Disney
On the 16th of October 1923 Walt Disney and his brother Roy Disney created/ founded ‘Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio’.
The headquarters of Walt Disney productions is in Burbank, California in the United States
What studios does Disney own
- Disney
- ABC
- ESPN
- Pixar
- Marvel
- Star Wars
- FX
- Fox
- 20th century fox
- National geographic
- Star
- Hulu
The owner of Disney is not one person, it is a publicly traded company and the one with the highest stocks at the moment is vanguard group inc
how owning many studios helps
- Reaching a wider audience range
- Having more services and products
- Having faster and quicker service, particularly with the role of new media technology
- Cheaper costs
- Greater distribution
- More profits
- Consolidation of power
- More rights
- Being able to do the ‘tent pole strategy’
It has been running for nearly 100 years as they started it in 1923
Disney’s top 5 biggest box office hits
1. Avatar (2009)
2. Avengers Endgame (2019)
3. Titanic (1998)
4. Star Wars – the force awakens (2015)
5. Avengers Infinity war (2018)
Budgets
Free guy – estimated to be $120,000,000
With the marvel movies they work with the same actors for the movies as the actor plays the one character and so if they want that character to be in the movie the actor will be used.
The director for the marvel movies is Kevin feige and he is the director to most of the marvel movies
Movies in production
- Pre-production = 13
- Production = 8
- Post production = 6
The advantages to being a big institution is:
- it has massive financial strength
- they are able to have a well-known A list cast
- they can afford massive action set pieces and many locations
- more money to make the film
- huge profits and budgets
- its well known
- it has a reputation
- big audiences
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