Walt Disney Pictures
Logo used since 2011 | |
| Formerly |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Film |
| Founded |
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| Founder | Ron W. Miller (as Walt Disney Pictures) |
| Headquarters | 500 South Buena Vista Street, , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
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| Products | Motion pictures |
| Parent | Walt Disney Studios |
| Divisions | Disneynature |
| Website | movies |
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Walt Disney Pictures is an American film production company and subsidiary of the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company. The studio is the flagship producer of live-action feature films and animation within the Walt Disney Studios unit and is based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. Animated films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios are also released under the studio banner. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by Walt Disney Pictures.
Disney began producing live-action films in the 1950s. The live-action division became Walt Disney Pictures in 1983, when Disney reorganized its entire studio division, which included the separation from the feature animation division and the subsequent creation of Touchstone Pictures. At the end of that decade, combined with Touchstone's output, Walt Disney Pictures elevated Disney to one of Hollywood's major film studios.
Walt Disney Pictures is currently one of five live-action film studios within the Walt Disney Studios, alongside Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, and Searchlight Pictures. Inside Out 2 is the studio's highest-grossing release overall with $1.6 billion, and Pirates of the Caribbean is the studio's most successful commercial film franchise, with five films earning a total of over $4.5 billion in worldwide box office gross.