Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures (also known simply as Disney until late-2024 in Southern England) is an American-based film studio part of The Walt Disney Studios. It is known not only for mainly producing animated feature films, but also live-action features.
Walt Disney Pictures was established as a division of Walt Disney Productions (now The Walt Disney Company) on April 1, 1983, and the first film to bear the "Walt Disney Pictures" banner was Never Cry Wolf. Prior to that, "Walt Disney Productions" was the credit used for the company's live action films, with its very first one, Treasure Island, making its theatrical premiere in 1950. The first Disney film to be shot in widescreen was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, released in 1954. The first Disney animated film to be shot in widescreen was Lady and the Tramp, released in 1955.
It includes films produced by other Disney divisions under Walt Disney Pictures including Walt Disney Animation Studios (since 1986), Pixar (since 1995), Disneynature (since 2009), and Lucasfilm (since 2012). Additionally, it includes distribution of films produced by The Walt Disney Studios under the Walt Disney Pictures banner, although not involved in co-productions with the aforementioned labels, including Marvel Studios; 20th Century Studios; Regency Enterprises; and Searchlight Pictures (international only) with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures currently handling distribution. Between 2019 and 2020, Walt Disney Pictures handling distribution of productions in the UK such as Judy and Misbehaviour under the film studio's distribution deal through 20th Century Studios. The latter expired and transferred back to Warner Bros on June 30, 2021 after ten years.
== History ==
=== Predecessor unit ===
The studio's predecessor (and the modern-day The Walt Disney Company's as a whole) was founded as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, by filmmaker Walt Disney and his business partner and brother, Roy, in 1923.
The creation of Mickey Mouse and subsequent short films and merchandise generated revenue for the studio which was renamed as The Walt Disney Studio at the Hyperion Studio in 1926. In 1929, it was renamed again to Walt Disney Productions. The studio's streak of success continued in the 1930s, culminating with the 1937 release of the first feature-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which becomes a huge financial success. With the profits from Snow White, Walt relocated to a third studio in Burbank, California.
In the 1940s, Disney began experimenting with full-length live-action films, with the introduction of hybrid live action-animated films such as The Reluctant Dragon (1941) and Song of the South (1946). That same decade, the studio began producing nature documentaries with the release of Seal Island (1948), the first of the True-Life Adventures series and a subsequent Academy Award winner for Best Live-Action Short Film.
Walt Disney Productions had its first fully live-action film in 1950 with the release of Treasure Island, considered by Disney to be the official conception for what would eventually evolve into the modern-day Walt Disney Pictures. By 1953, the company ended their agreements with such third-party distributors as RKO Radio Pictures and United Artists and formed their own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution. By the 1950s, the company had purchased the rights to his work of L. Frank Baum.
=== 1980s–2000s ===
The live-action division of Walt Disney Productions was incorporated as Walt Disney Pictures on April 1, 1983, to diversify film subjects and expand audiences for their film releases. In April 1983, Richard Berger was hired by Disney CEO Ron W. Miller as film president. Touchstone Films was started by Miller in February 1984 as a label for the studio's PG-13 and R-rated films with an expected half of Disney's yearly 6-to-8-movie slate, which would be released under the label. That same year, newly named Disney CEO Michael Eisner pushed out Berger, replacing him with Eisner's own film chief from Paramount Pictures, Jeffrey Katzenberg. and Frank Wells from Warner Bros. Pictures. Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures were formed within that unit on February 15, 1984, and February 1, 1989, respectively.
The Touchstone Films banner was used by then new Disney CEO Michael Eisner in the 1984–1985 television season with the short lived western, Wildside. In the next season, Touchstone produced a hit in The Golden Girls.
