Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures[3] is an American film production company and subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company. The studio is the flagship producer of live-action feature films 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.

This article is about the film production studio. For the related and similarly-named distribution unit, see Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. For the parent umbrella division, see Walt Disney Studios (division).

Walt Disney Pictures
FormerlyWalt Disney Studio
(1923–1929)
Walt Disney Productions
(1929–1983)
TypeSubsidiary
IndustryFilm
FoundedOctober 16, 1923 (1923-10-16) (as Walt Disney Productions)
April 1, 1983 (1983-04-01) (as Walt Disney Pictures)
Headquarters500 South Buena Vista Street,
Burbank, California
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Sean Bailey (president, production)[1]
  • Vanessa Morrison (president, streaming)[1]
ProductsMotion pictures
ParentWalt Disney Studios
(The Walt Disney Company)
Websitemovies.disney.com
Footnotes / references
[2]

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, the others being 20th Century Studios, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, and Searchlight Pictures. The 2019 remake of The Lion King is the studio's highest-grossing animated film worldwide with $1.6 billion,[4] and Pirates of the Caribbean is the studio's most successful film series, with five films earning a total of over $4.5 billion in worldwide box office gross.[2]

History

Predecessor unit
See also: The Walt Disney Company § History

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.[5] 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.[6] With the profits from Snow White, Walt relocated to a third studio in Burbank, California.[7]

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).[8] 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.[9][10]

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.[11] 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.[12] By the 1950s, the company had purchased the rights to his work of L. Frank Baum.[13]

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.[14] 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.[15] 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.[16] Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures were formed within that unit on February 15, 1984, and February 1, 1989, respectively.[17]

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.[18]

David Hoberman was promoted to president of production at Walt Disney Pictures in April 1988.[19] 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.[20] 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.[20] 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.[21] 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.[22][23] The move was orchestrated by Walt Disney Studios chairman Joe Roth, as an effort to scale back and consolidate the studio's film production.[23] As a result of the restructuring, De Line resigned.[24]

That same year, Nina Jacobson became executive vice-president of live-action production for Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group.[25] 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.[26][23] 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.[27][28] In 2006, Jacobson was fired by studio chairman Dick Cook, and replaced with by Oren Aviv, the head of marketing.[27][29]

After two films based on Disney theme park attractions,[30][31][32] 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).[33] 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.[30][34] On January 12, 2010, Aviv stepped down as the studio's president of live-action production.[35]

2010s–present

In January 2010, Sean Bailey was appointed the studio's president of live-action production, replacing Aviv.[36][2] Bailey had produced Tron: Legacy for the studio, which was released later that same year.[36] 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, the studio simplified the branding in its production logo and marquee credits to just "Disney".[37] 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. 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.[38] 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).[39][2] By July 2016, Disney had announced development of nearly eighteen of these films consisting of sequels to existing adaptations, origin stories and prequels.[39][40] 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.[2][41][42]

In 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced it was creating its own streaming service platform.[43] 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.[44] 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.[45][46][42] In 2018, nine films were announced to be in production or development for the service.[47] These films would be budgeted between $20 million and $60 million.[45] The studio is expected to produce approximately 3-4 films per year exclusively for Disney+, alongside its theatrical tentpole slate.[46] Disney+ was launched on November 12, 2019, in the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands, with subsequent international expansions.[44] 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+.[42]

On March 12, 2020, Fox Family president Vanessa Morrison was named president of live-action development and production of streaming content for both Disney Live-Action 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.[1]

Until 1985, instead of a traditional production logo, the opening credits of Disney films used to feature a title card that read "Walt Disney Presents", and later, "Walt Disney Productions Presents".[48] In Never Cry Wolf, and the pre-release versions of Splash, it showed a light blue rectangle with the name "Walt Disney Pictures" and featured a white outline rectangle framing on a black screen.

