Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (originally founded as Movie Distribution Company Buena Vista, Inc. , Buena Vista Distribution Company, Inc. and Photo Distribution Buena Vista, Inc. ) is an American film distributor owned by The Walt Disney Company. Founded in 1953 as Film Distribution Company Buena Vista, the company handles the distribution of theater, marketing and promotion for films produced and released by Walt Disney Studios, including Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, DisneyToon Studios, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm , Disneynature Picture, and Touchstone. The division takes its current name in April 2007, which was previously the Buena Vista Image Distribution since 1987.

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Prior to 1953, Walt Disney's production was distributed by Winkler Pictures, Powers Pictures, Universal Pictures (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts), Columbia Pictures (1930-1932), United Artists (1932-1937) and RKO Radio Picture (1937-1953). However, the dispute over Disney's first long film distribution, The Living Desert, in the series True-Life Adventures of live-action documentary featurettes in 1953 caused Walt and his brother Roy O. Disney formed a wholly owned subsidiary, Film Distribution Company Buena Vista, Inc. (BVDC), to handle North American distribution of their own products. RKO refused to distribute the film. The name "Buena Vista" comes from a street in Burbank, California, where Disney Studios are located (and remains to this day). Buena Vista's first release was an Academy Award-winning live-action feature The Living Desert on November 10, 1953, along with Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom , Buena Vista's first release animation. The next famous release includes the foreign film, Yang Noble Lady Princess, ), released in US theaters in September 1956, The Missouri Traveler > in March 1958, and The Big Fisherman in July 1959 (first-party production financed by Disney).

On July 5, 1957, RKO Japan, Ltd. sold to Disney Productions and the British Commonwealth Film Corporation. In allocating foreign film licenses to the company, Disney will use 5 and Commonwealth 8.

In April 1960, the company dropped the "Movie" from its name. In 1961, Disney entered Buena Vista International (BVI), distributing its first PG rating film, Take Down , in January 1979. Low-budget films were not produced by Disney studios and obtained from independent studios, > The Black Hole Disney's first PG-rated movie. In July 1987, Buena Vista changed its name to Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. (BVPD).

In the late 1980s, Disney purchased a controlling stake in one of the Pacific Theater networks that led to Disney's Buena Vista Theaters and Pacific to renovate the El Capitan Theater and the Crest in 1989. The Crest finished first while El Capitan opened with its premiere > The Rocketeer movie on June 19, 1991.

In 1992, Buena Vista made a $ 5.6 million production loan for Cinergi Pictures for his film Medicine Man and his 1994 Renaissance Man and Color of Night and distribute Cinergi movies. The corporation purchased a 12.8% stake in Cinergi with an initial public offering in 1994. Soon, BVPD signed a 25 image distribution agreement with Cinergi.

The Gaumont Film Company and Disney formed Gaumont Buena Vista International, a joint venture in the French distribution, in 1993. In August 1996, Disney and Tokuma Shoten Publishing agreed that Disney would distribute Studio Ghibli animation films internationally. In September 1996, after Disney acquired Capital Cities/ABC, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. merged into ABC, Inc., the parent company of the group.

premiere of Toy Story , Disney hired The Hollywood Masonic TempleÃƒ, - next to El Capitan TheatreÃƒ Â© Totally Toy Story , a place for multimedia entertainment and promotional events for movies. In July 1998, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution bought the Hollywood Temple Masonic building to continue using it as a promotional venue.

In 1997, BVPD shares in Cinergi dropped to 5%. After nine films were delivered under the agreement, Cinergi sold Disney at 22 of all the 12 movie libraries except for Die Hard with a < Vengeance plus $ 20 million in exchange for Cinergi Disney shareholdings, $ 35.4 million in production advances and other loans. In 2002, Disney signed four animated film contracts with Vanguard Animation, however, only one movie was released under the negotiations.

In 2004, BVI and Gaumont disbanded the French distribution joint venture, Gaumont Buena Vista International. Buena Vista International approved a distribution deal with MegaStar Joint Venture Company Limited in April 2006 for the Vietnamese market. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures