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Universal City Studios LLC. Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (informally as Universal Studios or also known simply as Universal) is an American film production and distribution company, a division of Universal Studios, which is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast .
- Lists of Universal Pictures Films
Lists. List of Universal Pictures films (1912–1919) List of...
- Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Universal Playback is a division of Universal Pictures Home...
- 10 Universal City Plaza
10 Universal City Plaza (10 UCP) is a 36-story, 154.23 m...
- Universal Monsters/Dark Universe
Universal Classic Monsters (also known as Universal Monsters...
- Charles O. Baumann
In 1912, he was a founder and the first president of...
- Film Studio
A film studio (also known as movie studio or simply studio)...
- Big Five
The current "Big Five" majors (Universal, Paramount, Warner...
- Gaumont
A Spido reportage at the Fotomuseum Antwerp. The Gaumont...
- Distribution
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- English
This list is organized by release date and includes...
- Lists of Universal Pictures Films
The company is known for its film studio division Walt Disney Studios, which includes Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, 20th Century Animation, and Searchlight Pictures.
- October 16, 1923; 99 years ago
- US$82.722 billion (2022)
- c. 220,000 (2022)
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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...
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,...
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, the studio simplified the br...
Until 1983, instead of a traditional production logo, the opening creditsof Disney films used to feature a title card that read "Walt Disney Presents", and later, "Walt Disney Productions Presents". Beginning with the release of Return to Oz in 1985, Walt Disney Pictures introduced its fantasy castle logo. The version with its accompanying music pr...
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...
Universal City Studios LLC (also known as Universal Studios, Universal Pictures, or simply Universal) is a major film company owned by NBCUniversal, which in turn is owned by Comcast. Universal was the distributor and owner of the Disney-animated Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons since February...
Universal Pictures is an American film studio, owned by Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal, and is one of Hollywood's "Big Six" film studios. Its production studios are at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California.