Beginning with the release of Return to Oz in 1985, Walt Disney Pictures introduced its fantasy castle logo. The version with its accompanying music premiered with The Black Cauldron.[48] The logo was created by Walt Disney Productions in traditional animation and featured a white silhouette of Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle against a blue background, with the studio's name and underscored by "When You Wish Upon A Star", in arrangement composed by John Debney.[49] A short rendition of the logo was used as a closing logo as well as in the movie Return to Oz, although the film was released months before The Black Cauldron was released. A computer-animated RenderMan variant appeared before every Pixar Animation Studios film from Toy Story until Ratatouille, featuring an original fanfare composed by Randy Newman, based on the opening score cue from Toy Story. Beginning with Dinosaur (2000), an alternative logo featuring an orange castle and logo against a black background, was occasionally presented with darker tone and live-action films, though a few animated films such as Brother Bear, the 2003 re-release of The Lion King and The Wild (the final film to use this logo) used this logo. This logo resurfaced in 2021 for a merchandising line by ShopDisney, based on its original incarnation.

In 2006, the studio's vanity card logo was updated with the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest at the behest of then-Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook and studio marketing president Oren Aviv.[49] Designed by Disney animation director Mike Gabriel and producer Baker Bloodworth, the modernized logo was created completely in computer animation by Wētā FX and yU+co and featured a 3D New Waltograph typography. The final rendering of the logo was done by Cameron Smith and Cyrese Parrish.[50] In addition, the revamped logo includes visual references to Pinocchio, Dumbo, Cinderella, Peter Pan and Mary Poppins, and its redesigned castle incorporates elements from both the Cinderella Castle and the Sleeping Beauty Castle, as well as fireworks and Walt Disney's family crest.[51] Mark Mancina wrote a new composition and arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" to accompany the 2006 logo.[49] It was co-arranged and orchestrated by David Metzger. In 2011, beginning with The Muppets, the sequence was modified to truncate the "Walt Disney Pictures" branding to "Disney".[52] The new logo sequence has been consistently modified for high-profile releases including Tron: Legacy, Maleficent, Tomorrowland, and Beauty and the Beast.

In 2022, a new opening logo sequence was introduced for the studio's centennial, which premiered at the 2022 D23 Expo. The new castle logo features an updated opening sequence in computer animation created by Disney and Industrial Light & Magic and an arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" by Christophe Beck. The magical arc that usually flies from right to left above the castle now goes left to right.[53] A byline appears below the Disney logo during the studio's 100th anniversary, reading "100 Years of Wonder". While containing the same visual references as the previous logo, new references added to it include Pocahontas, Up, Hercules, The Little Mermaid, Tangled and Beauty and the Beast, with the addition of the Matterhorn from Disneyland and Pride Rock from The Lion King in the background beyond the castle. It is expected to make its official debut with the release of Strange World.[54]

Film library

The studio's first live-action film was Treasure Island (1950). Animated films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar are also released by Walt Disney Pictures. The studio has released four films that have received an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination: Mary Poppins (1964), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Up (2009), and Toy Story 3 (2010).[55]

Highest-grossing films

Walt Disney Pictures has produced five live-action films that have grossed over $1 billion at the worldwide box office: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), Beauty and the Beast (2017) and Aladdin (2019);[2][56] and has released eight animated films that have reached that milestone: Toy Story 3 (2010), Frozen (2013), Zootopia, Finding Dory (both 2016), Incredibles 2 (2018), The Lion King, Toy Story 4, and Frozen II (three in 2019).

