paris, France, it is the only Disney subsidiary not headquartered in the United States.
Lucasfilm:
Best known and responsible for the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, Lucasfilm was founded by filmmaker George Lucas in 1971.
Based in San Francisco, the company has also been a leader in developing new film technology in special effects, sound, and computer animation, and because of their expertise its subsidiaries often help produce non-Lucasfilm pictures.
On October 30, 2012, it was announced that Lucasfilm would be acquired by The Walt Disney Company for $4.05 billion.
- In 2009, Disney acquired Marvel Entertainment, in addition to purchasing full ownership rights to Marvel Studios' films in 2010.
- Hollywood Pictures was another division of Disney, in which, like Touchstone, produced films for mature audiences, but was shut down in 2007.
- In 1993, Disney acquired Miramax Films and its Dimension Films label, but Dimension became a part of The Weinstein Company in 2005 and Miramax was sold to Filmyard Holdings in 2010.
- From 2007 to 2010, Disney and ImageMovers ran a joint motion capture animation facility - ImageMovers Digital.
Disney Music Group:
A music production group led by Ken Bunt, that consists of multiple record labels - Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records - and publishing identities that handle Disney's music.
Disney Theatrical Group:
The division producing live theatrical and stage events, currently under the leadership of Thomas Schumacher, responsible for the production of many different musicals, touring events, ice shows and other live theatrical events.
Their shows include: Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Aida, Tarzan, Mary Poppins, Newsies and numerous incarnations of Disney on Ice.
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