Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

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Buena Vista International
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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is the distribution and distribution arm of the Walt Disney Company for cinema and television films . As such, it is responsible for the distribution and distribution of all films that are produced by film production companies that are part of the Walt Disney Group and are combined in the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group . The company is one of the largest film distributors in the world and is based at Walt Disney's headquarters in Burbank , California . The film studio had the largest market share in 2017.

The company was previously known as Buena Vista International for a long time . However, the Buena Vista brand was abandoned in 2007 in favor of a uniform naming of the Walt Disney companies. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment , formerly Buena Vista Home Entertainment , is responsible for the " home entertainment " area, ie the worldwide distribution of films on video media such as DVDs .

history

Until 1953 Walt Disney had his films loaned out by other distributors, most recently by RKO . But Roy O. Disney , who was responsible for the business part of the Disney studios, increasingly recognized the disadvantages of this distribution channel, since the rental departments of other studios naturally give preference to their own products. For example, in 1953 Roy O. Disney founded his own sales organization for the film The Desert Lives ( Living Desert ) called Buena Vista Film Distribution Company , named after Buena Vista Street in Hollywood - Burbank , where the Disney studios are located. He expanded the distribution with capable and success-hungry salespeople and since then has all Disney films from Buena Vista . After the collaboration with Warner Bros. ended in 1992, Buena Vista International was born . In 2007 the name was finally changed to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures - not to be confused with the production arm Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group .

In 2006, the company's third-largest lender in the US, on sales of 1.52 billion was US dollars . In many other countries the rental business is also one of the market leaders. In 2015, the company with everything is upside down passed the US $ 1 billion mark in sales for the first time within six months through ticket sales in the USA. At the same time, after the international theatrical release of Everything is upside down , the US $ 3 billion sales mark for worldwide recordings was cracked for the first time with Disney productions in one year.

Rental scope

As the distributor and world distributor of all films produced by companies belonging to the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group , the distribution program usually includes all productions from the following companies:

The most successful films of the distributor include the Pirates of the Caribbean films (2005–2007).

In addition, there are various smaller companies that have selected Walt Disney as a distributor, such as Spyglass Entertainment .

Worldwide offices

The films are distributed worldwide through branches in the respective countries. In Germany, the company is based as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures on Kronstadter Strasse in Munich , in Austria in Schottenfeldgasse in Vienna - Neubau and in Switzerland in Zurich on Schanzengraben.

General Manager Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Germany / Austria has been Thomas Menne since 2007 (also General Manager Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Germany GmbH, The Walt Disney Company)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2017 Market Share and Box Office Results by Movie Studio. Retrieved May 12, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b Andy Fixmer: Disney to Drop Buena Vista Brand Name, People Say (Update1). bloomberg.com , April 25, 2007 (accessed February 21, 2009)
  3. ↑ Silas LesnickK: Walt Disney Studios Hits the Billion Mark at the Domestic Box Office, ComingSoon.net, June 25, 2015.
  4. ↑ Inside Out push Disney past US $ 3 billion at 2015 box office, Today-Online, July 6, 2015.

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