Highest-grossing films in North America[57]
RankTitleYearBox office gross
1 Incredibles 2 2018 $608,581,744
2 The Lion King 2019 $543,638,043
3 Beauty and the Beast 2017 $504,014,165
4 Finding Dory 2016 $486,131,416
5 Frozen II 2019 $477,373,578
6 Toy Story 3 2010 $434,038,008
7 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006 $423,315,812
8 The Lion King‡ 1994 $422,783,777
9 Toy Story 4 2019 $415,004,880
10 Frozen 2013 $400,738,009
11 Finding Nemo‡ 2003 $380,843,261
12 The Jungle Book 2016 $364,001,123
13 Aladdin 2019 $356,258,912
14 Inside Out 2015 $356,002,827
15 Zootopia 2016 $342,268,248
16 Alice in Wonderland 2010 $334,191,110
17 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007 $309,420,425
18 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 $305,413,918
19 Up 2009 $293,004,164
20 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2005 $291,710,957
21 Monsters, Inc.‡ 2001 $289,916,256
22 Toy Story 2‡ 1999 $276,554,625
23 Monsters University 2013 $268,492,764
24 The Incredibles 2004 $261,441,092
25 Moana 2016 $248,757,044
Highest-grossing films worldwide
RankTitleYearBox office gross
1 The Lion King 2019 $1,657,598,092
2 Frozen II $1,450,026,933
3 Frozen 2013 $1,280,802,282
4 Beauty and the Beast 2017 $1,264,521,126
5 Incredibles 2 2018 $1,243,805,359
6 Toy Story 4 2019 $1,073,394,593
7 Toy Story 3 2010 $1,067,171,911
8 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006 $1,066,179,725
9 Aladdin 2019 $1,051,693,953
10 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 2011 $1,045,713,802
11 Finding Dory 2016 $1,029,473,532
12 Alice in Wonderland 2010 $1,025,467,110
13 Zootopia 2016 $1,024,641,447
14 The Lion King‡ 1994 $968,554,386
15 The Jungle Book 2016 $966,550,600
16 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007 $963,420,425
17 Finding Nemo‡ 2003 $940,335,536
18 Inside Out 2015 $857,675,046
19 Coco 2017 $807,139,032
20 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales $794,826,541
21 Maleficent 2014 $758,410,378
22 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2005 $745,013,115
23 Monsters University 2013 $744,229,437
24 Up 2009 $735,099,082
25 Big Hero 6 2014 $657,827,828

‡—Includes theatrical reissue(s).

PG-13-rated films

Although Walt Disney Pictures maintains a family-friendly image, generally releasing G and PG-rated films, it does occasionally release films rated PG-13, something Touchstone Pictures was capable of doing until its closure in 2016. 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.[58] It is notable for being the first Walt Disney Pictures film to use the expletive "fuck", although two instances of it were censored to avoid an R rating.[59] 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.

Films released by Walt Disney Pictures with a PG-13 and R rating include:

