Walt Disney Pictures
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Walt Disney Pictures refers to several different entities associated with The Walt Disney Company:
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[edit] The Film Banner
Walt Disney Pictures, the film banner, was established as a designation in 1983, prior to which Disney films since the death of Walt Disney were released under the name of the parent company, then named Walt Disney Productions. Another label, Touchstone Pictures, was created in 1984 to enable Disney to release films with a more mature content than what was asscociated with the Disney name.
The logo is a silhouette of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland. The most commonly known iteration of the logo was in place from 1985; a new CGI logo, animated by Weta Digital, was introduced on July 6, 2006 with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.[1]
Walt Disney Pictures historically distributes films rated G or PG. This has however changed when Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was rated PG-13. Previous films with a rating above PG would have been released under the Touchstone Pictures or Hollywood Pictures banners.
Many films from the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group have during the course of their prior relaese dates been shifting between the Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures names. Examples include; Dick Tracy, The Rocketeer, The Santa Clause, Remember the Titans, Sweet Home Alabama, Bringing Down the House, Hidalgo, National Treasure, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
[edit] Live-Action Films
Walt Disney Pictures and Television, a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studio Entertainment and the main production company for live-action feature films within the Buena Vista 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 Jerry Bruckheimer, Spyglass Entertainment and Walden Media.
[edit] Animated Feature Films
Animated feature films produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and DisneyToon Studios are usually assigned the Walt Disney Pictures banner upon their release, though the rare exceptions are Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Nightmare Before Christmas which both were assigned the Touchstone Pictures label upon their original releases in 1988 and 1993.
[edit] See also
- Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group
- DisneyToon Studios
- Hollywood Pictures includes a list of Hollywood Pictures films.
- List of notable Disney feature films for both live-action and animated films released under the Disney label.
- List of Disney theatrical animated features for the traditional animated "Disney movies".
- Touchstone Pictures includes a list of Touchstone releases.
- Walt Disney Feature Animation
[edit] References
- ^ Old Disney magic in new animated logo. hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved on 2006-07-10.
