Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is the rental and distribution arm of The Walt Disney Company for cinema and television films. As such, it is responsible for the sales and distribution of all films produced by film production companies that are part of the Walt Disney Group and are summarized in the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group. The company is one of the largest film distributors in the world and has its seat at the Walt Disney headquarters in Burbank, California.

The company was previously a long time as Buena Vista International known. The Buena Vista brand was abandoned in favor of a uniform naming the Walt Disney company in 2007. For the " home entertainment " area, so the worldwide distribution of films on video media such as the DVD, in turn, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment is responsible, formerly Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

History

By 1953, Walt Disney was giving his films by other lenders, most recently by RKO. But Roy O. Disney, who was responsible for the business part of the Disney Studios, seemed more and more disadvantages of this distribution channel, as the rental departments at other studios naturally treat their own products preferred. So Roy O. Disney founded in 1953 for the film The Living Desert ( Desert Living ) own sales organization called the Buena Vista Film Distribution Company, named after the street Buena Vista Street in Hollywood Burbank, where there are the Disney Studios. He built the rental with capable and success-hungry sales people out and hired since then give all Disney movies of Buena Vista. After the collaboration with Warner Bros. in 1992 it was created Buena Vista International. 2007 was finally the name was changed to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures - not to be confused with the production arm Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group.

2006 was the company's third- largest lender in the U.S. with sales of 1.52 billion U.S. dollars. In many other countries the rental is also one of the market leaders.

Rental extent

As the lender, and the world distribution of all films produced by Walt Disney Motion Pictures belonging to the Group companies are generally all the productions of the following companies to hire program:

Among the most successful films of the loan include the Pirates of the Caribbean movies ( 2005-2007).

There are also various small companies that have Walt Disney selected a lender, such as Spyglass Entertainment.

Worldwide Offices

The global rental of movies via offices in the respective countries. In Germany, the company is as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in the Kronstadter street in Munich resident in Austria in the Schottenfeld in Vienna -Neubau and Switzerland in Zurich on Schanzengraben.

General Manager Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Germany / Austria since 2007, Thomas Menne (also general manager Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Germany GmbH, The Walt Disney Company)

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