Film series and franchises
Titles Release dates Notes
Mickey Mouse & Friends 1928–present Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disneytoon Studios, and Disney Television Animation
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937–present Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios
Fantasia 1940–2018 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Saturn Films, Broken Road Productions, and The Mark Gordon Company
Dumbo 1941–2019 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Tim Burton Productions, Infinite Detective Productions, and Secret Machine Entertainment
Bambi 1942–2006; TBA Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disneytoon Studios
Saludos Amigos 1943–2018 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios
Make Mine Music 1946–1954
True-Life Adventures 1948–1960
Cinderella 1950–2015 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney Television Animation, Disneytoon Studios, Kinberg Genre, Allison Shearmur Productions, and Beagle Pug Films
Alice in Wonderland 1951–2016 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Roth Films, Team Todd, The Zanuck Company, and Tim Burton Productions
Peter Pan 1953–present Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disneytoon Studios, and A. Film Production
Davy Crockett 1955–1956
Lady and the Tramp 1955–2001; 2019 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disneytoon Studios, and Taylor Made
Old Yeller 1957–1963
Sleeping Beauty 1959–present Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios
The Shaggy Dog 1959–1976; 2006 Co-production with Mandeville Films, Tollin/Robbins Productions, Boxing Cat Films, Robert Simonds Productions, and Shaggy Dog Productions
101 Dalmatians 1961–present Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Great Oaks Entertainment, Disneytoon Studios, Gunn Films, and Marc Platt Productions
The Absent-Minded Professor 1961–1997 Co-production with Great Oaks Entertainment
The Parent Trap 1961–1998; TBA
The Incredible Journey 1963–1996
Mary Poppins 1964–2018 Co-production with Lucamar Productions and Marc Platt Productions
Winnie the Pooh 1966–2018 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disneytoon Studios, and 2DUX²
The Jungle Book 1967–present Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Baloo Productions, Jungle Book Films, Disneytoon Studios, and Fairview Entertainment
Herbie 1969–1980; 1997; 2005 Co-production with Robert Simonds Productions
Dexter Riley 1969-1975
Witch Mountain 1975–1982; 1995; 2009; TBA Co-production with Gunn Films
The Apple Dumpling Gang 1975–1982
Freaky Friday 1976–2018 Co-production with Gunn Films
The Rescuers 1977–1990 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios and Silver Screen Partners
The Fox and the Hound 1981–2006 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disneytoon Studios
Tron 1982–present Co-production with Lisberger/Kushner Productions and Sean Bailey Productions
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 1989–present Co-production with Silver Screen Partners and Touchwood Pacific Partners
The Little Mermaid Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney Television Animation and Disneytoon Studios
White Fang 1991-1994 Co-production with Silver Screen Partners and Hybrid Productions, Inc.
Beauty and the Beast 1991–2017 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Silver Screen Partners, Disney Television Animation, and Mandeville Films
The Mighty Ducks 1992–present Co-production with Avnet-Kerner Productions and Touchwood Pacific Partners
Aladdin Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney Television Animation, and Rideback
The Muppets Co-production with The Jim Henson Company, Mandeville Films and The Muppet Studio
Hocus Pocus 1993–2022 Co-production with David Kirschner Productions
The Lion King 1994–present Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney Television Animation, Disneytoon Studios, and Fairview Entertainment
The Santa Clause 1994–2022 Co-production with Hollywood Pictures, Outlaw Productions, and Boxing Cat films (sequels)
Pocahontas 1995-1998 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disney Television Animation
Toy Story 1995–2022 Co-production with Pixar Animation Studios
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1996–Present Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disney Television Animation
Hercules 1997–Present Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios
Mulan 1998–2020 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disneytoon Studios, Jason T. Reed Productions, and Good Fear Productions
Tarzan 1999–2005 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney Television Animation, and Disneytoon Studios
Inspector Gadget 1999–Present Co-production with Caravan Pictures, DIC Entertainment, Avnet-Kerner Productions, Roger Birnbaum Productions, and The Kerner Entertainment Company
The Emperor's New Groove 2000–2008 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disneytoon Studios
Atlantis 2001–2003; TBA Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disneytoon Studios, and Disney Television Animation
The Princess Diaries 2001–2004; TBA Co-production with BrownHouse Productions, Shondaland, and Martin Chase Productions
Monsters, Inc. 2001–present Co-production with Pixar Animation Studios
Lilo & Stitch 2002–present Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney Television Animation, and Disneytoon Studios
Finding Nemo 2003–2021 Co-production with Pixar Animation Studios
Pirates of the Caribbean 2003–2017 Co-production with Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Haunted Mansion Co-production with Rideback
Brother Bear 2003–2006 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disneytoon Studios
Home on the Range 2004 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios
The Incredibles 2004–2021 Co-production with Pixar Animation Studios
National Treasure 2004–present Co-production with Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Junction Entertainment and Saturn Films
The Chronicles of Narnia 2005–2008 Co-production with Walden Media; third film produced by 20th Century Studios
Cars 2006–2022 Co-production with Pixar Animation Studios
Enchanted 2007–present Co-production with Right Coast Productions, Josephson Entertainment and Andalasia Productions
Tinker Bell 2008–2015 Co-production with Disneytoon Studios
Bolt 2008–2009 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios
Up 2009–2022 Co-production with Pixar Animation Studios
The Princess and the Frog 2009–present Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios
Tangled 2010–2020
Wreck-It Ralph 2012–2018
Planes 2013–2014 Co-production with Disneytoon Studios
Frozen 2013–2021 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios
Maleficent 2014–present Co-production with Roth/Kirschenbaum Films
Big Hero 6 2014–2022 Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios
Inside Out 2015–present Co-production with Pixar Animation Studios
Zootopia 2016–present Co-production with Walt Disney Animation Studios
Moana
The Last Warrior 2017–present Co-production with Yellow, Black & White
Stargirl 2020–present Co-production with Gotham Group and Hahnscape Entertainment
Cruella 2021–present Co-production with Gunn Films and Marc Platt Productions
Jungle Cruise Co-production with Davis Entertainment, Seven Bucks Productions and Flynn Picture Company
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Co-production with 20th Century Animation and Bardel Entertainment; original live-action films produced by 20th Century Studios
Ice Age 2022 Co-production with 20th Century Animation; original films produced by 20th Century Studios and Blue Sky Studios
Night at the Museum Co-production with 20th Century Animation, 21 Laps Entertainment, 1492 Pictures, Alibaba Pictures and Atomic Cartoons

See also

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