David Hoberman was promoted to president of production at Walt Disney Pictures in April 1988. In April 1994, Hoberman was promoted to president of motion picture production at Walt Disney Studios and David Vogel was appointed as Walt Disney Pictures president. The following year, however Hoberman resigned from the company, and instead began a production deal with Disney and his newly formed production company, Mandeville Films. In addition to Walt Disney Pictures, Vogel added the head position of Hollywood Pictures in 1997, while Donald De Line remained as head of Touchstone. Vogel was then promoted in 1998 to the head of Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, the newly formed division that oversaw all live-action production within the Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone, and Hollywood labels. The move was orchestrated by Walt Disney Studios chairman Joe Roth, as an effort to scale back and consolidate the studio's film production. As a result of the restructuring, De Line resigned.
That same year, Nina Jacobson became executive vice-president of live-action production for Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group. Jacobson remained under this title until May 1999, when Vogel resigned from the company, and Jacobson was appointed by Roth to the role of president of production. During her tenure, Jacobson oversaw the production of films at Walt Disney Pictures, including Pirates of the Caribbean, The Chronicles of Narnia, Bridge to Terabithia, National Treasure, Remember the Titans, and The Princess Diaries, and was responsible for establishing a first-look deal with Jerry Bruckheimer Films. In 2006, Jacobson was fired by studio chairman Dick Cook, and replaced with by Oren Aviv, the head of marketing. In July 2007, Disney CEO Bob Iger banned the depiction of smoking and tobacco products from Walt Disney Pictures films.
After two films based on Disney theme park attractions, Walt Disney Pictures selected it as a source of a line of films starting with The Country Bears (2002) and The Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (both 2003). The latter film—the first film produced by the studio to receive a PG-13 rating—began a film series that was followed by four sequels, with the franchise taking in more than $5.4 billion worldwide from 2003 to 2017. On January 12, 2010, Aviv stepped down as the studio's president of live-action production.
=== 2010s–present ===
In January 2010, Sean Bailey was appointed the studio's president of live-action production, replacing Aviv. Bailey had produced Tron: Legacy for the studio, which was released later that same year. Under Bailey's leadership and with support from then Disney CEO Bob Iger—and later studio chairman Alan Horn—Walt Disney Pictures pursued a tentpole film strategy, which included an expanded slate of original and adaptive large-budget tentpole films. Beginning in 2011 (and from 2011-2024 in Southern England), the studio simplified the branding in its production logo and marquee credits to just "Disney". Concurrently, Disney was struggling with PG-13 tentpole films outside of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, with films such as John Carter (2012) and The Lone Ranger (2013) becoming major box office bombs (although the latter was the success in the United Kingdom). However, the studio had found particular success with live-action fantasy adaptations of properties associated with their animated films, which began with the commercial success of Alice in Wonderland (2010), that became the second billion-dollar-grossing film in the studio's history. With the continued success of Maleficent (2014) and Cinderella (2015), the studio saw the potential in these fantasy adaptations and officiated a trend of similar films, which followed with The Jungle Book (2016) and Beauty and the Beast (2017). In March 2015, Iger expanded the studio's smoking and tobacco prohibition to include all films released by the studio—including PG-13 rated films and below—unless such depictions are historically pertinent, such as the case in Saving Mr. Banks (2013) and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023). 
By July 2016, Disney had announced development of nearly eighteen of these films consisting of sequels to existing adaptations, origin stories and prequels. Although Walt Disney Pictures produced several successful smaller-budgeted genre films throughout the 2010s, such as The Muppets (2011), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), and Into the Woods (2014), the studio shifted its production model entirely on tentpole films as they had found that a majority of the smaller genre films were becoming financially unsustainable in the theatrical market.
In 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced it was creating its own streaming service platform. The new service, known as Disney+, would feature original programming created by the company's vast array of film and television production studios, including Walt Disney Pictures. As part of this new distribution platform, Bailey and Horn confirmed that Walt Disney Pictures would renew development on smaller-budgeted genre films that the studio had previously stopped producing for the theatrical exhibition market a few years prior. In 2018, nine films were announced to be in production or development for the service. These films would be budgeted between $20 million and $60 million. The studio is expected to produce approximately 3–4 films per year exclusively for Disney+, alongside its theatrical tentpole slate. Disney+ was launched on November 12, 2019, in the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands, with subsequent international expansions. Within the first two months of the service's launch, Walt Disney Pictures had released three films (Lady and the Tramp, Noelle, and Togo) exclusively for Disney+.
