Walt Disney Pictures is
an American film production company, division of Walt Disney Studios, owned by
The Walt Disney Company. It was founded
in 1928, by Roy O. Disney and Walt Disney as
Disney Bros Cartoon Studio. The headquarters are in Burbank, California, United
States. Its parent organisations are The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney
Studios.
For over 90 years, The
Walt Disney Studios has been the foundation on which The Walt Disney Company
was built. The Studio brings quality movies, music and stage plays to consumers
throughout the world. Walt Disney Pictures is classified as one of Hollywood's
"Big Six" film studios.
The studio's first
feature-length motion picture was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
Animated films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar are also
released by Walt Disney Pictures. Walt Disney Pictures 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). The
highest grossing film worldwide is Frozen (2003), with a box office gross of $1,279,852,693.
Blue Sky Studios is an
American computer animation film studio based in Greenwich, Connecticut. The
studio was founded in 1987 by Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David
Brown, Chris Wedge and Eugene Troubetzkoy after the company they worked in,
MAGI, shut down. Blue Sky Studios has 600 employees.
Blue Sky Studios has
been a subsidiary of 20th Century Fox since 1997. Using its in-house rendering
software, the studio had worked on visual effects for commercials and films
before completely dedicating itself to animated film production in 2002 with
the release of Ice Age.
In 2002, Ice Age was
released to great critical and commercial success. The film got a nomination
for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and established Blue Sky as the
third studio, after Pixar and DreamWorks Animation, to launch a successful CGI
franchise.
They have had many
contributions in popular films and in 2009 improved and upgraded the 20th
Century Fox logo’s animation, adding an extra searchlight and palm trees. This
logo was first seen on Avatar.
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