On 12th March 2020, Fox Family president Vanessa Morrison was named president of live-action development and production of streaming content for both Disney and 20th Century Studios, reporting directly to Bailey. That same day, Philip Steuer and Randi Hiller were also appointed as president of the studio's physical, post-production and VFX, and executive vice president for casting, respectively–overseeing these functions for both Walt Disney Pictures and 20th Century Studios. In 2023, Walt Disney Pictures celebrated its centennial alongside Walt Disney Animation Studios and their corporate parent company. That same year, it was confirmed that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny would mark the studio's first official co-production with Lucasfilm.
== International distribution ==
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International was formed in 1961 as Buena Vista International. On May 4, 1987, despite being industry rivals, Disney signed a theatrical distribution agreement with Warner Bros. International for the release of Disney and Touchstone films in many overseas markets except in Australia and New Zealand, where distribution went through Roadshow Distributors instead, with Disney retaining full control of all distribution and marketing decisions on their product (one notable practice in this policy is obscuring Warner references in posters and it is credited only in very small text with the exception of some UK posters where sometimes the full logo is shown). Warner previously had an overseas distribution partnership with Columbia Pictures, but it was dissolved in 1988.
In 1992, Disney opted to end their joint venture with Warner Bros. to start autonomously distributing their films in these aforementioned overseas markets beginning with Aladdin and at the same period, Warner Bros. established the Family Entertainment label to self-distribute family-friendly films under the Warner umbrella. In those territories from 1993 to 2007, Disney reactivated the Buena Vista International name, and also sent distribution under it in countries that did not have any current arrangements with other companies. Disney would then continue its overseas film distribution relationship with Warner Bros. through a home video distribution deal in Europe and Australia in which Warner Home Video distributed select Disney material on DVD from 1999 to 2002, when Disney opted to self-distribute DVDs in these aforementioned territories.
Italia Film, a Lebanese film distribution and production company, is Disney's exclusive theatrical film distribution partner for various Middle East and North Africa (MENA) markets since 1993, after making a deal directly with Buena Vista International at the time. Prior to this, Warner Bros. originally handled said MENA markets except in Israel where Buena Vista handled theatrical distribution by themselves.
In Taiwan, MGM first handled Disney's distribution, with 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. later taking over. A local distributor called Era Communications took over distribution from 1992 to 1995. At that time, Buena Vista began its Taiwanese operations. Columbia ended its joint distribution unit with Fox and switched to Buena Vista in 1999.
Rights to Disney's films in West Germany were originally released by MGM (under CIC in the early 1970s) and later to 20th Century Fox, and then to United International Pictures before the Warner Bros. joint venture. In September 2004, Buena Vista International announced they would begin to start theatrically distributing certain films from Universum Film in Germany and Austria beginning in February 2005, replacing a previous deal with United International Pictures. The deal ended in late 2019 after Universum was sold by the RTL Group to Tele München Group, who began to self-distribute releases afterwards under the Leonine Distribution name.
In Spain, Filmayer S.A. originally released Disney's movies, with Warner Española S.A. later taking over.
In the United Kingdom, Disney's movies were released through a collaboration of Disney and 20th Century Fox known as UK Film Distributors Ltd. before the Warner Bros. joint venture.
In Italy and Brazil, Disney's movies were distributed by Cinema International Corporation and United International Pictures before the Warner Bros. joint venture.
In Australia and New Zealand, Disney's movies were distributed initially by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, before distribution switched to British Empire Films (later Greater Union Film Distributors) following the merger of the Australian MGM cinema chains until the latter merged with Village Roadshow in 1987 and Roadshow Films took over distribution. The company begin distributing films in Australia and New Zealand in 1999 after its own distribution deal with Roadshow expired in 1998.
In some other countries in Europe, such as Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, Disney's movies were instead released through local distributors, such as Filmoteka Narodowa in Poland, InterCom Zrt. in Hungary and Guild Film Distribution in the Czech Republic respectively.
Disney and Sony Pictures formed in 1997 a film distribution joint venture in Southeast Asia. By December 2006, 14 joint distribution ventures with Sony Pictures Releasing International were formed and exist in countries including Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines. In January 2007, their fifteenth such partnership began operations in Russia and CIS. In February 2017, Sony starting leaving the Southeast Asia venture with the Philippines. On August 14, 2017, Sony terminated the joint venture agreement for their own operations. On January 31, 2019, in anticipation of the then-pending acquisition of the most 21st Century Fox assets (which includes 20th Century Fox), Disney agreed to sell its stake in the Mexican joint venture named Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing de México to Sony Pictures Releasing.
In Greece and Cyprus, Disney's movies are distributed through local distributor Feelgood Entertainment, which also distributes Sony Pictures films in those territories.
In Japan, to adapt Japan's theatrical and home media distribution model, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Japan and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Japan were merged as Walt Disney Studios Japan on March 1, 2010, the distribution unit was renamed to Walt Disney Japan on November 22, 2016.
In China, due to its regulated policies on international film distribution, all of Disney's films in China are distributed by China Film Co., Ltd. and/or Huaxia Film Distribution, but Disney still hold all promotional rights of their films unless it's sold to third-party companies.
Disney distributed the 2008 Indian Tamil film Dasavathaaram in Canada under the Buena Vista International banner.
The Australian-produced film Subdivision was released in the Australian and New Zealand theaters on August 20, 2009, by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures under the Buena Vista International label in Australia with Lightning Entertainment handling the international distribution.
On 3rd October 2017, it was announced that Disney would be handling international distribution of M. Night Shyamalan's Glass, released in early 2019, through the Buena Vista International banner. The film is a sequel to his earlier films Unbreakable (distributed by Disney through Touchstone) and Split (distributed by Universal Pictures). Through an arrangement made with Disney, Universal retained domestic rights to the film, while Disney distributed in international territories under the label. The UK-produced film Patrick was also released in 2018 by Disney under the Buena Vista International label in the UK. Missing Link was also released by Disney under Buena Vista International in Latin America, Russia and some countries in Asia.
Since 2020, and in the UK from 2020 to 2023, Buena Vista International is the international distributor of 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures films outside the United States as in North America the 20th Century films are distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Searchlight films are distributed by Searchlight Pictures itself. Starting with The Boogeyman and Theater Camp, 20th Century and Searchlight films are now distributed in the UK through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures UK, replacing Buena Vista International. However, despite this, BVI continues to distribute 20th Century and Searchlight films elsewhere (particularly in Europe).
=== Star Distribution (Latin America & Brazil) ===
On 11th February 2022, the Latin American branch of Buena Vista International was renamed to Star Distribution, as the Star branding replaced the Buena Vista brand company-wide in the Latin American region by Disney Latin America.
On 3rd November 2022, the Brazilian branch of Buena Vista International was also renamed to Star Distribution following the dropping of the Buena Vista brand in the Latin American region on February 11, 2022. However, the Buena Vista International name is still used on Latin American and Brazilian prints of 20th Century/Searchlight titles.
=== Walt Disney Pictures Distribution ===
On 1st August 2024, one day after Southern England's independence from the United Kingdom, The Walt Disney Company UK (founded on 8th March 1954 as Walt Disney Productions (UK) Ltd) were finally disbanded after 70 years to create Walt Disney Pictures Southern England (d/b/a Walt Disney Pictures (Southern England) Ltd) and at the same time; the Walt Disney Pictures Distribution brand was created, relacing Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International to disconnect references to Great Britain and the political landscape (which was disbanded entirely during independence) as part of the reorganisation of the London branch of Disney in the United Southern England. This marked the first since the dissolution of the Buena Vista International branding in the region in 2004 but, unlike the rebranding of BVI to Star Distribution in Latin America and Brazil respectively, Southern England refuses to follow suit and instead going to its own way in adopting the Walt Disney Pictures Distribution branding while using the newly-unveiled Walt Disney Pictures logo for the first time since 2006. In addition to the establishment of Walt Disney Pictures Distribution under the Walt Disney Pictures banner, it will also served as the first Disney-branded distributor of each films mainly produced by labels within The Walt Disney Studios (even if they do not co-produced with the Walt Disney Pictures banner); starting with Alien: Romulus via 20th Century Studios, scheduled for release on 16th August 2024. The film will become the first American-produced movie to be released, marking the first-ever era in the history of Southern English cinema, following Southern England's formal departure from the United Kingdom two weeks earlier. As a result, the regional branches of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and Buena Vista Home Entertainment were merged to form the unified Walt Disney Pictures Home Entertainment and will take effect with the release of Deadpool & Wolverine in Autumn 2024. Disney DVD and Disney Blu-ray labels are saved to protect its legacy, while remaining uncertain in mainland America, under the reorganisation following Southern England's formal departure from Britain. Despite the merger, Elevation Sales - a London-based joint-venture between StudioCanal and Lionsgate - will continue to be a licensing distribution partner for Walt Disney Pictures Home Entertainment, which took effect in October 2023.
On 1st December 2024; Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros, the BBC, and Revolution Studios have join forces with the Southern English government to form a new physical media distributor called One4All Entertainment. As a result, Elevation Sales was absorbed into One4All Entertainment and it will take effect from January 2025. In addition to One4All's establishment, Walt Disney Pictures will also take over Southern England theatrical and home video distribution rights to films independently produced by Amazon MGM Studios/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from Warner Bros Entertainment International, beginning from April 2025 with the re-release of James Bond: The Daniel Craig Collection (despite retaining British content for films until at least early-January 2027 due to the gradual phase out of UK-related content) and the four-movie collection of Robocop (including the 2014 remake) under One4All Entertainment though Walt Disney Pictures Home Entertainment. Due to contractual reasons, the Columbia Pictures references on the Daniel Craig films (2006-2015) will be removed from future home video releases and instead the Walt Disney Pictures logo preceding the MGM logo (w/Amazon byline) - while No Time To Die to have the Disney logo preceding both MGM (again w/Amazon byline) and Universal Pictures logos due a one-year contract for Universal to co-involve with the James Bond film. For the first time, all 20 James Bond films were released in 4K Ultra HD by the newly-revived Disney Videos, a Southern England subsidiary of Walt Disney Pictures Home Entertainment, through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The films, previously unavailable in 4K at the time, includes the first 40 years of the franchise from Dr No to Die Another Day - with bonus discs including the 90-minute documentary Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 - but these aforementioned James Bond collection expected to last until it is expected to be out-of-print by early-2027 due to the phase-out target for all British-related content set out by the Southern English government. The first confirmed home video release under One4All Entertainment will be Skyfall under Walt Disney Pictures Home Entertainment.
Walt Disney Pictures Distribution and Walt Disney Pictures Home Entertainment are currently operated independently under its parent company Walt Disney Pictures (Southern England) Ltd, a division of Walt Disney Pictures, under the jurisdiction of Southern England.
== Other films distributed under the Walt Disney Pictures banner ==
While these films are considered to be produced under the Walt Disney Pictures banner such as Pixar and Lucasfilm, films produced by other divisions under The Walt Disney Studios are neither a co-production nor co-labelled with Walt Disney Pictures. However, it did distributed the films produced by the aforementioned Disney units under Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures since 2012:
==== Currently distributed ====
*Buena Vista International (since 1954)
*Marvel Studios (since 26th April 2012)
*Lucasfilm (since 17th December 2015)
*20th Century Studios (since 17th April 2019)
**Searchlight Pictures
**Blue Sky Studios (closed in April 2021)
**20th Century Family
**20th Century Animation
*Regency Enterprises (since 17th April 2019)
*ESPN Films
*National Geographic Documentary Films
*Star Studios
==== Formally distributed ====
*Touchstone Pictures (1984-2016, closed)
*Hollywood Pictures (1989-2007, closed)
*Disneytoon Studios (1990-2018, closed)
*Miramax Films (1993-2010, sold)
*Dimension Films (1993-2005, sold)
*Caravan Pictures (1993-1999, closed)
*DIC Entertainment (1996-2000, sold)
*ImageMovers Digital (2009-2011, closed)
*UTV Motion Pictures (2012-2017, closed)
=== Distribution deals ===
Although not owned by Disney, mini-major or independent studio do have distribution deals with the Walt Disney Pictures banner whenever current or former:
==== Current ====
*Amblin Entertainment (1988-present)
*Scott Free Productions (1995–2001, 2020-present)
*Mandeville Films (1996–present)
*Mayhem Pictures (2002–present)
*New Regency (2019–present)
*Lightstorm Entertainment (2019–present)
*TSG Entertainment (2019–present)
*Original Film (2019–present)
*Gloria Sanchez Productions (2021–present)
*Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Amazon MGM Studios (2025-present, Southern England only)
==== Former ====
*Jerry Bruckheimer Films (1993–2014)
*Cinergi Pictures (1993–1998; closed)
*Studio Ghibli (North America; 1998–2014)
*Spyglass Entertainment (1998–2008)Eller, Clauida (August 21, 1998). Spyglass Offers Disney Lower-Risk Deals . Los Angeles Times. Accessed on March 18, 2015. (Alternate link .)
*Blinding Edge Pictures (1998–2005)
*Beacon Pictures (2002–2007)
*Walden Media (2003-2008)
*Vanguard Animation (2005)
*POW! Entertainment (2007–2014)
*DreamWorks Pictures (2011–2016)
*Chernin Entertainment (2019–2020)
*Pathé (2020–2021, UK only)
*Locksmith Animation (2019–2021)
==PG-13-rated films under the Walt Disney Pictures banner==
While the banner maintains a family friendly image, generally releasing G and PG rated films, some of the films under the Walt Disney Pictures banner received a PG-13 rating from the MPA for more mature content, something Touchstone Pictures was capable of doing until its closure in 2016 (with its operations ceasing on December 21, 2017):
*Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
*Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
*Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
*Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
*Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
*John Carter (2012)
*The Lone Ranger (2013)
*Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
*The Finest Hours (2016)
*Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
*Hamilton (2020)
*Mulan (2020)
*Cruella (2021)
*Jungle Cruise (2021)
*The Beatles: Get Back — The Rooftop Concert (2022)
*Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) (co-production with Lucasfilm)
*The Haunted Mansion (2023)
The first PG-13 rated film released by Walt Disney Pictures was Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Additionally, Tales from Earthsea, a Studio Ghibli film, is the first and so far only animated film released by Walt Disney Pictures to receive the rating. Hamilton is notable for being the first Walt Disney Pictures film to contain some strong language, although two instances of it were censored to avoid an R rating. The 2020 live-action remake of Mulan was the first live-action Disney remake to receive a PG-13 rating, with Cruella later following suit.
In the UK, Disney films are rated by the British Broad of Film Classification (BBFC) as U, PG, and either 12 for home video releases, or 12A for theatrical releases.
==Film franchises==
Title 	Years 	Notes
Mickey Mouse & Friends 	1928–present 	
Fantasia 	1940–2018 	
Bambi 	1942–2006 	
Cinderella 	1950–2007; 2015	
Alice in Wonderland 	1951–2016 	
Peter Pan 	1953–present 	
Lady and the Tramp 	1955–2001; 2019	
The Shaggy Dog 	1959–2006 	
Sleeping Beauty 	1959–present 	
101 Dalmatians 	1961–present 	
The Absent-Minded Professor 	1961–1997 	
The Parent Trap 	1961–1998 	
The Incredible Journey 	1963–1996 	
Mary Poppins 	1964–2018 	
Winnie the Pooh 	1966–present 	
The Jungle Book 	1967–2003; 2016	
Herbie 	1968–2005 	
Witch Mountain 	1975–2009 	
The Apple Dumpling Gang 	1975–1982 	
The Rescuers 	1977–1990 	
The Muppets 	1979–present 	
The Fox and the Hound 	1981–2006 	
Tron 	1982–present 	
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 	1989–1997 	
The Little Mermaid 	1989–present 	
White Fang 	1991–1994 	
Beauty and the Beast 	1991–2017 	
The Mighty Ducks 	1992–1996 	
Aladdin 	1992–present 	
The Lion King 	1994–present 	
Angels in the Outfield 	1994–2000 	
The Santa Clause 	1994–2022 	
Pocahontas 	1995–1998 	
Toy Story 	1995–present 	
Freaky Friday 	1976–2018; TBA 	
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 	1996–present 	
Hercules 	1997–present 	
George of the Jungle 	1997–2003 	
Air Bud 	1997–2013 	
Mulan 	1998–present 	
Tarzan 	1999–2005 	
Inspector Gadget 	1999–present 	
The Emperor's New Groove 	2000–2008 	
Atlantis: The Lost Empire 	2001–2003; TBA 	
Monsters, Inc. 	2001–present 	
The Princess Diaries 	2001–2004; TBA 	
Lilo & Stitch 	2002–present 	
Finding Nemo 	2003–present 	
Pirates of the Caribbean 	2003–2017 	
Brother Bear 	2003–2006 	
The Incredibles 	2004–present 	
National Treasure 	2004–present 	
The Chronicles of Narnia 	2005–2008 	
Hocus Pocus 	1993–present 	
Bridge to Terabithia 	2007–present 	US distribution only; international distribution by Icon Productions
Enchanted 	2007-2022 	
Cars 	2006–present 	
Bolt 	2008–2009 	
Marvel Animated Features 	2009–2011 	Distribution only; produced by Marvel Entertainment
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 	2008–2012 	
Up 	2009–2023 	
The Princess and the Frog 	2009–present 	
Tangled 	2010–2020 	
Marvel Cinematic Universe 	2012–present 	Distribution only; produced by Marvel Studios
Wreck-It Ralph 	2012–present 	
Planes 	2013–2014 	
Frozen 	2013–present 	
Star Wars 	2014–present 	Distribution only; produced by Lucasfilm
Big Hero 6 	2014–present 	
Disney Fairies 	2008–2015 	
Inside Out 	2015–present 	
Descendants 	2015–present 	
Zootopia 	2016–present 	
Moana 	2016–present 	
The Last Warrior 	2017–present 	Russia only
Stargirl 	2020–2022 	
The Kingsman 	2021–present 	Distribution only; produced by 20th Century Studios and Marv Films
Encanto 	2021–present 	
Turning Red 	2022–present 	
Avatar 	2022–present 	Distribution only; produced by 20th Century Studios and Lightstorm Entertainment
Indiana Jones 	2023-present 	Co-production with Lucasfilm, in association with Paramount Pictures
Planet of the Apes 	2024-present 	Distribution only; produced by 20th Century Studios, Chernin Entertainment, Oddball Entertainment and Jason T. Reed Productions
dwho1995 Studios Cinematic Universe	2025-present 	Southern England only; co-production with dwho1995 Studios
;Short films
#Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953)
#Ben and Me (1953)
#Grand Canyonscope (1954)
#How to Have an Accident in the Home (1956)
#Jack and Old Mac (1956)
#A Cowboy Needs a Horse (1956)
#The Story of Anyburg, U.S.A. (1957)
#The Truth About Mother Goose (1957)
#Paul Bunyan (1958)
#Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959)
#How to Have an Accident at Work (1959)
#Noah's Ark (1959)
#Goliath II (1960)
#Aquamania (1961)
#The Saga of Windwagon Smith (1961)
#Donald and the Wheel (1961)
#The Litterbug (1961)
#A Symposium on Popular Songs (1962)
#Freewayphobia (1965)
#Steel and America (1965)
#Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)
#Donald's Fire Survival Plan (1966)
#Scrooge McDuck and Money (1967)
#Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968)
#It's Tough to Be a Bird (1969)
#Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974)
#The Small One (1978)
#Vincent (1982)
#Fun with Mr. Future (1982)
#Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore (1983)
#Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)
== See also ==
List of Walt Disney Pictures films
==Notes==
==References==
==External links==
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*Official Website